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Events on the year of 2000 in history

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03 Jan 2000 The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published.
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04 Jan 2000 Two trains on the Røros Line collide in Åsta, Norway, resulting in an explosive fire and 19 deaths.
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06 Jan 2000 Celia, the last Pyrenean ibex was found dead after a tree had landed on her.
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13 Jan 2000 Bill Gates resigns as CEO of Microsoft.
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14 Jan 2000 A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
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18 Jan 2000 The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
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21 Jan 2000 Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutiérrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
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30 Jan 2000 Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
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30 Jan 2000 NFL Pro Bowl
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31 Jan 2000 Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
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02 Feb 2000 First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
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05 Feb 2000 Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
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06 Feb 2000 Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
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13 Feb 2000 The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
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13 Feb 2000 US female Figure Skating championship
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14 Feb 2000 The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
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15 Feb 2000 Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.
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01 Mar 2000 Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
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01 Mar 2000 The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
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10 Mar 2000 The Nasdaq Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
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17 Mar 2000 Five hundred thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
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20 Mar 2000 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.
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21 Mar 2000 Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
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24 Mar 2000 S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
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27 Mar 2000 A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one and injures 71.
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28 Mar 2000 Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train.
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03 Apr 2000 United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
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19 Apr 2000 Security guard David Sanes killed in accidental bombing in Vieques, Puerto Rico that resulted in U.S. Navy closing down its bombing range there.
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22 Apr 2000 The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
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22 Apr 2000 In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami.
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02 May 2000 President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
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03 May 2000 The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
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04 May 2000 Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
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11 May 2000 Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
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13 May 2000 In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
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17 May 2000 Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
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24 May 2000 Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
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25 May 2000 Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
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05 Jun 2000 The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed.
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07 Jun 2000 The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
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13 Jun 2000 President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
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13 Jun 2000 Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
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16 Jun 2000 Israel complies with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 22 years after its issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel does so, except the disputed Shebaa farms.
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21 Jun 2000 Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
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26 Jun 2000 President Clinton announces the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome.
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26 Jun 2000 John Paul II reveals the third secret of Fátima.
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02 Jul 2000 Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
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10 Jul 2000 EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
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14 Jul 2000 A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
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25 Jul 2000 Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 passengers.
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08 Aug 2000 Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
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12 Aug 2000 The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
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10 Sep 2000 Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
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11 Sep 2000 Melbourne hosts World Economic Forum where S11 protests also take place.
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14 Sep 2000 Microsoft releases Windows ME.
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15 Sep 2000 The Games of the XXVII Olympiad begin in Sydney, Australia.
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20 Sep 2000 The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile. The perpetrators remain unidentified.
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26 Sep 2000 Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
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26 Sep 2000 The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
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27 Sep 2000 The first Olympic Gold Medal ever for Tae Kwon Do was won by Greek athlete Michalis Mouroutsos in men's -58 kg division in Sydney.
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28 Sep 2000 Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
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05 Oct 2000 Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
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06 Oct 2000 Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
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06 Oct 2000 Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
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11 Oct 2000 NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.
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12 Oct 2000 The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
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17 Oct 2000 Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.
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26 Oct 2000 Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï.
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31 Oct 2000 Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.
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31 Oct 2000 Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashes on takeoff in Taipei killing 83 people.
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01 Nov 2000 Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
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02 Nov 2000 The first resident crew to the ISS docked with their Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft.
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26 Nov 2000 George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote.
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27 Nov 2000 In the Canadian federal election the Liberal Party of Canada wins its third consecutive election with a gain in the number of its members.
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12 Dec 2000 The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.
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13 Dec 2000 The "Texas Seven" escape from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed.
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15 Dec 2000 The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
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19 Dec 2000 The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three.
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24 Dec 2000 The Texas Seven hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is murdered during the robbery.
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25 Dec 2000 Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a bill into law that officially establishes a new National Anthem of Russia, with music adopted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov.
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28 Dec 2000 U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
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30 Dec 2000 Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
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