Events That Happened in 2000

2000 Events

2000 Aug 29 Scorpions release Moment of Glory
Moment of Glory is a 2000 album by German heavy metal band Scorpions with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. All titles were arranged by Christian Kolonovits. At first the English compose...
2000 Aug 29 The Vandals release Look What I Almost Stepped In...
Look What I Almost Stepped In... is the eighth studio album by the southern California punk rock band The Vandals, released in 2000 by Nitro Records. It was the band's final album for Nit...
2000 Sep Opening of Auschwitz Jewish Center
The main exhibition presents the nearly 500 years of Jewish history, tradition, and culture in Oswiecim. Visitors to the Center have the opportunity to connect with Oswiecim’s pre-war Jew...
2000 Sep
to 2005 Feb
Second (al-Aqsa) Intifada
The Second Intifada, also known as the al-Aqsa Intifada was the second Palestinian uprising, a period of intensified Palestinian-Israeli violence, which began in late September 2000. "Al-...
2000 Sep 5 The Smashing Pumpkins release MACHINA II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music
MACHINA II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music is the sixth studio album by American alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins. It was released for free on the Internet on September 5...
2000 Sep 8 "Calle 54" Is Released
Calle 54 is a 2000 documentary film about Latin jazz by Spanish director Fernando Trueba. With only minimal introductory voiceovers, the film consists of studio performances by a wide arr...
2000 Sep 9 Joint Security Area is Released
Joint Security Area (2000) is a South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook. Its plot revolves around efforts to unravel the truth behind an illegal shooting at the politically and milit...
2000 Sep 13 "Sexy Beast" Is Released
Sexy Beast is a 2000 British film directed by Jonathan Glazer, starring Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley and Ian McShane. Produced by Jeremy Thomas, it was Glazer's debut feature film. He had p...
2000 Sep 15 FDA Approves Abbott's Kaletra
Kaletra, a combination of antiviral medications lopinavir and ritonavir, belongs to a group of HIV medicines called protease inhibitors. These medicines prevents human immunodeficiency vi...
2000 Sep 15
to 2000 Oct 1
Games of the XXVII Olympiad Held in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The Sydney 2000 Summer Olympic Games or the Millennium Games/Games of the New Millennium, officially known as the Games of the XXVII Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event whic...
2000 Sep 19 Cannibal Corpse releases Live Cannibalism
Live Cannibalism is a live album by American death metal band Cannibal Corpse, released in 2000 through Metal Blade Records. It was also released as a DVD.
2000 Sep 19 Madonna Releases Music
Music is the eighth studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna, released on September 19, 2000 by Maverick Records. On its release, it set a new company record for Warner Music In...
2000 Sep 22 UFC 27: Ultimate Bad Boyz
UFC 27: Ultimate Bad Boyz was a mixed martial arts event held by the Ultimate Fighting Championship on September 22, 2000 at Lake Front Arena in New Orleans, Louisiana. The event featu...
2000 Sep 25 Napalm Death release Enemy of the Music Business
Enemy of the Music Business is the ninth album by the British band Napalm Death released in 2000. This album along with Words from the Exit Wound are the only Napalm Death studio albums t...
2000 Sep 26 Corrosion of Conformity release America's Volume Dealer
America's Volume Dealer is the sixth album by Corrosion of Conformity and was released Sep 26, 2000. This was the last album to feature longtime drummer Reed Mullin for 9 years until his ...
2000 Sep 28 Franklin Jonas born
Franklin Jonas is the fourth Jonas brother. He is sometimes referred to as the "Bonus Jonas"
2000 Oct FDA Approves Immunex's Novantrone to Reduce Disability and the Number of Relapses in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis
Novantrone has been approved for use in reducing neurologic disability and/or the frequency of relapses in patients with secondary (chronic) progressive, progressive relapsing, or worseni...
2000 Oct
to 2000 Nov
Joh O'Neill and the USS Cole Investigation
John O'Neill was the on-scene commander of the FBI investigations of the USS Cole attack. He was removed because of the problems between him and the US ambassador, Barbara Bodine, in Yem...
2000 Oct October 2000 events
The October 2000 events is a term used to describe several days of protests in northern Israel that soon escalated into clashes between Arab citizens of Israel and the Israeli Police. The...
2000 Oct Stephen King publishes Secret Windows
Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing is a collection of short stories, essays, speeches, and book excerpts by Stephen King, published in 2000. It was marketed by Boo...
2000 Oct USS Cole Attacked by Al Queda
The USS Cole was the victim of a suicide attack by two of Al Queda's men. This attack killed 17 U.S. Navy sailors. The boat did not sink.
2000 Oct 2 Radiohead releases their fourth studio album, "Kid A"
Kid A is the fourth album by the English alternative rock band Radiohead, released in October 2000. A commercial success worldwide, Kid A went platinum in its first week of release in the...
2000 Oct 3 Stephen King publishes On Writing
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft is an autobiography and writing guide by Stephen King, published in 2000. It is a book about the prolific author's experiences as a writer. Although he d...
2000 Oct 4 Muse Releases "Random 1-8 EP"
Random 1-8 is the third extended play (EP) by English alternative rock band Muse. The EP was released in Japan only by Avex Trax on 4 October 2000, to promote the band's tour there. The E...
2000 Oct 7 Hezbollah cross-border raid
On October 7, 2000, three Israeli soldiers were abducted by Hezbollah while patrolling the Israeli occupied side of the Syrian-Lebanese border. The soldiers were killed either during the ...
2000 Oct 9 U2 releases "Beautiful Day" single
"Beautiful Day" is the first song and lead single from U2's 2000 album, All That You Can't Leave Behind. It was a commercial success, helping launch the album to multi-platinum status, an...
2000 Oct 12 Ramallah lynching
The 2000 Ramallah lynching was a violent incident in October 2000 of the Second Intifada in which a Palestinian mob lynched two Israeli soldiers, Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami, who ha...
2000 Oct 12 USS Cole is Bombed
The USS Cole bombing was a suicide attack against the United States Navy destroyer USS Cole on October 12, 2000, while it was harbored and refueled in the Yemen port of Aden. Seventeen Am...
2000 Oct 17 Jay-Z releases "I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)" single
"I Just Wanna Love U (Give It 2 Me)" is a song by Jay-Z, released as the first single from his 2000 album The Dynasty: Roc La Familia. It is produced by The Neptunes and features a chorus...
2000 Oct 17 Limp Bizkit release Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water
Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water is the third album by Limp Bizkit, released on October 15, 2000 through Interscope and Flip records. It debuted at number one on the Bill...
2000 Oct 17 Morbid Angel releases Gateways to Annihilation
Gateways to Annihilation is the sixth studio album by the death metal band Morbid Angel (excluding the release of Abominations of Desolation). This album saw a change in musical style ...
2000 Oct 21
to 2000 Oct 26
2000 World Series
2000 World Series After a forty-four year absence (1956) the Subway Series finally returned to the Big Apple matching the ever-present New York Yankees against their cross-town rivals,...
2000 Oct 24 Overkill releases Bloodletting
Bloodletting is the eleventh full-length album released by the thrash metal band Overkill in the fall of 2000, and the first after the departure of guitarists Joe Comeau and Sebastian Mar...
2000 Oct 24 Pennywise releases Live @ the Key Club
Live @ the Key Club is the only live album released by California punk rock band Pennywise. It was released in 2000.
2000 Oct 25 Unveiling of Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial
The Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial (German: Mahnmal für die 65.000 ermordeten österreichischen Juden und Jüdinnen der Shoah) also known as the Nameless Library stands in Judenplatz in the ...
2000 Oct 26 Sony Releases Playstation 2 in North America
The PlayStation 2 (often shortened to PS2) is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony. The successor to the PlayStation, and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3, the P...
2000 Oct 30 U2 releases tenth studio album, "All That You Can't Leave Behind"
All That You Can't Leave Behind is the tenth studio album by the Irish rock band U2, released in 2000 by Island Records in the UK and Interscope Records in the U.S. The album signaled the...
2000 Oct 31 Destiny's Child releases "Independent Women Part 1" single
"Independent Women" is a song by American girl group Destiny's Child. It was written and produced by Beyoncé Knowles, Sam Barnes, Jean-Claude Olivier and Cory Rooney for the group's third...
2000 Oct 31 Jay-Z releases fifth studio album "The Dynasty: Roc La Familia"
The Dynasty: Roc La Familia is the 5th studio album released by American rapper Jay-Z. Originally a Roc-A-Fella Records collaboration album, a showcase for Roc-A-Fella artists such as Mem...
2000 Oct 31 "Midian" Is Released
Midian is the fourth studio album by Cradle of Filth, released on Halloween 2000. At the time it was considered their most commercial and accessible album to date. It is inspired by Clive...
2000 Nov 2
to 2001 Mar 27
"John Titor" Presents The Internet With a Dystopian Future (Omaha, Nebraska is the Capitol of the US)
John Titor is the name used on several bulletin boards during 2000 and 2001 by a poster claiming to be a time traveler from the year 2036. In these posts he made numerous predictions (a n...
2000 Nov 6 Pets.com Announces Closure
Pets.com is a former dot-com enterprise that sold pet supplies to retail customers. It began operations in February 1999 and folded in November 2000. A high profile marketing campaign gav...
2000 Nov 7 Blink-182 releases The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!)
The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!) is the first and only live album by the American pop punk band Blink-182. Produced by Jerry Finn, the album was released on Novembe...
2000 Nov 7 Hillary Rodham Clinton elected to US Senate from New York
The long-serving United States Senator from New York, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, announced his retirement in November 1998. Several prominent Democratic figures, including Representative Ch...
2000 Nov 7 Jesse Jackson Jr. Wins Reelection to the House of Representatives
Jackson won reelection in the 2000 House of Representatives elections by a 90–10 margin over Robert Gordon.
2000 Nov 7 Steve Vai Releases "The Seventh Song"
The Seventh Song is a 2000 album by guitarist Steve Vai. It is his first compilation album, but unlike a standard "greatest hits" or "best of" album, this one has an unusual twist: all of...
2000 Nov 7 Yngwie Malmsteen Releases "War to End All Wars"
War to End All Wars is an album by Yngwie J. Malmsteen, released in 2000 by Spitfire Records in North America simultaneously with Pony Canyon's release in Japan and Dream Catcher's in Eur...
2000 Nov 8 South Park Episode 411 - "4th Grade"
The kids have to face the 4th grade, and they're not too happy about it. Cartman cooks up a scheme to go back in time to return to the 3rd grade where things were fun and easy. Two geeks ...
2000 Nov 11 Kaprun Disaster
On the morning of 11 November 2000, 167 men, women and children boarded a funicular train that should have taken them to the Kitzsteinhorn glacier. But 155 of them died in the blaze, i...
2000 Nov 14 Andre Nickatina Releases "These R the Tales"
These R the Tales is the seventh album released by rapper, Andre Nickatina. It was released on November 14, 2000, for Fillmoe Coleman Records and was produced by Andre Nickatina, Nick Pea...