2000 Calendar
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2000 Historical Event(s)
January 30, 2000
– Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
February 5, 2000
– New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
March 17, 2000
– More than 800 members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in what is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult.
March 24, 2000
– S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
April 22, 2000
– The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
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.
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.
November 1, 2000
– Serbia joins the United Nations.
Who Were Born On 2000?
February 17, 2000
– Theo Diconu,footballer
July 25, 2000
– Preston Bailey, American actor--
August 5, 2000
– Maya Bond, Japanese/American singer-songwriter and drummer
August 13, 2000
– Piper Reese, American child reporter
September 9, 2000
– Victoria Federica de Marichalar y Borbón, Spanish royalty
September 26, 2000
– Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II of Jordan
October 26, 2000
– Ellery Sprayberry, American actress
November 10, 2000
– Mackenzie Foy, American actress and model
December 24, 2000
– Ethan Bortnick, American musician
December 30, 2000
– Johntae Lipscomb, American actor