2000

This page relates to the year 2000 Gregorian Calendrier.

2000 is the last Année 20th century and.

The passage of 1999 at 2000 was largely celebrated, with in more success of the world project of passage Informatique at the year 2000 (Y2K), after a suspense on what would be the consequences of the Bogue of the year 2000.

Economically, 2000 are the year of the record of the Bulle Internet where the purses reached their level record, before losing up to 80% of their value the following years (case of NASDAQ).

For the catholic , this year was that of large the Jubilé of the year 2000 (regarded as Holy year)

Events

World

January 1st: Data-processing passage successfully of the systems S at the year 2000 in the world. Thanks to several years of work on behalf of the data processing specialists (project Y2K), the problems of dating commonly called Bogue of the year 2000 were very limited during the first days of the year. Anecdote: the posting of the countdown of the Eiffel Tower broke down right before midnight!

the United Nations

July 26th: Kofi Annan, General secretary of the United Nations, brings together 50 owners of transnational firms (or Multinationale S) to try to associate Mondialisation and Human rights and launches the “ Global Impact ”, also associating ONG.
August 14th: Adoption of the resolution 1315 of the Safety advice of the United Nations, for the creation of the Special court for the Sierra Leone.
October 1st: Kofi Annan names the French diplomat Jean-Marie Guéhenno at the station of Assistant general secretary to the operations of maintenance of peace of UNO.
October 7th: Adoption by the Safety advice of UNO of the Resolution 1322 (2000) condemning the provocation of Ariel Sharon, chief of the Likoud, which had gone the September 28th on the Esplanade of the mosques to Jerusalem and violences which were followed from there as of the following day with the release of the the Second Intifada.

Africa

January 27th: With the Senegal, opening of legal information for crime against humanity against the former president of the Chad, Hissène Habré.
March 19th: With the Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade gains the presidential election.

Americas

the year 2000 in Canada
January 16th: With the Chile, victory of the Socialist Ricardo Lagos with the presidential election.
January 21st: Coup d'etat in Ecuador: the president Jamil Mahuad is reversed. The vice-president Gustavo Noboa takes the presidency of the country with the support of the soldiers.
March 2nd: After 16 month of legal procedures, the general Pinochet leaves free the the United Kingdom for the Chile.
July 2nd: Vicente Fox is elected president of the Mexico.
November 7th: presidential Election in the United States, the result of the vote remains dubious with the dispute of the examination of ballot papers in Florida.
December 12th: The Supreme court of the United States decides the stop of the operations of recount, thus giving the electoral victory to George W. Bush against Al Gore.

Asia

March 18th: With Taiwan Chen Shui-bian, favorable to independence, president in spite of the pressures of Beijing is elected.
May 11th: The India account officially 1 billion inhabitants.
June 15th: Meet between the president of the South Korea Kim Dae-Jung and the leader North-Korean Kim Jong-il with Pyongyang. A Joint Declaration evokes a Réunification of Korea.

Europe

the year 2000 in Switzerland
February 6th: Finland. Tarja Halonen becomes the first woman president of this country.
March 3rd: Ex- Yugoslavia. The Croatian general Tihomir Blaskic is condemned to 45 years of prison for crimes against humanity by the International penal court.
March 15th: Germany. At Hamburg, two “baby boxes” are brought into service to make it possible to the mothers in distress to give up their newborn.
March 26th: Russia. Vladimir Poutine is elected president of the Federation of Russia as of the first turn (52%).
April 25th: Italy. Giuliano Amato becomes president of the Council of Ministers. It succeeds Massimo d' Alema.
June 19th: the United Kingdom. Discovered, by the customs services, of 58 Chinese corpses clandestine in a truck cooled in the port of Dover, during a routine control.
August 12th: Russia. The Koursk, nuclear submarine Russian containing 118 men of crew, sinks in Mer of Barents.
November 11th: Austria. The flashover of a Funiculaire with Kaprun results in the death of one hundred fifty-five people.

France

the year 2000 in France
: The weekly duration of work passes to 35 hours in the companies of more than 20 paid.
September 24th: Referendum on the reduction of the mandate of the President of the Republic at 5 years. “Yes” carries it.
November 11th: The modes of retirement Arrco and Agirc decide to revalorize of 3,5% and 4% their purchase price of the point of retirement.

Middle-East

May 24th: Departure of the Israeli troops of the South of the Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
September 28th: With Jerusalem, the visit of Ariel Sharon on the Esplanade of the Mosques causes confrontations between Palestinians and Israeli security forces . It is the beginning of the the Second Intifada.
October 12th: 17 American sailors perish in an attack aboard the US ship Sticks, which made stopover in the port of Aden to the Yemen

Chronologies sets of themes

Art S & Culture S

of it

January 1st:

Flight with the museum of Oxford of table “Auvers-sur-Oise” of Paul Cézanne estimated at more than 31 million dollars
Reopening of the Center Pompidou after 27 months of work

Music

September 30th: Creation, at the time of the Festival Musica with Strasbourg of Die Hamletmaschine-oratorio , Oratorio for chorus, together, Soprano, baritone S, percussion and viola of Georges Aperghis (° 1945).

Painting

October 26th: Opening to London, the National Portrait Gallery of the international exhibition Painting The Century 101 Masterpieces Portrait 1900-2000 (French To paint the Century 101 major Portraits 1900-2000 ) presenting in ten decades a wide panorama of some of the big steps on the cultural and historical level of the 20th century. (End the February 4th 2001).

Bullfighting

April 23rd: With Madrid (Spain), alternate of Handbook Jesús Cid known as “El Cid”, Spanish Matador.
June 18th: With alternate Grenade (Spain), of David Fandilla Marín known as “El Fandi”, Spanish Matador.
June 20th: With Torrejón de Ardoz (Spain, province of Madrid), alternate of Fernando Robleño, Spanish Matador.
August 12th: With Béziers (Herault), alternate of Sebastien Turzac known as Sebastien Castela, Matador French.
August 30th: With Sacedón (Spain, Province of Guadalajara), alternate of Francisco Javier Sánchez Vara, Spanish Matador.

Economy and Trade

January 9th: Takeover of Time Warner by AOL.
January 18th: The group Cora Houra.fr lance, the first large surface on the Web delivering everywhere in France.
February 17th: With Seattle, Microsoft lance its new operating system Windows 2000.
March 10th: Peak of the Bubble Internet, NASDAQ reaches the unequalled record of 5132,52 points.
March 17th: Repurchase of Land Rover to BMW by Ford.
May: The G8 publishes a list of 42 States considered as Tax shelters: their assets are of 500 billion Dollar S, 3% of the richness of the world.
July 10th: The company Airbus, associated at several European aeronautical firms, becomes EADS.
September 4th: CAC 40 reaches its value record of 6 922,33 points.
24 - September 26th: Summit of the the IMF and the the World Bank to Prague; “against-top altermondialist” of 30.000 people.

Religion

Jubilee of the year 2000:
January 5th, the 17th Karmapa, Orgyen Trinley Dorje, which escaped from its monastery of Tsourphou to the Tibet in December 1999 arrives in India at Dharamsala, residence of the 14th Dalaï Lama. It always resides in 2007 at the monastery of Gyuto at Sidhbari close to Dharamsala.
March 12th: Step of Repentance and forgiveness of the Catholic church with respect to the errors of the past, within the framework of large the Jubilee of the year 2000.
Monday 17 at Saturday April 22nd: Holy Week.
Sunday April 23rd: Sunday of Easter.
June 14th: Mehmet Ali Ağca, condemned to the imprisonment with life in Italy for the attempted murder on Jean-Paul II, pardoned, after 19 years spent behind the bars, by the Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, is extradited towards the Turkey.

Science S and Technical S

January 14th: Cloning succeeded of the Macaque rhesus “Tétra”.
August: During an scientific exhibition, one notes that part of the Glace S of the Arctique melted.

Sport

Football

Transport

Aeronautics

Railroads

Nobel Prize

Nobel Prize of physics: Jores Alferov, Herbert Kroemer and Jack Kilby
Nobel Prize of chemistry: Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa
Nobel Prize of physiology or medicine: Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric R. Kandel
Nobel Prize of literature: Gao Xingjian
Nobel Prize of peace: Kim Dae-jung

Birth in 2000

April

April 11th: Antoine de Prekel, actor French.

Death in 2000

First quarter

January 4th: Tom Fears, American player of American football (° 1923).
January 10th: Sam Jaffe, Producing of American cinema (° 1901).
January 14th: Alphonse Boudard, writer French (° 1925).
January 18th: Gésip Légitimus, Musician, Actor, Producing of television, Director artistic French (° 1930).
January 19th: Bettino Craxi, old President of the Italian Council (° 1934).
January 22nd: Anne Hébert, Poet and Québécois novelist (° 1916).
January 26th: A.E. van Vogt, American writer of Science fiction (° 1912).
January 27th: Friedrich Gulda, Type-setter and interprets traditional and Austrian Jazz (° 1930).
February 5th: George Koltanowski, player of failures and Belgian journalist échiquéen (° 1903).
February 11th: Roger Vadim, Actor and Realizer French (° 1928).
February 12th: Tom Landry, American player of American football (° 1924).
February 18th: Will, Belgian author of Cartoon (° 1927).
February 23rd: Stanley Matthews, British Football or (° 1915).
February 29th: Patrick Kermann, Playwright French (° 1959).
March 6th: John Colicos, Canadian Actor (° 1928).
March 20th: Gene “Eugene” Andrusco, Actor and Canadian Singer (° 1961).
March 27th: Ian Dury, Singer and British Actor (° 1942).

Second quarters

April 18th: Garcimore, Illusionist and Spanish Singer .
May 5th: Eve Valois known as Milk Ferrari (dubious Age) Actress porn Frenchwoman
May 8th: André Fortin says “Dédé”, Musicien Québécois, died by Seppuku (° November 17th 1962).
May 19th: Yevgeny Khrunov, Soviet cosmonaut (° September 10th 1933)
May 20th: Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flutist, (° January 7th 1922).
May 21st: Sir John Gielgud, British Actor, (° 1904).
May 25th: Nicholas Clay, Actor at 53 years.
May 27th

Gonzalve de Bourbon, duke of Aquitaine, (° 1937).
Maurice Richard, player of Hockey professional Canadian, (° 1921).

June 4th: Gino Bartali, Italian racing cyclist at 85 years.
June 23rd: Philippe Chatrier, player of Tennis French at 72 years.
June 27th: Pierre Pflimlin, politician French, (° 1907).
June 29th: Vittorio Gassman, Actor, at 78 years

Third quarters

July 1st: Walter Matthau, 79 years, actor
July 6th: Władysław Szpilman, type-setter Polish (° December 5th 1911)
July 27th: Claude Sautet, French scenario writer, (born in 1924)
August 5th: Sir Alec Guinness, 86 years, actor
August 12th: Loretta Young, 87 years, actress
August 17th: Free Donatoni, Italian type-setter
August 25th: Carl Barks, American draftsman
September 4th: Bernard Assiniwi, writer
September 17th: Nicole Reinhart, American racing cyclist , at 24 years.
September 18th: Gilbert Carpentier, producing French of television, (born in 1920)
September 27th: Francis the Belgian, godfather of the Marseilles Maffia.
September 28th: Pierre Elliott Trudeau, old Prime Minister of Canada

Fourth quarters

October 3rd: Wojciech Has, realizer Polish
October 17th: Harry Cooper, (American, Golf) at 96 years.
October 17th: Pierre Molaine, French man of letters, Price Renaudot 1950
October 28th: Georges Poujouly, actor French, revealed at the side of Brigitte Fossey in prohibited Plays
November 10th: Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician
November 19th: Robert Escarpit, academic, writer and journalist French
November 22nd: Emil Zatopek, Czech athlete , at 79 years.
December 2nd: Daniel Singer, journalist Polish (° September 26th 1926)
December 15th: Jacques Goddet, (France, founder of the Team ) at 95 years.
December 29th: Cécil the St. Lawrence (Jacques Laurent), French writer

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