What happened in 2000
393 entries recorded for 2000, listed by date. That was 26 years ago.
2000 at a glance
- Years ago
- 26 (as of 2026)
- Century
- 20th century
- Decade
- 2000s
- Generation born
- Generation Z
- Entries here
- 393
- Breakdown
- 276 births · 113 historical events · 4 deaths
January
- January 1
Ice Spice
Ice Spice, American rapper
- January 1
Nicolas Kühn
Nicolas Kühn, German footballer
- January 2
Spencer Arrighetti
Spencer Arrighetti, American baseball player
- January 3
Leandro Barreiro
Leandro Barreiro, Luxembourgish footballer
- January 3
João Mário (footballer, born 2000)
João Mário, Portuguese footballer
- January 4
Trondheim
A Norwegian passenger train departing from Trondheim, collides with a local train coming from Hamar in Åsta in Åmot Municipality; 19 people are killed and 68 injured in the accident.
- January 4
Max Aarons
Max Aarons, English footballer
- January 4
Facundo Colidio
Facundo Colidio, Argentine footballer
- January 5
Sri Lankan Tamils
Sri Lankan Tamil politician Kumar Ponnambalam was killed in an assassination suspected to have been sanctioned by President Chandrika Kumaratunga.
- January 5
Gastón Martirena
Gastón Martirena, Uruguayan footballer
- January 6
Kwon Eun-bin
Kwon Eun-bin, South Korean singer and actress
- January 6
Fiete Arp
Fiete Arp, German footballer
- January 6
Shuhua
Shuhua, Taiwanese singer
- January 6
Tyler Oliveira
Tyler Oliveira, American YouTuber
- January 6
Jack McBain
Jack McBain, Canadian ice hockey player
- January 6
Mohamed Camara (footballer, born January 2000)
Mohamed Camara, Malian footballer
- January 7
Marcus Scribner
Marcus Scribner, American actor
- January 8
Noah Cyrus
Noah Cyrus, American singer, songwriter, and actress
- January 9
Luka Šamanić
Luka Šamanić, Croatian basketball player
- January 10
Crossair Flight 498
Crossair Flight 498, a Saab 340 aircraft, crashes in Niederhasli, Switzerland, after taking off from Zurich Airport, killing 13 people.
- January 10
Erik Botheim
Erik Botheim, Norwegian footballer
- January 10
Reneé Rapp
Reneé Rapp, American singer-songwriter and actress
- January 11
Lee Chae-yeon
Lee Chae-yeon, South Korean singer-songwriter
- January 12
Sven Botman
Sven Botman, Dutch footballer
- January 13
Short 360
A Short 360 aircraft chartered by the Sirte Oil Company crashes off the coast of Brega, Libya, killing 21.
- January 13
Steve Ballmer
Steve Ballmer replaced Bill Gates as the chief executive officer of Microsoft.
- January 13
Harley Smith-Shields
Harley Smith-Shields, Australian rugby league player
- January 14
Jonathan David
Jonathan David, Canadian soccer player
- January 15
Triston Casas
Triston Casas, American baseball player
- January 16
Andrew Nembhard
Andrew Nembhard, Canadian basketball player
- January 17
Kang Chan-hee
Kang Chan-hee, South Korean singer and actor
- January 17
Devlin DeFrancesco
Devlin DeFrancesco, Canadian race car driver
- January 17
Ayo Dosunmu
Ayo Dosunmu, American basketball player
- January 20
Tyler Herro
Tyler Herro, American basketball player
- January 21
Ecuador
Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutiérrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succee
- January 22
Laia Codina
Laia Codina, Spanish footballer
- January 23
Fanni Pigniczki
Fanni Pigniczki, Hungarian rhythmic gymnast
- January 26
Ester Expósito
Ester Expósito, Spanish actress
- January 26
Darius Garland
Darius Garland, American basketball player
- January 27
Aurélien Tchouaméni
Aurélien Tchouaméni, French footballer
- January 27
Morgan Gibbs-White
Morgan Gibbs-White, English footballer
- January 28
Dušan Vlahović
Dušan Vlahović, Serbian footballer
- January 28
Abel Ruiz
Abel Ruiz, Spanish footballer
- January 30
Kenya Airways Flight 431
Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near Ivory Coast shortly after takeoff, killing 169 on board.
- January 30
Markella Kavenagh
Markella Kavenagh, Australian actress
- January 30
Bryan Woo
Bryan Woo, American baseball player
- January 31
Alaska Airlines Flight 261
Alaska Airlines Flight 261, experiencing problems with its horizontal stabilizer system, crashed in the Pacific Ocean off Anacapa Island, California, killing all 88 people on board.
- January 31
Julián Alvarez
Julián Alvarez, Argentine footballer
February
- February 1
Talanoa Hufanga
Talanoa Hufanga, American football player
- February 2
Digital cinema
First digital cinema projection in Europe (Paris) realized by Philippe Binant with the DLP CINEMA technology developed by Texas Instruments.
- February 2
Munetaka Murakami
Munetaka Murakami, Japanese baseball player
- February 4
Jacques Chirac
The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
- February 5
Novye Aldi massacre
Russian forces massacre at least 60 civilians in the Novye Aldi suburb of Grozny, Chechnya.
- February 5
Second Chechen War
Second Chechen War: As the Battle of Grozny came to a close, Russian forces summarily executed at least 60 civilians in Grozny's Novye Aldi suburb.
- February 6
Second Chechen War
Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
- February 6
Conor Gallagher
Conor Gallagher, English footballer
- February 7
Jayden Campbell
Jayden Campbell, Australian rugby league player
- February 10
Yara Shahidi
Yara Shahidi, American actress and model
- February 10
María Lourdes Carlé
María Carlé, Argentine tennis player
- February 11
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-99 to conduct the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
- February 11
Nassir Little
Nassir Little, American basketball player
- February 12
Kim Ji-min (actress)
Kim Ji-min, South Korean actress
- February 13
Vitinha
Vitinha, Portuguese footballer
- February 14
NEAR Shoemaker
The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
- February 14
Gabriel Moreno
Gabriel Moreno, Venezuelan baseball player
- February 15
Jakub Kiwior
Jakub Kiwior, Polish footballer
- February 16
Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17
Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 crashes near Sacramento Mather Airport in Rancho Cordova, California, killing all three aboard.
- February 16
Original Koffee
Koffee, Jamaican singer, songwriter and rapper
- February 16
Coby White
Coby White, American basketball player
- February 16
Carlos Yulo
Carlos Yulo, Filipino artistic gymnast
- February 18
Giacomo Raspadori
Giacomo Raspadori, Italian footballer
- February 18
Zakaria Aboukhlal
Zakaria Aboukhlal, Moroccan footballer
- February 20
Josh Sargent
Josh Sargent, American soccer player
- February 23
Femke Broeders-Bol
Femke Broeders-Bol, Dutch hurdler and sprinter
- February 24
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II arrives in Egypt for a three-day stay as part of the Great Jubilee, marking the first papal visit in modern Egyptian history
- February 24
Nichika Yamada
Nichika Yamada, Japanese volleyball player
- February 24
Antony (footballer, born 2000)
Antony Matheus dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
- February 25
Bo Nix
Bo Nix, American football player
- February 26
Yeat
Yeat, American rapper
- February 28
Moise Kean
Moise Kean, Italian footballer
- February 28
Josip Šutalo
Josip Šutalo, Croatian footballer
- February 29
Second Chechen War
Chechens attack a guard post near Ulus Kert, eventually killing 84 Russian paratroopers during the Second Chechen War.
- February 29
Dennis Danell
Dennis Danell, American guitarist (born 1961)
- February 29
Tyrese Haliburton
Tyrese Haliburton, American basketball player
- February 29
Ferran Torres
Ferran Torres, Spanish footballer
- February 29
Jesper Lindstrøm
Jesper Lindstrøm, Danish footballer
March
- March 1
Ja'Marr Chase
Ja'Marr Chase, American football player
- March 2
Illan Meslier
Illan Meslier, French footballer
- March 2
Bárbara Domingos
Bárbara Domingos, Brazilian rhythmic gymnast
- March 3
Jevón Holland
Jevon Holland, Canadian-American football player
- March 4
PlayStation 2
Playstation 2 was released in Japan.
- March 5
Doug Edert
Doug Edert, American basketball player
- March 6
Marine Parade Community Building
The Marine Parade Community Building, the mural cladding of which is the largest installation art in Singapore, was opened.
- March 6
Jacob Bertrand
Jacob Bertrand, American actor
- March 6
Armando Bacot
Armando Bacot, American basketball player
- March 7
Sebastian Schwaighofer
Sebastian Schwaighofer, Austrian politician
- March 7
Rasmus Sandin
Rasmus Sandin, Swedish ice hockey player
- March 7
Pee Wee King
Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (born 1914)
- March 9
Nupedia
Nupedia, a multi-language online encyclopedia, is launched.
- March 9
Khaby Lame
Khaby Lame, Senegalese-Italian social media personality
- March 10
Dot-com bubble
The Dot-com bubble peaks with the NASDAQ Composite stock market index reaching 5,048.62.
- March 10
Nick Bolton
Nick Bolton, American football player
- March 14
Jihoon
Jihoon, South Korean singer
- March 14
Chrisean Rock
Chrisean Rock, American rapper and reality television personality
- March 15
Kristian Kostov
Kristian Kostov, Russian-Bulgarian singer-songwriter
- March 16
Jalen Smith
Jalen Smith, American basketball player
- March 17
Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God
Hundreds of followers of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, a Ugandan sect, died in a mass murder committed by its leaders.
- March 17
Uganda
Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
- March 20
Black Panther Party
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.
- March 20
Hyunjin (Stray Kids singer)
Hyunjin, South Korean rapper
- March 21
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
- March 21
Yoon San-ha
Yoon San-ha, South Korean singer and actor
- March 21
Jace Norman
Jace Norman, American actor
- March 22
Dimitrios Meliopoulos
Dimitrios Meliopoulos, Greek footballer
- March 25
Ozan Kabak
Ozan Kabak, Turkish footballer
- March 26
Andrei Svechnikov
Andrei Svechnikov, Russian ice hockey player
- March 26
Gefen Primo
Gefen Primo, Israeli judoka
- March 27
2000 Phillips explosion
A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others.
- March 27
Halle Bailey
Halle Bailey, American singer-songwriter and actress
- March 27
Sophie Nélisse
Sophie Nélisse, Canadian actress
- March 30
Colton Herta
Colton Herta, American race car driver
April
- April 1
Rhian Brewster
Rhian Brewster, English footballer
- April 2
Rodrigo Riquelme (footballer, born 2000)
Rodrigo Riquelme, Spanish footballer
- April 2
Josip Stanišić
Josip Stanišić, Croatian footballer
- April 3
United States v. Microsoft Corp.
In United States v. Microsoft Corp., Microsoft was found to have violated antitrust law by bundling the web browser Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system.
- April 5
2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence
Fan violence broke out before a UEFA Cup semifinal in Istanbul, Turkey, resulting in two Leeds United supporters being stabbed to death and Galatasaray supporters being banned from attending the second leg in England.
- April 6
Maxence Lacroix
Maxence Lacroix, French footballer
- April 6
Shaheen Shah Afridi
Shaheen Afridi, Pakistani cricketer
- April 9
Jackie Evancho
Jackie Evancho, American singer
- April 9
Tiago Djaló
Tiago Djaló, Portuguese footballer
- April 10
Fidias Panayiotou
Fidias Panayiotou, Cypriot internet celebrity and politician
- April 11
Ken Carson
Ken Carson, American rapper and record producer
- April 11
Karina (South Korean singer)
Karina, South Korean singer
- April 11
Milly Alcock
Milly Alcock, Australian actress
- April 11
Loïc Badé
Loïc Badé, French footballer
- April 11
Calen Addison
Calen Addison, Canadian ice hockey player
- April 13
Facundo Torres
Facundo Torres, Uruguayan footballer
- April 13
Rasmus Dahlin
Rasmus Dahlin, Swedish ice hockey player
- April 14
Patrick Surtain II
Patrick Surtain II, American football player
- April 19
Air Philippines Flight 541
Air Philippines Flight 541 crashed in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board.
- April 22
Elián González
In a pre-dawn raid, U.S. federal agents seized six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami and returned him to his Cuban father.
- April 23
Jeno (singer)
Lee Jeno, South Korean rapper, vocalist and dancer
- April 23
Chloe Kim
Chloe Kim, American snowboarder
- April 25
Dejan Kulusevski
Dejan Kulusevski, Swedish footballer
- April 28
Victoria De Angelis
Victoria De Angelis, Italian musician
- April 28
Alek Thomas
Alek Thomas, American baseball player
- April 30
Faustina Kowalska
Faustina Kowalska, a Polish nun whose apparitions of Jesus inspired the Catholic devotion to the Divine Mercy, was canonized by Pope John Paul II.
- April 30
Canonization
Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.
- April 30
Yui Hiwatashi
Yui Hiwatashi, Japanese singer
- April 30
Dean James (footballer)
Dean James, Indonesian footballer
May
- May 1
Rema (musician)
Rema, Nigerian singer-songwriter and rapper
- May 2
Bill Clinton
President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
- May 3
Geocaching
The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet.
- May 4
Ken Livingstone
Ken Livingstone took office as the first mayor of London.
- May 7
Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
- May 9
Trey Lance
Trey Lance, American football player
- May 10
Jules Deschênes
Jules Deschênes, Canadian lawyer and judge (born 1923)
- May 10
Bae Jin-young
Bae Jin-young, South Korean singer
- May 11
Second Chechen War
Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
- May 11
Wang Chuqin
Wang Chuqin, Chinese table tennis player
- May 11
Yuki Tsunoda
Yūki Tsunoda, Japanese racing driver
- May 13
Enschede fireworks disaster
An explosion at a fireworks factory in Enschede, Netherlands, resulted in 23 deaths and approximately €450 million in damage.
- May 15
Dayana Yastremska
Dayana Yastremska, Ukrainian tennis player
- May 16
Luis García Jr.
Luis García Jr., Dominican-American baseball player
- May 17
Arsenal F.C.
Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen.
- May 17
2000 UEFA Cup semi-final violence
Following the killing of two English football fans by Galatasaray supporters in the previous month, British and Turkish hooligans rioted on the day of the UEFA Cup Final in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- May 18
Ryan Sessegnon
Ryan Sessegnon, English footballer
- May 18
Steven Sessegnon
Steven Sessegnon, English footballer
- May 19
Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-101 to resupply the International Space Station.
- May 21
2000 Executive Airlines British Aerospace Jetstream crash
Nineteen people are killed in a plane crash in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
- May 22
Sri Lanka
In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna.
- May 22
Julián Carranza
Julián Carranza, Argentine footballer
- May 23
Israel Reyes
Israel Reyes, Mexican footballer
- May 23
Felipe Drugovich
Felipe Drugovich, Brazilian-Italian racing driver
- May 24
Southern Lebanon
Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
- May 25
Resistance and Liberation Day (Lebanon)
Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (with the exception of the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 18 years after the invasion of 1982.
- May 25
Claire Liu
Claire Liu, American tennis player
- May 26
Yeji (singer)
Yeji, South Korean singer
- May 27
Abner Vinícius
Abner Vinícius, Brazilian footballer
- May 28
Risi Pouri-Lane
Risi Pouri-Lane, New Zealand rugby sevens player
- May 28
Phil Foden
Phil Foden, English footballer
- May 29
Gennaro Nigro
Gennaro Nigro, American soccer player
- May 29
Adam Zdrójkowski
Adam Zdrójkowski, Polish actor and television presenter
- May 30
Jared S. Gilmore
Jared S. Gilmore, American actor
- May 31
Gable Steveson
Gable Steveson, American wrestler
June
- June 2
Jay Idzes
Jay Idzes, Indonesian footballer
- June 3
Beabadoobee
Beabadoobee, Filipino singer-songwriter
- June 5
Six-Day War (2000)
The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan forces. A large part of the city is destroyed.
- June 6
Haechan
Haechan, South Korean singer
- June 7
United Nations
The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.
- June 7
Ōnosato Daiki
Ōnosato Daiki, Japanese professional sumo wrestler and the 75th yokozuna
- June 8
Jan Paul van Hecke
Jan Paul van Hecke, Dutch footballer
- June 9
Diego Lainez
Diego Lainez, Mexican footballer
- June 9
Laurie Hernandez
Laurie Hernandez, American gymnast
- June 13
Kim Dae-jung
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.
- June 13
Mehmet Ali Ağca
Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
- June 13
Penny Oleksiak
Penny Oleksiak, Canadian swimmer
- June 14
Bobby Witt Jr.
Bobby Witt Jr., American baseball player
- June 14
Naomi Girma
Naomi Girma, American soccer player
- June 14
RJ Barrett
RJ Barrett, Canadian basketball player
- June 16
United Nations Security Council Resolution 425
The Secretary-General of the UN reports that Israel has complied with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425, 22 years after its issuance, and completely withdrawn from Lebanon. The Resolution does not encompass the Shebaa farms, which is claimed by Israel, Syria and Leba
- June 16
Bianca Andreescu
Bianca Andreescu, Canadian tennis player
- June 17
Odessa A'zion
Odessa A'zion, American actress
- June 21
Section 28
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.
- June 21
Bill Clinton
President Bill Clinton awarded the Medal of Honor to 22 Asian Americans, mostly from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, for actions during World War II.
- June 21
Dylan Brown
Dylan Brown, New Zealand rugby league player
- June 22
Wuhan Airlines Flight 343
Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people.
- June 23
Starford To'a
Starford To'a, New Zealand rugby league player
- June 24
Nehuén Pérez
Nehuén Pérez, Argentine footballer
- June 26
Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
- June 26
Ann Li (tennis)
Ann Li, American tennis player
- June 27
Chris Olave
Chris Olave, American football player
July
- July 1
Lalu Muhammad Zohri
Lalu Muhammad Zohri, Indonesian sprinter
- July 2
Vicente Fox
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, in the 2000 Mexican general election.
- July 5
Faouzia
Faouzia, Moroccan-Canadian singer and songwriter
- July 6
Zion Williamson
Zion Williamson, American basketball player
- July 10
Bashar al-Assad
Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria.
- July 10
Airbus
EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
- July 12
Veronica Burton
Veronica Burton, American basketball player
- July 12
Vinícius Júnior
Vinícius Júnior, Brazilian footballer
- July 14
Pepo (cartoonist)
Pepo, Chilean cartoonist; creator of Condorito (born 1911)
- July 17
Jay Prakash Narayan Airport
During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, India, killing 60 people.
- July 18
Sarah Kinsley
Sarah Kinsley, American singer-songwriter
- July 21
Erling Haaland
Erling Haaland, Norwegian footballer
- July 21
Lia (South Korean singer)
Lia, South Korean singer
- July 22
Garrett Wilson
Garrett Wilson, American football player
- July 25
Concorde
Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing 113 people.
- July 25
Air France Flight 4590
Air France Flight 4590 , a Concorde en route from Paris to New York, crashed in Gonesse, France, killing all 109 passengers on board and four people on the ground.
- July 25
Meg Donnelly
Meg Donnelly, American actress
- July 25
Zhang Hao (singer)
Zhang Hao, Chinese singer
- July 25
Shakira Austin
Shakira Austin, American basketball player
- July 26
Thomasin McKenzie
Thomasin McKenzie, New Zealand actress
- July 28
Emile Smith Rowe
Emile Smith Rowe, English footballer
- July 29
Yacine Adli
Yacine Adli, French footballer
- July 31
Mudflow
Three years after being hit by a mudslide, the Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery in Hong Kong fully reopened.
- July 31
Kim Sae-ron
Kim Sae-ron, South Korean actress (died 2025)
August
- August 1
Kim Chaewon
Kim Chaewon, South Korean singer
- August 2
Mohammed Kudus
Mohammed Kudus, Ghanaian footballer
- August 2
Varvara Gracheva
Varvara Gracheva, Russian tennis player
- August 5
Tom Gilbert (rugby league)
Tom Gilbert, Australian rugby league player
- August 7
Lauren Hemp
Lauren Hemp, English footballer
- August 8
H. L. Hunley
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.
- August 8
Félix Auger-Aliassime
Félix Auger-Aliassime, Canadian tennis player
- August 9
Aidan Hutchinson
Aidan Hutchinson, American football player
- August 9
Arlo Parks
Arlo Parks, British singer-songwriter
- August 10
Jüri Vips
Jüri Vips, Estonian racing driver
- August 10
Sophia Wilson
Sophia Smith, American soccer player
- August 11
Air rage
An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm the cockpit, but he is subdued by other passengers and dies from his injuries.
- August 12
Russian submarine Kursk
Kursk, an Oscar-class submarine of the Russian Navy, suffered an on-board explosion and sank in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing 118 people.
- August 12
Russian Navy
The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.
- August 12
Tristan Charpentier
Tristan Charpentier, French racing driver
- August 13
Jaemin
Na Jaemin, South Korean rapper, singer, dancer and actor
- August 14
Johan Rojas
Johan Rojas, Dominican baseball player
- August 17
Lil Pump
Lil Pump, American rapper and songwriter
- August 19
Keegan Murray
Keegan Murray, American basketball player
- August 21
Tiger Woods
American golfer Tiger Woods wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.
- August 21
Corbin Carroll
Corbin Carroll, American baseball player
- August 23
Gulf Air Flight 072
Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
- August 23
Boryana Kaleyn
Boryana Kaleyn, Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast and Olympic silver medalist
- August 24
Griffin Gluck
Griffin Gluck, American actor
- August 25
Nicki Nicole
Nicki Nicole, Argentine rapper and singer-songwriter
- August 26
Kyren Williams
Kyren Williams, American football player
- August 28
Marissa Bode
Marissa Bode, American actress
- August 31
Sauce Gardner
Sauce Gardner, American football player
September
- September 1
Speakers' Corner, Singapore
Speakers' Corner, a free speech area in Hong Lim Park in Singapore, was launched.
- September 1
Pratika Rawal
Pratika Rawal, Indian cricketer
- September 1
Mikhail Iakovlev
Mikhail Iakovlev, Israeli Olympic cyclist
- September 3
Brandon Williams (footballer)
Brandon Williams, English footballer
- September 4
Sergio Gómez (footballer, born 2000)
Sergio Gómez, Spanish footballer
- September 6
Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers hosted the first Pride Night in Major League Baseball history.
- September 6
David Kushner (singer-songwriter)
David Kushner, American singer-songwriter
- September 7
Ariarne Titmus
Ariarne Titmus, Australian swimmer
- September 8
Space Shuttle Atlantis
NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-106 to resupply the International Space Station.
- September 8
Miles McBride
Miles McBride, American basketball player
- September 8
Zak Butters
Zak Butters, Australian footballer
- September 9
Ricky Pearsall
Ricky Pearsall, American football player
- September 10
Operation Barras
British forces freed soldiers and civilians who had been held captive by the militant group the West Side Boys, contributing to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
- September 11
Zay Flowers
Zay Flowers, American football player
- September 11
Leandro Bolmaro
Leandro Bolmaro, Argentine-Italian basketball player
- September 14
Microsoft
Microsoft releases Windows Me.
- September 14
Han (musician)
Han, South Korean rapper
- September 15
Felix (rapper)
Felix, Australian singer based in South Korea, member of Stray Kids
- September 16
Oliver Skipp
Oliver Skipp, English footballer
- September 16
Sam Howell
Sam Howell, American football player
- September 20
2000 MI6 attack
The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
- September 20
Real Irish Republican Army
The Real Irish Republican Army carried out a rocket-launcher attack on the MI6 headquarters in London, with no casualties and minimal damage recorded.
- September 22
Louise Christie
Louise Christie, British rhythm gymnast
- September 22
Stephen Crichton
Stephen Crichton, Samoan rugby league footballer
- September 22
Seungmin
Seungmin, South Korean singer
- September 25
Lilas Ikuta
Lilas Ikuta, Japanese singer and songwriter
- September 26
MS Express Samina
The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
- September 26
2000 Prague anti-globalization protests
Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
- September 26
Princess Salma bint Abdullah
Princess Salma bint Abdullah, Jordanian princess
- September 26
Frankie Amaya
Frankie Amaya, American soccer player
- September 28
Second Intifada
Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
- September 28
Frankie Jonas
Frankie Jonas, American actor, singer, and songwriter
- September 29
Jaden McDaniels
Jaden McDaniels, American basketball player
- September 30
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second Intifada.
- September 30
Killing of Muhammad al-Durrah
Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah was shot dead in the Gaza Strip; the Israel Defense Forces initially accepted responsibility but retracted it five years later.
October
- October 1
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Palestinians protest the killing of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah by Israeli police in northern Israel, beginning the "October 2000 events".
- October 1
Kalle Rovanperä
Kalle Rovanperä, Finnish professional rally driver
- October 2
Quadeca
Quadeca, American singer-songwriter and YouTuber
- October 3
CJ Abrams
CJ Abrams, American baseball player
- October 5
Colour revolution
Colour revolutions: During protests over irregularities in the Yugoslavian general election, a wheel-loader was driven into the Radio Television of Serbia building, giving the protests the nickname "Bulldozer Revolution".
- October 5
Overthrow of Slobodan Milošević
Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.
- October 6
Fernando de la Rúa
Denouncing corruption in Argentine president Fernando de la Rúa's administration and the Senate, Vice President Carlos Álvarez resigned.
- October 6
Kyle Pitts
Kyle Pitts, American football player
- October 6
Addison Rae
Addison Rae, American social media personality, dancer, and singer
- October 6
Jazz Jennings
Jazz Jennings, American internet personality
- October 7
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Hezbollah militants capture three Israeli Defense Force soldiers in a cross-border raid.
- October 9
Penei Sewell
Penei Sewell, American football player
- October 11
STS-92
NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission.
- October 12
USS Cole (DDG-67)
The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer, is badly damaged by two al-Qaeda suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
- October 12
Jongho
Jongho, South Korean singer and actor
- October 12
Mia Threapleton
Mia Threapleton, British actress
- October 15
Melki Sedek Huang
Melki Sedek Huang, Indonesian activist and sex offender
- October 17
Hatfield rail crash
A fatal rail crash at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, led to the introduction of widespread speed limit reductions throughout the British rail network and eventually caused the collapse of the railway management group Railtrack.
- October 18
Sophie Thatcher
Sophie Thatcher, American actress
- October 20
Kenneth Walker III
Kenneth Walker III, American football player
- October 22
Baby Keem
Baby Keem, American rapper and record producer
- October 25
Dominik Szoboszlai
Dominik Szoboszlai, Hungarian footballer
- October 25
Vincent Zhou
Vincent Zhou, American figure skater
- October 26
Robert Guéï
Following protests against military leader Robert Guéï, Laurent Gbagbo (pictured) became the president of Ivory Coast.
- October 30
Giselle (singer)
Giselle, Japanese singer
- October 31
Singapore Airlines Flight 006
Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collided with construction equipment while attempting to take off from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan during heavy rain, killing 83 people aboard.
- October 31
Soyuz TM-31
Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.
- October 31
Willow Smith
Willow Smith, American singer, actress, and dancer
November
- November 1
Serbia and Montenegro
Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
- November 1
Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh officially becomes the 26th state of India, formed from sixteen districts of eastern Madhya Pradesh.
- November 1
Gonzalo Plata
Gonzalo Plata, Ecuadorian footballer
- November 2
Expedition 1
As members of Expedition 1, American astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko (all pictured) became the first resident crew to arrive at the International Space Station.
- November 4
Sun Yingsha
Sun Yingsha, Chinese table tennis player
- November 4
Tyrese Maxey
Tyrese Maxey, American basketball player
- November 7
Drug Enforcement Administration
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
- November 7
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton was elected as a US senator from New York, the first time a first lady had been elected to public office.
- November 7
2000 United States presidential election
The controversial US presidential election is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, electing George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States.
- November 7
Callum Hudson-Odoi
Callum Hudson-Odoi, English footballer
- November 8
Jade Pettyjohn
Jade Pettyjohn, American actress
- November 8
Jasmine Thompson
Jasmine Thompson, English singer
- November 9
Uttarakhand
Uttarakhand officially becomes the 27th state of India, formed from thirteen districts of northwestern Uttar Pradesh.
- November 10
Oliver Sonne
Oliver Sonne, Danish-Peruvian footballer
- November 10
Mackenzie Foy
Mackenzie Foy, American actress and model
- November 10
Scotty Pippen Jr.
Scotty Pippen Jr., American basketball player
- November 11
Kaprun disaster
Kaprun disaster: One hundred fifty-five skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
- November 13
Philippines
Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
- November 13
Sydney Agudong
Sydney Agudong, American actress and singer
- November 14
Xiyeon
Xiyeon, South Korean singer and actress
- November 15
Jharkhand
Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.
- November 15
Antonov An-24
A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
- November 15
Edoardo Agnelli
Edoardo Agnelli, son of the industrialist patriarch Gianni Agnelli, was found dead under a bridge on the outskirts of Turin, Italy.
- November 16
Josh Green (basketball)
Josh Green, Australian basketball player
- November 17
Landslide
A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
- November 17
Alberto Fujimori
Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
- November 17
Joanne Züger
Joanne Züger, Swiss tennis player
- November 20
Connie Talbot
Connie Talbot, English singer-songwriter
- November 21
Isabel May
Isabel May, American actress
- November 21
Matt O'Riley
Matt O'Riley, English-Danish footballer
- November 22
Auliʻi Cravalho
Auliʻi Cravalho, American actress and singer
- November 25
2000 Baku earthquake
The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0 kills 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, being the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
- November 25
Talen Horton-Tucker
Talen Horton-Tucker, American basketball player
- November 25
Kaja Juvan
Kaja Juvan, Slovenian tennis player
- November 26
George W. Bush
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.
- November 26
Lamecha Girma
Lamecha Girma, Ethiopian athlete
- November 28
Jackson Yee
Jackson Yee, Chinese singer, dancer and actor
- November 30
STS-97
NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission.
- November 30
Jane Paknia
Jane Paknia, American musician
December
- December 1
Vicente Fox
Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.
- December 5
Soobin (singer)
Soobin, South Korean singer-songwriter
- December 7
Dane Belton
Dane Belton, American football player
- December 8
DeMario Douglas
DeMario Douglas, American football player
- December 8
Bayron Matos
Bayron Matos, Dominican American football player
- December 8
Andy Pages
Andy Pages, Cuban baseball player
- December 9
Diāna Ņikitina
Diāna Ņikitina, Latvian figure skater
- December 10
Jeremie Frimpong
Jeremie Frimpong, Dutch footballer
- December 11
Onyeka Okongwu
Onyeka Okongwu, American basketball player
- December 12
Supreme Court of the United States
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bush v. Gore that the recount of ballots cast in Florida for the presidential election be stopped, effectively making George W. Bush (pictured) the winner.
- December 13
Simona Waltert
Simona Waltert, Swiss tennis player
- December 15
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
- December 15
Kayvon Thibodeaux
Kayvon Thibodeaux, American football player
- December 17
Wesley Fofana (footballer)
Wesley Fofana, French footballer
- December 18
Korapat Kirdpan
Korapat Kirdpan, Thai actor and singer
- December 18
Jayden Daniels
Jayden Daniels, American football player
- December 18
Travon Walker
Travon Walker, American football player
- December 20
Gaboro
Gaboro, Assyrian Swedish rapper and songwriter (died 2024)
- December 22
Joshua Bassett
Joshua Bassett, American actor and singer
- December 23
Victor Boniface
Victor Boniface, Nigerian footballer
- December 25
Vladimir Putin
Russian president Vladimir Putin signed into law a bill officially adopting a new national anthem, with music by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov originally composed for the anthem of the Soviet Union.
- December 25
Wilfried Singo
Wilfried Singo, Ivorian footballer
- December 29
Julio Rodríguez
Julio Rodríguez, Dominican baseball player
- December 29
Eliot Vassamillet
Eliot Vassamillet, Belgian singer
- December 29
Orkun Kökçü
Orkun Kökçü, Dutch-Turkish footballer
- December 30
Rizal Day bombings
A series of bombings occurred around Metro Manila in the Philippines, killing 22 people and injuring around 100 others.
- December 31
Alycia Parks
Alycia Parks, American tennis player
Questions about 2000
What happened in 2000?
This site records 393 entries for 2000, including Ice Spice on January 1. They are listed below by date.
How long ago was 2000?
26 years ago, counting from 2026. Anyone born in 2000 turns 26 this year.
Which century is 2000 in?
2000 falls in the 20th century, in the 2000s.
Which generation was born in 2000?
Generation Z (1997–2012). First generation raised with smartphones and social media.
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