2000 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2000?
- 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.
- 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 27, 2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
- 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 24, 2000 – Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
- June 21, 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– Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the ‘promotion’of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
- July 10, 2000 – EADS, the world’s second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
- September 11, 2000 – Melbourne hosts World Economic Forum where S11 protests also took place.
- October 6, 2000 – Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez 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 – Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been continuously crewed since.
- November 7, 2000 – Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
- November 17, 2000 – 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.
- November 25, 2000 – The 2000 Baku Earthquake takes place, Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaving 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan and becoming the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
- December 12, 2000 – The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.
- 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 24, 2000 – The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is murdered during the robbery.
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