October 2000

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October 2000: January – February – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November – December

Events

October 1, 2000

• Incorporation of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited & Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited under the Indian Companies Act, 1956.
• October 2000 events (Israel) – 12 Arab citizens of Israel are killed by Israeli security forces after a riot/violent demonstration of solidarity with Palestinians under military rule in the West Bank and Gaza.

October 5, 2000

• President Slobodan Milošević leaves office after widespread demonstrations throughout Serbia and the withdrawal of Russian support. This political event became known as 5th October Revolution in Serbia.

October 11, 2000

• 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, 2000

• In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole is badly damaged by two suicide bombers who placed a small boat laden with explosives alongside the United States Navy destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.

October 17, 2000

• Hatfield rail crash, United Kingdom: Part of a rail shatters as a passenger train passes over it; four people are killed, 70 are injured.

October 22, 2000

• Mainichi Shinbun exposes Japanese archeologist Shinichi Fujimura as a fraud.

October 23, 2000

• Rodney Anoa'i (yokozuna wrestler) died in Liverpool at the age of 34 from heart failure.

October 27, 2000

• Sony's Playstation 2 is released in North America.

October 30, 2000

• The last Multics machine is shut down.

October 31, 2000

• Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment in the Chiang Kai-shek International Airport – 83 dead.

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