Wikipedia: 2000

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Centuries: Year in Review 20th Century

International Year for a Culture of Peace

Deaths

January 19 - [Bettino Craxi]?, 65, Italian prime minister (1983-1987)
February 11 - [Roger Vadim]?, 72, French movie director
February 12 - [Charles Schultz]?, 77, creator of the Peanuts? comic strip
February 12 - [Screamin' Jay Hawkins]?, 70, American rock artist
February 19 - [Friedensreich Hundertwasser]?, 71, Austrian artist
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]?)
May 21 - [Sir John Gielgud]?, 96, British actor
June 10 - [Hafez al-Assad]?, 69, president of Syria (1971-2000)
July 1 - [Walter Matthau]?, 79, American actor
August 5 - [Sir Alec Guinness]?, 86, British actor
August 25 - Carl Barks, 99, illustrator of Donald Duck
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]?

Events

US -It was the end of an era, Bill Clinton, who'd spent the maximum two terms in office was on his way out. After all of the furore during the Clinton administration the election was sure to go well, but it didn't, and a whole shake down of the judicial system, later and George W. Bush defeats Al Gore to become the 43rd President of the United States of America.
Mexico - [Vicente Fox]? becomes the first oposition President to take power since Francisco I. Madero in 1911. He won the Presidency as candidate of the rightist PAN (National Action Party).
Concorde crash on July 25

Sport

Film

The latest Joel and Ethan Coen film, O Brother, Where Art Thou was released to much criticial acclaim.
Martial arts extravaganza, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon leaped and flew itself onto the publics imagination.
And to spite all the critics, the [fairy tale]? adventure based on the works of Dr. Seuss, [How the Grinch Stole Christmas]? grossed $260 million at the box office.
Celebrity News - Former child star Gary Coleman is charged with assaulting a young female bus driver in a California shopping mall

Music

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 had seen many computers not recognising the new year. The more important problem for computer-related companies this year, however, was the dotcom death that started in February and lasted well into 2001.