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- 2000 was the first century leap year since 1600.
- Rains in Africa lead to the worst flooding in Mozambique in 50 years, which lasts until March and killed 800 people.
· - campaign between then Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. Al Gore won the popular vote.
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LaoJanuary 10, America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger).
February 6, Tarja Halonen is elected the first female president of Finland.
March 4, The PlayStation 2 is released in Japan, and in North America several months later. It becomes the best-selling game console of all time.
March 12, Pope John Paul II apologizes for the wrongdoings by members of the Roman Catholic Church throughout the ages.
April 3, United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
May 5, A rare conjunction of 7 celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets Mercury-Saturn) occurs during the New Moon.
May 11, The billionth living person in India is born.
December 15, Disney's Paradise Pier Hotel opens at the Disneyland Resort.
In the year 2000 Europe faced a mad cow disease scare, George W. Bush became president of the US, the Whitewater investigation ended, Elián González was returned to his father in Cuba and socialist Ricardo Lagos was elected in Chile. It was also the year that Hillary Rodham Clinton became a New York Senate candidate.
The beginning of 2000 was the beginning of the 21'st century. Also George Bush was elected as President, and would go on to serve eight years.
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What historical events happened by 1700 in America?
many many things
What will happen in 2010?
My psychic prediction for the year 2010 is that many things will happen, and among these many things will be some good things and some bad things. Some people will die, and other people will be born. And so forth.
What happened during the american revolution-?
George Washington became the commander in chief of the Patriot forces. With the help of the French, Washington trapped the British at Yorktown and won the war.
What important things happened on february 17th 1996?
Gus Hardin died in a car accident as did Evelyn Laye, Henry Guinness and Jean Writer-Pierre Herve Bazin
Why was the City of Cydonia so important to the people at that time?
because people worshiped it like it was god.people thought it was very important because good things happened to the people that prayed for the city of cydonia
