Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean all 88 passengers and crew are killed.January 30 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the Ivory Coast into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.The United Nations' International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of the Dot-com bubble).January 10 – America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger).January 6 – The last natural Pyrenean ibex is found dead, apparently killed by a falling tree.
January 2 – Kosheh massacres: Twenty Coptic Christians are massacred by Muslim villagers in Kosheh, Egypt.As a result of massive effort, relatively few problems occurred. However, by the end of 1999, many companies had already converted to new, or upgraded, existing software. The year 2000 was the subject of Y2K concerns, which were fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctly. The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as "Y2K" (the "Y" stands for "year", and the "K" stands for " kilo" which means "thousand"). (More further information, see century and millennium.) Since the Gregorian calendar does not have year zero, its first millennium spanned from years 1 to 1000 inclusively and its second millennium from years 1001 to 2000. According to the Gregorian calendar, these distinctions fall to the year 2001, because the 1st century was retroactively said to start with the year AD 1. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium because of a tendency to group the years according to decimal values, as if year zero were counted. Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2000.Ģ000 ( MM) was a century leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2000th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 1000th and last year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 2000s decade.Ģ000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematical Year. Establishments and disestablishments categoriesĢ000 in various calendars Gregorian calendar
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