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2000
(
MM
) was a
century leap year starting on Saturday
of the
Gregorian calendar
, the 2000th year of the
Common Era
(CE) and
Anno Domini
(AD) designations, the 1000th and last year of the
2nd millennium
, the 100th and last year of the
20th century
, and the 1st year of the
2000s
decade.
Calendar year
2000 was designated as the
International Year for the Culture of Peace
[1]
and the World
Mathematical
Year.
[2]
Popular culture
holds the year 2000 as the first year of the
21st century
and the
3rd millennium
[
citation needed
]
,
[3]
because of a tendency to group the years according to
decimal
values, as if non-existent
year zero
were counted. According to the
Gregorian calendar
, these distinctions fall to the year
2001
, because the 1st century was retroactively said to start with the year
AD 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, see
century
and
millennium
.)
The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as "Y2K" (the "Y" stands for "year", and the "K" stands for "
kilo
" which means "thousand").
[4]
[5]
The year 2000 was the subject of
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.
Events
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January
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February
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March
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April
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June
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July
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- July 1
? The
Øresund Bridge
between
Denmark
and
Sweden
is officially opened for traffic.
- July 2
?
France
defeats
Italy
2?1 after extra time in the final of the
European Championship
, becoming the first team to win the World Cup and European Championship consecutively.
- July 7
? The draft assembly of
Human Genome Project
is announced at the White House by US President
Bill Clinton
,
Francis Collins
, and
Craig Venter
.
- July 10
? In southern
Nigeria
, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging
gasoline
.
- July
11
–
25
? A
summit meeting
takes place at
Camp David
between United States president
Bill Clinton
, Israeli prime minister
Ehud Barak
and
Palestinian Authority
chairman
Yasser Arafat
, ending without an agreement.
[27]
- July 14
? A powerful
solar flare
, later named the
Bastille Day event
, causes a
geomagnetic storm
on Earth.
[28]
- July 25
?
Air France Flight 4590
, a
Concorde
aircraft, crashes into a hotel in
Gonesse
just after
takeoff
from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 4 in the hotel.
August
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September
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October
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- October 3
– Approximate start of
Autumn 2000 Western Europe floods
(particularly affecting the UK), precipitated by days of heavy rain.
- October 5
–
Mass demonstrations
in
Belgrade
lead to resignation of
Yugoslavia
's president
Slobodan Milo?evi?
.
- October 11
– 250 million US gallons (950,000 m
3
) of coal sludge
spill
in
Martin County, Kentucky
, United States (considered a greater environmental disaster than the
Exxon Valdez oil spill
).
- October 12
– In
Aden
,
Yemen
,
USS
Cole
is
badly damaged
by two
Al-Qaeda
suicide bombers
, who place a small boat laden with explosives alongside the
United States Navy
destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
- October 17
? A
Great North Eastern Railway
Intercity 225
Express Train
is derailed
, killing four people and injuring many others, in
Hatfield, Hertfordshire
, United Kingdom.
[32]
- October 22
- The
Mainichi Shimbun
newspaper exposes Japanese archeologist
Shinichi Fujimura
as a fraud; Japanese archaeologists had based their treatises on his findings.
- Japanese Prime Minister
Yoshiro Mori
and Singaporean Prime Minister
Goh Chok Tong
formally negotiate Japan-Singapore Economic Agreement for a New Age Partnership (JSEPA).
[33]
- October 26
? Pakistani authorities announce that their police have found an apparent mummy of an alleged
Persian Princess
in the province of
Balochistan, Pakistan
. The governments of Iran, Pakistan as well as the
Taliban
of Afghanistan all claim the mummy until Pakistan announces it is a modern-day forgery in April 2001.
[34]
- October 31
November
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December
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World population
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World population
[45]
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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%
|
Births and deaths
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Nobel Prizes
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See also
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References
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