WHAT ALL HAPPENED AUGUST TO DECEMBER 2000
Find out what all happened August to December 2000

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

The first Olympic Gold Medal ever for Tae Kwon Do was won by Greek athlete Michalis Mouroutsos in men's -58 kg division in Sydney. (27. September 2000)

Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred. (30. December 2000)

The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years. (25. November 2000)

Jharkhand state comes into existence in India. (15. November 2000)

Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143. (23. August 2000)

Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru. (17. November 2000)

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

The Texas Seven hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is murdered during the robbery. (24. December 2000)

The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three. (19. December 2000)

Argentine vice president Carlos Álvarez resigns. (6. October 2000)

U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years. (28. December 2000)

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

Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations. (1. November 2000)

The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile. The perpetrators remain unidentified. (20. September 2000)

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

Microsoft releases Windows ME. (14. September 2000)

Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a bill into law that officially establishes a new National Anthem of Russia, with music adopted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov. (25. December 2000)

Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. (28. September 2000)