2000

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2000 is the last year in the 20th century. It is a leap year. Y2K passes without the serious computer failures.

[edit] Events

  • January 1
    • Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world. Y2K passes without the serious, widespread computer failures and malfunctions that had been predicted.
    • Unification of Szeged's universities, called University of Szeged.
  • January 5-January 8 - The 2000 al-Qaida Summit
  • January 10 - America On-line announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.
  • January 11 - AIS, the armed wing of FIS, concludes its negotiations with the government for an amnesty and disbands in Algeria.
  • January 11 - The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man.
  • January 14 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
  • January 16 - In Sacramento, California a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the state capitol building killing the driver.
  • January 31 - Dr Harold Shipman in sentenced to life in prison for murder of at least 15 of his patients out of 365 suspected victims.

[edit] Films Released

  • Dr. T and the Women
  • The Gift

[edit] New Books

  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay: A Novel - Michael Chabon
  • The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
  • The Bear And The Dragon - Tom Clancy
  • The Beatles Anthology - The Beatles
  • Blackberry Wine - Joanne Harris
  • The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
  • The Brethren - John Grisham
  • Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace - Lawrence Lessig
  • Code to Zero - Ken Follett
  • Daughter Of Fortune - Isabel Allende
  • Deadly Decisions - Kathy Reichs
  • Deck The Halls - Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
  • Doubleshot - Raymond Benson
  • Drowning Ruth - Christina Schwarz
  • A Friend of the Earth - T. C. Boyle
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
  • Hayati, My Life - Miriam Cooke
  • Her Infinite Variety - Louis Auchincloss
  • The Hiding Place - Trezza Azzopardi
  • The House On Hope Street - Danielle Steel
  • The Human Stain - Philip Roth
  • The Indwelling - Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
  • Ingrid Caven - Jean-Jacques Schuhl
  • Journey - Danielle Steel
  • The Last Precinct - Patricia Cornwell
  • Look to Windward - Iain M. Banks
  • The Mark - Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
  • The Measure Of A Man - Sidney Poitier
  • Morgan's Run - Colleen McCullough
  • Omertà - Mario Puzo
  • The Pagan Book of Halloween - Gerina Dunwich
  • The Prayer of Jabez - Bruce Wilkinson & David Kopp
  • Parallel journeys - Elanor Ayer
  • Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Prometheus Deception - Robert Ludlum
  • Roses Are Red - James Patterson
  • Stardust and Shadows: Canadians in Early Hollywood - Charles Foster
  • True History of the Kelly Gang - Peter Carey
  • The Truth - Terry Pratchett
  • When I Lived in Modern Times - Linda Grant
  • White Teeth - Zadie Smith
  • The Will - Reed Arvin
  • Winter Solstice - Rosamunde Pilcher
  • Winter's Heart - Robert Jordan
  • Your Magickal Cat - Gerina Dunwich