Important Historical Events of the year 2000, Year 2000 in History
List of 2000 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 2000
What happened in the year 2000?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 4, 2000 | A Norwegian passenger train departing from Trondheim, collides with a local train coming from Hamar in Åsta, Åmot; 19 people are killed and 68 injured in the accident. |
| January 10, 2000 | Crossair Flight 498, a Saab 340 aircraft, crashes in Niederhasli, Switzerland, after taking off from Zurich Airport, killing 13 people. |
| January 21, 2000 | Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutiérrez, 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 30, 2000 | Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169. |
| 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 2, 2000 | First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments. |
| February 4, 2000 | The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.[12][13] |
| February 5, 2000 | Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya. |
| February 6, 2000 | Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile. |
| February 14, 2000 | The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. |
| February 16, 2000 | Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 crashes near Sacramento Mather Airport in Rancho Cordova, California, killing all three aboard. |
| February 29, 2000 | Chechens attack a guard post near Ulus Kert, eventually killing 84 Russian paratroopers during the Second Chechen War. |
| March 10, 2000 | The Dot-com bubble peaks with the NASDAQ Composite stock market index reaching 5,048.62. |
| March 17, 2000 | Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead. |
| March 20, 2000 | Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English. |
| March 21, 2000 | Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel. |
| March 27, 2000 | A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others. |
| April 3, 2000 | United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. |
| April 19, 2000 | Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board. |
| April 30, 2000 | Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide. |
| 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 (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London). |
| May 7, 2000 | Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia. |
| May 17, 2000 | Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen |
| May 19, 2000 | Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-101 to resupply the International Space Station. |
| May 21, 2000 | Nineteen people are killed in a plane crash in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. |
| May 22, 2000 | In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna. |
| May 24, 2000 | Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation. |
| May 25, 2000 | Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (with the exception of the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 18 years after the invasion of 1982. |
| June 5, 2000 | The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed. |
| June 7, 2000 | The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon. |
| June 13, 2000 | President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang. |
| June 13, 2000 | Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981. |
| June 16, 2000 | The Secretary-General of the UN reports that Israel has complied with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425, 22 years after its issuance, and completely withdrew from Lebanon. The Resolution does not encompass the Shebaa farms, which is claimed by Israel, Syria and Lebanon. |
| 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. |
| June 22, 2000 | Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people. |
| June 26, 2000 | The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence. |
| 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 10, 2000 | EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA. |
| July 10, 2000 | Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria. |
| July 17, 2000 | During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, killing 60 people. |
| July 25, 2000 | Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, killing 113 people. |
| August 8, 2000 | Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence. |
| August 11, 2000 | An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries. |
| August 12, 2000 | The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew. |
| August 21, 2000 | American golfer Tiger Woods wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year. |
| August 23, 2000 | Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143. |
| September 10, 2000 | Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War. |
| September 14, 2000 | Microsoft releases Windows Me. |
| September 20, 2000 | The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals 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. |
| September 26, 2000 | The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers. |
| September 28, 2000 | Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. |
| September 30, 2000 | Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada. |
| October 1, 2000 | Israel-Palestinian conflict: Palestinians protest the murder of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah by Israeli police in northern Israel, beginning the "October 2000 events". |
| October 5, 2000 | Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević. |
| October 7, 2000 | Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Hezbollah militants capture three Israeli Defense Force soldiers in a cross-border raid. |
| October 11, 2000 | NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission. |
| October 12, 2000 | The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is badly damaged by two al-Qaeda suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39. |
| October 17, 2000 | The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack. |
| October 26, 2000 | A wave of protests forces Robert Guéï to step down as president after the Ivorian presidential election. |
| October 31, 2000 | Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then. |
| October 31, 2000 | Singapore Airlines Flight 006 crashes on takeoff from Taipei, killing 83. |
| November 1, 2000 | Chhattisgarh officially becomes the 26th state of India, formed from sixteen districts of eastern Madhya Pradesh. |
| November 1, 2000 | The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations. |
| November 2, 2000 | Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for the first long-duration stay onboard. From this day to present, a continuous human presence in space on the station remains uninterrupted.[36] |
| November 7, 2000 | The controversial US presidential election is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, electing George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States. |
| 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. |
| November 9, 2000 | Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh. |
| November 11, 2000 | Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria. |
| November 13, 2000 | Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar 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 15, 2000 | Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar. |
| November 17, 2000 | A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years. |
| November 17, 2000 | Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru. |
| November 25, 2000 | The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years. |
| November 26, 2000 | George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote. |
| November 30, 2000 | NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission. |
| December 1, 2000 | Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.[22] |
| December 12, 2000 | The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore. |
| December 15, 2000 | The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down. |
| December 19, 2000 | The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three. |
| December 30, 2000 | Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred. |
| December 31, 2000 | The last day of the 20th Century and 2nd Millennium. |