WHAT HAPPENED IN 2000.
Look what happened the 2000.

The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39. (12. October 2000)

Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack. (17. October 2000)

Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï. (26. October 2000)

Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then. (31. October 2000)

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

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

Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although she was actually still the First Lady. (7. November 2000)

Controversial US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case. (7. November 2000)

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas. (7. November 2000)

Kaprun disaster: 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria. (11. November 2000)

Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada. (13. November 2000)

A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people. (15. November 2000)

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

A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years. (17. November 2000)

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

George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote. (26. November 2000)

In the Canadian federal election the Liberal Party of Canada wins its third consecutive election with a gain in the number of its members. (27. November 2000)

The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore. (12. December 2000)

The "Texas Seven" escape from the John B. Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed. (13. December 2000)