WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MARCH 2000
Find out what all happened February to March 2000

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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