2000 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2000?
- February 4, 2000 – German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
- February 5, 2000 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- February 14, 2000 – The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
- April 22, 2000 – Second Battle of Elephant Pass: Tamil Tigers capture a strategic Sri Lankan Army base and hold it for 8 years.
- May 2, 2000 – President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
- May 3, 2000 – The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
- May 4, 2000 – Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
- May 7, 2000 – Vladimir Putin is inaugurated president of Russia
- June 7, 2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
- July 2, 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.
- July 14, 2000 – A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
- August 18, 2000 – A federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.
- August 27, 2000 – 540 m-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
- October 6, 2000 – Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
- October 26, 2000 – Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï.
- October 31, 2000 – A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 operating as Flight 006 collides with construction equipment upon takeoff in Taipei, Taiwan killing 79 passengers and four crew members.
- November 7, 2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country’s largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
- December 13, 2000 – The “Texas 7” escape from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed.
- December 15, 2000 – The 3rd reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
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