From top to bottom, left to right:Kenya Airways Flight 431 before it crashed off the Ivory Coast; anAir France Concorde similar to the one thatcrashed after takeoff fromCharles de Gaulle Airport inParis ; a monumemt commemorating theKursk submarine disaster ; the aftermath of theUSS Cole bombing ; aRussian BTR-80 destroyed byChechen fighters during theSecond Chechen War ; heads of state meet for theMillennium Summit ; people of the world, as seen here inTimes Square , celebrate theNew Millennium ; the International Space Station in its infant form as seen from STS-97; thePlayStation 2 releases, later becomingthe best-selling video game console of all time ; supporters ofAl Gore protesting for a recount of the2000 United States presidential election ; the2000 Summer Olympics are held in Sydney, Australia; Israeli troops respond to theSecond Intifada ; aUnited States Air Force MH-53 flies over theMozambique flood which killed 700–800 people; the Yugoslavian House of the Federal Assembly on fire during theoverthrow of Slobodan Milošević ; a rendering of theNasdaq Composite Index showing thedot-com bubble ; a memorial for theKaprun disaster . Calendar year
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2000 (MM ) was acentury leap year starting on Saturday of theGregorian calendar , the 2000th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 100th and last year of the20th century , and the 1st year of the2000s decade.
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2000 was designated as theInternational Year for the Culture of Peace [ 1] Mathematical Year.[ 2]
Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the21st century and the3rd millennium [citation needed ,[ 3] decimal values, as if non-existentyear zero was counted. According to theGregorian calendar , these distinctions fall to the year2001 , because the1st century was retroactively said to start with the yearAD 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. (For further information, seecentury andmillennium .)
The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as "Y2K" (the "Y" stands for "year", and the "K" stands for "kilo " which means "thousand").[ 4] [ 5] 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.
July 1 – TheØresund Bridge betweenDenmark andSweden is officially opened for traffic.July 2 –France defeatsItaly 2–1 after extra time in the final of theUEFA Euro 2000 Championship in Association football, becoming the first team to win the World Cup and European Championship consecutively.July 2 –Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN) iselected President of Mexico , becoming the first president not from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 1929.[ 30] July 7 – The draft assembly ofHuman Genome Project is announced at the White House by US PresidentBill Clinton ,Francis Collins , andCraig Venter .July 10 – In southernNigeria , a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenginggasoline .July 11 –25 – Asummit meeting takes place atCamp David between United States presidentBill Clinton , Israeli prime ministerEhud Barak andPalestinian Authority chairmanYasser Arafat , ending without an agreement.[ 31] July 14 – A powerfulsolar flare , later named theBastille Day event , causes ageomagnetic storm on Earth.[ 32] July 25 –Air France Flight 4590 , aConcorde aircraft, crashes into a hotel inGonesse just aftertakeoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 4 in the hotel.October 3 – Approximate start ofAutumn 2000 Western Europe floods (particularly affecting the UK), precipitated by days of heavy rain.October 5 –Mass demonstrations inBelgrade lead to resignation ofYugoslavia 's presidentSlobodan Milošević .October 11 – 250 million US gallons (950,000 m3 ) of coal sludgespill inMartin County, Kentucky , United States (considered a greater environmental disaster than theExxon Valdez oil spill ).October 12 – InAden ,Yemen ,USSCole isbadly damaged by twoAl-Qaeda suicide bombers , who place a small boat laden with explosives alongside theUnited States Navy destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.October 17 –Hatfield rail crash : AGreat North Eastern Railway Intercity 225 express train is derailed, killing four people and injuring many others, inHatfield, Hertfordshire , England.[ 36] October 22 TheMainichi Shimbun Shinichi Fujimura as a fraud; Japanese archaeologists had based their treatises on his findings. Japanese Prime MinisterYoshiro Mori and Singaporean Prime MinisterGoh Chok Tong formally negotiate a Japan-Singapore Economic Agreement for a New Age Partnership (JSEPA).[ 37] October 26 – Pakistani authorities announce that their police have found an apparent mummy of an allegedPersian Princess in the province ofBalochistan, Pakistan . The governments of Iran, Pakistan as well as theTaliban of Afghanistan all claim the mummy until Pakistan announces it is a modern-day forgery in April 2001.[ 38] October 31 World population [ 49] 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%
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