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2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace [1] and the World Mathematical Year. [2] Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium [citation needed], [3] because of a tendency to group the years according to decimal values, as if non-existent year zero were counted.
It was the beginning of the end for Concorde as an airliner; the type was retired three years later. On August 12, 2000, the Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sank in the Barents Sea, killing all 118 men on board. On November 11, 2000, the Kaprun disaster occurred. 155 people perished in a fire that broke out on a train in the Austrian Alps.
The most difficult years were 2000–2001, precipitating the worst years of the American recession. The European Union introduced a new currency on January 1, 1999. The euro , which was met with much anticipation, had its value immediately plummet, and it continued to be a weak currency throughout 2000 and 2001.
Graph of conflict deaths from 1990 to 2002. The spike of one-sided violence in 1994 is mostly due to the Rwandan genocide.. This is a list of wars that began between 1990 and 2002.
Albania officially joins the World Trade Organization. The United Nations Millennium Declaration is made in New York; September 16 – Peru's president Alberto Fujimori calls for new elections in which he will not run. September 26 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 15,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits.
October 26 – The New York Yankees defeat the New York Mets in Game 5 of the 2000 World Series, 4–1, to win their 26th World Series title. This is the first Subway Series matchup between the two crosstown rivals. It is the Yankees' fourth World Series win under manager Joe Torre.
Twenty-four years ago, in March 2000, Cisco Systems was the most valuable company in the world. ... Many readers will know what happened next. The boom was a bubble and, as our Chart of the Week ...
October 23: At the end of an 11-year demining process, the Falkland Islands are declared free of land mines, 38 years after the end of the Falklands War. October 29: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) confirms the death of least 140 migrants who drowned off the coast of Senegal on a vessel bound for the Spanish Canary Islands.