WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MARCH 2000
Find out what all happened January to March 2000

Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile. (6. February 2000)

A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71. (27. March 2000)

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

Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails. (15. February 2000)

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. (20. March 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)

Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169. (30. January 2000)

Three children are killed when a Murray County, Georgia, school bus is hit by a CSX freight train. (28. March 2000)

The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies. (13. February 2000)

The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. (14. February 2000)

Two trains on the Røros Line collide in Åsta, Norway, resulting in an explosive fire and 19 deaths. (4. January 2000)

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. (24. March 2000)

The last original weekday Peanuts comic strip is published. (3. January 2000)

Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel. (21. March 2000)

Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard. (31. January 2000)

The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth. (18. January 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)

First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments. (2. February 2000)

The Constitution of Finland is rewritten. (1. March 2000)

A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village. (14. January 2000)