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Three years later, Sean Ryan and Joseph LePore are convicted of arson and sentenced to five years in prison. January 26 – The rap-metal band Rage Against the Machine plays in front of Wall Street, prompting an early closing of trading due to the crowds.
January 14 – A United Nations tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of over 100 Bosnian Muslims in a Bosnian village. [ 1 ] January 24 – God's Army , a Karen militia group led by twins Johnny and Luther Htoo , takes 700 hostages at a Thai hospital near the Burmese border.
The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as "Y2K" (the "Y" stands for "year", and the "K" stands for "kilo" which means "thousand"). [4] [5] The year 2000 was the subject of Y2K concerns, which were fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctly. However, by the end of 1999, many companies had already converted to new, or ...
It’s been 16 years since a tornado struck downtown Fort Worth on March 28, 2000. Cars were tumbled in debris outside the Cash America building on West Seventh Street in Fort Worth on the day ...
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.
1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.
Mariah Carey's 2005 album "The Emancipation of Mimi" was the biggest-selling album in 2005 and led to Carey being nominated for multiple Grammy awards. ... 2000. Fewer than five years later, the ...
2000 — The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the USS Cole is bombed in Yemeni waters, killing seventeen U.S. Navy sailors. 2000 — U.S. presidential election, 2000: Initial result inconclusive and the result in Florida is disputed. George W. Bush is certified president after a Supreme Court ruling.