2000

Events

• Y2K does not cause the world's computers to fail.
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome sequenced.
• Mexico - Vicente Fox becomes the first opposition President to take power since Francisco I. Madero in 1911. He won the Presidency as candidate of the rightist PAN (National Action Party).
• January 3 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published
• January 5-8 - The 2000 Al Qaeda Summit
• January 10 - America On-line announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.
• 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.
• February 21 - David Letterman returns to the Late Show, over a month after having an emergency quintuple heart bypass surgery.
• March 20 - Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther, is captured after gun battle that left a sheriff's deputy dead.
• March 26 - Presidential elections in Russia, Vladimir Putin elected President.
• April 3 - Microsoft antitrust case: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
• April 7 - Mars Odyssey is launched.
• April 22 - In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-year old Elian Gonzalez from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, DC ending one of the most publicized custody battles in US history.
• April 23 Easter (very late this year).
• April 25 - The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing Civil Unionss for same-sex couples.
• May 3 - Computer pioneer Datapoint Corporation files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• May 12 - The Tate Modern opens in London
• June 21 - Section 28 repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
• July 10 - In southern Nigeria, a petroleum pipeline explodes killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline.
• July 25 - A Concorde supersonic passenger jet crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 5 on the ground.
• August 8 - Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
• September 6 - In New York City, the United Nations Millennium Summit begins with more than 180 world leaders present.
• September 28 - Ariel Sharon leads several hundred armed Israelis in a visit to the Temple Mount, provoking an increase in Palestinian civil disorder which developed into the Al-Aqsa_Intifada.
• October 12 - In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole is badly damaged by two suicide bombers who placed a small boat laden with explosives along-side the United States Navy destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
• October 31 - The last Multics machine was shut down.
• November - Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq rejects new U.N. Security Council weapons inspections proposals.
• November 7 - U.S. presidential election, 2000: Republican challenger George W. Bush defeats Democrat Vice President Al Gore, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
• 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.
• November 11 - In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.
• November 14 - Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development creating a stable Mozilla browser upon which it is based.
• November 16 - Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting US President to visit Vietnam.
• November 17 - Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru
• November 27 - Canada - Parliamentary elections - Jean Chrétien re-elected as Prime Minister as Liberal Party increases majority in House of Commons
• December 13 - The Texas 7 escape from their prison unit in Kenedy, Texas and start a crime spree.
• December 14 - The Texas 7 rob a Radio Shack in Pearland, Texas. They would use the police scanners they stole in their ensuing heist.
• December 24 - The Texas 7 robs a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot dead.
• 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 a hundred.
• December 31 - the last day of the 20th Century.
• The last wholly Swedish-owned arms manufacturer, Bofors, is sold to American arms manufacturer United Defence.
• Limited reintroduction of routinely armed police in the UK for the fist time since 1936.

Year in topic

• 2000 in film
  • Gladiator
  • The latest Joel and Ethan Coen film, O Brother, Where Art Thou was released to much critical acclaim.
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon breaks records for mass-Western popularity of martial arts movies
• 2000 in literature
• 2000 in music
  • The soundtrack to O Brother, Where Art Thou is a surprise success, consisting of bluegrass music and country music
• 2000 in science
• 2000 in sports
  • 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia
  • January 30 - Super Bowl XXXIV Saint Louis Rams (23) defeat Tennessee Titans (16)
  • March 26 - The Seattle Kingdome is imploded to make room for a new stadium.
• 2000 in television
  • Survivor premieres on CBS sparking a brief interest in "reality TV". Many copy-cat programs follow. The show was based on the Swedish game show, Operation Robinson.

Historical Relic and Ancient Remain

• Gardenss in Suzhou, China were added to the list of the World Heritage Sites.
• The Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, China were listed by the UNESCO among the World Heritage Sites.

Births

• May 20- Leo Blair, son of the Rt Hon Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Cherie Booth QC.

Deaths

• January 4 - Tom Fears, American football star
• January 10 - Sam Jaffe, actor
• January 18 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, 102, Austrian architect
• January 19 - Bettino Craxi, 65, Italian prime minister (1983-1987)
• January 19 - Hedy Lamarr, actress
• January 26 - A.E. van Vogt, science fiction author
• January 26 - Don Budge, tennis player
• January 31 - Gil Kane, comic book writer
• February 7 - Big Pun, singer
• February 7 - Doug Henning, magician
• February 11 - Roger Vadim, 72, French movie director
• February 12 - Charles Schulz, 77, creator of the Peanuts comic strip
• February 12 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 70, American rock musician
• February 12 - Tom Landry, American football coach
• February 19 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, 71, Austrian artist
• February 22 - Fernando Buesa, Basque politician (*1946)
• March 20 - Gene "Eugene" Andrusco, actor, singer
• March 26 - Alex Comfort, author (The Joy of Sex)
• March 27 - Ian Dury, 57, English rock musician
• March 28 - Anthony Powell, British novelist
• April 6 - Habib Bourguiba, president of Tunisia (1957-1997)
• April 13 - Giorgio Bassani, 84, Italian writer (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis)
• April 25 - David Merrick, producer
• May 7 - Douglas Fairbanks Jr, actor
• May 19 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut
• May 20 - Jean Pierre Rampal, flutist
• May 21 - Sir John Gielgud, 96, British actor
• May 21 - Barbara Cartland, romance novel author
• May 27 - Maurice Richard, ice hockey player (*1921)
• June 10 - Hafez al-Assad, 69, president of Syria (1971-2000)
• June 29 - Vittorio Gassmann, 78, Italian actor
• July 1 - Walter Matthau, 79, American actor
• July 30 - Bertil Karlberg, 58, Swedish politician
• August 5 - Sir Alec Guinness, 86, British actor
• August 25 - Carl Barks, 99, illustrator of Donald Duck
• September 20 - Gherman Titov, 65, Cosmonaut
• September 25 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (* 1913)
• September 28 - Pierre Trudeau, 80, prime minister of Canada (1968-1979 and 1980-1984)
• October 11 - Donald Dewar, main author of the Scotland Act and initial First Minister of the Scottish Parliament
• October 30 - Steve Allen, comedian, composer, talk show host, author
• November 6 - David R. Brower, founder of many environmentalist organizations
• November 11 - Hugh Paddick, British actor
• December 23 - Victor Borge, 91, Danish/American humorist and pianist
• December 24 - Aubrey Hawkins, Irving, Texas police officer.
• December 25 - Willard Van Orman Quine, 92, American philosopher

Computing

• The New Year, people, companies, countries and much of the world was fearing the worst, planes falling out of the sky, electricity grids and essential services collapsing. What people feared was not the apocalypse but the Y2K bug - a computer problem that many feared would result in many computers not recognising the new year. The more important problem for computer-related companies this year, however, was the dotcom collapse that started in February and lasted well into 2001.

Nobel Prizes

• Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
• Austin Clarke, The Question
• David Adams Richards, Mercy Among the Children
• Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

Poetry

Winner:

• Don McKay, Another Gravity

• George Bowering, His Life
• A.F. Moritz, Rest on the Flight into Egypt
• John Pass, Water Stair
• Patricia Young, Ruin and Beauty

Drama

Winner:

• Timothy Findley, Elizabeth Rex

• George Boyd, Consecrated Ground
• Linda Griffiths, Alien Creature
• Daniel MacIvor and Daniel Brooks, Monster
• Jason Sherman, It's All True

Nonfiction

Winner:

• Nega Mezlekia, Notes from the Hyena's Belly

• Robert Bringhurst, A Story as Sharp as a Knife
• Trevor Herriot, River in a Dry Land
• A. B. McKillop, The Spinster and the Prophet

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

• Deborah Ellis, Looking for X

• Martha Brooks, Being with Henry
• Sharon E. McKay, Charlie Wilcox
• Sheldon Oberman, The Shaman's Nephew
• Duncan Thornton, Kalifax

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:

• Marie-Louise Gay, Yuck, A Love Story

• Nelly and Ernst Hofer, The Snow Queen
• Marthe Jocelyn, Hannah's Collections
• Regolo Ricci, The Market Wedding
• Cybèle Young, Pa's Harvest

Translation (French to English)

Winner:

• Robert Majzels, Just Fine

• Sheila Fischman, Terra Firma
• Linda Gaboriau, Down Dangerous Passes Road
• Bobby Theodore, 15 Seconds

French Language

• Christiane Duchesne, L'Homme des silences
• Roger Magini, Styx
• Pierre Samson, Il était une fois une ville
• Alison Lee Strayer, Jardin et prairie

Poetry

Winner:

• Normand de Bellefeuille, La Marche de l'aveugle sans son chien

• Martine Audet, Orbites
• Joël Des Rosiers, Vétiver
• Madeleine Gagnon, Rêve de pierre
• Claude Paré, Exécuté en chambre

Drama

Winner:

• Wajdi Mouawad, Littoral

• Geneviève Billette, Crime contre l'humanité
• Serge Boucher, 24 Poses
• Jasmine Dubé, L'Arche de Noémie
• Lise Vaillancourt, Le petit dragon, et La balade de Fannie et Carcassonne

Nonfiction

Winner:

• Gérard Bouchard, Genèse des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde

• Brian T. Fitch, À l'ombre de la littérature
• Olga Hazan, Le mythe du progrès artistique
• Yves Lavertu, Jean-Charles Harvey
• Robert Major, Convoyages

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

• Charlotte Gingras, Un été de Jade

• Guy Dessureault, L'homme au chat
• François Gravel, L'été de la moustache
• Gilles Tibo, La Planète du petit géant
• Hélène Vachon, Le délire de Somerset

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:

• Anne Villeneuve, L'Écharpe rouge

• Marie-Louise Gay, Sur mon île
• Pascale Constantin, Gloups!, Bébé-vampire
• Geneviève Côté, La grande aventure d'un petit mouton noir
• Gérard Dubois, Riquet à la Houppe

Translation (English to French)

Winner:

• Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Un parfum de cèdre

• Jude Des Chênes, L'honneur du guerrier
• Dominique Issenhuth, Amants

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• January 1 - Canada celebrates the begining of the new millennium with the rest of the world
• February 7 - Rogers Communications buys Quebec's Vidéotron
• February 15 - Thomson Corp sells all its newspaper holdings other than the Globe and Mail.
• March 15 - The House of Commons passes the Clarity Act outlinning conditions for another Quebec referendum
• April 19 - Wiebo Ludwig is found guilty of a 1998 oil well bombing
• May 11 - Alberta passes a bill allowing the private sector to play a larger role in health care
• May 24 - An E-coli outbreak in Walkerton, Ontario breaks out, it will eventually kill nine people.
• May 25 - The remains of an unidentified Canadian soldier, who died in France in World War I, were brought back to Canada and buried in the Tomb of The Unknown Soldier in Ottawa
• June 17 - Seagram announces it plans to merge with France's Vivendi
• July 8 - Stockwell Day is lected the first leader of the Canadian Alliance party.
• July 12 - Matthew Coon Come is elected leader of the Assembly of First Nations
• July 14 - A tornado near Pine Lake, Alberta kills eleven
• July 31 - Conrad Black's Hollinger sells almost all of its Canadian newspaper holdings to Izzy Asper's CanWest
• August - The prhibtion on Marijuana is ruled illegal by an Ontario court
• August 15 - Michael Cowpland resigns as CEO of Corel
• September 26 - Long serving Saskatchewan Premier Roy Romanow retires and is replaced by Lorne Calvert
• November 27 - In the 2000 Canadian election Jean Chrétien's Liberal increases its majority in the House of Commons
• November 30 - Marc Garneau returns to space for a third time
• December - the federal government opens a marijuana growing operation in an abandoned mine in Manitoba
• Canada passes Bill C-23 which extends full benefits and obligations to persons in homosexual relationships, excluding the right to marry.
• Grey Cup: B.C. Lions win 28-26 over the Montreal Alouettes
• Vanier Cup: Ottawa Gee Gees win 42-39 over the Regina Rams

Arts and Literature

New Books

• The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
• Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond - Michael Ignatieff
• Star-Spangled Canadians - Jeffrey Simpson
• The Farfarers, Before the Norse - Farley Mowat
• No Logo - Naomi Klein
• City of Glass - Douglas Coupland
• Before You're A Stranger - Raymond Fraser

• Elizabeth Rex - Timothy Findley

• Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for The Blind Assassin
• Michael Ondaatje wins the Prix Médicis for Anil's Ghost
• Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Michael Ondaatje - Anil's Ghost and David Adams Richards - Mercy Among the Children
• See 2000 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Books in Canada First Novel Award:
• Gerald Lampert Award: Shawna Lemay, All the God-Sized Fruit
• Griffin Poetry Prize: Margaret Avison, Concrete and Wild Carrot
• Marian Engel Award: Anita Rau Badami
• Pat Lowther Award: Esta Spalding, Lost August
• Stephen Leacock Award:
• Trillium Book Award English: Don Coles, Kurgan
• Trillium Book Award French: Didier Leclair, Toronto, je t'aime
• Vicky Metcalf Award: Anita Rau Badami

• Who Wants to Be A Millionaire: Canadian Edition shows for two episodes

Births

• February 9 — The Million Dollar Hotel, a film co-written by U2 lead singer Bono, premieres at the 50th Berlinale (Berlin Film Festival). The film stars Mel Gibson and Milla Jovovich, and is directed by Wim Wenders.
• November 18 — Michael Douglas marries Catherine Zeta-Jones.
• The latest Joel and Ethan Coen film, O Brother, Where Art Thou was released to much criticial acclaim. The T-Bone Burnett produced soundtrack ignited an increased interest in traditional American folk and country music.
• Martial arts extravaganza Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon marks the first major American crossover success of an Asian action film, and becomes the highest-grossing subtitled film ever.
• Despite poor reviews, Ron Howard's fairy tale adventure based on the works of Dr. Seuss, The Grinch, became the top-grossing film of the year.
• Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver at a California shopping mall.

Top Grossing Films of the Year

1. The Grinch, starring Jim Carrey: $260,044,825
2. Cast Away, starring Tom Hanks: $233,632,142
3. Mission: Impossible 2, starring Tom Cruise, directed by John Woo: $215,409,889
4. Gladiator, starring Russell Crowe, directed by Ridley Scott: $187,683,805
5. What Women Want, starring Mel Gibson: $182,811,707
6. The Perfect Storm: $182,618,434
7. Meet the Parents, starring Ben Stiller: $166,244,045
8. X-Men, directed by Bryan Singer: $157,299,717
9. Scary Movie: $157,019,771
10. What Lies Beneath, starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer: $155,464,351

• February 11 - Roger Vadim, 72, French movie director
• March 20 - Gene "Eugene" Andrusco, actor, singer
• May 21 - Sir John Gielgud, 96, British actor
• June 29 - Vittorio Gassmann, 78, Italian actor
• July 1 - Walter Matthau, 79, American actor
• August 5 - Sir Alec Guinness, 86, British actor
• Loretta Young, actress

Awards

• January 3 - Final original Peanuts comic strip is published

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel - Michael Chabon
• 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 to Zero - Ken Follett
• Daughter Of Fortune - Isabel Allende
• Deadly Decisions - Kathy Reichs
• Deck The Halls - Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
• Drowning Ruth - Christina Schwarz
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
• Hayati, My Life - Miriam Cooke
• 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
• The Mark - Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
• The Measure Of A Man - Sidney Poitier
• Morgan's Run - Colleen McCullough
• Omerta - Mario Puzo
• The Prayer of Jabez - Bruce Wilkinson & David Kopp
• 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 Genius Failed - Roger Lowenstein
• When I Lived in Modern Times - Linda Grant
• The Will - Reed Arvin
• Winter Solstice - Rosamunde Pilcher
• Winter's Heart - Robert Jordan

Births

• January 26 - A.E. van Vogt, science fiction author
• January 31 - Gil Kane, comic book writer
• February 12 - Charles Schulz, 77, creator of the Peanuts comic strip
• March 28 - Anthony Powell, British novelist
• April 13 - Giorgio Bassani, 84, Italian writer (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis)
• August 25 - Carl Barks, 99, illustrator of Donald Duck
• October 30 - Steve Allen, comedian, composer, talk show host, author

Awards

• January 14 - Rolling Stone magazine reveals that the two children of Melissa Etheridge and her partner, Julie Cypher, were fathered by David Crosby
• January 18 - Spencer Goodman is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Goodman was convicted of kidnapped and murdering the wife of ZZ Top manager Bill Ham in 1991. Ham is present for the execution.
• February 9 - The Million Dollar Hotel, a film co-written by U2 lead singer Bono, premieres at the 50th Berlinale (Berlin Film Festival). The film stars Mel Gibson and Milla Jovovich
• February 11 - Diana Ross divorces her husband of 14 years
• February 16 - The Silver Tassie, an opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage, premieres at the London Coliseum, performed by the English National Opera
• February 24 - Italian motorcycle manufacturing company Aprilla SpA wins a lawsuit filed against The Spice Girls over a sponsorship deal that fell apart when Geri Halliwell left the group.
• February 28 - Songwriter Stan Penrige files a lawsuit against the rock band KISS, the band's publishing company and Universal Music Group, claiming that he had not received millions of dollars in publishing royalties that he was owed for the song "Beth".
• March 1 - Social Distortion guitarist Dennis Danell dies of an apparent brain aneurysm
• March 6 - Foxy Brown is injured in a car accident in Brooklyn, New York in which her car hit a fence. Police discovered that Brown was driving with a suspended drivers license and order her to appear in court in April. Brown's license was suspended for failing to appear in court for a parking violation.
• March 13 - Blink-182 ends its European tour after singer & guitarist Tom Delonge and drummer Travis Barker succumb to strep throat.
• March 24 - After violating a prior probation agreement by getting drunk, Ol' Dirty Bastard is ordered to undergo a 90 day diagnostic evaluation at the California Institute For Men in Chino, California.
• March 28 - Jimmy Page wins a lawsuit filed against Ministry magazine. The magazine claimed that Page had contributed to the death of Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham by wearing a Satanic robe and chanting spells while the Bonham was dying and choking on his vomit. The magazine apologizes and offers to pay Page's legal bills. Page donates the money received from the case to the Action for Brazil's Children Trust
• April 6 - Shawn Colvin, James Taylor, Cyndi Lauper, Richard Thompson, Sweet Honey, Elton John, Cassandra Wilson, Wynonna Judd, k.d. lang, Bryan Adams, and Mary Chapin Carpenter perform in New York as part of a tribute to Joni Mitchell.
• April 4 - Mick Jagger attends the opening of an arts center at Dartford Grammar School in southeast England which was named after him.
• April 12 - Metallica files a lawsuit against Napster, Yale University, University of Southern California and Indiana University for copyright infringement. Yale and Indiana are later dropped from the suit when they block access to Napster on campus computers.
• April - NSYNC smashes the old record of 1.1 million with a 2.4 million debut of "No Strings Attached", which is also the first album to sell over 800,000 copies at least 2 weeks.
• May 1 - A $1.8 million civil fraud lawsuit is filed against Neil Young in Los Angeles Superior Court by a former Village Voice writer. The lawsuit charges that Young broke an agreement to have a biography written about him when he blocked the book's publication.
• May 30 - Eminem Sets the record for biggest Rap debut with 1.76 million dollars sold. Eminem, a protege of Dr. Dre broke the old record of 803,000 in 1993 set by Snoop Doggy Dogg, another Dr. Dre protege.
• May 5 - Rod Stewart undergoes an hour long throat operation at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California to remove a growth on his thyroid, which turns out to be benign.
• May 6 - John Mellencamp receives an honorary doctorate of music as the commencement speaker for Indiana University's Class of 2000
• October - The Beatles release a hardcover book version of The Beatles Anthology, containing newly published photos and interviews with band members. The book went straight to the top of the New York Times bestsellers list.
• December 2 - The Smashing Pumpkins disband
• The latest Joel and Ethan Coen film, O Brother, Where Art Thou was released to much criticial acclaim. The film and its T-Bone Burnett produced soundtrack ignite a new found popularity of traditional American folk music and bluegrass.
• Rage Against The Machine's Tim Commerford is arrested for climbing on the set at MTV's Video Music Awards.
• The All-American Rejects form

Albums released

• Stiff Upper Lip - AC/DC
• Saints & Sinners - All Saints
• Mer de Noms - A Perfect Circle (debut)
• Aquarius - Aqua
• Let It Burn - The Ataris
• Mi Reflejo - Christina Aguilera
• Black And Blue - Backstreet Boys
• The New America - Bad Religion
• 1 - The Beatles
• Selmasongs - Bjork
• The Post Wave - Blue Meanies
• Hellos & Goodbye - Buck-O-Nine
• Breathe - Faith Hill
• Crush - Bon Jovi
• The Sickness - The Disturbed
• Freedom - Sheena Easton
• The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem
• Something Like Human - Fuel
• Moonchild - Debbie Gibson
• Stomping Ground - Goldfinger
• Warning - Green Day
• Resurrection - Rob Halford
• This Time Around - Hanson
• Brave New World - Iron Maiden
• Jellybean's House Party - Jellybean
• Borders and Boundaries - Less Than Jake
• The Distance To Here - Live
• Music - Madonna
• Capitol Punishment: The Megadeth Years - Megadeth
• Wasting Time - Mest
• Pay Attention - The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones
• I Wanna Be With You - Mandy Moore
• The Miracle Of Shame - Mr. T Experience
• No Strings Attached - 'N Sync
• How To Meet Girls - Nerf Herder
• The State - Nickelback
• Wishmaster - Nightwish
• Return of Saturn - No Doubt
• Pump Up the Valuum - NOFX
• Conspiracy Of One - The Offspring
• Vapor Transmission - Orgy
• Freaked Out And Small - Presidents of the United States of America
• Kid A - Radiohead
• Rancid (skull cover) - Rancid
• Rule 3:36 - Ja Rule
• Ain't Life Grand - Slash's Snakepit
• MACHINA/The Machines Of God - The Smashing Pumpkins
• O Brother, Where Art Thou Soundtrack
• Oops!...I Did It Again - Britney Spears
• Forever - Spice Girls
• Two Against Nature - Steely Dan
• Half Hour Of Power - Sum 41
• System of a Down - System of a Down
• Salival - Tool (CD, VHS & DVD Set)
• All That You Can't Leave Behind - U2
• White Pepper - Ween
• Sing When You're Winning - Robbie Williams

Top hits on record

• "Thong Song" - Sisqo
• "The Real Slim Shady" - Eminem
• "Oops i did it again" - Britney Spears
• "Bye Bye Bye" - 'N sync
• "Breathe" - Faith Hill
• "Everything You Want" - Vertical Horizon
• "I Wanna Know" - Joe
• "Fly" - Dixie Chicks
• "Ex-Girlfriend" - No Doubt
• "Kryptonite" - 3 Doors Down
• "There She Goes" - Sixpence None The Richer
• "Who Let The Dogs Out" - Baha Men
• "A Puro Dolor" - Son By Four

Top 10 selling albums of the year

1. The Beatles - 1
2. NSYNC - No Strings Attached
3. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
4. Britney Spears - Oops I Did It Again
5. Creed - Human Clay
6. Santana - Supernatural
7. Nelly - Country Grammar, Fo' Real
8. Backstreet Boys - Black & Blue
9. Dr. Dre - Dr. Dre 2001
10. Destiny's Child - The Writing's on the Wall

Musical theater

• Aida Broadway production
• The Dead Broadway production
• The Full Monty Broadway production
• Jane Eyre Broadway production
• The Music Man Broadway revival
• The Seussical Broadway production

Births

• February 12 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins (70), American rock artist
• March 1 - Dennis Danell, Social Distortion (38), brain aneurysm
• March 7 - Pee Wee King (86), heart attack on February 28.
• March 20 - Gene "Eugene" Andrusco, actor, singer, brain aneurysm
• March 27 - Ian Dury (57), English rock musician
• October 3 - Benjamin Orr, bassist, vocalist for American rock group The Cars
• October 30 - Steve Allen, comedian, composer, talk show host, author

Awards

• The following artists are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Eric Clapton, Earth, Wind & Fire, Lovin' Spoonful, The Moonglows, Bonnie Raitt and James Taylor
• Inductees of the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame include Shirley Caesar, and The Oak Ridge Boys

Grammy Awards

• Grammy Awards of 2000

Country Music Association Awards

• April 7 - Mars Odyssey is launched.

Biology

• The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae's genome is sequenced.

Awards

• Nobel Prize
  • Physics - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Herbert Kroemer, Jack S Kilby
  • Chemistry - Alan J Heeger, Alan G MacDiarmid, Hideki Shirakawa
  • Medicine - Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard, Eric R Kandel

Births

• Stock car racing:
  • Dale Jarrett won the Daytona 500
  • NASCAR Championship - Bobby Labonte
• Indy Racing League - Buddy Lazier won the season championship
• Indianapolis 500- Juan Montoya
• CART Racing - Gil de Ferran won the season championship
• Formula One Championship - Michael Schumacher of Germany
• 24 hours of Le Mans: Frank Biela / Tom Kristensen / Emanuele Pirro won, driving an (Audi R8R LMP)
• Rally racing:
  • Marcus Grönholm of Finland won the World Rally Championship
  • the team of Tommi Mäkinen / Risto Mannisenmaki won the Monte Carlo Rally driving a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo
• Drag racing - Gary Scelzi won the NHRA "Top Fuel" championship.

Baseball

• World Series: New York Yankees win 4 games to 1 over the New York Mets. The Series MVP is Derek Jeter, of the Yankees

Basketball

• NCAA Men's Basketball Championship:
  • Michigan State wins 89-76 over Florida

• NBA Finals:
  • Los Angeles Lakers win 4 games to 2 over the Indiana Pacers

• WNBA Finals:
  • Houston Comets win 2 games to 0 over the New York Liberty to complete their four-peat.

Boxing

• July 29 - Kostya Tszyu defeats Julio Cesar Chavez by a knockout in six to retain the WBC's world Jr. Welterweight title.

• August 12 - Evander Holyfield defeats John Ruiz by decision in 12 rounds to regain the WBA's world Heavyweight title, becoming the first boxer to win the world Heavyweight title four times.

Cycling

• Giro d'Italia won by Stefano Garzelli of Italy
• Tour de France - Lance Armstrong of the United States
• World Cycling Championship: Romans Vainsteins, of Latvia

Figure Skating

• World Figure Skating Championships:
  • Men's champion: Alexej Jagudin, Russia
  • Women's champion: Michelle Kwan, United States
  • Pairs champions: Maria Petrowa & Alexej Tichonow, Russia

Football (Soccer)

• England - FA Cup: Chelsea won 1-0 over Aston Villa
• Euro 2000: France won 2-1 in extra time over Italy

Football (American)

• Super Bowl XXXIV: Saint Louis Rams win 23-16 over the Tennessee Titans

Canadian Football

• Grey Cup: B.C. Lions win 28-26 over the Montreal Alouettes
• Vanier Cup: Ottawa Gee Gees win 42-39 over the Regina Rams

Golf

Men's Golf

• Grand Slam of golf results:
  1. May - The Masters - Vijay Singh
  2. June - US Open - Tiger Woods
  3. July - British Open - Tiger Woods
  4. August - PGA Championship - Tiger Woods

• PGA tour's leading money winner for the year: Tiger Woods - $9,188,321
• PGA Champions Tour leading money winner: Larry Nelson - $2,708,005

• US Women's Open: Karrie Webb
• LPGA Championship: Julie Inkster
• Karrie Webb: leading money winner on the LPGA tour, earning $1,876,853.

Thoroughbred Horse Racing

• Australia - Melbourne Cup - Brew
• Canada - Queen's Plate - Scatter the Gold
• France - Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe - Sinndar
• Ireland - Irish Derby Stakes - Sinndar

• English Triple Crown Races:
  1. Two Thousand Guineas Stakes - Kings Best
  2. Epsom Derby - Sinndar
  3. St. Leger Stakes - Millenary

• United States Triple Crown Races:
  1. Kentucky Derby - Fusaichi Pegasus
  2. Preakness Stakes - Red Bullet
  3. Belmont Stakes - Commendable

Harness Racing

• March 18 - John Campbell became the first driver in harness racing history to reach $100 million in earnings at one track on at the Meadowlands Racetrack.

• North America Cup - Gallo Blue Chip

• United States Pacing Triple Crown races:
  1. Cane Pace - Powerful Toy
  2. Little Brown Jug - Astreos
  3. Messenger Stakes - Ain't No Stopn Him

• United States Trotting Triple Crown races:
  1. Hambletonian - Yankee Paco
  2. Yonkers Trot - Goalfish
  3. Kentucky Futurity - Credit Winner

• Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship:
  • Pacers: Shakamaker
  • Trotters: Lyell Creek

Ice Hockey

• Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer during the regular season: Jaromir Jagr, Pittsburgh Penguins

• Hart Memorial Trophy for the NHL's Most Valuable Player:
  • Chris Pronger, St. Louis Blues

• Stanley Cup:New Jersey Devils win 4 games to 2 over the Dallas Stars

• World Hockey Championship
  • Men's champion: Czech Republic defeated Slovakia
  • Junior Men's champion: Czech Republic defeated Russia
  • Women's champion: Canada defeated the United States

Skiing

• Alpine Skiing
  • The men's overall season champion: Hermann Maier, Austria
  • The women's overall season champion: Renate Goetschl, Austria

Tennis

• Grand Slam in tennis men's results:
  1. Australian Open - Andre Agassi
  2. French Open - Gustavo Kuerten
  3. Wimbledon championships - Pete Sampras
  4. US Open - Marat Safin

• Grand Slam in tennis women's results:
  1. Australian Open - Lindsay Davenport
  2. French Open - Mary Pierce
  3. Wimbledon championships - Venus Williams
  4. US Open - Venus Williams

• Davis Cup - Spain wins 3-1 over Australia in world tennis

General sporting events

• Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia

• Embassy World Snooker Championship:
  • Mark Williams won 18-16 over Matthew Stevens

• Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Champion:
  • Doug Swingley won with lead dogs: Stormy & Cola

Births

• January - Talk show host David Letterman undergoes quintuple heart bypass surgery at New York Presbyterian Hospital, following an angiogram that revealed that one of his arteries was seriously constricted.
• February 21 - David Letterman returns to television following his quintuple heart bypass surgery in January. Letterman brings all of the doctors that had performed the operation out on stage with him, including Dr. O. Wayne Isom and Physician Louis J. Aronne, who makes frequent appearances on the show. In an unusual show of emotion, Letterman is nearly in tears as he thanked the doctors. The episode earned an Emmy nomination. Letterman's father died of a heart attack while still in his 50s.
• December 18 - Actor Hank Azaria and actress Helen Hunt file for divorce.
• Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver in a California shopping mall

Debuts

• June - The Gavin Crawford Show
• October 11 - Bette, with Bette Midler (2000-2001)
• October 25 - As Told By Ginger premieres (2000-present)
• Survivor premieres on CBS sparking a major blitz of interest in "reality tv" in the US. Many copy-cat programs follow. The show was based on the Swedish game show, Operation Robinson.

Popular Television Shows

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
• Cops (1989-present)
• Dharma & Greg (1997-2002)
• Farscape (1999-2003)
• Everybody Loves Raymond (1996-present)
• Friends (1994-2003)
• General Hospital (1972-present)
• Hey Arnold (1996-present)
• Inspector Morse (1987-2000)
• Jeopardy (1984-present)
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien (1993-present)
• The Late Show with David Letterman (1993-present)
• One Foot in the Grave (1990-2000)
• The Real World (1992-present)
• Rocket Power (1999-present)
• Rugrats (1991-2004)
• Saturday Night Live (1975-present)
• Sesame Street (1969-present)
• Sex and the City (1998-2004)
• Shocking Behavior: Caught On Tape (1999-present)
• The Simpsons (1989-present)
• The Sopranos (1999-present)
• Spongebob Squarepants (1999-present)
• The Tonight Show (1954-present)
• VH-1 (1985-present)
• Wheel of Fortune (1975-present)

Births

Group 1 Results

• October 28: Australia - England (20 - 2)
• October 29: Fiji - Russia (38 - 12)
• November 1: Australia - Fiji (66 - 8)
• November 1: England - Russia (76 - 4)
• November 4: England - Fiji (66 - 4)
• November 4: Australia - Russia (110 - 4)

Group 2 Results

• October 29: New Zealand - Lebanon (64 - 0)
• October 29: Wales - Cook Islands (38 - 6)
• November 2: New Zealand - Cook Islands (84 - 10)
• November 2: Wales - Lebanon (24 - 22)
• November 5: Cook Islands - Lebanon (22 - 22)
• November 5: Wales - New Zealand (18 - 58)

Group 3 Results

• October 28: Papua New Guinea - France (23 - 20)
• October 28: Tonga - South Africa (66 - 18)
• November 1: France - Tonga (28 - 8)
• November 2: Papua New Guinea - South Africa (16 - 0)
• November 5: France - South Africa (56 - 6)
• November 6: Papua New Guinea - Tonga (30 - 22)

Group 4 Results

• October 28: Ireland - Samoa (30 - 16)
• October 29: Aotearoa - Scotland (17 - 16)
• November 1: Ireland - Scotland (18 - 6)
• November 1: Samoa - Aotearoa (21 - 16)
• November 4: Ireland - Aotearoa (30 - 16)
• November 5: Scotland - Samoa (12 - 20)

Quater-Final Results

• November 11: Australia - Samoa (66 - 10)
• November 11: England - Ireland (26 - 16)
• November 12: New Zealand - France (54 - 6)
• November 12: Wales - Papua New Guinea (22 - 8)

Semi-Final Results

• November 18: New Zealand - England (49 - 6)
• November 19: Australia - Wales (46 - 22)

Final

• November 25: Australia - New Zealand (40 - 12)

Other Rugby League World Cups

Medal count

Pos	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	40	24	33	97
2	Russia	32	28	28	88
3	China	28	16	15	59
4	Australia	16	25	17	58
5	Germany	13	17	26	56
6	France	13	14	11	38
7	Italy	13	8	13	34
8	Netherlands	12	9	4	25
9	Cuba	11	11	7	29
10	United Kingdom	11	10	7	28
11	Romania	11	6	8	25
12	South Korea	8	10	10	28
13	Hungary	8	6	3	17
14	Poland	6	5	3	14
15	Japan	5	8	5	18
16	Bulgaria	5	6	2	13
17	Greece	4	6	3	13
18	Sweden	4	5	3	12
19	Norway	4	3	3	10
20	Ethiopia	4	1	3	8
21	Ukraine	3	10	10	23
22	Kazakhstan	3	4	0	7
23	Belarus	3	3	11	17
24	Canada	3	3	8	14
25	Spain	3	3	5	11
26	Turkey	3	0	2	5
27	Iran	3	0	1	4
28	Czech Republic	2	3	3	8
29	Kenya	2	3	2	7
30	Denmark	2	3	1	6
31	Finland	2	1	1	4
32	Austria	2	1	0	3
33	Lithuania	2	0	3	5
34	Azerbaijan	2	0	1	3
35	Slovenia	2	0	0	2
36	Switzerland	1	6	2	9
37	Indonesia	1	3	2	6
38	Slovakia	1	3	1	5
39	Mexico	1	2	3	6
40	Algeria	1	1	3	5
41	Uzbekistan	1	1	2	4
42	Latvia	1	1	1	3
42	Yugoslavia	1	1	1	3
44	Bahamas	1	1	0	2
45	New Zealand	1	0	3	4
46	Estonia	1	0	2	3
46	Thailand	1	0	2	3
48	Croatia	1	0	1	2
49	Cameroon	1	0	0	1
49	Colombia	1	0	0	1
49	Mozambique	1	0	0	1
52	Brazil	0	6	6	12
53	Jamaica	0	4	3	7
54	Nigeria	0	3	0	3
55	Belgium	0	2	3	5
55	South Africa	0	2	3	5
57	Argentina	0	2	2	4
58	Morocco	0	1	4	5
58	Chinese Taipei (Taiwan)	0	1	4	5
60	North Korea	0	1	3	4
61	Moldova	0	1	1	2
61	Trinidad and Tobago	0	1	1	2
61	Saudi Arabia	0	1	1	2
64	Ireland	0	1	0	1
64	Uruguay	0	1	0	1
64	Vietnam	0	1	0	1
67	Georgia	0	0	6	6
68	Portugal	0	0	2	2
68	Costa Rica	0	0	2	2
70	Armenia	0	0	1	1
70	Barbados	0	0	1	1
70	Chile	0	0	1	1
70	Iceland	0	0	1	1
70	India	0	0	1	1
70	Israel	0	0	1	1
70	Kuwait	0	0	1	1
70	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	1	1
70	Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	0	0	1	1
70	Qatar	0	0	1	1
70	Sri Lanka	0	0	1	1

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