2000 Calendar
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2000 Historical Event(s)
February 5, 2000
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
February 6, 2000
– Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
May 11, 2000
– Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
June 12, 2000
– Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing Bus #174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the highly-publicized standoff becomes a media circus and ends with the death of do Nascimento and a hostage.
June 13, 2000
– Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
October 6, 2000
– Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
October 31, 2000
– A chartered Antonov An-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50.
November 11, 2000
– Kaprun disaster: 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
November 13, 2000
– Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
November 16, 2000
– Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
Who Were Born On 2000?
January 4, 2000
– Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, American actress
January 8, 2000
– Noah Cyrus, American actress
April 9, 2000
– Jackie Evancho, American singer
April 12, 2000
– Suzanna von Nathusius, Polish actress
July 7, 2000
– Princess Purnika of Nepal
August 13, 2000
– Piper Reese, American child reporter
September 26, 2000
– Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan
September 28, 2000
– Frankie Jonas, American actor
December 6, 2000
– Pablo Nicolás Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal
December 26, 2000
– Samuel Sevian, American chess player