2000s — dans l'histoire
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2000
Un tribunal des Nations Unies condamne cinq Croates bosniaques à une peine de prison allant jusqu'à 25 ans pour l'assassinat de plus de 100 musulmans bosniaques en 1993.
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2000
Second Chechen War: Eighty-four Russian paratroopers are killed in a rebel attack on a guard post near Ulus Kert.
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2000
United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
United States v. Microsoft Corp. · Microsoft · United States antitrust law
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2000
Dans une attaque de pré-aube, des agents fédéraux arrêtent Elián González, âgé de six ans, de la maison de ses parents à Miami.
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2000
Équateur : Après que le Congrès équatorien ait été pris d'assaut par des organisations indigènes, le colonel Lucio Gutiérrez, Carlos Solorzano et Antonio Vargas destituent le Président Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez est par la suite remplacé par le général Carlos Mendoza, qui démissionne et permet au Vice-Président Gustavo Noboa de succéder à Mahuad.
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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.
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2000
Bombeements du jour de Rizal : Une série de bombes explose dans divers endroits à Manille, Philippines, dans une période de quelques heures, tuant 22 personnes et en blessant une centaine.
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2000
Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
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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.
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2000
L'indice boursier composite Nasdaq atteint un sommet de 5132,52, signalant le début de la fin du boom des dot-com.
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2000
A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
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2000
The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
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2000
La branche des Unités guérillères leninistes du Parti communiste du travail de la Turquie/Léniniste attaque un bureau du Parti nationaliste à Istanbul, en Turquie, tuant une personne et en blessant trois.
Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist · Nationalist Movement Party · Istanbul
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2000
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician Kumar Ponnambalam is shot dead in Colombo.
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2000
First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
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2000
Le Soyouz TM-31 est lancé, transportant la première équipe résidente vers la Station spatiale internationale. Depuis lors, la ISS est occupée en continu.
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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.
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2000
Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
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2000
Le vol 006 de Singapore Airlines s'écrase au décollage de Taipei, tuant 83 personnes.
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2000
Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
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2000
George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes by Katherine Harris, going on to win the United States presidential election, despite losing in the national popular vote.
George W. Bush · Katherine Harris · United States presidential election, 2000
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2000
Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
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2000
Ahmad Shamloo, Iranian poet and journalist (b. 1925)
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2000
The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.
Russian Navy · Russian submarine Kursk (K-141) · Kursk submarine disaster
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2000
Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
Vicente Fox Quesada · President of Mexico · National Action Party (Mexico)
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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.
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2000
Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
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2000
The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile. The perpetrators remain unidentified.
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2000
Cinq cents trente membres du culte ougandais Mouvement pour le Rétablissement des Dix Commandements de Dieu meurent dans un incendie, considéré comme un massacre ou un suicide orchestré par les dirigeants du culte. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
Uganda · Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
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2000
Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
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2000
Carl Albert, American lawyer and politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908)
Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Carl Albert · Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
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2000
Dennis Danell, American guitarist (b. 1961)
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2000
The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
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2000
La NASA lance STS-92, la 100e mission du Space Shuttle, utilisant le Space Shuttle Discovery.
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2000
Final daily Peanuts comic strip.
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2000
Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
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2000
Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (b. 1914)
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2000
Le pape Jean-Paul II effectue sa première visite pontificale en Israël.
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2000
Vladimir Poutine est intronisé comme président de la Russie.
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2000
Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
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2000
Laurent Gbagbo prend la présidence de la Côte d'Ivoire suivant une insurrection populaire contre le Président Robert Guéï.
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2000
Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
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2000
President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
Bill Clinton · Global Positioning System · United States Armed Forces
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2000
The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
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2000
Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.
Ken Livingstone · London mayoral election, 2000 · Mayor of London
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2000
Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
Arsenal F.C. · Galatasaray S.K. (football) · 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots
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2000
Israël se conforme à la résolution 425 du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies, 22 ans après sa publication, qui appelle Israël à se retirer complètement du Liban. Israël le fait, à l'exception des fermes de Shebaa contestées.
Israel · United Nations Security Council Resolution 425 · Lebanon
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2000
Microsoft releases Windows ME.
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2000
Les Nations Unies définissent la Ligne bleue comme la frontière entre Israël et le Liban.
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2000
Vera Atkins, officier de renseignement britannique (née en 1908)
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2000
Tiger Woods, American professional golfer, wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year.
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2000
The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.
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2000
Haris Brkić, Bosnian-Serbian basketball player (b. 1974)
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2000
Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
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2000
Marc Reisner, American environmentalist and author (b. 1948)
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2000
Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (except for the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 22 years after its invasion in 1978.
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2000
Crash d'un train à Hatfield, au nord de Londres, entraînant la faillite de Railtrack.
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2000
A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
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2000
Marceline Day, American actress (b. 1908)
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2000
Eberhard Bethge, German theologian and academic (b. 1909)
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2000
Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
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2000
Kurt Schork, American journalist and scholar (b. 1947)
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2000
La guerre des Six Jours commence à Kisangani, en République démocratique du Congo, entre les forces ougandaises et rwandaises. Une grande partie de la ville est détruite.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Six-Day War (2000) · Kisangani · Democratic Republic of the Congo
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2000
Pedro Mir, Dominican lawyer, author, and poet (b. 1913)
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2000
Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
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2000
Elmo Zumwalt, American admiral (b. 1920)
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2000
Jim Varney, American actor, comedian and writer (b. 1949)
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2000
Lila Kedrova, Russian-French actress and singer
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2000
Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
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2000
Robert Runcie, English archbishop (b. 1921)
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2000
Adele Stimmel Chase, American sculptor and painter (b. 1917)
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2000
Patrick O'Brian, English author and translator (b. 1914)
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2000
Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-American businessman, founded PING (b. 1911)
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2000
Ofra Haza, Israeli singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1957)
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2000
Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam (b. 1906)
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2000
Paul Bartel, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
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2000
William Keepers Maxwell Jr., éditeur, romancier, auteur de nouvelles et essayiste américain (né en 1908)
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2000
Ann Doran, American actress (b. 1911)
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2000
Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
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2000
Des manifestations massives à Belgrade mènent à la démission du chef serbe Slobodan Milošević. Ces manifestations sont souvent appelées la Révolution du Bulldozer.
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2000
Stanley Matthews, English footballer and manager (b. 1915)
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2000
Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese wrestler (b. 1951)
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2000
Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
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2000
Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian-New Zealand painter and illustrator (b. 1928)
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2000
Jean Coulthard, Canadian composer and educator (b. 1908)
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2000
EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
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2000
Ivo Robić, Croatian singer-songwriter (b. 1923)
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2000
Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
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2000
George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (b. 1926)
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2000
Don Liddle, American baseball player (b. 1925)