2000

2000 is the last year in the 20th century. It is a leap year. Y2K passes without the serious computer failures.

Events

• January 1
  • Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world. Y2K passes without the serious, widespread computer failures and malfunctions that had been predicted.
  • Unification of Szeged's universities, called University of Szeged.
• January 5-January 8 - The 2000 al-Qaida Summit
• January 10 - America On-line announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.
• January 11 - AIS, the armed wing of FIS, concludes its negotiations with the government for an amnesty and disbands in Algeria.
• January 11 - The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man.
• January 14 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
• January 16 - In Sacramento, California a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the state capitol building killing the driver.
• January 31 - Dr Harold Shipman in sentenced to life in prison for murder of at least 15 of his patients out of 365 suspected victims.
• February 13 - The last Peanuts comic strip is published.

Nobel prize winners

• Chemistry - Alan Heeger
• Chemistry - Alan G. MacDiarmid
• Chemistry - Hideki Shirakawa
• Economics - James J. Heckman
• Economics - Daniel L. McFadden
• Literature - Gao Xingjian
• Medicine - Arvid Carlsson
• Medicine - Paul Greengard
• Medicine - Eric R. Kandel
• Peace - Kim Dae-jung
• Physics - Zhores I. Alferov
• Physics - Jack S. Kilby
• Physics - Herbert Kroemer

Films Released

• Dr. T and the Women
• The Gift
• Pokemon:The First Movie

New Books

• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel - Michael Chabon
• The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
• The Bear And The Dragon - Tom Clancy
• The Beatles Anthology - The Beatles
• Blackberry Wine - Joanne Harris
• The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
• The Brethren - John Grisham
• Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace - Lawrence Lessig
• Code to Zero - Ken Follett
• Daughter Of Fortune - Isabel Allende
• Deadly Decisions - Kathy Reichs
• Deck The Halls - Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
• Doubleshot - Raymond Benson
• Drowning Ruth - Christina Schwarz
• A Friend of the Earth - T. C. Boyle
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
• Hayati, My Life - Miriam Cooke
• Her Infinite Variety - Louis Auchincloss
• The Hiding Place - Trezza Azzopardi
• The House On Hope Street - Danielle Steel
• The Human Stain - Philip Roth
• The Indwelling - Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
• Ingrid Caven - Jean-Jacques Schuhl
• Journey - Danielle Steel
• The Last Precinct - Patricia Cornwell
• Look to Windward - Iain M. Banks
• The Mark - Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
• The Measure Of A Man - Sidney Poitier
• Morgan's Run - Colleen McCullough
• Omertà - Mario Puzo
• The Pagan Book of Halloween - Gerina Dunwich
• The Prayer of Jabez - Bruce Wilkinson & David Kopp
• Parallel journeys - Elanor Ayer
• Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
• The Prometheus Deception - Robert Ludlum
• Roses Are Red - James Patterson
• Stardust and Shadows: Canadians in Early Hollywood - Charles Foster
• True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
• The Truth - Terry Pratchett
• When I Lived in Modern Times - Linda Grant
• White Teeth - Zadie Smith
• The Will - Reed Arvin
• Winter Solstice - Rosamunde Pilcher
• Winter's Heart - Robert Jordan
• Your Magickal Cat - Gerina Dunwich