May 2000 calendar

May 2000
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in May 2000.
The US president was Bill Clinton (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Tony Blair (Labour), Pope St John Paul II was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on May 2000: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of May 2000?

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 inaugurated as 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24 May 2000 After 22 years of occupation, Israeli troops have withdrawn from southern Lebanon.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 After 22 years of invading Lebanon in 1978, Israel has now withdrawn its army from the majority of Lebanese territory.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.
03 May 2000 The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.