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2000 (MM) was a leap year that started on a Saturday in accordance with the Gregorian Calendar. It was the 2000th year of the Common Era or the Anno Domini designation and the last year of the 20th century and of the 2nd millennium. 2000 was designated as: International Year for the Culture of Peace1 World Mathematical Year2

The year 2000 was the first year of the 2000s decade. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium due to a tendency to group the years according to decimal values as if year zero were counted. According to the Gregorian Calendar this distinction falls to the year 2001 because the 1st century was retroactively said to start with year AD 1. Since the calendar has no year zero its first millennium spans from years 1 to 1000 inclusively and its second millennium from years 1001 to 2000. (See more at Millennium.)

The year 2000 was the subject of Y2K concerns: fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctly. However by the end of 1999 many companies had already converted to new or upgraded their existing software. Some even obtained Y2K certification. In the actual event relatively few problems occurred. Events January January 3January 10 Israel and Syria hold inconclusive peace talks. January 5January 8 The 2000 al-Qaeda Summit of several high-level al-Qaeda members (including 2 9/11 American Airlines hijackers) is held in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. January 6 The last natural Pyrenean Ibex is found dead apparently killed by a falling tree. January 10 America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger). January 11 The armed wing of the Islamic Salvation Front concludes its negotiations with the government for an amnesty and disbands in Algeria (see Algerian Civil War#GIA destroyed GSPC discontinues) The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man.3 January 14 A United Nations tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of over 100 Bosnian Muslims in a Bosnian village.4 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11722.98 (at the peak of the Dot-com bubble). January 18 The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth. January 24 God's Army a Karen militia group led by twins Johnny and Luther Htoo takes 700 hostages at a Thai hospital near the Burmese border. January 30 Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the coast of Cte d'Ivoire into the Atlantic Ocean killing 169. January 31 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean killing 88. Dr. Harold Shipman is found guilty of murdering 15 patients between 1995 and 1998 at Hyde Greater Manchester and sentenced to life imprisonment. February February 4 German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines. February 9 Torrential rains in Africa lead to the worst flooding in Mozambique in 50 years which lasts until March and kills 800 people. February 13 The final original Peanuts comic strip is published following the death of its creator Charles M. Schulz. February 21 UNESCO holds the inaugural celebration of International Mother Language Day. March March 1 The Constitution of Finland was rewritten. March 8 Tokyo train disaster: A sideswipe collision of 2 Tokyo Metro trains kills 5 people. March 10 The NASDAQ Composite Index reaches an all-time high of 5048.5 March 12 Pope John Paul II apologises for the wrongdoings by members of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the ages. March 21 Pope John Paul II begins the first official visit by a Roman Catholic pontiff to Israel. The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the government lacks authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug throwing out the Bill Clinton administration's main anti-smoking initiative March 27 The Phillips explosion of 2000 kills 1 and injures 71 in Pasadena Texas. April April 3 United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. April 17 Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin becomes Raja of Perlis. April 22 In a predawn raid federal agents seize 6-year old Elin Gonzlez from his relatives' home in Miami Florida and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington DC ending one of the most publicized custody battles in U.S. history. May May 1 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.67 May 3 A rare conjunction of 7 celestial bodies (Sun Moon planets MercurySaturn) occurs during the New Moon.8 In San Antonio Texas computer pioneer Datapoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. May 4 After originating in The Philippines the ILOVEYOU computer virus spreads quickly throughout the world. An earthquake hits Banggai Indonesia leaving 54 dead. May 11 The billionth living person in India is born.910 Effective date of Canada's first modern-day treaty The Nisga'a Final Agreement May 12 The Tate Modern Gallery opens in London. May 13 A fireworks factory disaster in Enschede Netherlands kills 23. May 16 The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elects Ahmet Necdet Sezer as the tenth President of Turkey. May 17 A bomb in Glorietta Mall in Makati City Philippines injures 13. May 20 Taiwanese (ROC) president Chen Shui-bian makes the Four Noes and One Without pledge to Taiwan. May 25 Israel withdraws IDF forces from southern Lebanon after 22 years. June June 4 An earthquake hits Bengkulu Indonesia leaving 94 dead. June 5 405 The Movie the first short film widely distributed on the Internet is released. June 13 South Korean President Kim Dae Jung visits North Korea to participate in the first North-South presidential summit. June 17 A centennial earthquake (6.5 on Richter scale) hits Iceland on its national day. June 21 Section 28 a law preventing the promotion of homosexuality is repealed by the Scottish Parliament. June 26 A preliminary draft of genomes as part of the Human Genome Project is finished. June 28 Elian Gonzalez returns to Cuba with his father Juan Miguel Gonzalez ending a protracted custody battle. June 30 At the Roskilde Festival near Copenhagen Denmark 9 die and 26 are injured on a set while the rock group Pearl Jam performs. July July 2 France defeats Italy 2-1 after extra time in the final of the European Championships becoming the first team to consecutively win the World Cup and European Championships. Vicente Fox is elected President of Mexico as candidate of the rightist PAN (National Action Party) ending 71 years of PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) rule. July 10 In southern Nigeria a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline. Bashar al-Assad is confirmed as Syria's leader in a national referendum. July 13July 25 Israel's prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO head Yasser Arafat meet at Camp David but fail to reach an agreement. July 14 A powerful solar flare later named the Bastille Day event causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth. July 18 Alex Salmond resigns as the leader of the Scottish National Party. July 21July 23 G-8 Nations hold their 26th Annual Summit; issues include AIDS the 'digital divide' and halving world poverty by 2015. July 22 News of the World urges its readers to sign a petition for Sarah's Law new legislation in response to the murder of Sarah Payne which would give parents the right to know whether a convicted paedophile was living in their area. July 25 Air France Flight 4590 a Concorde aircraft crashes into a hotel in Gonesse just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 in the hotel. July 31August 3 The Republican National Convention in Philadelphia Pennsylvania nominates George W. Bush for U.S. President and Dick Cheney for Vice President. August August 3 Rioting erupts on the Paulsgrove estate in Portsmouth Hampshire England after more than 100 people besiege the home of a block of flats allegedly housing a convicted paedophile. This is the latest vigilante violence against suspected sex offenders since the beginning of the "naming and shaming" anti-paedophile campaign by the tabloid newspaper News of the World. August 8 The Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor. August 12 The Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board. August 14 Tsar Nicholas II and his family are canonized by the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church. August 14August 17 The Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominates U.S. Vice President Al Gore for President and Senator Joe Lieberman for Vice President. August 23 John Anthony Kaiser a Roman Catholic priest was murdered in Morendat Kenya. August 27 The Ostankino Tower fire in Moscow kills 3. September September 5 Tuvalu joins the United Nations. September 6 The last wholly Swedish-owned arms manufacturer Bofors is sold to American arms manufacturer United Defense. September 6September 8 World leaders attend the Millennium Summit at UN Headquarters. September 7September 14 The UK fuel protests take place with refineries blockaded and supply to the country's network of petrol stations halted. September 8 Albania officially joins the World Trade Organization. United Nations Millennium Declaration is made in New York September 15October 1 The 2000 Summer Olympics are held in Sydney Australia. September 16 Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze is last seen alive; this day is taken as the commemoration date of his death. Peru's president Alberto Fujimori calls for new elections in which he will not run. September 26 The Greek ferry Express Samina sinks off the coast of the island of Paros; 80 out of a total of over 500 passengers perish in one of Greece's worst sea disasters. Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 15000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits. September 28 Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount protected by a several-hundred-strong Israeli police force. Palestinian riots erupt leading to a full-fledged armed uprising (called the Al-Aqsa Intifada by sympathizers and the Oslo War by opponents). September 29 The Long Kesh prison in Northern Ireland is closed. October October 1 The 2000 Summer Olympics close in Sydney Australia. October 5 President Slobodan Miloevi leaves office after widespread demonstrations throughout Serbia. October 6 The last Mini is produced in Longbridge. October 11 250 million gallons of coal sludge spill in Martin County Kentucky (considered a greater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill). October 12 In Aden Yemen the USS Cole is badly damaged by two Al-Qaeda suicide bombers who place a small boat laden with explosives alongside the United States Navy destroyer killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39. October 21 Fifteen Arab leaders convene in Cairo Egypt for their first summit in 4 years; the Libyan delegation walks out angry over signs the summit will stop short of calling for breaking ties with Israel. October 22 The Mainichi Shinbun newspaper exposes Japanese archeologist Shinichi Fujimura as a fraud; Japanese archaeologists had based their treatises on his findings. October 23 Madeleine Albright holds talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. October 26 Pakistani authorities announce that their police have found an apparently ancient mummy of a Persian princess in the province of Balochistan. Iran Pakistan and the Taliban all claim the mummy until Pakistan announces it is a forgery on April 17 2001. October 27 Pacific Islands Forum (PIF). October 30 This is the final date during which there is no human presence in space; on October 31 Soyuz TM-31 launches carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been continuously crewed since. October 31 Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment in the Chiang Kai Shek International Airport resulting in 83 deaths. November November Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq rejects new U.N. Security Council weapons inspections proposals. November 2 The first resident crew enters the International Space Station. November 3 Widespread flooding occurs throughout England and Wales after days of heavy rain. November 7 In London a criminal gang raids the Millennium Dome to steal The Millennium Star diamond but police surveillance catches them in the act. November 11 Kaprun disaster Austria: A funicular fire in an Alpine tunnel kills 155 skiers and snowboarders. November 15 A new Indian state called Jharkhand is formed carving out the South Chhota Nagpur area from Bihar in India. November 16 Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting U.S. President to visit Vietnam. November 17 A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom Slovenia kills 7 and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years. Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru. November 28 Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz touches off the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze. December December 1 Vicente Fox takes office as President of Mexico. December 13 Bush v. Gore: The U.S. Supreme Court stops the Florida presidential recount effectively giving the state and the Presidency to George W. Bush. December 15 The third and final reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down and the station is shut down completely. December 24 Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombings: 18 people are killed in multiple Islamist bomb attacks on churches across Indonesia. December 25 A shopping center fire at Luoyang Henan China kills 309. December 30 Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila Philippines within a span of a few hours killing 22 and injuring about 100. December 31 The Millennium Dome closes its doors one year to the day of its opening. World population World population11 2000 1995 2005 World 6070581000 5674380000 +396201000 +698% 6453628000 +383047000 +631% Africa 795671000 707462000 +88209000 +1247% 887964000 +92293000 +1160% Asia 3679737000 3430052000 +249685000 +728% 3917508000 +237771000 +646% Europe 727986000 727405000 +581000 +008% 724722000 -3264000 -045% Latin America 520229000 481099000 +39130000 +813% 558281000 +38052000 +731% Northern America 315915000 299438000 +16477000 +550% 332156000 +16241000 +514% Oceania 31043000 28924000 +2119000 +733% 32998000 +1955000 +630% Births January 4 Rhiannon Leigh Wryn American actress January 8 Noah Cyrus American actress October 31 Willow Smith American actress and singer November 20 Connie Talbot British singer Deaths Main article: Deaths in 2000 January Hedy Lamarr January 2 Patrick O'Brian English writer (b. 1914) January 15 eljko Ranatovi Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (b. 1952) January 18 Frances Drake American actress (b. 1912) January 19 Bettino Craxi Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934) Hedy Lamarr Austrian actress (b. 1913) February Charles M. Schulz Friedensreich Hundertwasser February 5 Claude Autant-Lara French film director (b. 1901) Ward Cornell Canadian radio/TV broadcaster & educator (b. 1924) February 7 Doug Henning Canadian magician (b. 1947) Big Pun American rapper (b. 1971) February 9 Beau Jack American boxer (b. 1921) February 10 Jim Varney American actor noted for his character Ernest P. Worrell. (b. 1949) February 11 Roger Vadim French film director and producer (b. 1928) February 12 Tom Landry American football coach (b. 1924) Charles M. Schulz American comic strip artist (Peanuts) (b. 1922) February 13 Anders Aalborg Canadian politician (b. 1914) February 19 Friedensreich Hundertwasser artist (b. 1928) February 23 Sir Stanley Matthews English footballer (b. 1915) Ofra Haza Israeli singer (b. 1957) March Ian Dury March 3 Toni Ortelli Italian composer and alpinist (b. 1904) March 7 Charles Gray English actor (b. 1928) March 11 Alfred Schwarzmann German Olympic gymnast (b. 1912) March 27 Ian Dury English singer songwriter (b. 1942) March 28 Anthony Powell British author (b. 1905) March 30 Rudolf Kirchschlager former President of Austria (b. 1915) April Habib Bourguiba April 2 Tommaso Buscetta Sicilian mafioso informant (b. 1928) April 3 Terence McKenna Writer Philosopher Ethnobotanist and Shaman (b. 1946) April 4 Derek Allhusen British equestrian (b. 1914) April 5 Lee Petty American race car driver (b. 1914) April 6 Habib Bourguiba Tunisian politician 1st President of Tunisia (b. 1903) April 10 Rabah Bitat former President of Algeria (b. 1925) April 11 Diana Darvey British actress singer and dancer (b. 1945) April 14 Phil Katz American computer programmer (b. 1962) April 15 Edward Gorey American writer and illustrator (b. 1925) April 25 David Merrick American stage producer (b. 1911) April 29 Phm Vn ng Vietnamese politician Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1906) May Keiz Obuchi May 1 Steve Reeves American actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926) May 7 Douglas Fairbanks Jr. American actor (b. 1909) May 8 Maria Do Carmo Geronimo The last Brazilian slave and claimed to be 129 before she died (b. 1871) May 10 Craig Stevens American actor (b. 1918) May 11 Ren Muoz Cuban actor screenwriter of telenovelas and the cinema of Mexico (b. 1938) May 13 Tomomi Tsuruta Former Japanese professional wrestler better known as Jumbo Tsuruta (b. 1951) May 14 Keiz Obuchi Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937) May 20 Edward Bernds American director (b. 1905) May 21 Dame Barbara Cartland English novelist (b. 1901) Sir John Gielgud English actor (b. 1904) May 27 Maurice Richard Canadian hockey player (b. 1921) Kazimierz Leski Polish engineer fighter pilot and Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. 1912) May 30 Doris Hare English actress well known for her role in the 1970s comedy On the Buses (b. 1905) May 31 Tito Puente American jazz musician (b. 1923) June Hafez al-Assad June 10 Hafez al-Assad President of Syria (b. 1930) Frank Patterson Irish tenor (b. 1938) June 14 Robert Trent Jones English-born golf course designer (b. 1906) June 16 Empress Kjun of Japan (b. 1903) June 17 Ismail Mahomed South African and Namibian Chief Justice (b. 1931) June 19 Noboru Takeshita former Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1924) June 21 Alan Hovhaness American composer (b. 1911) June 24 David Tomlinson English actor (b. 1917) June 27 Pierre Pflimlin French Politician (b. 1907) June 29 Vittorio Gassman Italian actor (b. 1922) July Walter Matthau July 1 Walter Matthau American actor (b. 1920) July 7 James C. Quayle American newspaper publisher (b. 1921) July 8 FM-2030 Transhumanist philosopher (b. 1930) July 10 Vakkom Majeed Indian Freedom fighter Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909) Denis O'Conor Don hereditary chief of the O'Conor Don sept of Ireland (b. 1912) July 11 Robert Runcie Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921) July 12 Charles Merritt Canadian Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War II (b. 1908) July 28 Abraham Pais Dutch-born American physicist (b. 1918) July 29 Ren Favaloro Argentinian cardiologist who created the technique for coronary bypass surgery (b. 1923) August Carl Barks August 5 Sir Alec Guinness English actor and writer (b. 1914) Otto Buchsbaum writer and ecological activist (b. 1920) August 6 Sir Robin Day British political broadcaster (b. 1923) August 9 John Harsanyi Hungarian-born economist Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920) August 12 Loretta Young American actress (b. 1913) Dave Edwards American musician (b. 1941) August 19 Bineshwar Brahma Bodo activist and leader (b. 1946) August 21 Daniel Lisulo Zambian politician (b. 1930) August 25 Carl Barks American cartoonist (b. 1901) August 26 Bunny Austin English tennis player (b. 1906) September Pierre Trudeau September 2 Elvera Sanchez American dancer (b. 1905) Curt Siodmak American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1902) September 14 Beah Richards American actress (b. 1920) September 16 Georgiy Gongadze Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969) September 19 Anthony Robert Klitz British artist (b 1917) September 25 R. S. Thomas Welsh poet (b. 1913) September 26 Richard Mulligan American actor (b. 1932) September 27 Sammy Luftspring Canadian boxer (b. 1916) September 28 Peter Gennaro American dancer and choreographer (b. 1919) Pierre Trudeau Former Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919) October Steve Allen October 4 Michael Smith English-born chemist Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1932) October 6 Richard Farnsworth American actor (b. 1920) October 8 Sheila Holland (Sheila Coates Charlotte Lamb Sheila Lancaster Victoria Wolf Laura Hardy) English writer (b. 1937) October 9 Patrick Anthony Porteous Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918) October 13 Jean Peters American actress (b. 1926) Tony Roper NASCAR driver (b. 1964) October 15 Konrad Emil Bloch German-born biochemist recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912) October 18 Julie London American singer and actress (b. 1926) October 21 Reginald Kray leading figure in organised crime in London UK (b. 1933) October 23 Rodney Anoa'i American wrestler known as Yokozuna (b. 1966) October 27 Walter Berry Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929) October 29 Andjar Cedeo Dominican Major League Baseball player for the Houston Astros (b. 1969) October 30 Steve Allen American comedian composer talk show host and author (b. 1921) October 31 Ring Lardner Jr. American screenwriter one of the Hollywood Ten (b. 1915) November Ingrid of Sweden November 2 Eva Morris last surviving person documented as born in 1885 (b. 1885) November 5 David Brower American environmental activist (b. 1912) Roger Peyrefitte French writer and diplomat (b. 1907) November 6 L. Sprague de Camp American writer (b. 1907) November 7 C Subramaniam Indian politician (b. 1910) Ingrid of Sweden Queen consort of Frederick IX of Denmark (b. 1910) November 11 Hugh Paddick British actor (b. 1915) November 22 Sir Cyril Astley Clarke British physician geneticist and entomologist former President of the Royal College of Physicians (b. 1907) Christian Marquand French actor and director (b. 1927) December December 2 Gail Fisher American actress (b. 1935) December 3 Gwendolyn Brooks African American writer (b. 1917) December 10 Paul Avery American journalist (b. 1934) Marie Windsor American actress (b. 1919) December 19 Roebuck "Pops" Staples patriarch of The Staple Singers (b. 1914) December 23 Billy Barty American actor (b. 1924) Victor Borge Danish-born comedian and pianist (b. 1909) December 26 Jason Robards American actor (b. 1922) December 30 Julius J. Epstein American screenwriter (b. 1909) Nobel Prizes Chemistry Alan J. Heeger Alan MacDiarmid Hideki Shirakawa Economics James Heckman Daniel McFadden Literature Gao Xingjian Peace Kim Dae Jung Physics Zhores Ivanovich Alferov Herbert Kroemer Jack Kilby Physiology or Medicine Arvid Carlsson Paul Greengard Eric R. Kandel Templeton Prize Freeman Dyson See also Year 2000 baby boom References International Year for the Culture of Peace (2000) Isaak Newton Maths posters in the London Underground BBC News SCOTLAND Solway Harvester: A tale of tragedy. Retrieved 19 November 2007. CNN.com World War crimes tribunal hands Croat general lengthy sentence March 3 2000. Retrieved 19 November 2007. Fifth Anniversary: Nasdaq's record all-time closing high 5048.62. Retrieved 19 November 2007. Smith D. R.; Padilla WJ; Vier DC; Nemat-Nasser SC; Schultz S (2000). "Composite Medium with Simultaneously Negative Permeability and Permittivity". Physical Review Letters 84 (18): 41847. Bibcode 2000PhRvL..84.4184S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.4184. PMID 10990641. http://people.ee.duke.edu/drsmith/pubssmithgroup/SmithPRL844184(2000).pdf.  McDonald Kim (2000-03-21). "UCSD Physicists Develop a New Class of Composite Material with 'Reverse' Physical Properties Never Before Seen". UCSD Science and Engineering. http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mccomposite.htm. Retrieved 2010-12-17.  http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2000/05/01/122109.htmsitenorthwestwa&topicspace India:1 billion population marks milestone Baby girl gives India 1 billion World Population Prospects. 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