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The site today is a block-long, four-story development that includes World of Beer. The Bank One Tower, in the foreground looking west, was heavily damaged by the March 28, 2000, tornado.
May 19 – Walt Disney Pictures' 39th feature film, Dinosaur, is released. May 24 – Five people are shot and killed during a robbery at a Wendy's in Queens, New York. May 28 – The comic strip Bringing Up Father ends its 87-year run in newspapers. May – Northern Lights Local Exchange Point is founded. [12]
November 2 – The Godless Americans March on Washington brings together 2,000 atheists, freethinkers, agnostics, and humanists in a mile-long parade down the National Mall. November 3 – The 7.9 M w Denali earthquake shakes the Alaska Interior with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), causing one injury and $20–56 million in losses.
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 ...
But retaining a top 20 spot has required them to grow dramatically more wealthy since 2000. For example, Ellison's net worth has more than quadrupled from $47 billion to $217 billion. Buffett's ...
If 2020 was a difficult year for most of the country, 2021 represented a reprieve - but mostly just because of the extremely low bar set by the previous year.The nation in 2020 was locked down by ...
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.
Scientists have unveiled a detailed snapshot of human migrations in Europe during the first millennium AD by employing a more precise method of analysing ancestry through ancient DNA.. Documenting ...