WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO JUNE 2000
Find out what all happened January to June 2000

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

Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London. (4. May 2000)

Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia. (7. May 2000)

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

530 members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead. (17. March 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)

Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya. (5. February 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)

Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia. (11. May 2000)

Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation. (24. May 2000)

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

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

Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote. (21. June 2000)

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

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

President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military. (2. May 2000)

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

Israel complies with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 22 years after its issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel does so, except the disputed Shebaa Farms. (16. June 2000)