December 2000
Events
December 1 - President Vicente Fox took office.December 1 -Miss World pageant held in London's Millennium Dome.Priyanka Chopra doesn't win the title. Instead a Michigan man ran onstage and threw off her crown, announcing himself, "Queen of the world".- December 13 - The
Texas 7 escape from their prison unit in Kenedy, Texas and start a crime spree. December 14 - The Texas 7 rob aRadio Shack inPearland, Texas . They would use in their ensuing heist the police scanners they stole there.- December 15 - Reactor 3 at the
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down due to Western political pressure.* December 24 - The Texas 7 rob a sports store inIrving, 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 30 -Rizal Day Bombings : A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila,Philippines , within a span of a few hours killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
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