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| − | Year '''2000''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MM]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Saturday]].
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| − | In the [[Chinese Calendar]], it is the [[Dragon (zodiac)|Year of the Dragon]], and in the western [[astrological]] calendar, it is the year of [[Leo (astrology)|Leo]], the Lion.
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| − | Year 2000 was the target of [[Y2K]] concerns, fearing computers could not shift from 2-digit "99" to "2000"; however, many companies had already converted their software, even obtaining ''Y2K certification'', and relatively few problems occurred.
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| − | Popular culture also holds the year 2000 as the first year of the [[21st century]] and the [[3rd millennium|third millennium]]. In the Gregorian Calendar, however, this distinction falls to the year [[2001]], because the first century began with year [[AD 1]] (there was no [[year zero]]), and the thousand years spanned to years 2-1001 (see more at: ''[[millennium]]'').
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| − | The year 2000 was also marked as:
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| − | * ''The International Year for a Culture of Peace''.
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| − | * ''The World [[Mathematics|Mathematical]] Year''.
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| − | See also [[Current events#Past events by month|Wikipedia's almanac]] of events for this year.
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| − | ==Events of 2000==
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| − | ===[[January 2000|January]]===
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[Millennium]] celebrations take place throughout the world.
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| − | * [[January 1]] - [[Y2K]] passes without serious, widespread computer failures, despite fears to the contrary. Many computer programmers had long kept track of each year in shorthand as a two-digit offset from [[1900]]. This modulo-100 assumption thereby treated '''2000''' instead as [[1900]], resulting in a 100-year error. Another glitch had the [[U.S. Naval Observatory]] web site indicating the date as [[19100]].
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| − | * [[January 3]]-[[January 10]] - [[Israel]] and [[Syria]] hold inconclusive peace talks.
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| − | * [[January 4]] - [[Alan Greenspan]] is nominated for a fourth term as U.S. [[Federal Reserve]] Chairman.
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| − | * [[January 5]]-[[January 8]] - The [[2000 al-Qaeda Summit]] of several high-level al-Qaeda members (including 2 [[9/11]] [[American Airlines]] hijackers) is held in [[Kuala Lumpur]], [[Malaysia]].
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| − | * [[January 10]] - [[America Online]] announces an agreement to be bought out by [[Time Warner]] for $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.
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| − | * [[January 11]] - The armed wing of [[Islamic Salvation Front]] concludes its negotiations with the government for an amnesty and disbands in [[Algeria]]. (See [[Algerian Civil War#GIA destroyed, GSPC continues]].)
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| − | * [[January 11]] - The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the [[Isle of Man]].<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/603558.stm BBC News | SCOTLAND | Solway Harvester: A tale of tragedy]. Retrieved 19 November 2007.</ref>
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| − | * [[January 14]] - [[United Nations]] tribunal sentences 5 [[Bosnian Croats]] to up to 25 years, for the 1993 killing of over 100 [[Bosnian Muslims]] in a [[Bosnia-Herzegovina|Bosnian]] village.<ref>[http://edition.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/europe/03/03/war.crimes.bosnia.02 CNN.com - World - War crimes tribunal hands Croat general lengthy sentence - March 3, 2000]. Retrieved 19 November 2007.</ref>
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| − | * [[January 14]] - The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] closes at 11,722.98, a level never reached before (the peak of the [[Dot-com bubble]]).
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| − | * [[January 16]] - In [[Sacramento, California]], a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the State Capitol building, killing the driver.
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| − | * [[January 18]] - The [[Tagish Lake meteorite]] impacted the Earth.
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| − | * [[January 24]] - [[God's Army (revolutionary group)|God's Army]], a [[Karen people|Karen]] militia group led by twins [[Johnny and Luther Htoo]], take 700 hostages at a [[Thailand|Thai]] hospital near the [[Myanmar|Burmese]] border.
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| − | * [[January 26]] - Rap-metal band [[Rage Against the Machine]] plays in front of Wall Street, prompting an early closing of trading due to the crowds.
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| − | * [[January 30]] - The [[St. Louis Rams]] win the [[NFL Championship]] for the first time since [[1951]], defeating the [[Tennessee Titans]] 23-16 in [[Super Bowl XXXIV]] at the [[Georgia Dome]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]].
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| − | * [[January 30]] - [[Kenya Airways Flight 431]] crashes off the coast of [[Côte d'Ivoire]] into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
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| − | * [[January 31]] - [[Alaska Airlines Flight 261]] crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.
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| − | * [[January 31]] - Dr. [[Harold Shipman]] is found guilty of murdering 15 patients between 1995 and 1998 and sentenced to life imprisonment. The trial judge recommends that Shipman, 54, should never be released from prison. Shipman's victims were all patients at his surgery in the North [[Cheshire]] township of [[Hyde, Greater Manchester|Hyde]], where he had worked for six years leading up to his arrest in September 1998.
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| − | ===[[February 2000|February]]===
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| − | * [[February]] - [[Jiang Zemin]]'s [[Three Represents]]
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| − | * [[February 1]] - In the [[United States presidential election, 2000|United States presidential election]] Vice President [[Al Gore]] wins the [[New Hampshire]] Democratic primary. [[John McCain]] wins the Republican primary. [[Gary Bauer]] withdraws from the race [[February 4]], followed by [[Steve Forbes]], [[February 10]].
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| − | * [[February 4]] - German [[extortion]]ist [[Klaus-Peter Sabotta]] is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion, in connection with the [[sabotage]] of German [[railway]] lines.
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| − | * [[February 6]] - [[Tarja Halonen]] is elected the first female president of [[Finland]].
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| − | * [[February 7]] - [[Stipe Mesic]] is elected president of [[Croatia]].
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| − | * [[February 11]] - A blast from an [[improvised explosive device]] in front of a [[Barclay's Bank]] across from the [[New York Stock Exchange]] on [[Wall Street]] wounds dozens but kills none
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| − | * [[February 13]] - The final original ''[[Peanuts]]'' [[comic strip]] is published, following the death of its creator, [[Charles Schulz]].
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| − | * [[February 17]] - [[Microsoft]] releases [[Windows 2000]].
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| − | ===[[March 2000|March]]===
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| − | * [[March 1]] - The [[Constitution of Finland]] is rewritten.
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| − | * [[March 2]] - [[Hans Blix]] assumes the position of Executive Chairman of [[UNMOVIC]].
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| − | * [[March 7]] - [[George W. Bush]] and [[Al Gore]] emerge victorious in the Republican and Democratic caucuses and primaries of the [[United States presidential election, 2000|United States presidential election]]
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| − | * [[March 8]] - [[Tokyo train disaster]]: A sideswipe collision of 2 [[Tokyo Metro]] trains kills 5 people.
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| − | * [[March 9]] - The [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] arrests [[art forgery]] suspect [[Ely Sakhai]] in [[New York City]].
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| − | * March 9 - [[Nupedia]], predecessor to [[Wikipedia]] is created.
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| − | * [[March 10]] - The [[NASDAQ]] Composite Index reaches an all-time high of 5048.<ref>[http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_1000766.shtml Fifth Anniversary: Nasdaq's record all-time closing high 5,048.62]. Retrieved 19 November 2007.</ref>
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| − | * [[March 18]] - [[ROC presidential election, 2000]]: [[Chen Shui-bian]] is elected [[President of the Republic of China]] (Taiwan). [[Democratic Progressive Party]] ends [[Kuomintang]] rule for the first time.
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| − | * [[March 19]] - U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] arrives in [[New Delhi]] for a state visit.
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| − | * [[March 20]] - [[Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin]] ([[H. Rap Brown]]), a former [[Black Panther Party|Black Panther]], is captured after a gun battle in [[Atlanta, Georgia]], that leaves a sheriff's deputy dead.
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| − | * [[March 21]] - [[Pope John Paul II]] begins the first official visit by a [[Roman Catholic]] [[pontiff]] to [[Israel]].
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| − | * [[March 21]] - The [[U.S. Supreme Court]] rules the government lacks authority to regulate [[tobacco]] as an [[addictive]] [[recreational drug use|drug]], throwing out the [[Presidency of Bill Clinton|Bill Clinton administration]]'s main anti-smoking [[initiative]].
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| − | * [[March 26]] - Presidential elections in [[Russia]]: [[Vladimir Putin]] is elected President.
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| − | * [[March 26]] - Seattle's [[Kingdome]] implodes to make way for [[Qwest Field]].
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| − | * [[March 26]] - The [[72nd Academy Awards]], hosted by [[Billy Crystal]] are held at the [[Shrine Auditorium]] in [[Los Angeles, California]], with ''[[American Beauty (film)|American Beauty]]'' winning [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].
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| − | * [[March 27]] - [[Phillips explosion of 2000]] killed 1 and injured 71 in [[Pasadena, Texas]].
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| − | * [[March 30]] - [[America's Cup]] 2000 is retained by [[Team New Zealand]] near [[Auckland]]. [[Prada]] Challenge 2000 lost 0-5 in a "best-of-9".
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| − | * [[March 31]] - [[Myra Hindley]] loses a [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] appeal against her [[Whole life tariff|government-imposed whole life prison sentence]]. It is her third appeal failure since December 1997, and her lawyers have vowed to take her freedom bid to the [[European Court of Human Rights]].
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| − | * [[April 1]] - [[Japan]]ese prime minister [[Keizo Obuchi]] suffers a [[stroke]] and falls into a [[coma]].
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| − | * [[April 3]] - ''[[United States v. Microsoft]]'': [[Microsoft]] is ruled to have violated [[United States]] [[antitrust]] laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
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| − | * [[April 5]] - [[Yoshiro Mori]] replaces [[Keizo Obuchi]] as prime minister of [[Japan]].
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| − | * [[April 7]] - Attack submarine [[USS Trepang (SSN-674)|ex-Trepang]] completes being [[Ship-Submarine recycling program|recycled]].
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| − | * [[April 16]] - [[Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah]], [[Sultan]] of [[Selangor]], dies after a reign of 55 years. He was the longest reigning [[monarch]] in the world since the death of Prince [[Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein|Franz Joseph II]] of [[Liechtenstein]].
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| − | * [[April 17]] - [[Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin]] becomes [[Raja]] of [[Perlis]].
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| − | * [[April 22]] - [[Brazil]] officially celebrates the 500th anniversary, not without protests, especially from native and black populations.
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| − | * [[April 22]] - In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-year old [[Elián González]] from his relatives' home in [[Miami, Florida]] and fly him to his [[Cuba]]n father in [[Washington, DC]], ending one of the most publicized custody battles in US history.
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| − | * [[April 25]] - The State of [[Vermont]] passes HB847, legalizing [[Civil union]]s for same-sex couples.
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| − | * [[April 28]] - [[Richard Baumhammers]] begins a two hour racially motivated shooting spree in [[Pittsburgh]], [[Pennsylvania]], leaving five dead and one paralyzed.
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| − | * [[May 3]] - A rare conjunction of seven celestial bodies ([[Sun]], [[Moon]], planets [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]]-[[Jupiter]]) occurs on the [[New Moon]].
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| − | * [[May 3]] - In [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], computer pioneer [[Datapoint]] files for [[Chapter 11]] bankruptcy.
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| − | * [[May 11]] - The billionth population of [[India]] is born (baby suri).
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| − | * [[May 12]] - The [[Tate Modern]] Gallery opens in [[London]].
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| − | * [[May 13]] - [[Fireworks]] factory disaster in [[Enschede]] [[Netherlands]], killing 23 people.
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| − | * [[May 17]] - [[Philippines]]. [[Glorietta|Glorietta Mall]] in Makati City was bomb and injuring 13 persons, mostly teenagers. According to local authorities, the homemade bomb was placed in front of a toilet beside a video arcade.
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| − | * [[May 18]] - [[Boo.com]] collapses in [[London]] after 6 months, due to lack of funds.
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| − | * [[May 20]] - [[Four Noes and One Without]]
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| − | * [[May 25]] - [[Israel]] withdraws IDF forces from southern [[Lebanon]] after 22 years.
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| − | * [[May 28]] - The volcano [[Mount Cameron]] erupts.
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| − | * [[June 1]] - [[Mount Etna]] erupts on the island of [[Sicily]].
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| − | * [[June 5]] - [[405 The Movie]] is released on the [[internet]].
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| − | * [[June 10]] - The [[New Jersey Devils]] defeat the defending champion [[Dallas Stars]] 2-1 in double OT in Game 6 of the [[2000 Stanley Cup Finals]] to win their second [[Stanley Cup]] Championship.
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| − | * [[June 13]] - South Korean President [[Kim Dae Jung]] visit North Korea, first as a president of opposite side, to participate in the first North-South presidential summit.
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| − | * [[June 17]] - A centennial earthquake measuring 6.5 on [[Richter magnitude scale|Richter scale]] in [[Iceland]]. 17th of June is Iceland's national day.
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| − | * [[June 19]] - The [[Los Angeles Lakers]] defeat the [[Indiana Pacers]] 116-111 in Game 6 of the 2000 [[NBA Finals]].
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| − | * [[June 21]] - [[Section 28]], a law preventing the promotion of homosexuality, is repealed by the [[Scottish Parliament]].
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| − | * [[June 26]] - A preliminary draft of [[genome]]s, as part of the [[Human Genome Project]], is finished.
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| − | * [[June 28]] - [[Elian Gonzalez]] returns to [[Cuba]] with his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, ending a protracted custody battle.
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| − | * [[June 30]] - At the [[Roskilde Festival]] near [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]], 9 die and 26 are injured on a set while the rock group [[Pearl Jam]] performed.
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| − | * [[July 2]] - [[France national football team|France]] beats [[Italy national football team|Italy]] 2-1 to win [[2000 UEFA European Football Championship|Euro 2000]] with a [[golden goal]].
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| − | * [[July 2]] - [[Vicente Fox]] is elected President of [[Mexico]], as candidate of the rightist PAN (National Action Party), ending 71 years of PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) rule.
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| − | * [[July 10]] - In southern [[Nigeria]], a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging [[gasoline]].
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| − | * [[July 10]] - [[Bashar al-Assad]] is confirmed as Syria's leader in a national referendum.
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| − | * [[July 11]]-[[July 25]] - Israel's prime minister [[Ehud Barak]] and PLO head [[Yasser Arafat]] meet at Camp David, but fail to reach an agreement.
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| − | * [[July 18]] - [[Alex Salmond]] resigns as the leader of the [[Scottish National Party]].
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| − | * [[July 18]] - [[Sussex]] police launch a murder investigation after the body of a girl found near [[Pulborough]] is confirmed to be that of [[Sarah Payne]], who was reported missing on [[July 1]].
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| − | * [[July 21]]-[[July 23]] - G-8 Nations hold their 26th Annual Summit. Issues include AIDS, the 'digital divide', and halving world poverty by 2015.
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| − | * [[July 22]] - ''[[News of the World]]'' urges its readers to sign a petition for [[Sarah's Law]] - new legislation in response to the murder of Sarah Payne, which would give parents the right to know whether a convicted [[paedophile]] was living in their area.
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| − | * [[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.
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| − | * [[July 30]] - Venezuela's president [[Hugo Chávez]] is reelected with 59% of the vote.
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| − | * [[July 31]]-[[August 3]] - The [[Republican National Convention]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] nominates [[George W. Bush]] for U.S. President and [[Dick Cheney]] for Vice President.
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| − | * [[August 1]] - The [[Santa Cruz Operation]] announced that it will sell its Server Software and Services Divisions, as well as [[UnixWare]] and [[OpenServer]] technologies, to [[Caldera Systems|Caldera Systems, Inc]].
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| − | * [[August 3]] - Rioting erupts on the [[Paulsgrove]] estate in [[Portsmouth]], [[Hampshire]], [[England]], after more than 100 people besieged the home of a block of flats allegedly housing a convicted paedophile. This is the latest vigilante violence against suspected sex offenders since the beginning of the "naming and shaming" anti-paedophile campaign by the British media.
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| − | * [[August 8]] - [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] submarine ''[[H.L. Hunley]]'' is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
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| − | * [[August 12]] - The ''[[Russian submarine K-141 Kursk]]'' sinks in the [[Barents Sea]], resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board.
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| − | * [[August 14]] - [[Czar Nicholas II]] and his family are canonized by the synod of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]].
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| − | * [[August 14]]-[[August 17]] - The [[Democratic National Convention]] in [[Los Angeles]] nominates U.S. Vice President [[Al Gore]] for President and Senator [[Joe Lieberman]] for Vice President.
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| − | * [[August 23]] - [[John Anthony Kaiser]] a Roman Catholic priest was murdered in Morendat, Kenya.
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| − | * [[August 27]] - The [[Ostankino Tower]] in [[Moscow]] catches fire; three people are killed.
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| − | * [[September 5]] - [[Tuvalu]] joins the [[United Nations]].
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| − | * [[September 6]] - In [[Paragould, Arkansas]], [[Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart]] is [[stillbirth|stillborn]] to Scott Stewart and Lisa Bartlett. Breanna Lynn's stillbirth is notable for being the first stillbirth to be resolved by means of the [[Kleihauer-Betke test]].
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| − | * [[September 6]] - The last wholly [[List of Swedish companies|Swedish-owned]] [[arms trade|arms manufacturer]], [[Bofors]], is sold to American arms manufacturer [[United Defense]].
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| − | * [[September 6]]-[[September 8]] - World leaders attend the [[Millennium Summit]] at UN Headquarters.
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| − | * [[September 7]]-[[September 14]] - The [[UK fuel protest]]s take place, with refineries blockaded, and supply to the country's network of petrol stations halted.
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| − | * [[September 8]] - [[Albania]] officially joins the [[World Trade Organization]].
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| − | * [[September 14]] - [[Microsoft]] releases [[Windows Me]].
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| − | * [[September 15]]-[[October 1]] - The [[2000 Summer Olympics]] are held in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]].
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| − | * [[September 16]] - [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] journalist [[Georgiy Gongadze]] is last seen alive; this day is taken as the commemoration date of his death.
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| − | * [[September 16]] - Peru's president [[Alberto Fujimori]] calls for new elections in which he will not run.
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| − | * [[September 26]] - The Greek [[Express Samina]] ferry sinks off the coast of the island of [[Paros]]; 80 out of a total of over 500 passengers perish in one of Greece's worst sea disasters.
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| − | * [[September 26]] - [[Anti-globalization]] protests in [[Prague]] (some 15,000 protesters) turn violent during the [[IMF]] and [[World Bank]] summits.
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| − | * [[September 28]] - Israeli opposition leader [[Ariel Sharon]] visits the [[Temple Mount]], protected by a several-hundred-strong Israeli police force. Palestinian riots erupt, leading into a full-fledged armed uprising (called the [[Al-Aqsa Intifada]] by sympathizers and the [[Oslo War]] by opponents).
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| − | * [[September 29]] - The [[Maze (HM Prison)|Long Kesh]] [[Her Majesty's Prison Service|prison]] in Northern Ireland is closed.
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| − | * [[October 1]] - Closing ceremony of [[2000 Summer Olympics]] in [[Sydney]], [[Australia]].
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| − | * [[October 5]] - President [[Slobodan Milošević]] leaves office after widespread demonstrations throughout [[Serbia]].
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| − | * [[October 6]] - The last [[Mini]] is produced in [[Longbridge]].
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| − | * [[October 11]] - 250 million gallons of coal sludge spill in [[Martin County, Kentucky]]. Considered a greater environmental disaster than the [[Exxon Valdez oil spill]].
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| − | * [[October 12]] - In [[Aden]], [[Yemen]], the [[USS Cole (DDG 67)|''USS Cole'']] is badly damaged by two [[suicide bomber]]s, who placed a small boat laden with [[explosive]]s along-side the [[United States Navy]] destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
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| − | * [[October 21]] - Fifteen [[Arab]] leaders convene in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]], for their first summit in 4 years; the [[Libyan]] delegation walks out, angry over signs the summit will stop short of calling for breaking ties with [[Israel]].
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| − | * [[October 22]] - The ''[[Mainichi Shinbun]]'' newspaper exposes Japanese archeologist [[Shinichi Fujimura]] as a fraud; Japanese archaeologists had based their treatises on his findings.
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| − | * [[October 23]] - [[Madeleine Albright]] holds talks with North Korean dictator [[Kim Jong Il]].
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| − | * [[October 26]] - [[Pakistan]]i authorities announce that their police have found an apparently ancient mummy of a [[Forged Persian princess|Persian princess]] in the province of [[Balochistan (Iran)|Balochistan]]. [[Iran]], Pakistan and the [[Taliban]] all claim the mummy until Pakistan announces it is a forgery on [[April 17]], [[2001]].
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| − | * [[October 26]] - The [[New York Yankees]] defeat the [[New York Mets]] in Game 5 of the [[2000 World Series]], 4-1, to win their 26th World Series title (and latest to date). This was the first [[Subway Series]] matchup between the two crosstown rivals. It was their 4th World Series win in the last 5 years under Manager Joe Torre.
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| − | * [[October 31]] - [[Singapore Airlines Flight 006]] collides with construction equipment in the [[Chiang Kai Shek International Airport]] - 83 dead.
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| − | * [[November]] - [[Iraq disarmament crisis]]: [[Iraq]] rejects new U.N. Security Council weapons inspections proposals.
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| − | * [[November 2]] - First resident crew enters [[International Space Station]].[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station]
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| − | * [[November 3]] - Widespread flooding occurs throughout [[England]] and [[Wales]] after days of heavy rain.
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| − | * [[November 7]] - [[United States presidential election, 2000]]: [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] candidate Texas Governor [[George W. Bush]] defeats [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] Vice President [[Al Gore]] in the closest election in history, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in [[Florida]].
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| − | * [[November 7]] - In [[London]], a criminal gang raids the [[Millennium Dome]] to steal The [[Millennium Star]] diamond, but police surveillance catches them in the act.
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| − | * [[November 7]] - [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] is elected to the [[United States Senate]], becoming the first [[First Lady of the United States]] to win public office.
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| − | * [[November 11]] - [[Kaprun disaster]], [[Austria]]: A cable car fire in an alpine tunnel kills 155 skiers and snowboarders.
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| − | * [[November 14]] - [[Netscape Navigator]] version 6.0 is launched following two years of [[open source]] development, creating a stable [[Mozilla]] [[web browser]] upon which it is based.
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| − | * [[November 15]] - A new Indian state called [[Jharkhand]] is formed, carving out the South [[Chhota Nagpur]] area from [[Bihar]] in [[India]].
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| − | * [[November 16]] - [[Bill Clinton]] becomes the first sitting U.S. President to visit [[Vietnam]].
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| − | * [[November 17]] - A catastrophic [[landslide]] in Log pod Mangartom, [[Slovenia]], kills 7, and causes millions of [[Slovenian tolar|SIT]] of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in [[Slovenia]] in the past 100 years.
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| − | * [[November 17]] - [[Alberto Fujimori]] is removed from office as president of [[Peru]].
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| − | * [[November 26]] - The [[British Columbia Lions]] win the CFL Championship for the first time since 1994, defeating the [[Montreal Alouettes]] 28-26 in the [[88th Grey Cup]] at [[McMahon Stadium]] in [[Calgary, Alberta]].
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| − | * [[November 27]] - [[Jean Chrétien]] is re-elected as [[Prime Minister of Canada]], as the Liberal Party increases its majority in the House of Commons.
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| − | * [[November 28]] - [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] politician [[Oleksander Moroz]] touches off the [[Cassette Scandal]] by publicly accusing [[President of Ukraine|President]] [[Leonid Kuchma]] of involvement in the murder of journalist [[Georgiy Gongadze]].
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| − | * [[November 30]] - [[Seussical]] premieres on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]].
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| − | * [[December 1]] - [[Vicente Fox]] takes office as [[President of Mexico]].
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| − | * [[December 13]] - ''[[Bush v. Gore]]'': The [[U.S. Supreme Court]] stops the [[Florida]] presidential recount, effectively giving the state, and the Presidency, to [[George W. Bush]].
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| − | * [[December 13]] - The [[Texas 7]] escape from their prison unit in [[Kenedy, Texas]], and start a crime spree.
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| − | * [[December 24]] - The [[Texas 7]] rob a sports store in [[Irving, Texas]]; police officer [[Aubrey Hawkins]] is shot dead.
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| − | * [[December 28]] - U.S. [[retail]] giant [[Montgomery Ward]] announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
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| − | * [[December 30]] - [[Rizal Day Bombings]]: A series of bombs explode in various places in [[Metro Manila]], [[Philippines]], within a span of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about 100.
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| − | * [[December 31]] - The [[Millennium Dome]] closes its doors one year to the day of its opening.
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| − | ===Undated===
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| − | * Unconverted computer systems were fixed for [[Y2K]] to handle the year "2000" (some computers considered the year as "19100" for 19-100).
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| − | ===World population===
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| − | {|class="wikitable"
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| − | !colspan="7"|[[World population]]<ref>[http://esa.un.org/unpp World Population Prospects]. Retrieved 19 November 2007.</ref>
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| − | !
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| − | !2000
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| − | !colspan="2"|[[1995]]
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| − | !colspan="2"|[[2005]]
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| − | ![[World]]
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| − | |align="right"|'''6,070,581,000'''
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| − | |align="right"|5,674,380,000
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| − | |align="right"|+396,201,000
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| − | |align="right"|6,453,628,000
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| − | |align="right"|+383,047,000
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| − | |-
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| − | ![[Africa]]
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| − | |align="right"|'''795,671,000'''
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| − | |align="right"|707,462,000
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| − | |align="right"|+88,209,000
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| − | |align="right"|887,964,000
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| − | |align="right"|+92,293,000
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| − | |-
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| − | ![[Asia]]
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| − | |align="right"|'''3,679,737,000'''
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| − | |align="right"|3,430,052,000
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| − | |align="right"|+249,685,000
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| − | |align="right"|3,917,508,000
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| − | |align="right"|+237,771,000
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| − | |-
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| − | ![[Europe]]
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| − | |align="right"|'''727,986,000'''
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| − | |align="right"|727,405,000
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| − | |align="right"|+581,000
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| − | |align="right"|724,722,000
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| − | |align="right"|-3,264,000
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| − | ![[Latin-America]]
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| − | |align="right"|'''520,229,000'''
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| − | |align="right"|481,099,000
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| − | |align="right"|+39,130,000
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| − | |align="right"|558,281,000
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| − | |align="right"|+38,052,000
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| − | |-
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| − | ![[Northern America]]
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| − | |align="right"|'''315,915,000'''
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| − | |align="right"|299,438,000
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| − | |align="right"|+16,477,000
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| − | |align="right"|332,156,000
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| − | |align="right"|+16,241,000
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| − | |-
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| − | ![[Oceania]]
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| − | |align="right"|'''31,043,000'''
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| − | |align="right"|28,924,000
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| − | |align="right"|+2,119,000
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| − | |align="right"|32,998,000
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| − | |align="right"|+1,955,000
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| − | ==Births==
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| − | * [[January 4]] - [[Rhiannon Leigh Wryn]], American actress
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| − | * [[May 10]] - [[Shyann McClure]], American actress and model
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| − | * [[August 5]] - [[Maya Bond]], Japanese-born American singer and musician
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| − | * [[July 27]] - [[Kali Rodriguez]], American actress
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| − | * [[September 6]] - [[Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart]], notable American stillborn baby girl (d. [[2000]])
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| − | * [[September 9]] - [[Victoria Federica de Marichalar y de Borbón]], granddaughter of [[King Juan Carlos I]] of [[Spain]].
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| − | * [[September 26]] - [[Princess Salma bint Al Abdullah II]]
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| − | * [[November 20]] - [[Connie Talbot]], English singer
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| − | * [[November 30]] - [[Destiny Norton]], American crime victim (d. [[2006]])
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| − | * [[December 6]] - [[Pablo Nicolás Urdangarín y de Borbón]], grandson of [[King Juan Carlos I]] of [[Spain]].
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| − | ===January-June===
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| − | * [[January 2]] - [[Patrick O'Brian]], English writer (b. [[1914]])
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| − | * [[January 7]] - [[Makhmud Esambayev]], Chechen dancer (b. [[1924]])
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| − | * [[January 15]] - [[Fran Ryan]], American actress (b. [[1916]])
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| − | * [[January 15]] - [[Željko Ražnatović]], Serbian mobster and paramilitary leader (b. [[1952]])
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| − | * [[January 19]] - [[Bettino Craxi]], [[Prime Minister of Italy]] (b. [[1934]])
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| − | * [[January 19]] - [[Hedy Lamarr]], Austrian actress (b. [[1913]])
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| − | * [[January 26]] - [[Don Ralke]], American music arranger (b. [[1920]])
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| − | * [[February 4]] - [[Phil Tonken]], American radio and television announcer (b. [[1919]])
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| − | * [[February 5]] - [[Ward Cornell]], Canadian radio/TV broadcaster & educator (b. [[1924]])
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| − | * [[February 7]] - [[Big Pun]], American rapper (b. [[1971]])
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| − | * [[February 8]] - [[Derrick Thomas]], American football player (b. [[1967]])
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| − | * [[February 9]] - [[Beau Jack]], American boxer (b. [[1921]])
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| − | * [[February 10]] - [[Jim Varney]], American actor noted for his character, [[Ernest P. Worrell]]. (b. [[1949]])
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| − | * [[February 11]] - [[Roger Vadim]], French film director (b. [[1928]])
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| − | * [[February 12]] - [[Screamin' Jay Hawkins|Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins]], American musician (b. [[1929]])
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| − | * [[February 12]] - [[Tom Landry]], American football coach (b. [[1924]])
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| − | * [[February 12]] - [[Charles M. Schulz]], American comic strip artist (''[[Peanuts]]'') (b. [[1922]])
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| − | * [[February 19]] - [[Friedensreich Hundertwasser]], artist (b. [[1928]])
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| − | * [[February 23]] - Sir [[Stanley Matthews]], English footballer (b. [[1915]])
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| − | * [[February 23]] - [[Ofra Haza]], Israeli singer (b. [[1957]])
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| − | * [[February 29]] - [[Dennis Danell]], American musician ([[Social Distortion]]) (b. [[1961]])
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| − | * [[March 3]] - [[Toni Ortelli]], Italian composer and alpinist (b. [[1904]])
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| − | * [[March 28]] - [[Anthony Powell]], British author (b. [[1905]])
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| − | * [[April 3]] - [[Terence McKenna]], Writer, Philosopher, [[Ethnobotanist]] and [[Shaman]] (b. [[1946]])
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| − | * [[April 4]] - [[Derek Allhusen]], British equestrian (b. [[1914]])
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| − | * [[April 5]] - [[Lee Petty]], American race car driver (b. [[1914]])
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| − | * [[April 6]] - [[Habib Bourguiba]], [[President of Tunisia]] (b. [[1903]])
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| − | * [[April 10]] - [[Larry Linville]], American actor
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| − | * [[April 11]] - [[Diana Darvey]], British actress, singer and dancer (b. [[1945]])
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| − | * [[April 16]] - [[Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah]], King of Malaysia (b. [[1920]])
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| − | * [[April 25]] - [[David Merrick]], American stage producer (b. [[1911]])
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| − | * [[April 29]] - [[Phạm Văn Ðồng]], [[Prime Minister of Vietnam]] (b. [[1906]])
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| − | * [[May 11]] - [[Paula Wessely]], Austrian actress (b. [[1907]])
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| − | * [[May 12]] - [[Adam Petty]], American race car driver (b. [[1980]])
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| − | * [[May 14]] - [[Keizo Obuchi]], [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (b. [[1937]])
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| − | * [[May 17]] - [[Donald Coggan]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. [[1909]])
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| − | * [[May 19]] - [[Yevgeny Khrunov]], cosmonaut (b. [[1933]])
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| − | * [[May 20]] - [[Edward Bernds]], American director (b. [[1905]])
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| − | * [[May 20]] - [[Jean Pierre Rampal]], French flutist (b. [[1922]])
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| − | * [[May 20]] - [[Malik Sealy]], Minnesota Timberwolves basketball player (b. [[1970]])
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| − | * [[May 21]] - Dame [[Barbara Cartland]], English novelist (b. [[1901]])
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| − | * [[May 21]] - Sir [[John Gielgud]], English actor (b. [[1904]])
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| − | * [[May 21]] - [[Mark R. Hughes]], American entrepreneur and founder of [[Herbalife]] (b. [[1956]])
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| − | * [[May 27]] - [[Maurice Richard]], Canadian hockey player (b. [[1921]])
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| − | * [[May 27]] - [[Kazimierz Leski]], Polish engineer, fighter pilot, and Home Army's intelligence and counter-intelligence officer (b. [[1912]])
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| − | * [[May 31]] - [[John Coolidge]], son of American President [[Calvin Coolidge]] (b. [[1906]])
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| − | * [[June 10]] - [[Hafez al-Assad]], [[President of Syria]] (b. [[1930]])
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| − | * [[June 14]] - [[Robert Trent Jones]], English-born golf course designer (b. [[1906]])
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| − | * [[June 16]] - [[Empress Kōjun]] of Japan (b. [[1903]])
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| − | * [[June 17]] - [[Brian Statham]], English cricketer (b. [[1930]])
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| − | * [[June 18]] - [[Nancy Marchand]], American actress who starred in [[The Sopranos]] (b. [[1928]])
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| − | * [[June 21]] - [[Alan Hovhaness]], American composer (b. [[1911]])
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| − | * [[June 24]] - [[David Tomlinson]], English actor (b. [[1917]])
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| − | * [[July 1]] - [[Walter Matthau]], American actor (b. [[1920]])
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| − | * [[July 2]] - [[Joey Dunlop]], Northern Irish motorcycle racer (b. [[1952]])
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| − | * [[July 7]] - [[James C. Quayle]], American newspaper publisher (b. [[1921]])
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| − | * [[July 7]] - [[Kenny Irwin]], NASCAR driver (b. [[1969]])
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| − | * [[July 8]] - [[FM-2030]], Transhumanist philosopher (b. [[1930]])
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| − | * [[July 10]] - [[Vakkom Majeed]], Indian [[Freedom fighter]], [[Travancore-Cochin]] Legislative member (b. [[1909]])
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| − | * [[July 10]] - [[Denis O'Conor Don]], [[O'Conor Don]]
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| − | * [[July 10]] - [[Justin Pierce]], British skateboarder and actor (b. [[1975]])
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| − | * [[July 11]] - [[Robert Runcie]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. [[1921]])
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| − | * [[July 14]] - [[Meredith MacRae]], American actress (b. [[1944]])
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| − | * [[July 27]] - [[Gordon Solie]], American wrestling commentator (b. [[1929]])
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| − | * [[July 28]] - [[Abraham Pais]], Dutch-born American physicist (b. [[1918]])
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| − | * [[July 29]] - [[René Favaloro]], Argentinian cardiologist who created the technique for coronary bypass surgery (b. [[1923]])
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| − | * [[August 5]] - Sir [[Alec Guinness]], English actor and writer (b. [[1914]])
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| − | * [[August 5]] - [[Otto Buchsbaum]], writer and ecological activist (b. [[1920]])
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| − | * [[August 6]] - Sir [[Robin Day]], British political broadcaster (b. [[1923]])
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| − | * [[August 9]] - [[John Harsanyi]], Hungarian-born economist, [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1920]])
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| − | * [[August 9]] - [[Bob Lido]], American musician (b. [[1914]])
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| − | * [[August 12]] - [[Loretta Young]], American actress (b. [[1913]])
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| − | * [[August 12]] - [[Dave Edwards (musician)|Dave Edwards]], American musician (b. [[1941]])
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| − | * [[August 13]] - [[Nazia Hassan]] First South Asian Pop Singer. (b.[[1965]])
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| − | * [[August 19]] - [[Bineshwar Brahma]], [[Bodo people|Bodo activist and leader]] (b. [[1946]])
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| − | * [[August 21]] - [[Daniel Lisulo]], Zambian politician (b. [[1930]])
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| − | * [[August 25]] - [[Carl Barks]], American cartoonist (b. [[1901]])
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| − | * [[September 2]] - [[Elvera Sanchez]], American dancer (b. [[1905]])
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| − | * [[September 6]] - [[Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart]], notable American stillborn baby girl (b. 2000)
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| − | * [[September 16]] - [[Georgiy Gongadze]], Ukrainian journalist (b. [[1969]])
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| − | * [[September 17]] - [[Nicole Reinhart]], American cyclist (b. [[1976]])
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| − | * [[September 17]] - [[Paula Yates]], British television presenter and journalist (b. [[1960]])
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| − | * [[September 19]] - [[Anthony Robert Klitz]], British artist (b [[1917]])
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| − | * [[September 20]] - [[Gherman Titov]], Soviet cosmonaut (b. [[1935]])
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| − | * [[September 23]] - [[Aurelio Rodríguez]], Mexican [[Major League Baseball]] player (b. [[1947]])
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| − | * [[September 25]] - [[Ronald Stuart Thomas|R. S. Thomas]], Welsh poet (b. [[1913]])
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| − | * [[September 26]] - [[Carl Sigman]], American songwriter (b. [[1909]])
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| − | * [[September 27]] - [[Sammy Luftspring]], Canadian boxer (b. [[1916]])
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| − | * [[September 28]] - [[Pierre Trudeau]], [[Prime Minister of Canada]] (b. [[1919]])
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| − | * [[October 3]] - [[Benjamin Orr]], the Cars bassist and singer (b. [[1947]])
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| − | * [[October 4]] - [[Michael Smith (chemist)|Michael Smith]], English-born chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1932]])
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| − | * [[October 9]] - [[Patrick Anthony Porteous]], Scottish recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]] (b. [[1918]])
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| − | * [[October 11]] - [[Donald Dewar]], Scottish politician (b. [[1937]])
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| − | * [[October 13]] - [[Tony Roper]], NASCAR driver (b. [[1964]])
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| − | * [[October 15]] - [[Konrad Emil Bloch]], German-born biochemist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1912]])
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| − | * [[October 21]] - [[Reginald Kray]], leading figure in [[organised crime]] in [[London]], [[UK]] (b. [[1933]])
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| − | * [[October 22]] - [[Rodney Anoa'i]], American wrestler known as Yokozuna (b. [[1966]])
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| − | * [[October 27]] - [[Walter Berry (opera singer)|Walter Berry]], Austrian bass-baritone (b. [[1929]])
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| − | * [[October 30]] - [[Steve Allen (comedian)|Steve Allen]], American comedian, composer, talk show host, and author (b. [[1921]])
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| − | * [[November 6]] - [[L. Sprague de Camp]], American writer (b. [[1907]])
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| − | * [[November 7]] - [[C Subramaniam]], Indian politician (b. [[1910]])
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| − | * [[November 7]] - [[Ingrid of Sweden]], Queen consort of [[Frederick IX of Denmark]] (b. [[1910]])
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| − | * [[November 11]] - [[Hugh Paddick]], British actor (b. [[1915]])
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| − | * [[November 22]] - [[Cyril Clarke|Sir Cyril Astley Clarke]], British physician, geneticist and entomologist, former President of the Royal College of Physicians (b. [[1907]])
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| − | * [[November 27]] - [[Damilola Taylor]], murder victim (b. [[1989]])
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| − | * [[November 28]] - [[Liane Haid]], Austrian actress (b. [[1895]])
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| − | * [[December 6]] - [[Werner Klemperer]], German actor (b. [[1920]])
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| − | * [[December 12]] - [[Ven. Gangodawila Soma Thero]], Sri Lankan Buddhist Monk (b. [[1948]])
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| − | * [[December 18]] - [[Kirsty MacColl]], British singer-songwriter (b. [[1959]])
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| − | * [[December 19]] - [[Pops Staples|Roebuck "Pops" Staples]], patriarch of [[The Staple Singers]] (b. [[1914]])
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| − | * [[December 23]] - [[Victor Borge]], Danish-born comedian and pianist (b. [[1909]])
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| − | * [[December 23]] - [[Noor Jehan]], Pakistani actress and singer (b. [[1926]])
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| − | * [[December 24]] - [[Nick Massi]], bass singer and bass guitarist for [[The Four Seasons (group)|The Four Seasons]].(b. [[1935]])
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| − | * [[December 31]] - Rabbi [[Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane]], Israeli settler leader (b. [[1966]])
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| − | ==Nobel prizes==
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| − | * [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Zhores Ivanovich Alferov]], [[Herbert Kroemer]], [[Jack Kilby]]
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| − | * [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Alan J. Heeger]], [[Alan MacDiarmid]], [[Hideki Shirakawa]]
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| − | * [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Arvid Carlsson]], [[Paul Greengard]], [[Eric R. Kandel]]
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| − | * [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Gao Xingjian]]
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| − | * [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - [[Kim Dae Jung]]
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| − | * [[Nobel Prize in Economics|Economics]] - [[James Heckman]], [[Daniel McFadden]]
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| − | * [[Freeman Dyson]]
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| − | ==Fictional==
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| − | The following are references to year 2000 in fiction:
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| − | * Film:
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| − | :* ''[[Fun with Dick and Jane (2005 film)|Fun with Dick and Jane]]'' (2005) is set in 2000.
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| − | :* ''[[Perfect Dark]]'' (2000): [[Joanna Dark]] is born on [[March 18]].
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| − | :* ''[[The House of the Dead 2]]'' (1998) is set in 2000.
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| − | * Radio:
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| − | :* ''[[Not From Space]]'' (2003) is set in 2000.
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| − | :* ''[[Late Night with Conan O'Brien]]'': The [[Sketches from Late Night with Conan O'Brien|recurring sketch "In the Year 2000"]] predicts events of the future, "all the way to the year 2000." The sketch originated before 2000, but still appears on the show [[as of 2007]].
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| − | :* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise|Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': The cataclysmic event Second Impact occurs, destroying over half the world's population on [[September 13]].
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| − | * [[20th century]]
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| − | *[http://www.coinpage.com/2000-pictures.html 2000 Coin Pictures]
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| − | [[new:२०००]]
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| − | [[ja:2000年]]
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| − | [[nap:2000]]
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| − | [[no:2000]]
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| − | [[nn:2000]]
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| − | [[nrm:2000]]
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| − | [[nov:2000]]
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| − | [[oc:2000]]
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| − | [[uz:2000]]
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| − | [[pi:२०००]]
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| − | [[pag:2000]]
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| − | [[nds:2000]]
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| − | [[pl:2000]]
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| − | [[pt:2000]]
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| − | [[ty:2000]]
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| − | [[ksh:Joohr 2000]]
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| − | [[ro:2000]]
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| − | [[qu:2000]]
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| − | [[ru:2000 год]]
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| − | [[se:2000]]
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| − | [[sq:2000]]
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| − | [[scn:2000]]
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| − | [[simple:2000]]
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| − | [[sk:2000]]
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| − | [[sl:2000]]
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| − | [[so:2000]]
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| − | [[sr:2000]]
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| − | [[sh:2000]]
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| − | [[su:2000]]
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| − | [[fi:2000]]
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| − | [[sv:2000]]
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| − | [[tl:2000]]
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| − | [[ta:2000]]
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| − | [[tt:2000]]
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| − | [[te:2000]]
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| − | [[th:พ.ศ. 2543]]
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| − | [[vi:2000]]
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| − | [[tg:2000]]
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| − | [[tpi:2000]]
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| − | [[tr:2000]]
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| − | [[tk:2000]]
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| − | [[uk:2000]]
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| − | [[ur:2000ء]]
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| − | [[vec:2000]]
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| − | [[wa:2000]]
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| − | [[vls:2000]]
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| − | [[war:2000]]
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| − | [[yi:2000]]
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| − | [[zh-yue:2000年]]
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| − | [[cbk-zam:2000]]
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| − | [[bat-smg:2000]]
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| − | [[zh:2000年]]
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