The year 2000 (MMV) of the Gregorian Calendar began on a Saturday and ended on a Sunday. This was the first century leap year since 1600. The year 2000 was designated World Mathematical Year and also International year for the culture of peace. During the year America Online announced an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion, Windows 2000 was released and Microsoft is ruled to have put an oppressive thumb on it's competitors.
Brazil celebrated it's 500th anniversary, India reaches 1 billion population, and France win Euro 2000. The Olympics are held in Sydney, Australia. In Politics, George Bush controversially wins the closest ever American Presidential election over Al Gore and the world population continues to rise and goes past 6 billion people for the first time.
January 2000
January 3: Charles M. Schulz produces his final Peanuts comic.
January 13: Bill Gates steps aside as the CEO of Microsoft and names Steve Ballmer as his successor.
January 21: The cult classic movie Boondock Saints 2 was released.http://www.washburnreview.org/a-e/boondock-saints-2-cult-classic-1.1315596
February 2000
February 2: Three college girls were burnt alive in India by activists known as All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK).http://www.zeenews.com/news618858.html
February 3: Shania-Gay Ffrench was sent away from the emergency room at Mount Vernon Hospital. A year later a jury awarded $47,950,000 against the ER because she had cancer.http://www.jdsupra.com/post/documentViewer.aspx?fid=833d8c27-763d-433d-95a3-6e190dcd6b21
February 23: Carlos Santana tied Michael Jackson for winning 8 Grammy Awards in one year.
March 2000
March 3: Celtics Basketball player Muggsy Bogues scored 24 points against the Raptors.http://celticshub.com/2010/04/11/rays-crazy-efficient-game-and-the-importance-of-foul-shots/
March 26: Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia.
April 2000
April 5: Yoshiro Mori became Prime Minister of Japan.http://www.indianexpress.com/news/japan-and-india-must-keep-cooperating-to-make-sure-that-our-seas-are-peaceful-and-protected/607912/
April 26: Vermont Gov. Howard Dean signed the nation's first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.
April 22 2000
April 22: Armed Immigration units retrieve six-year old Elian Gonzalez in Miami and reunite him with his father in Cuba.
May 2000
May 1 US President Bill Clinton issued the executive order that unscrambled GPS signals so that civilians could use GPS devices.http://www.meredithnhnews.com/Articles-c-2010-04-14-150994.113119_Geocaching_Worldwide_treasure_hunt_is_bountiful_in_these_parts.html
May 3: The London Stock Exchange and Germany's Deutsche Boerse merge, creating the world's second largest stock market.
June 2000
- June 16: Bell Atlantic and GTE Corporation merged to create Verizon, the largest local phone company.
- June 26: Scientists announced that they had obtained a near-complete set of the biochemical instructions for human life, a rough draft of the entire human genetic code.
July 2000
July 2 Baseball's Mike Piazza ended a 15 game hit and RBI streak.http://www.philly.com/dailynews/sports/20100416_Cantu_extends_hit-and-RBI_streak.html
July 23: At the age of 24 Tiger Woods wins the British Open and becomes the youngest Golf Career Grand Slam winner.
August 2000
August 1: The National Institute of Standards and Technology published that hackers were breaking into Private Branch Exchange Systems (PBXs). http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistbul/08-00.pdf
August 4: $1.3 billion was transferred from the Bank of America 401(k) Plan to the Bank of America Pension Plan in violation of ERISA.http://www.leagle.com/unsecure/page.htm?shortname=infdco20100407b74
September 2000
September 5: Wolf Run Hollow LLC patented the sending of secure messages across unsecured networks. This patent led to lawsuits against 34 US banks.http://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=7cc0bd84-311b-41e3-acef-f9fe2a47c84e
September 16: The first ever Olympic Triathlon was held in Sydney Australia.http://www.trizone.com.au/News/10-04-09/ITU_Launches_the_2010_Dextro_Energy_Triathlon_ITU_World_Championship_Series_in_Sydney.aspx
October 2000
October 12: Osama Bin Laden is blamed for orchestrating an attack against the USS Cole which was parked at a harbor in Yemen.
October 13: Bank of Honolulu becomes the first bank on the FDIC's list of failed banks, which in April of 2010 will include more than 100 more.http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
November 2000
November 7: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton wins a seat in the U.S. Senate representing the State of New York. The first, first lady to achieve such an accomplishment.
November 21: The Florida Supreme Court grants Al Gore's request to continue with a recount of the Election Results. However days later The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear George W. Bush's appeal of the Florida high court ruling allowing hand recounts to proceed.
November 23: Miami-Dade County in Florida refused to recount their ballots, and were not forced to by the Florida Supreme Court. A major setback for the Al Gore campaign in their efforts to win the state of Florida and the Presidency.
November 24: The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to consider George W. Bush's appeal against the hand recounting of presidential ballots in Florida.
November 26: Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner of the state over Al Gore in the state's presidential balloting by 537 votes.
November 28: Bush v. Gore: George W. Bush's lawyers asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bring "legal finality" to the 2000 Election. Al Gore opposed the idea of the Supreme Court interfering from Florida's recount.
November 7 2000
November 7: George W. Bush defeats Al Gore to become the 43rd President. The result of the election was disputed and took over a month and a Supreme Court (Bush v. Gore) decision before the outcome was known.
December 2000
December 1 Vicente Fox is sworn in as Mexico's 35th President, and the first member of the opposition to win in 71 years.
December 4: A Florida state judge refused to overturn Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush's certified victory in Florida.
December 9: 2000 American Presidential Election: The U.S. Supreme Court halts the Florida presidential vote count.
December 10: MLB franchise, Texas Rangers sign Alex Rodriguez to a 10-year 252 Million dollar contract, the most lucrative in history.
December 14: The FCC approves the merger between AOL and Time Warner worth $111 Billion.
December 16: George W. Bush names Colin Powell as his Secretary of State.
December 22: Madonna marries film director Guy Ritchie
December 13 2000
December 13: 36 Days after Election day, Al Gore concedes as George W. Bush claims the presidency of the United States.
Famous Births
Famous Deaths
- Feb. 10: Jim Varney - Actor
- Feb. 12: Tom Landry - Dallas Cowboys Coach
- Feb. 12: Charles M. Schulz - Peanuts Creator
- May 27: Maurice Richard - Montreal Canadiens
- Sep. 20: Pierre Trudeau - Canadian Prime Minister
Chart Toppers
- Jan. 01: Santana - Smooth
- Jan. 15: Christina Aguilera - What a Girl Wants
- Jan. 29: Savage Garden - I Knew I Loved You
- Feb. 19: Mariah Carey - Thank God I Found You
- Feb. 26: Savage Garden - I Knew I Loved You
- Mar. 04: Lonestar - Amazed
- Mar. 18: Destinys Child - Say My Name
- Apr. 08: Santana - Maria, Maria
- Jun. 17: Aaliyah - Try Again
- Jun. 24: Enrique Iglesias - Be with You
- Jul. 15: Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want
- Jul. 22: Matchbox Twenty - Bent
- Jul. 29: NSYNC - It's Gonna Be Me
- Aug. 12: Sisqo - Incomplete
- Aug. 26: Janet Jackson - Doesn't Really Matter
- Sep. 16: Madonna - Music
- Oct. 14: Christina Aguilera - Come on Over Baby
- Nov. 11: Creed - With Arms Wide Open
- Nov. 18: Destiny's Child - Independent Women Billboard: Historical Billboard Charts
Top Box Office Movies
73rd Acadamy Awards
- Presented March 25, 2001
- Best Picture: Gladiator
- Lead Actor: Russell Crowe in Gladiator
- Lead Actress: Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich
- Best Director: Steven Soderbergh for Traffic
- Best Documentary:Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport – Mark Jonathan Harris and Deborah Oppenheimer
Championship Teams
Top Athletes
- NHL MVP - Chris Pronger, STL
- NFL MVP - Marshall Faulk, STL
- NBA MVP - Shaquille O'Neal, LAK
- MLB AL MVP - Jason Giambi, OAK
- MLB NL MVP - Jeff Kent, SFG
Nobel Laureates
- Peace: Kim Dae-jung
- Physics: Kilby, Kroemer, Alferov
- Chemistry: Heeger, MacDiarmid, Shirakawa
- Medicine: Carlsson, Greengard, Eric Kandel
- Literature: Gao Xingjian
- Economics: Heckman, McFaddenNobelPrize.org: 2000 Nobel Prize Winners
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