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From top to bottom, left to right: Kenya Airways Flight 431 before it crashed off the Ivory Coast; an Air France Concorde similar to the one that crashed after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris; a monumemt commemorating the Kursk submarine disaster; the aftermath of the USS Cole bombing; a Russian BTR-80 destroyed by Chechen fighters during the Second Chechen War; heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; people of the world, as seen here in Times Square, celebrate the New Millennium; the International Space Station in its infant form as seen from STS-97; the PlayStation 2 releases, later becoming the best-selling video game console of all time; supporters of Al Gore protesting for a recount of the 2000 United States presidential election; the 2000 Summer Olympics are held in Sydney, Australia; Israeli troops respond to the Second Intifada; a United States Air Force MH-53 flies over the Mozambique flood which killed 700–800 people; the Yugoslavian House of the Federal Assembly on fire during the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević; a rendering of the Nasdaq Composite Index showing the dot-com bubble; a memorial for the Kaprun disaster.

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2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the World Mathematical Year.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millenniumTemplate:Citation needed,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> because of a tendency to group the years according to decimal values, as if non-existent year zero was counted. According to the Gregorian calendar, these distinctions fall to the year 2001, because the 1st century was retroactively said to start with the year AD 1. Since the Gregorian calendar does not have year zero, its first millennium spanned from years 1 to 1000 inclusively and its second millennium from years 1001 to 2000. (For further information, see century and millennium.)

The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as "Y2K" (the "Y" stands for "year", and the "K" stands for "kilo" which means "thousand").<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The year 2000 was the subject of Y2K concerns, which were fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctly. However, by the end of 1999, many companies had already converted to new, or upgraded existing, software. Some even obtained "Y2K certification". As a result of massive effort, relatively few problems occurred.

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EventsEdit

JanuaryEdit

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  • January 8 – In Soria (Spain) a large chunk of ice is reported to have fallen from the sky. Over the following months, a social panic about this phenomenon is unleashed, with reports of a multitude of similar cases of falling ice chunks (incorrectly named as aerolites) all over Spain, attracting great attention from the Spanish media.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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FebruaryEdit

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  • February 9 – Torrential rains in Africa led to the worst flooding in Mozambique in 50 years, which lasted until March and killed 800 people.
  • February 13 – Final Peanuts comic is printed in newspapers, preceded by author Charles M. Schulz's death the night before. It was the most popular comic strip in history, running for 50 years.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • February 29 – A rare century leap year date occurs. Usually, century years are common years due to not being exactly divisible by 400. 2000 is the first such year to have a February 29 since the year 1600, making it only the second such occasion since the Gregorian Calendar was introduced in 1582. The next such leap year will occur in 2400.

MarchEdit

  • March 4 – Sony releases the PlayStation 2 in Japan to compete with the Dreamcast. It launches in other countries later in the year.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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MayEdit

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  • May 11 – India's population reaches 1 billion.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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JuneEdit

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  • June 21 – Another earthquake hits Iceland further west than the previous quake.<ref name=":0" />
  • June 26 – A preliminary draft of genomes, as part of the Human Genome Project, is finished. It is announced at the White House by President Clinton.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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JulyEdit

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SeptemberEdit

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OctoberEdit

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  • October 26 – Pakistani authorities announce that their police have found an apparent mummy of an alleged Persian Princess in the province of Balochistan, Pakistan. The governments of Iran, Pakistan as well as the Taliban of Afghanistan all claim the mummy until Pakistan announces it is a modern-day forgery in April 2001.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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NovemberEdit

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DecemberEdit

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World populationEdit

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World population<ref>World Population Prospects Template:Webarchive. Retrieved November 19, 2007.</ref>
2000 1995 2005
World 6,070,581,000 5,674,380,000 +396,201,000 +6.98% 6,453,628,000 +383,047,000 +6.31%
Africa 795,671,000 707,462,000 +88,209,000 +12.47% 887,964,000 +92,293,000 +11.60%
Asia 3,679,737,000 3,430,052,000 +249,685,000 +7.28% 3,917,508,000 +237,771,000 +6.46%
Europe 727,986,000 727,405,000 +581,000 +0.08% 724,722,000 −3,264,000 −0.45%
Latin America 520,229,000 481,099,000 +39,130,000 +8.13% 558,281,000 +38,052,000 +7.31%
Northern America 315,915,000 299,438,000 +16,477,000 +5.50% 332,156,000 +16,241,000 +5.14%
Oceania 31,043,000 28,924,000 +2,119,000 +7.33% 32,998,000 +1,955,000 +6.30%

Births and deathsEdit

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Nobel PrizesEdit

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ReferencesEdit

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