WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER 2000
Find out what all happened February to October 2000

Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits. (26. September 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)

EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA. (10. July 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)

The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom. (22. April 2000)

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

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

Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War. (10. September 2000)

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

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

The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise. (12. August 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)

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

A leaking southern Nigerian petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers scavenging gasoline. (10. July 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)

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

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