WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO MAY 2000
Find out what all happened March to May 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 Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom. (22. April 2000)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. (3. April 2000)

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

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

In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage. (13. May 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)

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