Calendar year
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2000 (MM ) was a century leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar , the 2000th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 1000th and last year of the 2nd millennium , the 100th and last year of the 20th century , and the 1st year of the 2000s decade.
Calendar year
2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace [1] and the World Mathematical Year.[2]
Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium due to a tendency of grouping the years according to decimal values, as if year zero were counted. According to the Gregorian calendar, these distinctions fall to the year 2001 , because the 1st century was retroactively said to start with the year AD 1 . Since the Gregorian calendar does not have year zero, its first millennium spanned from years 1 to 1000 inclusively and its second millennium from years 1001 to 2000. (More further information, see century and millennium .)
The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as "Y2K" (the "Y" stands for "year", and the "K" stands for "kilo " which means "thousand").[3] [4] The year 2000 was the subject of Y2K concerns , which were fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctly. However, by the end of 1999, many companies had already converted to new, or upgraded, existing software. Some even obtained "Y2K certification". As a result of massive effort, relatively few problems occurred.
January [ edit ]
February [ edit ]
June 4 – The 7.9 Mw Enggano earthquake shakes southwestern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong ), killing 103 people and injuring 2,174–2,585.
June 5 – 405 The Movie , the first short film widely distributed on the Internet, is released.
June 10 – July 2 – Belgium and the Netherlands jointly host the UEFA Euro 2000 football tournament, which is won by France .
June 17 – A centennial earthquake (6.5 on the Richter scale ) hits Iceland on its national day.
June 26 – A preliminary draft of genomes , as part of the Human Genome Project , is finished. It is announced at the White House by President Clinton.[19]
June 28 – Elián González returns to Cuba with his father, Juan Miguel González, ending a protracted custody battle.
June 30 – At the Roskilde Festival near Copenhagen , Denmark, nine die and 26 are injured on a set while the rock group Pearl Jam performs.
July 1 – The Øresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden is officially opened for traffic.
July 2 – France defeats Italy 2–1 after extra time in the final of the European Championship , becoming the first team to win the World Cup and European Championship consecutively.
July 7 – The draft assembly of Human Genome Project announced at the White House by President Bill Clinton , Francis Collins , and Craig Venter .
July 10 – In southern Nigeria , a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline .
July 14 – A powerful solar flare , later named the Bastille Day event , causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
July 25 – Air France Flight 4590 , a Concorde aircraft, crashes into a hotel in Gonesse just after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 4 in the hotel.
September [ edit ]
October [ edit ]
October 3 – Approximate start of Autumn 2000 Western Europe floods (particularly affecting England ) precipitated by days of heavy rain.
October 5 – Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Yugoslavia 's president Slobodan Milošević .
October 6 – The last Mini is produced in Longbridge .
October 8 – Michael Schumacher took his 1st Championship with Scuderia Ferrari in F1
October 11 – 250 million US gallons (950,000 m3 ) of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky (considered a greater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill ).
October 12 – In Aden , Yemen , USS Cole is badly damaged by two Al-Qaeda suicide bombers , who place a small boat laden with explosives alongside the United States Navy destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
October 15 – Dale Earnhardt Sr wins his 76th and final career NASCAR race at Talladega Superspeedway . Earnhardt would be killed four months later in a last lap crash at the 2001 Daytona 500 .
October 17 – A Great North Eastern Railway Intercity 225 Express Train derails, killing 4 , in Hatfield, Hertfordshire , United Kingdom.
October 22 – The Mainichi Shimbun newspaper exposes Japanese archeologist Shinichi Fujimura as a fraud; Japanese archaeologists had based their treatises on his findings.
October 24 – Hybrid Theory , the debut album by nu metal band Linkin Park , is released and sells 27 million copies internationally.
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 modern-day fake on April 17 , 2001 .
The New York Yankees defeat the New York Mets 4–2 in the fifth game of the World Series to win the first "Subway Series" since 1956 by 4 games to 1. The series win was the Yankees third in a row and 26th overall.[importance? ]
October 31
November [ edit ]
December [ edit ]
World population [ edit ]
World population [24]
2000
1995
2005
World
6,070,581,000
5,674,380,000
+396,201,000
+6.98%
6,453,628,000
+383,047,000
+6.31%
Africa
795,671,000
707,462,000
+88,209,000
+12.47%
887,964,000
+92,293,000
+11.60%
Asia
3,679,737,000
3,430,052,000
+249,685,000
+7.28%
3,917,508,000
+237,771,000
+6.46%
Europe
727,986,000
727,405,000
+581,000
+0.08%
724,722,000
-3,264,000
-0.45%
Latin America
520,229,000
481,099,000
+39,130,000
+8.13%
558,281,000
+38,052,000
+7.31%
Northern America
315,915,000
299,438,000
+16,477,000
+5.50%
332,156,000
+16,241,000
+5.14%
Oceania
31,043,000
28,924,000
+2,119,000
+7.33%
32,998,000
+1,955,000
+6.30%
January [ edit ]
February [ edit ]
June 1 – Willow Shields , American actress and dancer
June 2 – Lilimar Hernandez , Venezuelan actress
June 3 – Beabadoobee , British singer-songwriter
June 5 – Eliias , Swedish singer
June 9 – Laurie Hernandez , American artistic gymnast
June 13 – Penny Oleksiak , Canadian swimmer
June 14 – RJ Barrett , Canadian basketball player
June 16 – Bianca Andreescu , Canadian tennis player
June 19 – Gunay Mammadzada , Azerbaijani chess player
June 23 – Kim Hyun-soo , South Korean actress
September [ edit ]
October [ edit ]
November [ edit ]
November 2 – Alphonso Davies , Canadian soccer player
November 7 – Callum Hudson-Odoi , English footballer
November 8
November 10 – Mackenzie Foy , American model and actress
November 20 – Connie Talbot , British singer
November 21 – Megan Roberts , Canadian artistic gymnast
November 22
Auli'i Cravalho , American actress, voice actress, and singer
Baby Ariel , American singer-songwriter, actress, and social media personality.
December [ edit ]
January [ edit ]
January 2
January 3 – Bernhard Wicki , Austrian actor and director (b. 1919 )
January 4 – Spyros Markezinis , Greek politician, 169th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1909 )
January 6 – Alexey Vyzmanavin , Russian chess Grandmaster (b. 1960 )
January 7 – Makhmud Esambayev , Soviet and Russian actor and dancer (b. 1924 )
January 8 – Fritz Thiedemann , German equestrian and show jumper (b. 1918 )
January 11 – Bob Lemon , American baseball player and manager (b. 1920 )
January 13 – Antti Hyvärinen , Finnish Olympic ski jumper (b. 1932 )
January 15 – Željko Ražnatović , Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (b. 1952 )
January 18 – Frances Drake , American actress (b. 1912 )
January 19
January 21 – Saeb Salam , Lebanese politician, 20th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1905 )
January 23 – Marat Ospanov , Kazakh politician, 1st Chairman of Mazhilis (b. 1949 )
January 26
February [ edit ]
April 2 – Tommaso Buscetta , Italian mafioso informant (b. 1928 )
April 3 – Terence McKenna , American writer, philosopher, writer and entheogen advocate (b. 1946 )
April 5 – Lee Petty , American race-car driver (b. 1914 )
April 6 – Habib Bourguiba , 1st President of Tunisia (b. 1903 )
April 8 – Claire Trevor , American actress (b. 1910 )
April 10
April 14 – Phil Katz , American computer programmer (b. 1962 )
April 15 – Edward Gorey , American writer and illustrator (b. 1925 )
April 16 – Putra of Perlis , Malaysian King (b. 1920 )
April 27 – Vicki Sue Robinson , American singer and actress (b. 1954 )
April 28 – Penelope Fitzgerald , English novelist, poet, essayist and biographer (b. 1916 )
April 29 – Phạm Văn Đồng , 2nd Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam ) (b. 1906 )
April 30 – Poul Hartling , Danish diplomat and politician, 21st Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1914 )
May 1 – Steve Reeves , American actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926 )
May 7 – Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , American actor (b. 1909 )
May 8 – Hubert Maga , 1st President of Dahomey (b. 1916 )
May 10
May 11 – René Muñoz , Cuban actor and screenwriter (b. 1938 )
May 12 – Adam Petty , American race car driver (b. 1980 )
May 13
May 14 – Keizō Obuchi , Japanese politician, 54th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937 )
May 19
May 21
May 24 – Oleg Yefremov , Soviet and Russian actor and theater producer (b. 1927 )
May 25 – Francis Lederer , French film and stage actor (b. 1899 )
May 27 – Maurice Richard , Canadian hockey player (b. 1921 )
May 31
June 3 – Merton Miller , American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923 )
June 10 – Hafez al-Assad , Syrian politician and general, 18th President of Syria (b. 1930 )
June 16 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903 )
June 18 – Nancy Marchand , American actress (b. 1928 )
June 19 – Noboru Takeshita , Japanese politician, 46th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1924 )
June 21 – Alan Hovhaness , American composer (b. 1911 )
June 24 – David Tomlinson , English actor (b. 1917 )
June 27 – Pierre Pflimlin , French politician, 97th Prime Minister of France (b. 1907 )
June 29 – Vittorio Gassman , Italian actor (b. 1922 )
July 1 – Walter Matthau , American actor (b. 1920 )
July 2 – Joey Dunlop , Northern Irish motorcyclist (b. 1952 )
July 5 – Lord Woodbine , Trinidadian calypsonian (b. 1929 )
July 6 – Lazar Koliševski , 2nd President of Yugoslavia (b. 1914 )
July 7 - Kenny Irwin Jr. , American racecar driver (b.1969 )
July 8 – FM-2030 , Transhumanist philosopher (b. 1930 )
July 11 – Robert Runcie , Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921 )
July 14 – Sir Mark Oliphant , Australian nuclear physicist and humanitarian (b. 1901 )
July 15 – Kalle Svensson , Swedish footballer (b. 1925 )
July 28 – Abraham Pais , American physicist (b. 1918 )
July 29 – René Favaloro , Argentinian cardiologist (b. 1923 )
August 5 – Sir Alec Guinness , English actor and writer (b. 1914 )
August 9 – John Harsanyi , Hungarian-born economist (b. 1920 )
August 12 – Loretta Young , American actress (b. 1913 )
August 13 – Nazia Hassan , Pakistani singer (b. 1965 )
August 20 – Bunny Austin , English tennis player (b. 1906 )
August 21 – Daniel Lisulo , Zambian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930 )
August 22 – Abulfaz Elchibey , Azerbaijani political figure, 2nd President of Azerbaijan (b. 1938 )
August 24 – Andy Hug , Swiss Seidokaikan karateka and kickboxer (b. 1964 )
August 25
August 26 – Lynden Pindling , Bahamian politician and Prime Minister (b. 1930 )[25]
September [ edit ]
September 2 – Curt Siodmak , American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1902 )
September 6 – Abdul Haris Nasution , Indonesian general (b. 1918 )
September 14 – Beah Richards , American actress (b. 1920 )
September 16 – Georgiy Gongadze , Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969 )
September 17 – Paula Yates , British television presenter (b. 1959 )
September 19 – Ann Doran , American actress (b. 1911 )
September 20 – Gherman Titov , Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1935 )
September 22 – Saburō Sakai , Japanese fighter ace (b. 1916 )
September 25 – R. S. Thomas , Welsh poet (b. 1913 )
September 26 – Richard Mulligan , American actor (b. 1932 )
September 28
October [ edit ]
October 1 – Rosie Douglas , 5th Prime Minister of Dominica (b. 1941 )
October 3 – Benjamin Orr , American singer-songwriter (b. 1947 )
October 4 – Michael Smith , English-born chemist (b. 1932 )
October 6 – Richard Farnsworth , American actor (b. 1920 )
October 7 – Walter Krupinski , German fighter ace and general (b. 1920 )
October 10 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike , 2-time Prime Minister of Ceylon and 2-time Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916 )
October 11 – Donald Dewar , First Minister of Scotland (b. 1937 )
October 13 – Jean Peters , American actress (b. 1926 )
October 14 - Tony Roper , American racecar driver (b. 1964 )
October 15 – Konrad Emil Bloch , German-born biochemist (b. 1912 )
October 16
October 18
October 21 – Reginald Kray , British criminal (b. 1933 )
October 22 – Jean-Luc Mandaba , 11th Prime Minister of Central African Republic (b. 1943 )
October 23
October 27 – Walter Berry , Austrian bass-baritone (b. 1929 )
October 30 – Steve Allen , American comedian and author (b. 1921 )
October 31 – Ring Lardner, Jr. , American screenwriter (b. 1915 )
November [ edit ]
November 5
November 6 – L. Sprague de Camp , American writer (b. 1907 )
November 7
November 8 – Józef Pińkowski , Polish politician, 50th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1929 )
November 10
November 12 – Franck Pourcel , French composer, arranger and conductor of popular music and classical music (b. 1913 )
November 16 – DJ Screw , American hip hop DJ (b. 1971 )
November 17 – Louis Néel , French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904 )
November 19 – George Cosmas Adyebo , Ugandan economist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Uganda (b. 1947 )
November 22
November 28 – Liane Haid , Austrian actress (b. 1895 )
December [ edit ]
December 2 – Gail Fisher , American actress (b. 1935 )
December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks , American writer (b. 1917 )
December 6 – Werner Klemperer , American actor (b. 1920 )
December 8 – Ionatana Ionatana , 5th Prime Minister of Tuvalu (b. 1938 )
December 10 – Marie Windsor , American actress (b. 1919 )
December 11 – Johannes Virolainen , Finnish politician, 30th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1914 )
December 18 – Kirsty MacColl , English singer (b. 1959 )
December 19
December 23
December 24 - Nick Massi , bass singer and bass guitarist for The Four Seasons (b. 1927 )
December 26 – Jason Robards , American actor (b. 1922 )
December 30 – Julius J. Epstein , American screenwriter (b. 1909 )
Nobel Prizes [ edit ]
See also [ edit ]
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