Editing 2000 (section)

===January===
* [[January 1]] 
** The [[Longplayer]] starts playing for 1,000 years.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Wallace |first1=Helen |title=Reaching into the future: Longplayer |url=https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/magazine/features/reaching-into-the-future-longplayer/ |website=Kings Place |date=January 5, 2018 |accessdate=19 February 2025}}</ref>
** [[Millennium celebrations]] are held around the world to celebrate the beginning of the [[3rd millennium]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2000-01-01 |title=2000: World celebrates New Millennium |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/1/newsid_2478000/2478173.stm |access-date=2025-01-11 |work=[[BBC News]] |language=en-GB}}</ref>
** The [[year 2000 problem]], a [[time formatting and storage bug]], takes effect, but is successfully mitigated in many cases.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Loeb |first1=Zachary |title=The lessons of Y2K, 20 years later |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=30 December 2019 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/30/lessons-yk-years-later/ |access-date=7 June 2021 |archive-date=2020-12-02  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202183008/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/30/lessons-yk-years-later/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[January 6]] – The last naturally conceived [[Pyrenean ibex]] is found dead, apparently killed by a falling tree.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2021/01/23/the-species-that-went-extinct-twice |title=The Species That Went Extinct Twice |last=Smith |first=Kiona N. |date=January 23, 2021 |website=Forbes |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131073011/https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2021/01/23/the-species-that-went-extinct-twice/ |archive-date=January 31, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[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>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-10 |title=20 AÑOS DE "AEROLITOS" EN ESPAÑA |url=http://esmadridnomadriz.es/blog/20-a%C3%B1os-de-aerolitos-en-espa%C3%B1a |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=Es Madrid no Madriz |language=es-ES}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=H |first=R. S. / A. L. |date=2020-02-02 |title=El enigma sobre los aerolitos se mantiene dos décadas después |url=https://www.laopiniondemurcia.es/comunidad/2020/02/02/enigma-aerolitos-mantiene-decadas-despues-33942740.html |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=La Opinión de Murcia |language=es}}</ref>
* [[January 10]] – [[AOL|America Online]] announces an agreement to purchase [[Time Warner]] for $162&nbsp;billion (the largest-ever corporate merger).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/business/media/11merger.html |title=How the AOL-Time Warner Merger Went So Wrong |last=Arango |first=Tim |date=January 10, 2010 |work=The New York Times |url-status=live |archive-date=January 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100124024239/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/business/media/11merger.html}}</ref>
* [[January 14]] 
**The [[Dow Jones Industrial Average]] closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of the [[Dot-com bubble]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/357298/000035729801500016/dowjones.html |title=Dow Jones |publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commission |access-date=July 25, 2018 |archive-date=July 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726071917/https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/357298/000035729801500016/dowjones.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
**The United Nations' [[International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia]] sentences five [[Bosnian Croats]] to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
* [[January 30]] – [[Kenya Airways Flight 431]] crashes off the [[Ivory Coast]] into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169 people.<ref name="BEA">{{cite web|date=25 January 2002|title=REPORT – Accident which occurred on 30 January 2000 in the sea near Abidjan Airport to the Airbus 310–304 registered 5Y-BEN operated by Kenya Airways|url=https://www.bea.aero/docspa/2000/5y-n000130a/pdf/5y-n000130a.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130053439/https://www.bea.aero/docspa/2000/5y-n000130a/pdf/5y-n000130a.pdf|archive-date=30 January 2019|publisher=Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety}}</ref>
* [[January 31]] – [[Alaska Airlines Flight 261]] crashes off the [[California]] coast into the Pacific Ocean; all 88 passengers and crew are killed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alaskaair.com/E_latest.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010212073412/http://www.alaskaair.com/E_latest.asp|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 12, 2001|title=Flight 261 Special Report: Alaska Airlines Names Aviation Experts To Conduct Safety Audit|publisher=[[Alaska Airlines]]|date=March 24, 2000|access-date=May 29, 2018}} Latest version of rolling report (originally retrieved May 31, 2009)</ref>