2000 in the United States

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2000 in the United States
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Events from the year 2000 in the United States.

Incumbents

• President: Bill Clinton (Democratic)
• Vice President: Al Gore (Democratic)
• Chief Justice: William Rehnquist
• Speaker of the House of Representatives: Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois)
• Senate Majority Leader: Trent Lott (R-Mississippi)
• Congress: 106th

Events

January

• January 4 – Alan Greenspan is nominated for a fourth term as U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman.
• January 5–8 – The 2000 al-Qaeda Summit of several high-level al-Qaeda members (including two 9/11 American Airlines hijackers) is held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• January 10 – America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger).
• January 12 – Elián González affair: Attorney General Janet Reno rules that a child rescued by Coastguards must be returned to his father in Cuba.^[1]
• January 14 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of the Dot-com bubble).
• January 26 – The rap-metal band Rage Against the Machine plays in front of Wall Street, prompting an early closing of trading due to the crowds.
• January 30 – Super Bowl XXXIV: The St. Louis Rams win the NFL Championship for the first time since 1951, defeating the Tennessee Titans 23–16.
• January 31 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes in the Pacific Ocean, killing all 88 people on board.

February

• February 11 – A blast from an improvised explosive device in front of a Barclay's Bank, across from the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, wounds dozens but kills none.
• February 13 – The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles Schulz.
• February 17 – Microsoft releases Windows 2000.

March

• March 7 – George W. Bush and Al Gore emerge victorious in the Republican and Democratic caucuses and primaries of the United States presidential election.
• March 9 – The FBI arrests art forgery suspect Ely Sakhai in New York City.
• March 10 – The NASDAQ Composite Index reaches an all-time high of 5,048.^[2]
• March 20 – Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown), a former Black Panther, is captured after a gun battle in Atlanta, Georgia that leaves a sheriff's deputy dead.
• March 21 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the government lacks authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug, throwing out the Bill Clinton administration's main anti-smoking initiative.
• March 27 – The Phillips explosion of 2000 kills one and injures 71 in Pasadena, Texas.

April

• April 1 – The 2000 United States Census determines the resident population of the United States to be 281,421,906.
• April 3 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
• April 22 – In a predawn raid, federal agents seize 6-year old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, DC, ending one of the most publicized custody battles in U.S. history.
• April 25 – The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples.
• April 28 – Richard Baumhammers begins a two-hour racially motivated shooting spree in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, leaving five dead and one paralyzed.

May

• May 3 – In San Antonio, Texas, computer pioneer Datapoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

June

• June 1 – Expo 2000, the world's fair in Hanover, Germany, begins without the attendance of the United States.^[3]
• June 5 – 405 The Movie, the first short film widely distributed on the Internet, is released.
• June 7 – United States Microsoft antitrust case: A Court orders the breakup of the Microsoft corporation because of its monopoly in the computer software market.^[1]
• June 28 – Elián González affair: Elián González seized by the Immigration and Naturalization Service and returned to Cuba.^[1]

July

• July 31–August 3 – The Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania nominates George W. Bush for U.S. President and Dick Cheney for Vice President.

August

• August 8 – The Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
• August 14–17 – The Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominates U.S. Vice President Al Gore for President and Senator Joe Lieberman for Vice President.

September

• September 6 – In Paragould, Arkansas, Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart is stillborn to Jason Stewart and Lisa Bartlett. Breanna Lynn's stillbirth is notable for being the first stillbirth to be resolved by means of the Kleihauer-Betke test.
• September 8 – The United Nations Millennium Declaration is made in New York.

October

October 12: USS Cole bombing

• October 11 – 250 million US gallons (950,000 m³) of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky (considered a greater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill).
• October 12 – In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole is badly damaged by two Al-Qaeda suicide bombers, who place a small boat laden with explosives alongside the United States Navy destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
• October 23 – Madeleine Albright holds talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il.
• October 26 – The New York Yankees defeat the New York Mets in Game 5 of the 2000 World Series, 4–1, to win their 26th World Series title. This is the first Subway Series matchup between the two crosstown rivals. It is their 4th World Series win in the last five years under Manager Joe Torre.

November

• November 7 – United States presidential election, 2000: Republican candidate Texas Governor George W. Bush defeats Democratic Vice President Al Gore in the closest election in history, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.^[1]
• November 7 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.
• November 8 – U.S. presidential election, 2000: Per Florida law, an automatic recount begins in the state due to the narrow margin of the outcome.^[4]
• November 16 – Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting U.S. President to visit Vietnam.
• November 17 – U.S. presidential election, 2000: The Supreme Court of Florida prevents Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris from certifying the election results, allowing recounting to continue.^[5]

December

December 13: Contention over the presidential election ends with George W. Bush elected president.

• December 8 – U.S. presidential election, 2000: The Supreme Court of Florida orders a statewide manual recount of the votes in the presidential election. The next day the U.S. Supreme Court places a stay on this order.^[4]
• December 12 – U.S. presidential election, 2000 – Bush v. Gore: The U.S. Supreme Court overturns the ruling by the Florida Supreme Court, ending the recount and effectively giving the state, and the Presidency, to George W. Bush.^[1] The following day, Al Gore concedes the election and suspends the activities of his recount committee.^[5]
• December 13 – The Texas 7 escape from their prison unit in Kenedy, Texas, and start a crime spree.
• December 24 – The Texas 7 rob a sports store in Irving, Texas; police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot dead.
• December 28 – U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
• December 31 – President Bill Clinton signs the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.^[1]

Ongoing

• Iraqi no-fly zones (1991–2003)
• Dot-com bubble (c. 1995–c. 2000)

Births

• January 4 – Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, actress
• January 8 – Noah Cyrus, actress
• January 26 – Piper Mackenzie Harris, actress and model
• February – Yara Shahidi, actress
• February 5 – Jordan Nagai, voice actor
• February 25 – Laura Ann Kesling, actress
• April 9 – Jackie Evancho, singer
• April 11 – Morgan Lily, actress
• May 7 – Maxwell Perry Cotton, actor
• May 26 – Nubia Barahona, murder victim (died 2011)
• June 1 – Willow Shields, actress
• July 8 – Sophie Nyweide, actress
• July 16 – Jonathan Morgan Heit, actor
• July 25 – Preston Bailey, actor
• July 28 – Emily Hahn, actress
• August 5 – Maya Bond, singer-songwriter and drummer
• August 13 – Piper Reese, reporter and Internet celebrity

Melodie and Laurel Homer

• August 20 – Fatima Ptacek, actor and model
• August 28 – Jaylen Arnold, activist, philanthropist, and actor
• September 28 – Frankie Jonas, actor
• October 26 – Ellery Sprayberry, actress
• October 31 – Willow Smith, actress, singer and the daughter of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith
• November – Laurel Homer, children of LeRoy Homer, Jr.
• November 10 – Mackenzie Foy, model and actress
• November 30 – Destiny Norton, victim of kidnapping and murder (died 2006)
• December 24 – Ethan Bortnick, prodigy, composer, songwriter, actor and musician
• December 26 – Samuel Sevian, chess player
• December 30 – Johntae Lipscomb, actor
• Full date unknown
  • Tristan Lake Leabu, actor
  • Marla Olmstead, painter of abstract art

Deaths

References

External links

• Media related to 2000 in the United States at Wikimedia Commons