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2000
- This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses.
2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. Popular culture also holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millenium. By strict interpretation of the Gregorian Calander, however, this distinction falls to the year 2001.
The year 2000 is also marked as:
Events
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- Limited reintroduction of routinely armed police in the UK for the first time since 1936.
- Scientists at University of Szeged's laboratory were first in the world to produce artificial heredity material .
Births
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February 23 - Max & Sam Christy, child actors
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April 4 - Alyssa & Lauren Libby, child actresses
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April 25 - Jacob & Joshua Rips, child actors
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May 20 - Leo Blair, son of the Rt Hon Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Cherie Booth QC.
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October 6 - Amanda & Rachel Pace, child actresses
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October 20 - Cooper Guynes, child actor, nephew of Demi Moore
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October 20 - Oliver Guynes, child actor, nephew of Demi Moore
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November 8 - Madison Poer, child actress
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November 8 - Marissa Poer, child actress
Deaths
January-April
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January 19 - Bettino Craxi, 65, Italian former prime minister (1983-1987)
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January 19 - Hedy Lamarr, 86, A glamourous Austrian actress who married six times
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February 9 - Beau Jack, 78, boxer
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February 7 - Big Pun, 28, rapper
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February 11 - Roger Vadim, 72, French movie director who married Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda
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February 12 - Charles M. Schulz, 77, creator of the Peanuts comic strip
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February 12 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, 70, American rock musician
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February 12 - Tom Landry, American football coach
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February 23 - Sir Stanley Matthews, 85, first footballer to be knighted
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April 6 - Habib Bourguiba, president of Tunisia (1957-1997)
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April 14 - Wilf Mannion, 81, English footballer who graced the Middlesbrough and England teams (b. 1918)
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April 16 - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, Raja of Perlis and former 3rd Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.
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April 25 - David Merrick, 91, American Broadway producer
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April 29 - Phạm Văn Ðồng, Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1954 through 1976, and was Prime Minister of reunified Vietnam from 1976 until he retired in 1986 (b. 1906)
May-August
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May 14 - Obuchi Keizo, Japanese prime minister (b. 1937)
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May 17 - Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1909)
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May 19 - Yevgeny Khrunov, cosmonaut {b. 1933)
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May 20 - Jean Pierre Rampal, French flutist (b. 1922)
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May 21 - Sir John Gielgud, British actor (b. 1904)
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May 21 - Dame Barbara Cartland, romance novel author (b. 1901)
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May 27 - Maurice Richard, hockey player (b. 1921)
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June 10 - Hafez al-Assad, president of Syria from 1971 until his death (b. 1930)
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June 14 - Robert Trent Jones, Sr., golf course architect (b. 1906)
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June 17 - Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
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June 18 - Nancy Marchand, actress (cancer) (b. 1928)
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July 1 - Walter Matthau, American actor (heart attack) (b. 1920
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July 11 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
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July 14 - Meredith MacRae , American actress (b. May 30, 1944)
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July 30 - Bertil Karlberg , Swedish politician
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August 5 - Sir Alec Guinness, British actor and writer (liver cancer) (b. 1914)
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August 25 - Carl Barks, cartoonist (b. 1901).
September-December
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September 2 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (b. 1905)
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September 16 - Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (born 1969)
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September 20 - Gherman Titov, cosmonaut (b. 1935)
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September 23 - Aurelio Rodríguez, Mexican Major League Baseball player (b. 1947)
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September 25 - R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (born 1913)
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September 26 - Carl Sigman, American songwriter (b. 1909)
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September 28 - Pierre Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1919)
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October 11 - Donald Dewar, First Minister of the Scottish Parliament (cerebral hemorrhage) (b. 1937)
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October 27 - Walter Berry, Austrian bass-baritone (born 1929)
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October 30 - Steve Allen, American comedian, composer, talk show host, and author (b. 1921)
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November 11 - Hugh Paddick, British actor (b. 1915)
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December 6 - Werner Klemperer, German actor (born 1920)
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December 31 - Rabbi Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, extreme Israeli settler leader (shot in battle) (b. 1966)
Last updated: 10-15-2005 03:36:12
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