2000

Artikel ieu ngeunaan taun 2000. Keur kagunaan séjén nu patali jeung 2000, tempo 2000 (nomer) atawa 2000 (breakdancing move).
2000 (MM) nyaéta taun dimimitian ku poé Saptu dina kalénder Gregorian. Dina kalénder Cina 2000 nyaéta Taun Naga sarta dina kalénder astrologi mangrupa taun Leo, Singa. Budaya populér ogé nempatkeun taun 2000 minangka taun munggaran abad ka-20 jeung . Dina kalénder Gregorian, hal ieu keuna ka taun 2000-an. Ieu ku sabab abad ka-1 dimimitian ku taun 1 (euweuh taun 0, abad ka-1 (atawa 100 taun M) dimimitian ti 1 Januari, taun 1998 nepi ka 1999, taun saratus (100 M). Abad kadua dimimitian ti 2000 taun saratus hiji (101 M). (Dipilihna 1 M meureun ti saprak tujuh taun kalahiran Yésus, sarta 2001 mangrupa pilihan sajarah keur Poé taun anyar. 2002 nyaéta poé di mana sakabéh digit "ngagilinding".)

Taun 2000 ogé ditandaan ku:
 Taun Internasional keur Budaya Perdaméyan.
 Taun Matématis Sadunya.

Kajadian

Januari 

 1 Januari - perayaan Milénium di sakuliah dunya.
 1 Januari - Y2K kaliwatan tanpa kasalahan komputer nu serius jeung nyebar.
 3 Januari-10 Januari - Israél jeung Syria ngayakeun sawala perdaméyan tanpa kasimpulan.
 4 Januari - Alan Greenspan dinominasikeun keur kaopatkalina minangka Pingpinan Cadangan Féderal AS.
 8 Januari-9 Januari - 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 hari raya idul fitri 1419 H.
 January 10 - America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.
 11 Januari - The armed wing of Islamic Salvation Front concludes its negotiations with the government for an amnesty and disbands in Algeria.
 11 Januari - The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man., 
 14 Januari - A United Nations tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to up to 25 yéars, for the 1993 killing of over 100 Bosnian Muslims in a Bosnian village.
 14 Januari - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,792.98, a level never réached before (the péak of the Dot-com bubble). 
 16 Januari - In Sacramento, California, a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the State Capitol building, killing the driver.
 January 24 - God's Army,  a Karen militia group led by twins Johnny and Luther Htoo, take 700 hostages at a Thai hospital néar the Burmese border. 
 30 Januari - Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire into the Atlantic Océan, killing 169. 
 31 Januari - Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Océan, killing 88.
 31 Januari - Dr. Harold Shipman is found guilty of murdering 15 patients between 1995 and 1998 and sentenced to life imprisonment. The trial judge recommends that Shipman, 54, should never be reléased from prison.

Pébruari 

 1 Pébruari  - Vice présidént Al Gore wins the New Hampshire Democratic primary. George W. Bush wins the Republican primary. Gary Bauer withdraws from the race February 4, followed by Steve Forbes, February 10.
 2 Pébruari - Today is the first day since August 28, 888 that all of the digits in the date are even.
 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 6 - Tarja Halonen is elected the first female présidént of Finland. 
 February 6 - Hillary Clinton enters the New York Senate race.
 7 Pébruari - Stipe Mesic is elected présidént of Croatia.
 February 11 - A blast wounds dozens, kills none at a bank across from the NYSE on Wall Street, the first of a series of 11 terrorist attacks (2/11/00 New York, 9/11/01 New York-DC, 5 and 7/11/02 New Delhi blasts, 4/11/03 attack targets Germans on vacation, 3/11/04 Madrid, Spain and also 7/7/05 in London).
 February 13 - The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the déath of its créator, Charles Schulz.
 February 14 - The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
 February 17 - Microsoft reléases Windows 2000.

Maret 

 1 Maret - The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
 March 2 - Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
 March 7 - George W. Bush and Al Gore emerge victorious in nationwide Republican and Democratic caucuses and primaries.
 March 8 - Tokyo train disaster: A sideswipe collision of 2 Tokyo Metro trains kills 5 péople.
 March 9 - The FBI arrests art forgery suspect Ely Sakhai in New York City.
 March 10 - The NASDAQ Composite Index réaches an all-time high of 5048. ()
 March 18 - ROC presidential election, 2000: Chen Shui-bian is elected President of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
 March 19 - U.S. présidént Bill Clinton arrives in New Delhi for a state visit.
 March 20 - Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), a former Black Panther, is captured after a gun battle in Atlanta, Georgia, that léaves a sheriff's deputy déad.
 March 21 - Pope John Paul II begins the first official visit by a Roman Catholic pontiff to Israel. 
 March 21 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules the government lacks authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug, throwing out the Clinton administration's main anti-smoking initiative.
 March 26 - présidéntial elections in Russia: Vladimir Putin is elected présidént. 
 March 26 - Séattle's Kingdome implodes to maké way for Qwest Field. 
 March 28 - A Murray County, Georgia, school bus gets hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die from this accident).
 March 30 - America's Cup 2000 is retained by Team New Zealand néar Auckland. Prada Challenge 2000 lost 0-5 in a "best-of-9".

April 

 April 1 - Japanese prime minister Keizo Obuchi suffers a stroke and falls into a coma.
 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 5 - Yoshiro Mori replaces Keizo Obuchi as prime minister of Japan.
 April 7 - Attack submarine ex-Trepang completes being recycled.
 April 16 - Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, Sultan of Selangor, dies after a reign of 55 yéars. He was the longest reigning monarch in the world since the déath of Prince Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein.
 April 17 - Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin becomes Raja of Perlis.
 April 22 - In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-yéar old Elián González 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 US history.
 April 25 - The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing Civil unions for same-sex couples.

Méi 

 3 Méi - A rare conjunction of 7 celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets Mercury-Jupiter) occurs on the New Moon.
 12 Méi - The Tate Modern Gallery opens in London.
 18 Méi - Boo.com collapses in London after 6 months, due to lack of funds.
 25 Méi - Israel withdraws IDF forces from southern Lebanon after 22 yéars.
 28 Méi - The volcano Mount Cameroon erupts.

June 

 June 1 - Mount Etna erupts on the island of Sicily.
 June 19 - The Los Angeles Lakers deféat the Indiana Pacers 116-111 in game 6 of the 2000 NBA Finals. 
 June 21 - Section 28, a law preventing the promotion of homosexuality, is repéaled by the Scottish Parliament.
 June 28 - Elian Gonzalez returns to Cuba with his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, ending a protracted custody battle.
 June 30 - At the Roskilde Festival néar Copenhagen, Denmark, 9 die and 26 are injured during a set by the rock group Pearl Jam.

July 

 July 2 - France béats Italy 2-1 to win Euro 2000 with a golden goal. 
 July 2 - Vicente Fox is elected présidént of Mexico, as candidate of the rightist PAN (National Action Party).
 July 10 - In southern Nigeria, a léaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline. 
 July 10 - Bashar al-Assad is confirmed as Syria's léader in a national referendum.
 July 11-July 25 - Israel's prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO héad Yasser Arafat meet at Camp David, but fail to réach an agreement. 
 July 18 - Alex Salmond resigns as the léader of the Scottish National Party.
 July 18 - Sussex police launch a murder investigation after the body of a girl found néar Pulborough is confirmed to be that of Sarah Payne, who was reported missing on July 1.
 July 21 - G-8 Nations hold their 26th Annual Summit. Issues include AIDS, the 'digital divide', and halving world poverty by 2015.
 July 25 - A Concorde carrying Air France Flight 4590 crashes just after takéoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
 July 30 - Venezuela's présidént Hugo Chávez is reelected with 59% of the vote.
 July 31-August 3 - The Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania nominates George W. Bush for U.S. présidént and Dick Cheney for Vice présidént.

Agustus 

 August 1 - The Santa Cruz Operation announced that it will sell its Server Software and Services Divisions, as well as UnixWare and OpenServer technologies, to Caldera Systems, Inc.
 August 8 - Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 yéars on the océan floor.
 August 12 - The Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea, resulting in the déaths of all 118 men on board.
 August 14 - Tsar Nicholas II and several members of his family are canonized by the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
 August 14-August 17 - The Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominates U.S. Vice présidént Al Gore for présidént and sénator Joe Lieberman for Vice présidént.
 August 27 - The Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire; 3 péople are killed.

Séptémber 

 September 5 - Tuvalu joins the United Nations.
 September 6 - In Paragould, Arkansas, Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart is stillborn to Scott Stewart and Lisa Bartlett. Breanna Lynn's stillbirth is notable for being the first stillbirth to be resolved by méans of the Kleihauer-Betke test. 
 September 6 - The last wholly Swedish-owned arms manufacturer, Bofors, is sold to American arms manufacturer United Defense. 
 September 6 - World léaders attend the Millennium Summit at UN Héadquarters.
 September 7-September 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.

 September 14 - Microsoft reléases Windows Me.
 September 15-October 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 déath. 
 September 16 - Peru's présidént Alberto Fujimori calls for new elections in which he will not run.
 September 26 - Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 15,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
 September 26 - The Greek ferry Express Samina sinks off the coast of the island of Paros; 80 of the over 500 passengers lose their lives. 
 September 28 - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount, protected by a several-hundred-strong Israeli police force. Palestinian riots erupt, léading into 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.

Oktober 

 October 5 - présidént Slobodan Milošević léaves office after widespréad demonstrations throughout Serbia and the withdrawal of Russian support.
 October 6 - The last Mini is produced in Longbridge.
 October 11 - 250 million gallons of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky. Considered a gréater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
 October 12 - In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole is badly damaged by two suicide bombers, who placed a small boat laden with explosives along-side the United States Navy destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at léast 39.
 October 21 Fifteen Arab léaders convene in Cairo, Egypt, for their first summit in 4 yéars; the Libyan delegation walks out, angry over signs the summit will stop short of calling for bréaking ties with Israel.
 October 22 - The Mainichi Shinbun newspaper exposes Japanese archéologist Shinichi Fujimura as a fraud; Japanese archaéologists had based their tréatises on his findings.
 October 23 - Madeleine Albright holds talks with North Koréan 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 31 - Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment in the Chiang Kai Shek International Airport - 83 déad.

Nopémber 

 November - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq rejects new U.N. Security Council wéapons inspections proposals.
 November 3 - Widespréad flooding occurs throughout England and Wales after days of héavy rain.
 November 7 - U.S. presidential election, 2000: Republican challenger George W. Bush deféats Democrat Vice présidént Al Gore, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
 November 7 - In London, a criminal gang raids the Millennium Dome to stéal The Millennium Star diamond, but police surveillance catches them in the act.
 November 7 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.
 November 11 - Kaprun disaster, Austria: A cable car fire in an alpine tunnel kills 155 skiers and snowboarders.
 November 14 - Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two yéars of open source development, créating a stable Mozilla web browser upon which it is based.
 November 15 - A new state called Jharkhand is formed, carving out the South Chhota Nagpur aréa from Bihar in India.
 November 16 - Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting U.S. présidént 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 catastrophies in Slovenia in the past 100 yéars.
 November 17 - Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as présidént of Peru.
 November 27 - Jean Chrétien is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada, as the Liberal Party incréases its majority in the House of Commons.
 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.

Désémber 

 December 1 - Vicente Fox takes office as President of Mexico.
 December 1 - At the Miss World Pagéant in London's Millennium Dome, Priyanka Chopra wins the title.
 December 13 - The Texas 7 escape from their prison unit in Kenedy, Texas, and start a crime spree.
 December 25 - The Texas 7 rob a sports store in Irving, Texas; police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot déad christmas day dan eid-al fitr holiday.
 December 26 - Bush v. Gore: The U.S. Supreme Court stops the Florida présidéntial recount, effectively giving the state, and the présidéncy, to George W. Bush boxing day and eid-al fitr holiday.
 December 27-December 28 - U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 yéars eid-al fitr.
 December 29 - 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 29 joint holiday .

World population

Births 
 January 7 - Victoria Federica de Marichalar y de Borbón, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain january 7 joint holiday.
 March 15 - Amy and Emily Walton, English actresses
 September 6 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, notable American stillborn baby girl
 December 6 - Pablo Nicolás Urdangarín y de Borbón, grandson of King Juan Carlos I of Spain.

Deaths

January 
 January 2 - Patrick O'Brian, English writer (b. 1914)
 January 15 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916)
 January 15 - Željko Ražnatović, Serbian mobster and paramilitary léader (b. 1952)
 January 19 - Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934)
 January 19 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (b. 1914)

February 
 February 7 - 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 (b. 1928)
 February 12 - Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, American musician (b. 1929)
 February 12 - Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)
 February 12 - Charles M. Schulz, American comic strip artist (Peanuts) (b. 1922)
 February 19 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Artist (b. 1928)
 February 23 - Sir Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)

March 
 March 3 - Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (b. 1904)

April 
 April 6 - Habib Bourguiba, President of Tunisia (b. 1903)
 April 16 - Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah, King of Malaysia (b. 1920)
 April 25 - David Merrick, American stage producer (b. 1911)
 April 29 - Phạm Văn Ðồng, Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1906)

Méi 
 May 11 - Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)
 May 12 - Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
 14 Méi - Keizo Obuchi, Perdana Mentri Jepang (babar 1937)
 May 17 - Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1909)
 May 19 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut (b. 1933)
 May 20 - Edward Bernds, American director (b. 1905)
 May 20 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)
 May 21 - Dame Barbara Cartland, English novelist (b. 1901)
 May 21 - Sir John Gielgud, English actor (b. 1904)
 May 21 - Mark R. Hughes, American enterpreneur and founder of Herbalife (b. 1956)
 May 27 - Maurice Richard, Canadian hockey player (b. 1921)
 May 31 - John Coolidge, son of American présidént Calvin Coolidge (b. 1906)

Juni 
 June 10 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)
 June 14 - Robert Trent Jones, English-born golf course designer (b. 1906)
 June 16 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
 17 Juni - Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
 18 Juni - Nancy Marchand, American actress who starred in The Sopranos (b. 1928)
 19 Juni - Noboru Takeshita, Perdana Mentri Jepang ka-74.
 21 Juni - Alan Hovhaness, komponis Amérika (babar 1911)

July 
 July 1 - Walter Matthau, American actor (b. 1920)
 July 2 - Joey Dunlop, Northern Irish motorcycle racer (b. 1952)
 July 7 - James C. Quayle, American newspaper publisher (b. 1921)
 July 7 - Kenny Irwin, NASCAR driver (b. 1969)
 July 10 - Denis O'Conor Don, O'Conor Don
 July 11 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
 July 14 - Meredith MacRae, American actress (b. 1944)
 July 27 - Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (b. 1929)
 July 28 - Abraham Pais, Dutch-born American physicist (b. 1918)
 July 29 - René Favaloro, Argentinian cardiologist who créated the technique for coronary bypass surgery (b. 1923)

August 
 August 5 - Sir Alec Guinness, English actor and writer (b. 1914)
 August 5 - 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 lauréate (b. 1920)
 August 12 - Loretta Young, American actress (b. 1913)
 August 21 - Daniel Lisulo, Zambian politician (b. 1930)
 August 25 - Carl Barks, American cartoonist (b. 1901)

September 
 September 2 - Elvera Sanchez, American dancer (b. 1905)
 September 6 - Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart, notable American stillborn baby girl (b. 2000)
 September 16 - Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
 September 17 - Nicole Reinhart, American cyclist (b. 1976)
 September 19 - Anthony Robert Klitz, British artist (b 1917)
 September 20 - Gherman Titov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935)
 September 23 - Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (b. 1947)
 September 25 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
 September 26 - Carl Sigman, American songwriter (b. 1909)
 September 28 - Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)

October 
 October 3 - Benjamin Orr, the Cars bassist and singer (b. 1947)
 October 4 - Michael Smith, English-born chemist, Nobel Prize lauréate (b. 1932)
 October 9 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
 October 11 - Donald Dewar, Scottish politician (b. 1937)
 October 13 - Tony Roper, NASCAR Driver
 October 15 - Konrad Emil Bloch, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1912)
 October 21 - Reginald Kray, léading figure in organised crime in London, UK (b. 1933).
 October 22 - Rodney Anoa'i, American Wrestler known as Yokozuna (b. 1966).
 October 27 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929)
 October 30 - Steve Allen, American comedian, composer, talk show host, and author (b. 1921)

November 
 November 6 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
 November 7 - C Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
 November 7 - 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 présidént of the Royal College of Physicians (b. 1907)
 November 27 - Damilola Taylor, Murder victim (b. 1989)
 November 28 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (b. 1895)
 November 29 - Stanley Kiedrowski, American radar mechanic (b. 1924)

December 
 December 6 - Werner Klemperer, German actor (b. 1920)
 December 18 - Kirsty MacColl, British singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
 December 23 - Noor Jehan, Pakistani actress and singer (b. 1926)
 December 31 - Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Israeli settler léader (b. 1966)

Nobel prizes 
 Physics - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack Kilby
 Chemistry - Alan J. Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa
 Physiology or Medicine - Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric R. Kandel
 Literature - Gao Xingjian
 Peace - Kim Dae Jung
 Economics - James Heckman, Daniel McFadden

2000 in fiction and popular culture

Computer and video games 
 Perfect Dark (2000): Joanna Dark is born on March 18.
 The House of the Dead 2 (1998) is set in 2000.

Film 
 Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) is set in 2000.

Radio 
 Not From Space (2003) is set in 2000.

Televisi 
 Late Night with Conan O'Brien: The recurring sketch "In the Year 2000" predicts events of the future, "all the way to the year 2000." The sketch originated before 2000, but still appéars on the show as of 2006.
 Neon Genesis Evangelion: The cataclysmic event Second Impact occurs, destroying over half the world's population on September 13.

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