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Major Events of 2000
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A man in Times Square wears large novelty glasses shaped as 2000 and a Millennium 2000 hat, smiling amid a crowd on New Year's Eve 1999. Agua Fria National Monument, central Arizona Eros asteroid A Ugandan policeman and another man attach a handwritten sign reading health hazard keep out of bounds to a post on church grounds, with people and buildings in the background. Vermont civil union celebration Mayor of London South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung, left, speaks with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il during a lunch in Pyongyang after a summit on June 15, 2000. Air France flight 4590 Steel Dragon 2000 Golden sisters

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A man in Times Square wears large novelty glasses shaped as 2000 and a Millennium 2000 hat, smiling amid a crowd on New Year's Eve 1999.
A reveler welcoming in the New Year in Times Square, New York, December 31, 1999.

Major Events of 2000

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Mindy Johnston
Mindy Spitzer Johnston is Managing Editor at Encyclopædia Britannica. 
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The following timeline of events for the year 2000 was first published in the Britannica Book of the Year (2001). The first year of the new millennium or the last year of the old? What was that rule about calculating leap years? Whatever the math, every day of 2000 was filled with events to alter and illuminate our times. “We are fortunate to be alive at this moment in history. Never before has our nation...

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