July 2000 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 2000 Traffic can now use the Oresund Bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark.
• 02 Jul 2000 Tenchi Muyo first broadcast on American Television
• 06 Jul 2000 A tug and a barge towing it collide in Middletown, Rhode Island USA. 53,000 litres of oil were spilled into Narragansett bay.
• 10 Jul 2000 EADS is the second largest aerospace company in the world, formed through the merger of Aerospatiale Matra, DASA and CASA.
• 13 Jul 2000 July 25, ampndash Israel's prime Minister Ehud Barak meets Yasser Aramfat, head of the PLO, at Camp David but fails to reach an agreement.
• 14 Jul 2000 A powerful solar flare later known as the Bastille Day event causes a geomagnetic storm to hit Earth.
• 17 Jul 2000 Bashar al-Assad, the 10th President of Syria assumed office.
• 19 Jul 2000 Apple Computer starts shipping the first standard dual processor personal computers, the Power Mac G4 with dual 500 or 450 MHz processors.
• 20 Jul 2000 Zimbabwe's Parliament opens its new session, and the opposition members are elected for the first-time in a decade.
• 22 Jul 2000 "News of the World" urges readers to sign a petition to support Sarah's Law. This new legislation was created in response to the murder of Sarah Payne. It would allow parents to find out if a convicted paedophile is living in their region.
• 25 Jul 2000 Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger plane, crashes into Gonesse shortly after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 and five others.
• 31 Jul 2000 To August 3, the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) nominates George W. Bush as U.S. president and Dick Cheney as Vice President.

Famous Birthday

• Fahim Mohammad
• Lino Facioli
• Bastian Eichenberger

  Swiss child of high IQ, was admitted to study at university of Freiburg, Germany, at the age of 14, for a bachelor degree in chemistry.

• Sophie Nyweide

  American child actress.

• Keyori

  YouTube Star.

• Sulivan Gwed

  Instagram Star.

• UnPandaMoqueur

  YouTube Star.

• Isaac Gonzalez

  Musical.

• AJMG

  Vine Star.

• Jamie Flatters

  TV Actor.

• Angelina Eslora

  YouNow Star.

• Seth Johnson

  TV Actor.

• Justen Beer

  Dancer.

• Nico Liersch

  Movie Actor.

• Alexis Simone

  YouNow Star.

• Dalton Cyr

  Pop Singer.

• Kaelyn Olivia

  YouTube Star.

• Chris Lanzon

  Pop Singer.

• Saffron Barker

  YouTube Star.

• Preston Bailey

  TV Actor.

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Famous Deaths

• Claude Sautet

  French director and television producer with a name well-known also as a screenwriter.

• John Tukey

  American mathematician and academic (d. 2000).

• William Roscoe Estep

  American Baptist historian (Born 1920).

• Sarah Payne

  British murder victim (Born 1992).

• W?adys?aw Szpilman

  Polish pianist and memoir writer (Born 1911).

• Rene Rios Boettiger

  Chilean cartoonist (Born 1911).

• Doug Fisher

  English actor (Born 1941).

• Gregory Hill

  American writer (Born 1941).

• Carmen Martin Gaite

  Spanish author (Born 1925).

• Ahmad Shamlou

  Iranian poet (Born 1925).

• Rudi Fassnacht

  German football manager (Born 1934).

• Louis Quilico

  Canadian baritone (Born 1925).

• Eric Christmas

  English-Canadian actor (d. 2000).

• Abraham Pais

  Dutch-American physicist historian and academic (d. 2000).

• Pedro Mir

  Dominican poet and author (d. 2000).

• Marc Reisner

  American environmentalist and author (d. 2000).

• Charles Merritt

  Canadian Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross (Born 1908).

• Justin Pierce

  English-American actor and skateboarder (Born 1975).

• Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

  Polish writer (Born 1919).

• Kemal Sunal

  Turkish actor producer and screenwriter (d. 2000).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Enrique Iglesias - Be With You
2. Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want
3. matchbox twenty - Bent
4. N'Sync - It's Gonna Be Me
5. Aaliyah - Try Again

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Eminem - The Real Slim Shady
2. Robbie Williams - Rock DJ
3. The Corrs - Breathless
4. Craig David - 7 Days
5. Kylie Minogue - Spinning Around