48 events found for 2000
Wuhan Airlines Flight 343 is struck by lightning and crashes into Wuhan's Hanyang District, killing 49 people
The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence
Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional,…
EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
Bashar al-Assad succeeds his father Hafez al-Assad as President of Syria.
During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential…
Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport,…
Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its…
An air rage incident occurs on board Southwest Airlines Flight 1763 when 19-year-old Jonathan Burton attempts to storm…
The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire…
American golfer Tiger Woods wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win…
Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-106 to resupply the International Space Station.
Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of…
The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22…
Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 20,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
The MS Express Samina sinks off Paros in the Aegean Sea killing 80 passengers.
Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Twelve-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah is shot and killed on the second day of the Second…