August 2000

Thursday 03:

George W. Bush accepts the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.

Sunday 06:

The Roman Catholic Church's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, under Prefect Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, publishes Dominus Iesus, notable for its lack of the filioque clause in the Latin text of the Nicene Creed.

Tuesday 08:

Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.

Wednesday 09:

A Piper Navajo and a Piper Seminole collide in mid-air over a housing development in Burlington, New Jersey, killing 11

Saturday 12:

The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy exploded and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.

Wednesday 23:

Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. This essentially deprecated the Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the BA Convention were also signatories to Berne.

Sunday 27:

Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.