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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]].
* [[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]].
* [[July 21]]-[[July 23]] - G-8 Nations hold their 26th Annual Summit. Issues include AIDS, the 'digital divide', and halving world poverty by 2015.
* [[July 21]]-[[July 23]] - G-8 Nations hold their 26th Annual Summit. Issues include AIDS, the 'digital divide', and halving world poverty by 2015.
* [[July 21]] - The [[Cootumbs]] was born on this day.
* [[July 21]] - The [[The Cootumbs]] was born on this day.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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.
* [[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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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
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Years:

Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday. 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.

Template:C20YearTOCawards 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.

Popular culture also holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 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).

The year 2000 was also marked as:

  • The International Year for a Culture of Peace.
  • The World Mathematical Year.

See also Wikipedia's almanac of events for this year.

Events of 2000

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Slobodan Milošević.

Undated

  • Unconverted computer systems were fixed for Y2K to handle the year "2000" (some computers considered the year as "19100" for 19-100).

World population

World population[4]
2000 1995 2005
World 6,070,581,000 5,674,380,000 +396,201,000 6,453,628,000 +383,047,000
Africa 795,671,000 707,462,000 +88,209,000 887,964,000 +92,293,000
Asia 3,679,737,000 3,430,052,000 +249,685,000 3,917,508,000 +237,771,000
Europe 727,986,000 727,405,000 +581,000 724,722,000 -3,264,000
Latin-America 520,229,000 481,099,000 +39,130,000 558,281,000 +38,052,000
Northern America 315,915,000 299,438,000 +16,477,000 332,156,000 +16,241,000
Oceania 31,043,000 28,924,000 +2,119,000 32,998,000 +1,955,000
2000 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar2000
MM
Ab urbe condita2753
Armenian calendar1449
ԹՎ ՌՆԽԹ
Assyrian calendar6750
Baháʼí calendar156–157
Balinese saka calendar1921–1922
Bengali calendar1406–1407
Berber calendar2950
British Regnal year48 Eliz. 2 – 49 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar2544
Burmese calendar1362
Byzantine calendar7508–7509
Chinese calendar己卯年 (Earth Rabbit)
4697 or 4490
    — to —
庚辰年 (Metal Dragon)
4698 or 4491
Coptic calendar1716–1717
Discordian calendar3166
Ethiopian calendar1992–1993
Hebrew calendar5760–5761
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat2056–2057
 - Shaka Samvat1921–1922
 - Kali Yuga5100–5101
Holocene calendar12000
Igbo calendar1000–1001
Iranian calendar1378–1379
Islamic calendar1420–1421
Japanese calendarHeisei 12
(平成12年)
Javanese calendar1932–1933
Juche calendar89
Julian calendarGregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar4333
Minguo calendarROC 89
民國89年
Nanakshahi calendar532
Thai solar calendar2543
Tibetan calendar阴土兔年
(female Earth-Rabbit)
2126 or 1745 or 973
    — to —
阳金龙年
(male Iron-Dragon)
2127 or 1746 or 974
Unix time946684800 – 978307199

Births

Deaths

January-June

July-December

Unknown dates

  • (none)

Nobel prizes

Fictional

Template:C20YearTOCright The following are references to year 2000 in fiction:

  • Film:
  • Fun with Dick and Jane (2005) is set in 2000.
  • Death Race 2000 is set in a United States where running down pedestrians with automobiles is the national sport.
  • The last remaining forests of earth are placed in glass domes aboard eight "space freighters" and sent into deep space for safekeeping in Silent Running.
  • Computer and video games:
  • Radio:
  • Television:

See also

Notes

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