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2000 (MM leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar . In the Chinese Calendar it is the Year of the Dragon and in the western astrological calendar it is the year of Leo , the Lion . Popular culture also holds the year 2000 as the first year of the twenty first century and the third millennium . In the Gregorian Calendar, however, this distinction falls to the year 2001 . This is because the first century began with the year 1 (there was no year zero ), the first century (or first 100 years AD) was from January 1 , in the year one (AD 1 ) through December 31 , in the year one-hundred (AD 100). The second century began on January 1 , in the year one-hundred and one (101 AD). (The selection of AD 1 may be up to seven years from Jesus ' birth, and January 1 is a historical choice for New Year's Day . 2000-01-01 is the day all the digits "rolled over".)
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Wikipedia's almanac of events for this year.
Contents
1 Events
1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 1.13 World population
2 Births
3 Deaths
3.1 January 3.2 February 3.3 March 3.4 April 3.5 May 3.6 June 3.7 July 3.8 August 3.9 September 3.10 October 3.11 November 3.12 December
4 Nobel prizes 5 2000 in fiction and popular culture
5.1 Computer and video games 5.2 Film 5.3 Radio 5.4 Television
6 Templeton Prize 7 External links
Events January 1 - Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world.
January 1 - Y2K passes without serious, widespread computer failures, as many experts and businesses had feared.
January 3 -January 10 - Israel and Syria hold inconclusive peace talks.
January 4 - Alan Greenspan is nominated for a fourth term as U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman.
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 .
January 10 - America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.
January 11 - The armed wing of Islamic Salvation Front concludes its negotiations with the government for an amnesty and disbands in Algeria .Confirmation needed January 11 - The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man .Confirmation needed January 14 - A United Nations tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years, for the 1993 killing of over 100 Bosnian Muslims in a Bosnian village.Confirmation needed January 14 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98, a level never reached before (the peak of the Dot-com bubble ).
January 16 - In Sacramento, California , a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the State Capitol building, killing the driver.
January 18 - The strange, Tagish Lake meteorite impacted the Earth.
January 24 - God's Army , a Karen militia group led by twins Johnny and Luther Htoo , take 700 hostages at a Thai hospital near the Burmese border. Confirmation needed January 30 - Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
January 31 - Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.
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 , where he had worked for six years leading up to his arrest in September 1998.
