2000
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| Years: | 1997 1998 1999 - 2000 - 2001 2002 2003 |
2000 is the last year in the 20th century. It is a leap year. Y2K passes without the serious computer failures.
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[change] Events
- January 1
- Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world. Y2K passes without the serious, widespread computer failures and malfunctions that had been predicted.
- Unification of Szeged's universities, called University of Szeged.
- January 5-January 8 - The 2000 al-Qaida Summit
- January 10 - America On-line announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.
- January 11 - AIS, the armed wing of FIS, concludes its negotiations with the government for an amnesty and disbands in Algeria.
- January 11 - The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man.
- 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.
- January 31 - Dr Harold Shipman in sentenced to life in prison for murder of at least 15 of his patients out of 365 suspected victims.
- February 13 - The last Peanuts comic strip is published.
[change] Nobel prize winners
- Chemistry - Alan Heeger
- Chemistry - Alan G. MacDiarmid
- Chemistry - Hideki Shirakawa
- Economics - James J. Heckman
- Economics - Daniel L. McFadden
- Literature - Gao Xingjian
- Medicine - Arvid Carlsson
- Medicine - Paul Greengard
- Medicine - Eric R. Kandel
- Peace - Kim Dae-jung
- Physics - Zhores I. Alferov
- Physics - Jack S. Kilby
- Physics - Herbert Kroemer
[change] Films Released
[change] New Books
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel - Michael Chabon
- The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
- The Bear And The Dragon - Tom Clancy
- The Beatles Anthology - The Beatles
- Blackberry Wine - Joanne Harris
- The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
- The Brethren - John Grisham
- Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace - Lawrence Lessig
- Code to Zero - Ken Follett
- Daughter Of Fortune - Isabel Allende
- Deadly Decisions - Kathy Reichs
- Deck The Halls - Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
- Doubleshot - Raymond Benson
- Drowning Ruth - Christina Schwarz
- A Friend of the Earth - T. C. Boyle
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
- Hayati, My Life - Miriam Cooke
- Her Infinite Variety - Louis Auchincloss
- The Hiding Place - Trezza Azzopardi
- The House On Hope Street - Danielle Steel
- The Human Stain - Philip Roth
- The Indwelling - Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
- Ingrid Caven - Jean-Jacques Schuhl
- Journey - Danielle Steel
- The Last Precinct - Patricia Cornwell
- Look to Windward - Iain M. Banks
- The Mark - Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
- The Measure Of A Man - Sidney Poitier
- Morgan's Run - Colleen McCullough
- Omertà - Mario Puzo
- The Pagan Book of Halloween - Gerina Dunwich
- The Prayer of Jabez - Bruce Wilkinson & David Kopp
- Parallel journeys - Elanor Ayer
- Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
- The Prometheus Deception - Robert Ludlum
- Roses Are Red - James Patterson
- Stardust and Shadows: Canadians in Early Hollywood - Charles Foster
- True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
- The Truth - Terry Pratchett
- When I Lived in Modern Times - Linda Grant
- White Teeth - Zadie Smith
- The Will - Reed Arvin
- Winter Solstice - Rosamunde Pilcher
- Winter's Heart - Robert Jordan
- Your Magickal Cat - Gerina Dunwich
