2000 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2000?
- January 14, 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.
- January 21, 2000 – Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutierrez, 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.
- January 31, 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.
- 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 13, 2000 – The last original “Peanuts” comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
- March 10, 2000 – The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
- March 28, 2000 – Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train.
- April 22, 2000 – In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives’ home in Miami, Florida.
- May 4, 2000 – Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
- May 25, 2000 – Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
- June 7, 2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
- September 20, 2000 – The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by unapprehended forces using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
- September 26, 2000 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
- October 6, 2000 – Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
- November 1, 2000 – Serbia joins the United Nations.
- November 13, 2000 – Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
- November 15, 2000 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people.
- November 16, 2000 – Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
- November 17, 2000 – Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
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