Editing 2000 (section)

===July===
* [[July 1]] – The [[Øresund Bridge]] between [[Denmark]] and [[Sweden]] is officially opened for traffic.
* [[July 2]] – [[France national football team|France]] defeats [[Italy national football team|Italy]] 2–1 after extra time in the final of the [[UEFA Euro 2000]] Championship in Association football, becoming the first team to win the World Cup and European Championship consecutively.
* [[July 2]] – [[Vicente Fox]] of the National Action Party (PAN) is [[2000 Mexican general election|elected]] [[President of Mexico]], becoming the first president not from the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 1929.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Milner |first=Kate |date=2 July 2000 |title=End of era for all-powerful party |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/815359.stm |access-date=28 November 2008 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref>
* [[July 7]] – The draft assembly of [[Human Genome Project]] is announced at the White House by US President [[Bill Clinton]], [[Francis Collins]], and [[Craig Venter]].
* [[July 10]] – In southern [[Nigeria]], a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging [[gasoline]].
* [[July 11|July 11]]&ndash;[[July 25|25]] – A [[2000 Camp David Summit|summit meeting]] takes place at [[Camp David]] between United States president [[Bill Clinton]], Israeli prime minister [[Ehud Barak]] and [[Palestinian Authority]] chairman [[Yasser Arafat]], ending without an agreement.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC News {{!}} MIDDLE EAST {{!}} Camp David timeline |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/848968.stm |access-date=2023-10-23 |publisher=BBC News |archive-date=October 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027153036/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/848968.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[July 14]] – A powerful [[solar flare]], later named the [[Bastille Day solar storm|Bastille Day event]], causes a [[geomagnetic storm]] on Earth.<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Bastille Day (14 July 2000) event in historical large sun-earth connection events |date=January 2001 |doi=10.1023/A:1014273227639 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226083577 |access-date=2 January 2021|last1=Watari |first1=Shinichi |last2=Kunitake |first2=Manabu |last3=Watanabe |first3=Takashi |journal=Solar Physics |volume=204 |issue=1/2 |pages=425–438 |bibcode=2001SoPh..204..425W |s2cid=117394988 }}</ref>
* [[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.