December 2000 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 2000 Miss World pageant held at London's Millennium Dome. Priyanka Chopra is awarded the title.
• 02 Dec 2000 The 2000 MAC Championship Game (American football) is played at Marshall Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia, USA.ampref name=ampquotannouncementampquotamp and is won by the Marshall Thundering Herd.
• 03 Dec 2000 John Higgins wins the UK Snooker Championship.
• 05 Dec 2000 South Africa holds municipal elections to elect members of the local governing bodies.
• 06 Dec 2000 Infogrames of Paris acquires Hasbro Interactive of America for US$5 Million cash and US$95 Million stock.
• 07 Dec 2000 The Ghanaian presidential election will be the first to go to ballot. John Kufuor, John Atta Mills and John Kufuor are the two most popular candidates. They will move on to the second round.
• 08 Dec 2000 STS-97: Crew of Space Shuttle Endeavour make their first visit to Expedition 1 crew residing aboard the International Space Station.
• 09 Dec 2000 The sixth Florida recount is being held by the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 10 Dec 2000 Ivory Coast hosts the elections for parliament. Due to a boycott by the Rally of the Republicans, 28 seats were excluded. Elections in Cote d'Ivoire African Elections Database. The result is a victory by the Ivorian Popular Front which won 96 of the 225 seats at the National Assembly of Cote d'Ivoire.
• 11 Dec 2000 The United National Congress wins the Trinidad and Tobago general elections.
• 12 Dec 2000 Bush v. Gore: The United States Supreme Court has released its decision
• 13 Dec 2000 Al Gore, the US Vice President, concedes defeat in the presidential election to George W. Bush, Texas Governor.
• 14 Dec 2000 The complete genome sequence for the flowering plant Arabidopsis is thaliana has been published in Nature.
• 15 Dec 2000 The Chernobyl Nuclear Energy Plant's third reactor has been shut down.
• 16 Dec 2000 Japan releases "Godzilla Vs. Megaguirus"
• 17 Dec 2000 After the acquisition of Westrail, the Australian Railroad Group began operations.
• 18 Dec 2000 Kirsty McColl, 41-year-old English singer, was running with her children in Cozumel, Mexico when she was struck by a speeding boat.
• 19 Dec 2000 One person was killed and three others were injured when the Leninist Guerrilla Units of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attacked a Nationalist Movement Party office.
• 20 Dec 2000 Mirusuvil massacre: eight Sri Lankan Tamil refugees, including children,{{cite web |url=
• 21 Dec 2000 Eric Joyce, Labour's candidate for Falkirk West, wins the UK by-election. It is the result of Dennis Canavan's resignation.
• 22 Dec 2000 Madonna marries Guy Ritchie, film director, at Skibo Castle, Dornoch, Sutherland in Scotland. Sting, Stella McCartney and Sting were there.
• 23 Dec 2000 Victor Borge (91), Danish comedian, conductor, and pianist.
• 24 Dec 2000 Texas 7 rob a Irving sports store. Aubrey Hawkins, a police officer, is killed in the robbery.
• 25 Dec 2000 Russian President Vladimir Putin signs legislation that creates a new Russian National Anthem. The music was taken from the Soviet Union anthem that was written by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov.
• 26 Dec 2000 '''Died:''' Jason Robards, 78, US actor
• 27 Dec 2000 Bomlafjord Tunnel opens connecting Foyno Island in Stord with the mainland at Dalshovda, Sveio, Norway.
• 28 Dec 2000 Montgomery Ward, the American retail giant, announces its intention to close after 128 years.
• 30 Dec 2000 Rizal Day Bombings - A series of bombs explode at various locations in Metro Manila, Philippines, within a matter of hours, killing 22 people and injuring around a hundred.
• 31 Dec 2000 James Tuozzolo (trumpet player, Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra), collapses on stage after performing a solo. He is pronounced dead at the hospital.

Famous Birthday

• Johntae Lipscomb

  American actor.

• Livina Tanovic

  French-born child of noted film director, Danis Tanovic.

• Pablo Urdangarin

  Spanish royalty the second son of Infanta Cristina and Iñaki Urdangarín, born at the Clinica Teknon in Barcelona.

• Cooper Endicott

  Family Member.

• Sydney Murphy

  Family Member.

• Haley Pham

  YouTube Star.

• Kieran Marsh

  Pop Singer.

• Devyn Nekoda

  TV Actress.

• Brace Arquiza

  Dancer.

• Jakob Delgado

  Pop Singer.

• Bailey Bostwick

  YouNow Star.

• Jake Portis

  YouTube Star.

• Jaden Adonis

  Musical.

• Ethan Bortnick

  child musician.

• Isac Elliot

  Pop Singer.

• Larissa Manoela

  TV Actress.

• Kaylyn Slevin

  Dancer.

• Lucas Zumann

  Movie Actor.

• Diāna Ņikitina

  Latvian figure skater.

• Samuel Sevian

  American chess player.

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Famous Deaths

• Jason Robards

  American actor seen in some 170 films in a 40-year career, capped by Best Actor Oscars for "All the President's Men" and "Julia.

• Jose Greco

  Italian-American dancer; born in Italy and raised in Brooklyn, NY, becoming one of the greatest Spanish dancers.

• Gail Fisher

  American actress (Born 1935).

• John Lindsay

  American military man, lawyer and politician.

• Alan Cranston

  American politician, one of California's most durable liberal Democrats.

• Stan Fox

  American race car driver (Born 1952).

• David Dewayne Johnson

  American convicted murderer (Born 1963).

• Julius J Epstein

  American screenwriter (Born 1909).

• Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane

  Israeli leader of Kahane Chai party and son of Rabbi Meir Kahane (Born 1966).

• Gwendolyn Brooks

  American writer, the author of more than 20 books and poet laureate of Illinois from 1969.

• David Lewis

  Hollywood film producer in the 1940s and 1950s, who produced such films as Dark Victory (1939), Arch of Triumph (1948), and Raintree County...

• Kirsty MacColl

  English singer-songwriter who wrote and recorded several pop hits between the early 1980s and the 1990s.

• George Montgomery

  American actor and leading man of numerous Hollywood westerns and action pictures.

• John Cooper

  English race car designer (Born 1923).

• Milt Hinton

  American bassist and photographer (d. 2000).

• Willard Van Orman Quine

  American philosopher and academic (d. 2000).

• Neil Hawke

  Australian cricketer and footballer (Born 1939).

• Rob Buck

  American guitarist and songwriter (10 000 Maniacs) (d. 2000).

• Hoyt Curtin

  American composer and producer (d. 2000).

• Nick Massi

  American singer and bass player (The Four Seasons and Four Lovers) (d. 2000).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Destiny's Child - Independent Women Part I
2. Mya - Case Of The Ex (Whatcha Gonna Do)
3. Shaggy - It Wasn't Me
4. Dream - He Loves U Not
5. Creed - With Arms Wide Open

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Destiny's Child - Independent Women Part 1
2. Westlife - I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun
3. Bob The Builder - Can We Fix It
4. Artful Dodger featuring Craig David - Re-Rewind The Crowd Say Bo Selecta
5. S Club 7 - Never Had A Dream Come True