WORLD HISTORY · 2000 日本語
Events of 2000Heisei 12 (Japan) · Year of the Dragon
What happened in 2000?
In 2000, Japan held its 42nd House of Representatives general election in June, and the Sydney Olympics took place in September. Takahashi Naoko won gold in the women's marathon, and the Western Tottori earthquake struck in October.
- Bush narrowly wins U.S. presidential electionNorth America
- Putin becomes Russian presidentEurope
- North and South Korea hold first summitAsia
- Japan's 42nd general election tops 100 million votersAsia
- Sydney Summer Olympics openOceania
- Takahashi Naoko wins women's marathon goldAsia
- Western Tottori earthquake strikesAsia
- Faked Paleolithic artifacts scandal exposedAsia
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2000 at a glance
| Japanese era | Heisei 12 |
|---|---|
| Chinese zodiac | Year of the Dragon |
| Age of people born in 2000 | Turn 26 in 2026 |
| Previous / next year | 1999 (Heisei 11) ／ 2001 (Heisei 13) |
| Events | 90 |
| AP World History | Unit 9 (Globalization) |
| AP U.S. History | Period 9 |
Famous people born in 2000
Our birthday pages list 276 people born in 2000. Here are some of them.
- Munetaka MurakamiBorn February 2 · turns 26 this year
- Lilas IkutaBorn September 25 · turns 26 this year
- Erling HaalandBorn July 21 · turns 26 this year
- Ōnosato DaikiBorn June 7 · turns 26 this year
- Vinícius JúniorBorn July 12 · turns 26 this year
- Yūki TsunodaBorn May 11 · turns 26 this year
- Chloe KimBorn April 23 · turns 26 this year
- Ferran TorresBorn February 29 · turns 26 this year
- Julián AlvarezBorn January 31 · turns 26 this year
- Milly AlcockBorn April 11 · turns 26 this year
- Ice SpiceBorn January 1 · turns 26 this year
- Nicolas KühnBorn January 1 · turns 26 this year
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- Spencer ArrighettiBorn January 2 · turns 26 this year
- João MárioBorn January 3 · turns 26 this year
- Leandro BarreiroBorn January 3 · turns 26 this year
- Facundo ColidioBorn January 4 · turns 26 this year
- Max AaronsBorn January 4 · turns 26 this year
- Gastón MartirenaBorn January 5 · turns 26 this year
- Fiete ArpBorn January 6 · turns 26 this year
- Jack McBainBorn January 6 · turns 26 this year
- Kwon Eun-binBorn January 6 · turns 26 this year
- Mohamed CamaraBorn January 6 · turns 26 this year
- ShuhuaBorn January 6 · turns 26 this year
- Tyler OliveiraBorn January 6 · turns 26 this year
- Marcus ScribnerBorn January 7 · turns 26 this year
- Noah CyrusBorn January 8 · turns 26 this year
- Luka ŠamanićBorn January 9 · turns 26 this year
- Erik BotheimBorn January 10 · turns 26 this year
- Reneé RappBorn January 10 · turns 26 this year
- Lee Chae-yeonBorn January 11 · turns 26 this year
- Sven BotmanBorn January 12 · turns 26 this year
- Harley Smith-ShieldsBorn January 13 · turns 26 this year
- Jonathan DavidBorn January 14 · turns 26 this year
- Triston CasasBorn January 15 · turns 26 this year
- Andrew NembhardBorn January 16 · turns 26 this year
- Ayo DosunmuBorn January 17 · turns 26 this year
- Devlin DeFrancescoBorn January 17 · turns 26 this year
- Kang Chan-heeBorn January 17 · turns 26 this year
- Tyler HerroBorn January 20 · turns 26 this year
- Laia CodinaBorn January 22 · turns 26 this year
Events of 2000 (timeline · 90)
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A Norwegian passenger train departing from Trondheim, collides with a local train coming from Hamar in Åsta in Åmot Municipality; 19 people are killed and 68 injured in the accident.
Crossair Flight 498, a Saab 340 aircraft, crashes in Niederhasli, Switzerland, after taking off from Zurich Airport, killing 13 people.
A Short 360 aircraft chartered by the Sirte Oil Company crashes off the coast of Brega, Libya, killing 21.
Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutiérrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Ivory Coast, killing 169.
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-99 to conduct the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 crashes near Sacramento Mather Airport in Rancho Cordova, California, killing all three aboard.
Pope John Paul II arrives in Egypt for a three-day stay as part of the Great Jubilee, marking the first papal visit in modern Egyptian history
Chechens attack a guard post near Ulus Kert, eventually killing 84 Russian paratroopers during the Second Chechen War.
The Dot-com bubble peaks with the NASDAQ Composite stock market index reaching 5,048.62.
Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.
A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.
Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London).
Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
A fireworks storage depot explodes in a residential neighborhood in Enschede, Netherlands, killing 23 people and injuring 950 others.
Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen.
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-101 to resupply the International Space Station.
In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna.
Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (with the exception of the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 18 years after the invasion of 1982.
The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed.
The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
The Secretary-General of the UN reports that Israel has complied with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425, 22 years after its issuance, and completely withdrawn from Lebanon. The Resolution does not encompass the Shebaa farms, which is claimed by Israel, Syria and Lebanon.
Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.
Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, in the 2000 Mexican general election.
EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, India, killing 60 people.
Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing 113 people.
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.
The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.
American golfer Tiger Woods wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.
Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-106 to resupply the International Space Station.
Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Palestinians protest the killing of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah by Israeli police in northern Israel, beginning the "October 2000 events".
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Hezbollah militants capture three Israeli Defense Force soldiers in a cross-border raid.
The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is badly damaged by two al-Qaeda suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
A wave of protests forces Robert Guéï to step down as president after the Ivorian presidential election.
Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.
Chhattisgarh officially becomes the 26th state of India, formed from sixteen districts of eastern Madhya Pradesh.
Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for the first long-duration stay onboard. From this day to present, a continuous human presence in space on the station remains uninterrupted.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
The controversial US presidential election is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, electing George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States.
Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.
Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.
A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0 kills 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, being the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote.
Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.
Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
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FAQ
What year was 2000 in the Japanese calendar?
2000 was Heisei 12 in the Japanese era system.
What Chinese zodiac animal is 2000?
2000 is the Year of the Dragon.
How old is someone born in 2000?
They turn 26 on their birthday in 2026.
What happened in 2000?
In 2000, Japan held its 42nd House of Representatives general election in June, and the Sydney Olympics took place in September. Takahashi Naoko won gold in the women's marathon, and the Western Tottori earthquake struck in October.
Dates and events are based on Wikipedia and other references. Summaries and regions are written by the site editors.