August 2000 calendar

Events

• 03 Aug 2000 After more than 100 people besieged the house of a block allegedly housing a paedophile, riots broke out on the Paulsgrove estate, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. This is the latest act of vigilante violence against suspected sexual offenders since the anti-paedophile campaign of the tabloid newspaper "News of the World" began.
• 08 Aug 2000 Unidentified ship dumps oil along the South Florida coast, creating an oil-slick that covers 24km of beaches.
• 12 Aug 2000 During a military exercise, the Russian Navy's Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk explodes and sinks into the Barents Sea.
• 14 Aug 2000 Up to August 17, the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated U.S. Vice-President Al Gore as President and Senator Joe Lieberman as Vice President.
• 18 Aug 2000 Federal jury convicts the US EPA of discriminating against Dr. Marsha Cole-Adebayo under the Civil Rights Act of 64, which later inspired the passage of the No FEAR Act.
• 27 Aug 2000 Three people are killed when the Ostankino Tower, Moscow, is set on fire at 540 metres (1,772 feet) tall.
• 28 Aug 2000 On August 28, religious and spiritual leaders from the various faith traditions of the world gathered in New York to discuss ways to build a partnership with the United Nations. Religious Summit UN Millennium Peace Summit

Famous Birthday

• Prince Achileas-Andreas of Greece and Denmark
• Rocco Ritchie

  American noted family, the son of singer Madonna and her former lover, British director Guy Ritchie.

• Lil Pump
• Rehan Gandhi

  Indian child of Priyanka Gandhi and her husband Robert Vadra.

• Lexi Jones

  British noted family, born in the U.S.

• Conjoined Twins

  British-born conjoined twins delivered by Caesarean section and joined at the abdomen with their spines fused.

• Jaden Bojsen

  TV Actor.

• Clayton Bloemke

  Vine Star.

• Noah Riley

  Vine Star.

• Landry Bender

  TV Actress.

• Augie Isaac

  TV Actor.

• Jaden Rosa

  Instagram Star.

• Nic Wallace

  YouTube Star.

• Jazzy Le

  YouTube Star.

• Mari Dudash

  Dancer.

• Nathaniel Britt

  TV Actor.

• TJ Prodigy

  Rapper.

• ItsMeLexie1

  YouTube Star.

• Piper Reese

  American child reporter.

• Bryce Hall

  Instagram Star.

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Famous Deaths

• Leslie Glass

  American adult film actress (Born 1963).

• Antonio Pugliese

  Italian professional wrestler (Born 1941).

• David Haskell

  American actor (Born 1948).

• Tullio Crali

  Italian artist associated with Futurism (Born 1910).

• Nicholas Markowitz

  American teenager kidnapped and murdered by Jesse James Hollywood (Born 1984).

• Gilbert Parkhouse

  English cricketer (Born 1925).

• Nazia Hassan

  Pakistani pop singer (Born 1965).

• Cuan McCarthy

  South African cricketer (Born 1929).

• Tomata du Plenty

  artist and lead singer of The Screamers.

• John Anthony Kaiser

  Roman Catholic priest (Born 1932).

• Lucille Fletcher

  American screenwriter (Born 1912).

• Alain Fournier

  French novelist and journalist, who wrote under the pseudonym, A. D. G. (Alain Dreux Gallou).

• Willie Maddren

  English footballer and manager (d. 2000).

• Patricia Owens

  Canadian-American actress (d. 2000).

• Akbar Adibi

  Iranian engineer and academic (d. 2000).

• Bineshwar Brahma

  Bodo litterateur and religious figure (birth date unknown).

• Theodore Trautwein

  American lawyer and judge (d. 2000).

• Jack Nitzsche

  American singer-songwriter pianist and conductor (Crazy Horse) (d. 2000).

• Otto Buchsbaum

  Austrian-born Brazilian writer and ecological activist (Born 1920).

• Andrzej Zawada

  Polish mountaineer and author (d. 2000).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. N'Sync - It's Gonna Be Me
2. Sisqo - Incomplete
3. Janet - Doesn't Really Matter
4. matchbox twenty - Bent
5. Destiny's Child - Jumpin' Jumpin'

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Craig David - 7 Days
2. Madonna - Music
3. Robbie Williams - Rock DJ
4. Modjo - Lady (Hear Me Tonight)
5. Bomfunk MC's - Freestyler