2000
Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century
Decades: 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s - 2000s - 2010s 2020s 2030s 2040s 2050s
Years: 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 - 2000 - 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
International Year for a Culture of Peace
Events:
- Mexico - Vicente Fox becomes the first opposition President to take power since Francisco I. Madero in 1911. He won the Presidency as candidate of the rightist PAN (National Action Party).
- January 3 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published
- January 10 - America On-line announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.
- January 14 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
- January 16 - In Sacramento, California a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the state capitol building killing the driver.
- April 23 Easter (very late this year).
- April 25 - The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing Civil Unions for same-sex couples.
- July 25 - The Concorde airliner crashes.
- September 28 - Ariel Sharon leads several hundred armed Israelis in a visit to the Temple Mount, provoking an increase in Palestinian civil disorder which developed into the Al-Aqsa_Intifada
- November 7 - US - In a highly controversial election, George W. Bush defeats Al Gore to become the 43rd President of the United States of America.
- November 27 - Canada - Parliamentary elections - Jean Chretien re-elected as Prime Minister as Liberal Party increases majority in House of Commons
- The last wholly Swedish-owned arms manufacturer, Bofors, is sold to American arms manufacturer United Defence.
Art, Culture & Fashion
- 2000 in film
- Gladiator
- The latest Joel and Ethan Coen film, O Brother, Where Art Thou? was released to much criticial acclaim.
- Martial arts extravaganza, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon leaped and flew itself onto the publics imagination.
- And to spite all the critics, the fairy tale adventure based on the works of Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas grossed $260 million at the box office.
- Celebrity News - Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver in a California shopping mall
- 2000 in literature
- 2000 in music
- 2000 in sports
- Summer Olympic Games in Sydney Australia
- January 30 - Super Bowl XXXIV Saint Louis Rams (23) def. Tennessee Titans (16)
- 2000 in television
- Survivor premieres on CBS sparking a brief interest in "reality tv". Many copy-cat programs follow. The show was based on the Swedish game show, Operation Robinson.
Births:
Deaths:
- January 4 - Tom Fears, American football star
- January 10 - Sam Jaffe, actor
- January 19 -
- Bettino Craxi, 65, Italian prime minister (1983-1987)
- Hedy Lamarr, actress
- January 26 - A.E. van Vogt, science fiction author
- January 31 - Gil Kane, comic book writer
- February 11 - Roger Vadim, 72, French movie director
- February 12 -
- Charles Schulz, 77, creator of the Peanuts comic strip
- Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 70, American rock artist
- February 19 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 71, Austrian artist
- March 20 - Gene "Eugene" Andrusco, actor, singer
- March 27 - Ian Dury, 57, English rock musician
- March 28 - Anthony Powell, British novelist
- April 6 - Habib Bourguiba, president of Tunisia (1957-1997)
- April 13 - Giorgio Bassani, 84, Italian writer (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis)
- May 21 - Sir John Gielgud, 96, British actor
- June 10 - Hafez al-Assad, 69, president of Syria (1971-2000)
- June 29 - Vittorio Gassmann, 78, Italian actor
- July 1 - Walter Matthau, 79, American actor
- August 5 - Sir Alec Guinness, 86, British actor
- August 25 - Carl Barks, 99, illustrator of Donald Duck
- September 28 - Pierre Trudeau, 80, prime minister of Canada (1968-1979 and 1980-1984)
- October 11 - Donald Dewar, main author of the Scotland Act and initial First Minister of the Scottish Parliament
- October 30 - Steve Allen, comedian, composer, talk show host, author
- December 23 - Victor Borge, 91, Danish/American humorist and pianist
- December 25 - Willard Van Orman Quine, 92, American philosopher
Computing -
- The New Year, people, companies, countries and much of the world was fearing the worst, planes falling out of the sky, electricity grids and essential services collapsing. What people feared was not the apocalypse but the Y2K bug - a computer problem that many feared would result in many computers not recognising the new year. The more important problem for computer-related companies this year, however, was the dotcom death that started in February and lasted well into 2001.