2000

As the world was in turmoil over the future of the Earth, Tom Cruise was a happy man as his movie Mission Impossible II was the highest-grossing film at the box office.

The year 2000 was also the World Mathematical year as well as the International Year for the Culture of Peace. It is the year that saw the publishing of Stephen King’s Riding the Bullet, the world’s first E-book for the mass market.

At the height of the internet bubble, America Online Inc. announced that it was acquiring Time Warner Inc for a cool $182 billion, which in stock and debt. The merger formed a $350 billion mega media empire spanning music production, publishing, entertainment, cable TV, news, and internet services. The Federal Trade Commission gave the two companies to go ahead with the merger in December 2000. AQL shareholders owned 55% of the new company while Time Warner shareholders owned the remaining 45%.

On August 9, tire manufacturer Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. announced they recalled over 6 million Wilderness AT, ATX, and ATX II tires. The recall came two days after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration linked the tires to hundreds of accidents resulting in 46 deaths. The tread of the tires was the problem with the tires. The investigation led to the fact that the tread on the 15-inch Wilderness AT tires, ATX and ATX II tended to peel off, and this resulted in vehicles rolling over.

Christmas is one of the happiest seasons of the year to many people. In China, on Christmas day 2000, a Christmas party turned deadly. The party was at an unlicensed disco, and it caught fire as the party rolled on. More than 300 people lost their lives in the incident that took place in Luoyang China.

Contrary to reports that the world was ending, year 2,000 ushered in an age of technological advancements and access to civil rights for marginalized societies and groups. It is the first year of the current millennium.

Discover how the world looked like in 2000

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Oscar Winners

All Academy Awards Prize winners of the 73rd edition of the Oscar ceremony

Best picture

Gladiator

Best actor

Russell Crowe

Best actress

Julia Roberts

Best supporting actor

Benicio del Toro

Best supporting actress

Marcia Gay Harden

Time Person of the Year

Who was the person of the year of 2000?

George W. Bush

In 2000, Bush was elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent Vice President Al Gore.

Books

Which were the most popular books released in 2000 ?
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Nobel Prizes

All Nobel Prize winners of 2000

Peace Prize

Kim Dae-jung

Literature

Gao Xingjian

Physics

Zhores Alferov
Herbert Kroemer
Jack Kilby

Economic Sciences

James Heckman
Daniel McFadden

Chemistry

Alan J. Heeger
Alan MacDiarmid
Hideki Shirakawa

Physiology or Medicine

Arvid Carlsson
Paul Greengard
Eric Kandel

Music charts

Which were the top hits of 2000?

Top #1 songs in the USA

Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want
Faith Hill - Breathe
Santana - Maria, Maria
3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
Destiny's Child - Jumpin' Jumpin'
Joe - I Wanna Know
Aaliyah - Try Again
matchbox twenty - Bent
Creed - With Arms Wide Open
Sisqo - Thong Song

Top #1 songs in the UK

Fragma - Toca's Miracle
Robbie Williams - Rock DJ
Ronan Keating - Life Is A Rollercoaster
All Saints - Pure Shores
Bomfunk MC's - Freestyler
Westlife - I Have A Dream / Seasons In The Sun
Artful Dodger featuring Craig David - Re-Rewind The Crowd Say Bo Selecta
Mariah Carey & Westlife - Against All Odds
All Saints - Black Coffee
Delerium featuring Sarah McLachlan - Silence (Remixes)

Movies

Which were the most popular Movies released in those months?
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Popular names

Which were the top popular names given to babies born in 2000 in the USA ?

Top #10 male names

Top #10 female names

World Population

Demographic statistics of the year 2000

Population statistics

Total population: 6.1 billion (6,143,493,823 to be precise!)
Urban population: 2.9 billion, that is 47.0% of the total population of 2000 lives in cities
Yearly change: +79.4 million, corresponding to a percentage increase of +1.31%
Average density: 41.0 persons per km²

Historical Events

Which were the important events of 2000?

Events

01 Jan 2000 As many experts and businesses feared, Y2K does not result in widespread, serious computer failures.
02 Jan 2000 Kosheh massacres - 21 Coptic Christians were killed in a massacre at el-Kosheh village, Upper Egypt. It is located 450 kilometres from Cairo.
03 Jan 2000 The last Peanuts comic strip of original Peanuts is published.
04 Jan 2000 Alan Greenspan has been nominated to serve a fourth term in the role of Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
05 Jan 2000 January 8 and Ash: The 2000 al-Qaeda Summit, which includes several high-ranking al-Qaeda members (including two 9/11 hijackers of American Airlines), is held in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
06 Jan 2000 The last Pyrenean natural Ibex has been found dead. It was apparently struck by a tree.
07 Jan 2000 Microsoft Corporation purchases Visio Corporation through a stock swap
08 Jan 2000 One of the most talked about and memorable plays in NFL history took place at the then-Adelphia Coliseum during the 1999-2000 NFL playoffs. The "Music City Miracle" was an unexpected trick play on a kickoff returning that led to a touchdown, which catapulted Tennessee Titans past Buffalo Bills to the Divisional Playoffs. It ensured the Titans went undefeated their first season at their new home. The team's record crowd of 66782 witnessed the victory.
09 Jan 2000 In an attempt to resolve the current economic crisis, the Ecuadorian president Jamil Mahuad's administration announces that it will adopt the U.S. Dollar as its official currency. Protests led to the 2000 Ecuadorian coup de etat, which saw Mahuad removed from office and Vice President Gustavo Noboa elevated to the presidency.
10 Jan 2000 America Online announced it has purchased Time Warner in a stock-trade transaction valued at $160 Billion, making it the largest corporate acquisition in history. AOL Time Warner will be the new company. Its combined value is $350 billion.
11 Jan 2000 The Solway Harvester trawler sinks off Ramsey, Isle of Man
12 Jan 2000 Maputo and the Incomati River burst into their banks, directly affecting around 40,000. Flooding along the Incomati affected approximately 20,000 a few days later.
13 Jan 2000 Microsoft's chief executive officer is Steve Ballmer
14 Jan 2000 Closed at 11,722.98, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a new record (the peak of Dot-com's bubble)
15 Jan 2000 Zeljko Raznatovic (also known as Arkan) is assassinated at Belgrade's InterContinental Hotel. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was Interpol's most wanted for robberies or murders in several European countries. He was the Balkan's most powerful criminal boss until his death.
16 Jan 2000 A truck transporting evaporated milk from Sacramento, California is driven into the State Capitol Building, killing its driver.
17 Jan 2000 Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States is now officially observed in all 50 states for the first-ever time.
18 Jan 2000 The Earth is impacted by the Tagish Lake meteorite.
19 Jan 2000 Boland Hall fire: Three students were killed and 54 others were hurt in a fire that broke out at Seton Hall University's dormitory. For setting the fire, two students were charged with murder as well as arson.
20 Jan 2000 Arkan's funeral is attended by around 10,000 people in Belgrade. Arkan is buried in Belgrade's New Cemetery, with military honors given by his volunteers and funeral rites.
21 Jan 2000 Ecuador: Col. Lucio Gutierrez and Carlos Solorzano, who are seized by indigenous groups, depose President Jamil Mahuad. Later, Gen. Carlos Mendoza replaces Gutierrez and gives Gustavo Noboa the opportunity to succeed Mahuad.
22 Jan 2000 After Jamil Mahuad's exile, Gustavo Noboa is elected President of Ecuador.
23 Jan 2000 57th Golden Globe Awards: The Sopranos wins the Golden Globe Award as Best Television Series – Drama; Sex and the City win for Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy. Toy Story 2 wins the Golden Globe Award as Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. American Beauty wins the Golden Globe Award as Best Motion Picture (Drama).
26 Jan 2000 Cynthia Jay-Brennan, a player at the Desert Inn Las Vegas casino, wins $34,959,458.56 from Megabucks, the largest payout in the world. Her total winnings were $27.
27 Jan 2000 A new US Mint dollar coin depicting Sacagawea has been released.
30 Jan 2000 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the California coast, killing 88.
31 Jan 2000 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes: An MD-83 with horizontal stabilizer problems crashes in the Pacific Ocean off Point Mugu, California killing all 88 passengers.
05 Feb 2000 Russian forces killed at least 60 civilians in Novye Aldi, Grozny.
06 Feb 2000 Second Chechen War: Russia seizes Grozny in Chechnya and forces the separatist Chechen Republic Of Ichkeria government to flee.
08 Feb 2000 Bob Collins' plane collides over Zion, Illinois with the student pilot.
09 Feb 2000 The worst floods in Mozambique for 50 years are caused by torrential rains from Africa. They last until March and kill 800 people.
11 Feb 2000 A blast from an explosive device exploded in front of the Barclay's Bank, just across from Wall Street's New York Stock Exchange. It killed none but wound dozens.
12 Feb 2000 Screamin' Jay Hawkins and Tom Landry, Charles M. Schulz and Oliver all die from unrelated causes.
13 Feb 2000 After the death of Charles Schulz, the final Peanuts comic strip is printed.
14 Feb 2000 NEAR Shoemaker, a spacecraft that orbits asteroid 433 Eros for the first time, enters orbit around it.
15 Feb 2000 The Indian Point II nuclear power station in New York State releases a small amount radioactive steam when the steam generator stops working.
16 Feb 2000 At the University of Toronto, Archbishop Desmond Tutu gives a speech.
17 Feb 2000 Microsoft announces Windows 2000 in San Francisco, California. In the first two months, 1.5 million copies were sold.
21 Feb 2000 The International Mother Language Day is an inaugural celebration by UNESCO.
29 Feb 2000 This leap day marks the end of a century-long leap year that ends on February 29, 2400.
01 Mar 2000 Rewritten the Constitution of Finland
06 Mar 2000 Advanced Micro Devices ships the first commercially-available 1 GHz processor.
07 Mar 2000 Al Gore and George W. Bush emerge victorious in the Republican caucuses, primaries and presidential election in the United States.
08 Mar 2000 Tokyo train tragedy: 5 people are killed in a sideswipe collision between 2 Tokyo Metro trains.
09 Mar 2000 Ely Sakhai, a suspect in art forgery, was arrested by the FBI in New York City.
10 Mar 2000 The peak of the NASDAQ Composite stock market index is 5132.52, which signals the end of dot-com's boom.
12 Mar 2000 Pope John Paul II apologises for wrongdoings committed by Roman Catholic Church members throughout history.
16 Mar 2000 The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 499.19 points (4.93%), its second-largest point gain in a single day.
17 Mar 2000 In what is believed to have been a suicide and mass murder orchestrated by the leaders of the cult, more than 800 members of the Ugandan Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God were killed.
18 Mar 2000 2000 Taiwanese Presidential Election: Chen Shui-bian elected President of Republic of China.
19 Mar 2000 For a state visit, President Bill Clinton arrives in New Delhi (India)
20 Mar 2000 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin is a former Black Panther, once known as H. Rap Brown. He was captured after killing Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen. Also, he critically wounded Deputy Aldranon England.
21 Mar 2000 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the government does not have the authority to regulate tobacco addiction drugs, thus removing the main anti-smoking initiative of the Clinton administration.
24 Mar 2000 The S&P 500 index reached an intraday peak of 1,552.87. This is a peak that will be lost due to the collapse in the dot-com bubble.
26 Mar 2000 The Kingdome Sports Arena in Seattle, Washington is being demolished to make way for a new stadium.
27 Mar 2000 One person is killed and 71 are injured in an explosion at Phillips Petroleum's Pasadena, Texas plant.
28 Mar 2000 Three children are killed in an accident where a CSX freighttrain hits a Murray County school bus.
01 Apr 2000 Obuchi Keizo, the Japanese prime minister, suffers a stroke that causes him to fall into a coma.
03 Apr 2000 Judge Thomas Jackson issued his Conclusions of law in the US Justice Department against Microsoft anti-trust case. He ruled that Microsoft illegally acted to protect its operating systemmonopoly and attempted to monopolize market for Web browsers software.
07 Apr 2000 The Chalk Point Generating Station of Pepco, located in southern Maryland, USA, releases approximately 420,000 litres oil. There are 6 1/2 miles of oil containment booms that capture an estimated 300,000.
11 Apr 2000 AT&T Park San Francisco, Minute Maid Park Houston and Comerica Park Detroit are open.
16 Apr 2000 After a 55-year reign, Tuanku Syed Putra Syed Hassan Jamalullail dies as Raja of Perlis. He was the longest-reigning monarch in the world after the death of Emperor Hirohito.
22 Apr 2000 Federal agents raid Elian Gonzalez's Miami home before dawn.
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.
02 Jun 2000 The Charlemagne prize, Germany's city of Aachen, is presented to U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton. Clinton is the first American president ever to be awarded the prize, which is for contributions towards the unity of Europe.
04 Jun 2000 An earthquake strikes Bengkulu in Indonesia, killing 94.
05 Jun 2000 The first widely distributed short film on the Internet is ''405 The Movie'.
07 Jun 2000 In the US Justice Department against Microsoft antitrust case, Judge Thomas Jackson orders that Microsoft be split into two companies. One producing operating systems and the other application programs.
12 Jun 2000 Sandro Rosa do Nascimento robs Bus #174 in Rio de Janeiro Brazil, taking hostages. The highly publicized standoff turns into a media circus that ends with do Nascimento's death and the release of a hostage.
13 Jun 2000 It pardons Mehmet Ali AGCA, the Turkish gunman who attempted to kill Pope John Paul II in 1982.
16 Jun 2000 After 22 years, Israel has complied with UN Security Council Resolution 425. This resolution calls for Israel to withdraw completely from Lebanon. Israel has withdrawn from all of Lebanon except for the Sheba Farms.
21 Jun 2000 With a 99-to-17 vote, Section 28 (outlawing homosexuality promotion in the United Kingdom), is repealed by Scotland.
23 Jun 2000 Palace Backpackers Hostel fire in Childers, Queensland, Australia, kills 15 people.
26 Jun 2000 As part of the Human Genome Project's preliminary draft, a final version of the genomes is available.
28 Jun 2000 Elian Gonzalez and Juan Miguel Gonzalez return to Cuba, ending a long custody battle.
30 Jun 2000 France defeats Italy by 2-1 in extra time in the final European Championships. This makes them the first team to win consecutively the World Cup as well as the European Championships.
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.
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
05 Sep 2000 Tuvalu joins United Nations
06 Sep 2000 Bofors, the last Swedish-owned arms producer, was sold to United Defense.
07 Sep 2000 Officially, Albania joins the World Trade Organization.
14 Sep 2000 A tugboat caused a 4-foot gap in the US Navy ship USS Detroit. It subsequently spilled 113,000 litres oil across Sandy Hook Bay, New Jersey.
15 Sep 2000 Georgiy Gongadze, a Ukrainian journalist, was last seen alive on this day. It is used as the date of his funeral.
16 Sep 2000 Georgiy Gongadze, a Ukrainian journalist, was last seen alive. This day is used as the date of his funeral.
20 Sep 2000 A Russian-built Mark 22 antitank missile is used to attack the British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service Building.
26 Sep 2000 80 people are killed when the MS Express Samina sinks off Paros, Agean sea.
27 Sep 2000 Prague protests against globalization at the summit of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank
28 Sep 2000 Al-Aqsa Intifada - Ariel Sharon visits Al Aqsa Mosque, also known as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
30 Sep 2000 The HM Prison Maze is now closed in Northern Ireland.
01 Oct 2000 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited were incorporated under the Indian Companies Act 1956.
05 Oct 2000 Massive protests in Belgrade led to the resignation of Slobodan Milosevic, Serbia's strongman. These protests are sometimes called the Bulldozer Revolution.
06 Oct 2000 Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic resigns.
11 Oct 2000 250 million gallons coal sludge were released in Martin County, Kentucky, USA.
12 Oct 2000 Two suicide bombers attack the USS Cole in Aden, Yemen. They place a small boat with explosives alongside the destroyer. The two attackers killed 17 crew members and wounded at least 39 others.
15 Oct 2000 Nintendo launches the PokTmon Gold, and PokTmon Silver videogames for the Game Boy Color in America. In the first week, 1.4 million copies were sold.
17 Oct 2000 Don Rickles is awarded a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
18 Oct 2000 Hatfield rail accident, United Kingdom: A section of a rail is broken as a passenger train passes by it. Four people are killed and 70 are hurt.
22 Oct 2000 Shinichi Fujimura, a Japanese archeologist, is exposed by Mainichi Shinbun.
23 Oct 2000 Madeleine Albright, American Secretary of State, holds talks with Kim Jong Il.
26 Oct 2000 Sony Computer Entertainment launches the Sony PlayStation 2 in America. It can play PlayStation games and supports DVD-ROM and DVD-Video as well as CD-ROM and Dolby Digital media. The price is approximately US$300. The first week sales: 681 855.
27 Oct 2000 Pacific Islands Forum (PIF)
30 Oct 2000 The last Multics machine has been shut down.
31 Oct 2000 After takeoff in Northern Angola, a chartered Antonov An-26 explodes, killing 50.
01 Nov 2000 Serbia joins the United Nations
02 Nov 2000 The Soyuz TM-31 docked the first resident crew to the ISS on November 2nd
03 Nov 2000 A criminal gang in London raids the Millennium Dome in order to steal the Millennium Star Diamond, but police surveillance captures them.
04 Nov 2000 "Died :''' Stephanie Lawrence 50, English musical theatre actress
05 Nov 2000 Phil Goff, the Foreign Minister of New Zealand, offenly accuses Lieutenant Colonel Filipo Tarakinikini, of being involved in the November 2 Mutiny.
06 Nov 2000 L. Sprague de Camp (92), American science fiction and fantasy author
07 Nov 2000 United States presidential election: Republican candidate Texas Governor George W. Bush defeats Democratic vice President Al Gore in the tightest election in US history. However, the final result is unknown for more than a month due to disputed Florida votes.
08 Nov 2000 The ruling National Democratic Party wins the third and final stage in the Egyptian parliamentary elections, 2000.
09 Nov 2000 "Died :''' Michel Demaret 60, Belgian politician Eric Morley 82, English businessman, founder of Miss World
11 Nov 2000 Kaprun tragedy: 155 snowboarders and skiers are killed when a cable car sets fire to an alpine tunnel in Kaprun.
13 Nov 2000 The articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada are passed by Manuel B. Villar, Jr., the Philippine House Speaker.
14 Nov 2000 Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is released after two years of open-source development, which created a stable Mozilla web browser.
15 Nov 2000 After takeoff from Luanda in Angola, a chartered Antonov An-24 crashed killing more than 40 people.
16 Nov 2000 Bill Clinton is the first American President to visit Vietnam since the Vietnam War.
17 Nov 2000 President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, is resigned. 4,097 children born in us
18 Nov 2000 Catherine Zeta Jones marries Michael Douglas at New York's Plaza Hotel.
19 Nov 2000 Airdrieonians F. C. won the 2000 Scottish Challenge Cup Final
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.

2000

Your place in the Universe on 2000

Find out more about your Moon Sign

Oscar Winners

Best picture

Gladiator

Gladiator

Best actor

Russell Crowe

Gladiator

Best actress

Julia Roberts

Erin Brockovich

Best supporting actor

Benicio del Toro

Traffic

Best supporting actress

Marcia Gay Harden

Pollock

Time Person of the Year

Books

Tuesdays With Morrie

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban

The Greatest Generation

Who Moved My Cheese?

The Brethren

2000 Chinese Zodiac and Horoscope

Nobel Prizes

Peace Prize

Literature

Physics

Economic Sciences

Chemistry

Physiology or Medicine

Music charts

Top #1 songs in the USA

Top #1 songs in the UK

Movies

Canada: A People's History

Gladiator

Memento

Black Books

Higher Ground

Popular names

Top #10 male names

Top #10 female names

World Population

Population statistics

Historical Events

Events