May 2000 calendar

Events

• 01 May 2000 A new class of composite material is fabricated, which has a combination of physical properties never before seen in a natural or man-made material.ref name=compref name=UCSD-press-release{{cite web|author=McDonald, Kim|title= UCSD Physicists Develop a New Class of Composite Material with 'Reverse' Physical Properties Never Before Seen
• 02 May 2000 President Bill Clinton announced that GPS access to accurate data will no longer be restricted only to the United States military.
• 03 May 2000 Datapoint, a computer pioneer from San Antonio, Texas files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• 04 May 2000 Ken Livingstone is elected the first Mayor for London.
• 05 May 2000 Rarely, a rare conjunction occurs on New Moon. It includes all seven traditional celestial bodies that were known since ancient times and up to 1781 with the discovery Uranus. This combination includes the Sun, Moon, Mercury and Venus, Mars and Jupiter.
• 07 May 2000 Vladimir Putin is elected president of Russia
• 11 May 2000 Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian Paramilitary Forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
• 12 May 2000 23 people are killed in a fireworks factory accident in Enschede (the Netherlands).
• 16 May 2000 Ahmet Necdet Szer is elected the tenth president of Turkey by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
• 17 May 2000 13 people were injured by a bomb at Glorietta Mall, Makati City Philippines.
• 18 May 2000 Boo.com goes bankrupt due to insufficient funds after six months
• 20 May 2000 Taiwanese president Chen Shuibian signs the Four Noes and One Without promise to Taiwan
• 24 May 2000 After 22 years of occupation, Israeli troops have withdrawn from southern Lebanon.
• 25 May 2000 Liberation Day of Lebanon. After 22 years of invading Lebanon in 1978, Israel has now withdrawn its army from the majority of Lebanese territory.
• 28 May 2000 The comic strip Bringing Up Father has ended its 87-year-old run in newspapers.

Famous Birthday

• Angel Sy
• Shyann McClure

  American actress and model.

• Emily Goldberg

  American noted family, the daughter of newscaster Lee Goldberg of WABC TV and his wife Jessica.

• Ava Neely

  American child of noted father, Hall-of-Fame professional hockey player Cam Neely, who was born on June 6, 1965 according to her birth...

• Christian Akridge

  Vine Star.

• Rion Paige

  Country Singer.

• Noah Kittiesmama

  YouTube Star.

• Kalama Epstein

  TV Actor.

• Maxwell Cotton

  TV Actor.

• Mika Abdalla

  TV Actress.

• Trinity Inay

  Dancer.

• Addison Holley

  TV Actress.

• Ben Tremblay

  Vine Star.

• Sage Lescher

  YouTube Star.

• Will Simmons

  Dancer.

• Iyanna Mayweather

  Family Member.

• Jayden Siwa

  Family Member.

• Noah Lahn

  Pop Singer.

• Kurt Gatip

  Instagram Star.

• Kierra

  Musical.

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Famous Deaths

• Steve Reeves

  American physical culturist, a 6' 1", 215-lb winner of the contests for Mr.

• Barbara Cartland

  British author of hundreds of books on philosophy, history, sociology, cooking, drama, verse and autobiographies - but primarily, romance...

• John Joseph O'Connor

  Cardinal Archbishop of New York (Born 1920).

• Tito Puente

  American drummer and producer (d. 2000).

• Gino Bartali

  Italian cyclist, nicknamed "Gino the Pious" because of his strong religious faith.

• Nicholas Clay

  British actor (Born 1946).

• Henry Nicols

  AIDS activist (Born 1973).

• Dede Fortin

  Quebec singer and songwriter (Les Colocs) (Born 1962).

• Jules Deschenes

  Quebec superior court judge (Born 1923).

• Rene Munoz

  Cuban actor, screenwriter of telenovelas (Born 1938).

• Bodacious the Bull

  rodeo bull (Born 1988).

• Maulana Yousuf Ludhianvi

  Indian Muslim scholar (Born 1932).

• Sir Crawford Murray MacLehose

  Scottish statesman, 25th Governor of Hong Kong (Born 1917).

• George Irving Bell

  American mountaineer (Born 1926).

• Arthur Davis

  United States federal judge.

• Jumbo Tsuruta

  Japanese professional wrestler (Born 1951).

• Johnnie Taylor

  American singer (Born 1938).

• Bill Musselman

  American basketball player and coach (d. 2000).

• Yevgeny Khrunov

  Russian colonel and astronaut (d. 2000).

• Majrooh Sultanpuri

  Indian poet and songwriter (d. 2000).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Santana - Maria, Maria
2. Toni Braxton - He Wasn't Man Enough
3. Faith Hill - Breathe
4. Sisqo - Thong Song
5. Destiny's Child - Say My Name

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Oxide & Neutrino - Bound 4 Da Reload (Casualty)
2. Britney Spears - Oops!... I Did It Again
3. Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby
4. Fragma - Toca's Miracle
5. The Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch