| 2000-01-21
Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutierrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
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| 2000-06-12
Sandro Rosa do Nascimento takes hostages while robbing Bus #174 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the highly-publicized standoff becomes a media circus and ends with the death of do Nascimento and a hostage.
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| 2000-11-15
Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
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| 2000-03-27
A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
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| 2000-04-22
Second Battle of Elephant Pass, Tamil Tigers capture a strategic Sri Lankan Army base and hold it for 8 years.
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| 2000-03-28
A Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train (3 children die in this accident).
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| 2000-07-20
Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him.
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| 2000-06-13
Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
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| 2000-01-31
Alaska Airlines flight 261 MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 persons aboard.
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| 2000-05-04
Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
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| 2000-05-13
In Enschede, Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
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| 2000-07-02
Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
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| 2000-09-05
The Haverstraw–Ossining Ferry makes its maiden voyage.
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| 2000-11-16
Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
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| 2000-03-17
More than 800 members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in what is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult.
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| 2000-12-09
The Supreme Court of the United States stays the sixth Florida recount.
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| 2000-10-06
Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns.
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| 2000-08-12
The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
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| 2000-05-24
Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
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| 2000-10-06
Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns.
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| 2000-05-03
The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
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| 2000-12-15
The 3rd reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
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| 2000-09-20
The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by a Russian-built Mark 22 anti-tank missile.
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| 2000-03-01
The Constitution of Finland is rewritten.
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| 2000-10-30
The last Multics machine is shut down.
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| 2000-01-30
Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
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| 2000-02-04
German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
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| 2000-11-07
Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
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| 2000-04-03
United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
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| 2000-03-20
Seattle, Washington's professional sports stadium, the Kingdome is demolished.
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| 2000-05-02
President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
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| 2000-12-30
Rizal Day Bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
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| 2000-04-22
The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.
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| 2000-12-12
The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore
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| 2000-07-14
A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
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| 2000-03-20
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.
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| 2000-11-07
Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
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| 2000-06-16
Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years of it issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms.
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| 2000-03-24
S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
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| 2000-04-11
AT&T Park in San Francisco, Minute Maid Park in Houston, and Comerica Park in Detroit open.
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| 2000-10-31
A chartered Antonov An-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50.
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| 2000-11-11
In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.
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| 2000-12-13
The "Texas 7" escape from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed.
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| 2000-03-10
The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
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| 2000-11-17
A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
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| 2000-07-20
In Zimbabwe, Parliament opens its new session and seats opposition members for the first time in a decade.
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| 2000-10-17
Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack.
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| 2000-09-26
Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
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| 2000-04-22
In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida.
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| 2000-02-15
Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.
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| 2000-12-24
The Texas 7 hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is murdered during the robbery.
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| 2000-08-23
Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
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| 2000-10-31
Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been continuously crewed since.
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| 2000-10-05
Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution.
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| 2000-02-14
The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
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| 2000-09-05
Tuvalu joins the United Nations.
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| 2000-12-19
The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three.
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| 2000-07-01
The Oresund Bridge, connecting Sweden and Denmark, opens for traffic.
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| 2000-06-13
President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
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| 2000-06-21
Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
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| 2000-08-24
Argon fluorohydride, the first Argon compound ever known, is discovered at the University of Helsinki by Finnish scientists.
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| 2000-11-15
A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola killing more than 40 people.
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| 2000-08-08
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
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| 2000-10-26
Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï.
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| 2000-08-27
540-metre (1,772 ft)-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.
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| 2000-02-26
Mount Hekla in Iceland erupts.
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| 2000-11-01
Serbia joins the United Nations.
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| 2000-12-28
U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
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| 2000-11-13
Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
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| 2000-05-07
Vladimir Putin is inaugurated president of Russia
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| 2000-10-31
A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 operating as Flight 006 collides with construction equipment upon takeoff in Taipei, Taiwan killing 79 passengers and four crew members.
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| 2000-02-13
The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
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| 2000-07-10
EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
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| 2000-07-25
Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde supersonic passenger jet, F-BTSC, crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 4 on the ground.
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| 2000-11-17
Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
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| 2000-09-26
The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Agean sea killing 80 passengers.
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| 2000-10-12
The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39
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| 2000-05-25
Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978.
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| 2000-07-10
A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline.
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| 2000-01-18
The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
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| 2000-09-28
Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
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| 2000-11-25
2000 Baku earthquake.
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| 2000-11-07
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
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| 2000-08-18
A Federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.
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| 2000-03-01
Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC.
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