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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 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 ...
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.
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Seven years later, Sean Ryan and Joseph LePore are convicted of arson and sentenced to five years in prison. [7] 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.
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 ...
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.