WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO NOVEMBER 2000
Find out what all happened January to November 2000

The first resident crew to the ISS docked with their Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft. (2. November 2000)

A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline. (10. July 2000)

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. (2. July 2000)

Hans Blix assumes the position of Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC. (1. March 2000)

NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery. (11. October 2000)

President Clinton announces the completion of the first survey of the entire human genome. (26. June 2000)

Melbourne hosts World Economic Forum where S11 protests also took place. (11. September 2000)

Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević resigns. (6. October 2000)

The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom. (10. March 2000)

Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence. (8. August 2000)

Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack. (17. October 2000)

Kaprun disaster: 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria. (11. November 2000)

Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case. (7. November 2000)

Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević. These demonstrations are often called the Bulldozer Revolution. (5. October 2000)

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. (21. January 2000)

The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom. (22. April 2000)

The 540-metre (1,772 ft)-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed. (27. August 2000)

In a pre-dawn raid, federal agents seize six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida. (22. April 2000)

Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first invasion in 1978. (25. May 2000)

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. (13. June 2000)