Can you believe it? 2000 was 20 years ago already!!

January 1st 2000 - the world was ringing in the new year and finding out that the Y2k bug was a minor issue. (I.O.W., the most anti-climactic event in computer history as all computers managed to fully function, just as they should have been doing.)

Yes 20 years ago tonight I was at what was supposed to be an all night new years eve party.  About 5 hours from home.  About 3am things turned sour and I had to leave.  So as I was driving home half asleep I was praying there would be no issues with my bank account or gas pumps or whatever.  No issues.  Arrived home about 8am new years day and zonked out most of the day.

Physical devices ceasing to function seemed outlandish.  But I expected more software glitches than there were.  Even my Tandy 386SX/33 I was using at the time worked perfectly, and even years later when I plugged it in for kicks.

I knew people who bought generators and stockpiled food and gas fearing Y2K.  Which isn't a bad idea in general considering all the winter storms we get.

20 years ago I was alone and it was my first winter in my first house.  Now this is my first winter alone in my next house.  In some ways not much has changed.

On January 1, 2000, I was heading back home from a big New Years Eve Party at my parents friends house as a 5 year old lol.

The final edition of the Peanuts comic strip was published on January 3rd 2000.

A month later, its creator Charles Schulz would pass away.

January 10th 2000 - America Online announces it is buying Time Warner, in a stock-trade deal valued at $160 billion, the largest in corporate history. The new firm, AOL Time Warner, will have a combined value of $350 billion.

January 10th 2000 - America Online announces it is buying Time Warner, in a stock-trade deal valued at $160 billion, the largest in corporate history. The new firm, AOL Time Warner, will have a combined value of $350 billion.
January 11th 2000 - The merger between AOL and Time Warner was approved by the U.S. government with restrictions.

January 11th 2000 - The U.S. Postal Service unveiled the second Vietnam Veterans Memorial commemorative stamp in a ceremony at The Wall.

January 11th 2000, It was reported that Whitney Houston was under investigation after allegedly trying to smuggle 15.2 grams of Marijuana out of Hawaii. A security officer found the drug in the singer's handbag, Houston then walked away when he tried to detain her.

January 12th 2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5-4 ruling, gave police broad authority to stop and question people who run at the sight of an officer.

January 14th 2000 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98, a level never reached before (the peak of the Dot-com bubble).

January 16th 2000 - In Sacramento, California, a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the State Capitol building, killing the driver.

January 16th 2000 - Ricardo Lagos was elected Chile's first socialist president since Salvador Allende.

January 14th 2000 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98, a level never reached before (the peak of the Dot-com bubble).

It wouldn't get back to that level again for another six years, due to a "bear market" that followed.

January 21st 2000 – Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutiérrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.

January 22nd 2000 - Elian Gonzalez's grandmothers met privately with U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno as they appealed for help in removing the boy from his Florida relatives and reuniting him with his father in Cuba.

January 22nd 2000 - In San Francisco, California, Microsoft unveils the Windows 2000 operating system. 1.5 million copies are sold in the first two months.

January 30th 2000: Super Bowl XXXIV was played at Georgia Dome in Atlanta; the St. Louis Rams defeated the Tennessee Titans by a score of 23 to 16.

(The Rams had left L.A. after the 1994 season, but would later return there in the 2010s.)

February 6th 2000:
In the Second Chechen War, Battle of Grozny (1999–2000) ends with Russian forces conclude capture of the Chechen capital Grozny.

February 11th 2000 - A blast from an explosive device in front of a Barclay's Bank across from the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street wounds dozens but kills none.

February 11th 2000 - Great Britain suspended self-rule in Northern Ireland after the Irish Republican Army (IRA) failed to begin decommissioning (disarming) by a February deadline.

February 11th 2000 - The space shuttle Endeavour took off. The mission was to gather information for the most detailed map of the earth ever made.

February 13th 2000 - On "The Simpsons," Maude Flanders was "killed off."

February 13th 2000 - On "The Simpsons," Maude Flanders was "killed off."


I have seen that episode. :\'(

February 14th 2000: The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.

February 18th 2000 - The U.S. Commerce Department reported a deficit in trade goods and services of $271.3 billion for 1999. It was the largest calendar-year trade gap in U.S. history.

February 18th 2000, An American court ordered the release of FBI files relating to John Lennon's interests and activities including his support for the Irish Republican cause and the Workers Revolutionary Party. The British Government told the US that it wanted the files to remain secret. MI5 also had files on Lennon, which they had passed on the FBI during the 70's.

February 25th 2000 - In Albany, NY, a jury acquitted four New York City police officers of second-degree murder and lesser charges in the February 1999 shooting death of Amadou Diallo.

February 25th 2000 - In Albany, NY, a jury acquitted four New York City police officers of second-degree murder and lesser charges in the February 1999 shooting death of Amadou Diallo.


This day was a Friday, and I remember the American TV series Who Wants To Be A Millionaire having a special airing that night, at 8:30pm. During that month they didn't normally air on Fridays; it was usually Sundays, Tuesdays, and (I think) Thursdays.

February 25th 2000, The five original Spice Girls were facing a bill of up to £1 million ($1.7 million) after losing a legal battle against the sponsors of their 1988 world tour. The Aprilia Scoter Company had claimed the girls knew of Geri's impending departure.

On Leap Day 2000:

During the Second Chechen War, 84 Russian paratroopers are killed in a rebel attack on a guard post near Ulus Kert.

In country music, female trio The Dixie Chicks released their song "Goodbye Earl" as a single.

In music overall, several music albums are released, including Two Against Nature from Steely Dan and MTV Unplugged from Shakira.

Also, A rare century leap year date (that is, in a year ending in double-zero) occurs. Usually, century years are common years due to not being exactly divisible by 400. 2000 is the first such year to have a February 29 since the year 1600, making it only the second such occasion since the Gregorian Calendar was introduced in the late 16th century. The next such leap year will occur in 2400.

March 3rd 1990 - Carole Gist, age 20, (Michigan), crowned 39th Miss USA.

March 3rd 2000, Tom Jones won the Best male artist at this year's Brit Awards. Other winners included Travis for Best band and Best album 'The Man Who.' Best single went to Robbie Williams for 'She's The One', Five won Best pop act, TLC won Best International group, Beck won Best International Male, Macy Gray won Best newcomer and Outstanding Contribution went to The Spice Girls.

March 5th 2000, Former rap artist MC Hammer became a preacher at the Jubilee Christian Centre in San Jose. Hammer had been declared bankrupt in 1996 after squandering his $50 million (£29.4 million) fortune.

March 10th 2000 - The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signalling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.

March 10th 2000, Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde was arrested for leading an animal rights protest against the clothing firm Gap, who were accused of using leather from cows slaughtered 'illegally and cruelly'. The protest took place in a store in Manhattan.

March 15th 2000, Mick Jagger was ordered to increase his child support payments to Brazilian model Luciana Morad from $5,500 (£3,235) a month to $10,000 (£5,888). Mick was asked to confirm that he was the father of her child by the court, while Ms Morad was seeking a $10 million (£3.8 million) settlement. Morad told the court her monthly expenses: $3,500 (£2,065) for a nanny; $2,500, £3,000 for food and $3,350 (£1,970) to rent her place on New York's Upper West Side.

March 16th 2000 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises by 499.19 points (4.93 percent), its second-largest one-day point gain.

March 17th 2000 – Five hundred thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.

March 17th 2000 - In Norway, Jens Stotenberg and the Labour Party took office as Prime Minister. The coalition government of Kjell Magne Bondevik resigned on March 9 as a result of an environmental dispute.

March 17, 2000 - Final Destination, the first film in the long-running cheating-death horror franchise, was released in theaters.

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March 18, 2000 - Destiny's Child's "Say My Name" hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

March 19th 2000 - U.S. President Bill Clinton arrives in New Delhi, India, for a state visit.

March 19th 2000 - Vector Data Systems conducted a simulation of the 1993 Branch Davidian siege in Waco, TX. The simulation showed that the government had not fired first.

March 19, 2000 - The Simpsons episode "Bart to the Future" premiered on Fox.  The episode has become famous for predicting a Donald Trump presidency.

March 20th 2000 – Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.

March 26th 2000 - In Russia, acting President Vladimir Putin was elected president outright. He won a sufficient number of votes to avoid a runoff election.

March 26th 2000 - In Seattle, Washington, the Kingdome sports arena is demolished into a mound of rubble over 65 feet high, to make way for a new stadium.

March 26th 2000 - The Seattle Kingdome was demolished by implosion; the Seahawks' new stadium, Seahawks Stadium (now known as CenturyLink Field) was built on the site and opened in 2002.

March 26th 2000 - The Seattle Kingdome was demolished by implosion; the Seahawks' new stadium, Seahawks Stadium (now known as CenturyLink Field) was built on the site and opened in 2002.

The previous summer, the Seattle Mariners had begun playing in a new stadium, Safeco Field (which in 2019 would be renamed T-Mobile Field).

March 27, 2000 - Britney Spears released Oops I Did It Again, the lead single and title song from her second album, which would be released in May.

March 30th 2000 - America's Cup 2000 sailing race is retained by Team New Zealand near Auckland. Prada Challenge 2000 lost 0-5 in a "best-of-9".

March 30th 2000, Rolling Stone Mick Jagger made a nostalgic visit to his old school. He opened the new arts centre that had been named after him at Dartford Grammar. The singer said he had spent the worst years of his life at the school.

March 31st 2000 - In Uganda, officials set the number of deaths linked to a doomsday religious cult, the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments, at more than 900. In Kanungu, a March 17 fire at the cult's church killed more than 530 and authorities subsequently found mass graves at various sites linked to the cult.

April 3rd 2000 - The Nasdaq set a one-day record when it lost 349.15 points to close at 4,233.68.

April 3rd 2000 - In the US Justice Department versus Microsoft anti-trust case, Judge Thomas Jackson issues his Conclusions of Law, ruling that Microsoft acted illegally to protect its operating system monopoly, and used its monopoly position to attempt to monopolize the market for Web browser software.

April 7th 2000 - Pepco's Chalk Point Generating Station on the Patuxent River in southern Maryland, USA, spills about 420,000 litres of oil. Some 6 1/2 miles of oil containment booms are positioned in the river capturing an estimated 300,000 litres.

April 7th 2000 - U.S. President Clinton signed the Senior Citizens Freedom to Work Act of 2000. The bill reversed a Depression-era law and allowed senior citizens to earn money without losing Social Security retirement benefits.

April 8th 2000 - 19 U.S. troops were killed when a Marine V22 Osprey crashed during a training mission in Arizona.

April 9th 2000 - CBS-TV aired "Failsafe." It was the first live full-length show to be aired by CBS in 39 years.

April 10th 2000 - Ken Griffey Jr. became the youngest player in baseball history to reach 400 home runs. He was 30 years, 141 days old.

April 10th 2000 - Monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) reported irregularities in the voting in Georgia's presidential election on April 9. President Eduard Shevardnadze was reelected to a new five-year term.

April 12th 2000 - Israel's High Court ordered the release of eight Lebanese detainees that had been held for years without a trial.

April 12th 2000 - More than 1,500 anti-drug agents raided four cities in Colombia and arrested 46 members of the "most powerful" heroin ring.

April 12th 2000 - Robert Cleaves, 71, was convicted of second degree murder and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Cleaves had repeatedly run over Arnold Guerreiro on September 30, 1998 with his car after the two had an argument.

April 14th 2000 - After five years of deadlock, Russia approved the START II treaty that calls for the scrapping of U.S. and Russian nuclear warheads. The Russian government warned it would abandon all arms-control pacts if Washington continued with an anti-missile system.

April 15th 2000 - 600 anti-IMF (International Monetary Fund) protesters were arrested in Washington, DC, for demonstrating without a permit.

April 18th 2000 - The Nasdaq had the biggest one-day point gain in its history.

One day late... on April 17th 2000, the Dodgers were scheduled to play a game at Dodger Stadium against the Houston Astros, but the game was postponed due to rain (and eventually made up on June 8th). This is the most recent occurrence of a rained-out game at Dodger Stadium.

April 19th 2000 - Letters written by Greta Garbo were put on exhibit. The letters were made public ten years after Garbo's death.

April 21st 2000 - North Carolina researchers announced that the heart of a 66 million-year-old dinosaur was more like a mammal or bird than that of a reptile.

April 22nd 2000 - Elian Gonzalez was reunited with his father. He had to be taken from his Miami relatives by U.S. agents in a predawn raid.

April 28th 2000 - Jay Leno on his 50th birthday, received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

April 30th 2000 – Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide.

May 5th 2000 - The final episode of "Boy Meets World" aired on ABC.

May 5th 2000 - The final episode of "Boy Meets World" aired on ABC.

on the 19th birthday of Danielle Fishel, who played the part of Topanga Laurence-Matthews on that programme.

May 7th 2000, Britney Spears went to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'Oops!... I Did It Again'. Written and produced by hit-makers Max Martin and Rami Yacoub, who had previously collaborated with Spears on '...Baby One More Time'.

May 10th 2000 - 11,000 residents were evacuated in Los Alamos, NM, due to a fire that was blown into a canyon. The fire had been deliberately set to clear brush.

May 11th 2000 - India's population officially reached 1 billion.

May 11th 2000 – Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.

May 16, 2000 - Britney Spears released her second album, Oops I Did It Again, on Jive Records. It spawned the singles "Oops I Did It Again," "Lucky," "Stronger," and "Don't Let Me Be the Last to Know." It is also the first album to feature a song Spears wrote, "Dear Diary," co-written by Jason Blume (not to be confused with horror film producer Jason Blum) and Eugene Wilde.

The sixth track, "What U See (Is What U Get)," (not to be confused with The Dramatics' 1971 hit) was the subject of a copyright infringement lawsuit.

May 17th 2000 - Austria, the U.S. and six other countries agreed on the broad outline of a plan that would compensate Nazi-Era forced labor.

May 19th 2000 - The bones of the most complete and best-preserved Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton went on display in Chicago.

May 22nd 2000, Travis swept the board at the Ivor Novello awards. Singer Fran Healy won two awards for Best Contemporary Song for the single 'Why Does It Always Rain On Me'' And Songwriter Of The Year for the Travis album 'The Man Who.'

May 25th 2000 – Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (except for the disputed Shebaa farms zone) 22 years after its invasion in 1978.

May 25th 2000 - The Walt Disney Co. and Time Warner Inc. signed a long-term deal that ended a dispute over the airing policies of Time Warner. Time Warner had blacked out Disney programs for a 39 hour period the previous month due to the lack of an agreement.

May 26th 2000, Drummer Tommy Lee was jailed for five days for drinking alcohol. Lee appeared in front of a LA court charged with violating his probation by consuming alcohol, an act that directly contravenes the terms of his parole.

May 27th 2000, Paula Yates was awarded £400,000 ($680,000) in an out-of-court settlement from her boyfriend Michael Hutchence fortune. Hutchence had died in 1997 INXS singer Hutchence was found dead in his hotel suite in Sydney in 1997 aged 37.

May 29th 2000 - Fiji's military took control of the nation and declared martial law following a coup attempt by indigenous Fijians in mid-May.

June 2nd 2000 - U. S. President William Jefferson Clinton is awarded the Charlemagne prize of the city of Aachen, Germany. Clinton is the first American president to win the prize which is given for contributions toward the unity of Europe.

June 7th 2000: The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.

June 9th 2000 - Canada and the United States signed a border security agreement. The agreement called for the establishment of a border-enforcement team.

June 9th 2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives voted to repeal gift and estate taxes. The bill called for the taxes to be phased out over 10 years.

June 13th 2000, President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

June 16th 2000 - The Secretary-General of the UN reports that Israel has complied with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425, 22 years after its issuance, and completely withdrew from Lebanon. The Resolution does not encompass the Shebaa farms, which is claimed by Israel, Syria and Lebanon.

June 21st 2000 – Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.

June 29th 2000 - In Santa Rosa, CA, the official groundbreaking ceremony took place for the Charles M. Schulz Museum.

I was 4. I was likely watching PBS. I didn't go back to watching Cartoon Network until I was 6, because my parents thought I wasn't old enough for it.

Well, for me, July 2000 is now half my life ago. I had just finished my second year of college and prepared for another semester. Mostly taking time off. (I wasn't working anywhere yet.)

July 6th 2000 - A barge and a tug towing it collide off Middletown, Rhode Island, USA, spilling 53,000 litres of oil in Narragansett Bay.

July 6th 2000 - A jury awarded former NHL player Tony Twist $24 million for the unauthorized use of his name in the comic book Spawn and the HBO cartoon series. Co-defendant HBO settled with Twist out of court for an undisclosed amount.

July 7th 2000 - The BBC imposed an early-evening ban on Robbie Williams' newest video entitled "Rock DJ."

July 13th 2000 - Sprint Corp. and WorldCom canceled their planned merger due to opposition by regulators in the United States and Europe.

July 13, 2020 - Britney Spears released the music video for "Lucky." The second single from Oops! I Did It Again, it tells the story of a Hollywood star who has it all, but it's still not enough. Written by the usual Britney duo of Max Martin and Rami Yacoub, it peaked at Number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100. Some see the song as prophetic, predicting Britney's 2007 breakdown.

July 16th 2000, The Corrs presented a petition to the European Commission demanding legislation to end piracy on the Internet. The Manic Street Preachers and The Spice Girls also added their names to the petition.

July 26th 2000 - A U.S. federal judge issued a preliminary injunction against Napster, Inc. The injunction had been requested by the Recording Industry of Association of America (RIAA). The website was ordered to cease trade in music covered by RIAA member copyrights by midnight July 28, 2000.

July 26th 2000 - The Beastie Boys postponed their tour with Rage Against the Machine due to Mike D.'s shoulder injury incurred July 22 in a bicycle accident.

July 26th 2000, Oasis were booed off stage during a show at the Paleo Festival in Switzerland after singer Liam Gallagher had insulted the 35,000 strong audience.

August 20th 2000 - Bon Jovi played the last concert to be held at the historic Wembley stadium before its demolition.

September 15th 2000 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in Sydney, Australia.

September 15th 2000 – The Summer Olympics, officially known as the games of the XXVII Olympiad, are opened in Sydney, Australia.

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One of the latest dates in the year to have Summer Olympics games start, due to the fact that Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere.

October 5th, 2000 - Skies of Arcadia comes out for the Sega Dreamcast in Japan.

October 5th 2000 – Mass demonstrations in Serbia force the resignation of Slobodan Milošević.

Two days late...on October 17th 2000, the New York Yankees won the American League Championship Series over the Seattle Mariners, 4 games to 2, to advance to the World Series, which would be a Subway Series because the Mets had defeated the Cardinals in the NLCS the previous day.

Two days late...on October 17th 2000, the New York Yankees won the American League Championship Series over the Seattle Mariners, 4 games to 2, to advance to the World Series, which would be a Subway Series because the Mets had defeated the Cardinals in the NLCS the previous day.

And the Yankees won the Subway World Series in Game Five on October 26th 2000, giving them a third straight title, and four in a span of five years.

October 31st 2000 - Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.

November 7th 2000, was General Election Day in the United States. The presidential election was undecided at the end of the day, between George W. Bush and Al Gore. All was riding on the state of Florida (which had been originally called in Gore's favor, then it was taken back, called in Bush's favor (which would have given him the win right then and there), and taken back again!).

Meanwhile, First Lady Hillary Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate, the first time a First Lady was elected to a public office. (Her husband's presidential tenure was going to expire.)

November 13, 2000 - Britney Spears released her hit single (#11) "Stronger." Written by usual Britney collaborators, the legendary Max Martin and Rami Yacoub, the song's Janet-inspired music video famously features a Ford Mustang, a thunderstorm and a steel chair.

November 25th 2000 – The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.

November 26th 2000, George W. Bush was certified the winner of Florida's electoral votes...but the presidential election wasn't officially over yet because the Florida recounts were still going on. (Two weeks later it was officially terminated.)

December 12th 2000 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bush v. Gore that the recount of ballots cast in Florida for the presidential election be stopped, effectively making George W. Bush the winner.

Al Gore would formally concede the next day.

One day late... on December 23rd 2000, comedian/pianist Victor Borge passed away at the age of 91.

December 31st 2000 = Last day of the 20th Century and Second Millennium.

January 12th 2001 – Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.

January 15th 2001: Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.

January 16th 2001: US President Bill Clinton awards late former President Theodore Roosevelt (who had been deceased for 82 years at the time) a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.

January 20th 2001 – President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent four-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

January 20th 2001 – President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent four-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.


Also on that day, George W. Bush was inaugurated as the 43rd President of the United States. It was the second time that the child of a former President became President himself. (The other such person to do this was John Quincy Adams 176 years beforehand.)

January 28th 2001 - Super Bowl XXXV at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, FL: Baltimore Ravens buried the New York Giants in a 34-7 landslide.

January 29th 2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.

February 1st 2001: The Timor Leste Defence Force was established from the erstwhile anti-Indonesian independence movement Falintil.

February 10th 2001: Weird Al Yankovic married his wife Suzanne at a private ceremony in California.

February 11th 2001 – A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.

^ :o

Also on that day, the sports venue known as Three Rivers Stadium was dismantled. Located in Pittsburgh, it served as the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates (Major League Baseball) and Pittsburgh Steelers (National Football League) for 30+ years.

February 13th 2001, An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944. :o

February 18th 2001 - Inter-ethnic violence between the Dayak and the Madurese broke out in Sampit, Indonesia, ultimately causing more than 500 deaths and the displacement of 100,000 Madurese from their homes.

March 21st 2001, The Game Boy Advance console was released.

March 23rd 2001 – The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.

April 1st 2001 – Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.

April 1st 2001 – An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China and is detained.

One day late...

April 2nd 2001, was Opening Day for most teams in Major League Baseball that year.

Two notable players made their debuts in MLB that day: Albert Pujols, for the St. Louis Cardinals, and Ichiro Suzuki, for the Seattle Mariners (he was the first-ever Japanese-born position player in the MLB). Both players went on to win Rookie Of The Year in their respective leagues (Pujols in the NL, Ichiro in the AL).

April 15th 2001: Joey Ramone, lead vocalist of U.S.-based punk rock band The Ramones, passed away at age 49 (he missed his 50th birthday by five weeks). :\'(

April 16th 2001 - India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.

May 3rd 2001 - The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.

May 6th 2001 – During a trip to Syria, Pope John Paul II became the first pope to enter a mosque.

May 9th 2001, Police at the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra, Ghana, fired tear gas to quell unrest at a football match, leading to a stampede that killed 126 people.

May 23rd 2001 - The final episode of "Star Trek: Voyager" aired.

May 25th 2001 – Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.

May 29th 2001 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the disabled golfer Casey Martin can use a cart to ride in tournaments.

June 1st 2001 – Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.

June 8th 2001 - Marc Chagall's painting "Study for 'Over Vitebsk" was stolen from the Jewish Museum in New York City. The 8x10 painting was valued at about $1 million. A group called the International Committee for Art and Peace later announced that they would return the painting after the Israelis and Palestinians made peace.

June 10th 2001 – Pope John Paul II canonized Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa.

June 11th 2001, Timothy McVeigh was executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

June 15th 2001 – Leaders of the People's Republic of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.

June 21st 2001: Actor Carroll O'Connor passed away at the age of 76 from diabetes.

June 22nd 2001 - The final episode of "Xena: Warrior Princess" aired.

June 23rd 2001 – The 8.4 Mw  southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.

June 26th 2001 - Ray Bourque (Colorado Avalanche) announced his retirement just 17 days after winning his first Stanley Cup. Bourque retired after 22 years and held the NHL record for highest-scoring defenseman and playing in 19 consecutive All-Star games.

July 10th 2001 - All-Star Game at T-Mobile Park (then known as Safeco Field); American League defeated the National League 4-1.

It was the final All-Star game for Baltimore Orioles infielder Cal Ripken Jr. (who was named MVP of the game) and the late San Diego Padres outfielder Tony Gwynn Sr.

July 17th 2001 - Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after its July 2000 crash.

July 21st 2001, the Dodgers outscored the Rockies 22-7 in a baseball game at Coors Field.

July 28th 2001, Australian Ian Thorpe becomes the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championship meeting.

Today marks 20 years since the sudden tragic death of American R&B musician Aaliyah; she was killed in a plane crash at the tender age of 22. :\'(

Sunday, 9 September 2001: At 01:46:40 UTC, the Unix billennium (Unix time number 1,000,000,000) was celebrated. (One billion seconds from midnight New Year's Day up to the aformentioned point in time.)

Some programs which stored timestamps using a text representation encountered sorting errors, as in a text sort times after the turnover, starting with a 1 digit, erroneously sorted before earlier times starting with a 9 digit. Affected programs included the popular Usenet reader KNode and e-mail client KMail, part of the KDE desktop environment. Such bugs were generally cosmetic in nature and quickly fixed once problems became apparent. The problem also affected many Filtrix document-format filters provided with Linux versions of WordPerfect; a patch was created by the user community to solve this problem, since Corel no longer sold or supported that version of the program.

I'm sure everyone knows what happened on this date 20 years ago :-X :\'(

...and a week later, on September 18th, the 2001 Anthrax Attacks began. Letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and to Democratic Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy, killing five people and infecting 17 others. According to the FBI, the ensuing investigation became "one of the largest and most complex in the history of law enforcement",

October 2nd 2001, written in MM/DD/YYYY format is 10/02/2001, a palindromic date. It was the first palindromic date in 621 years (when written in MM/DD/YYYY format).

October 7th 2001: The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.

Also on that day, the MLB regular season finally came to an end. (It was supposed to end a week earlier, but the Nine-Eleven attacks suspended pro sports play for a week; that week's worth of games was rescheduled to the first week of October.) San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds set a new record for most home runs in a single season with 73, but the validity of that record has been questioned by some people due to his use of PEDs.

October 15th 2001, NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 180 km of Jupiter's moon Io.

October 25th 2001 - Microsoft releases Windows XP, becoming one of Microsoft's most successful operating systems.

October 27th 2001: The World Series began at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona. It was the Diamondbacks' first appearance in the World Series (in only the team's fourth year of existence). They faced off against the defending champion New York Yankees. The Yanks scored early, but the D'backs scored 9 unanswered runs to win Game One.

November 4th 2001: Game Seven of the World Series was played at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona. The home team, Arizona Diamondbacks, entered the 9th inning down 2-1, but staged a rally to avert a fourth straight title for the visiting New York Yankees. They won the game 3-2 to give themselves a World Series title in only the team's fourth year of existence. The World Series MVP award was split between two pitchers: Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling.

This is the most recent World Series to end walkoff style. (Certain games have ended with walkoffs since then, but they weren't the final games of the respective WSes.)

We've missed the 20th anniversary of the first iPod! I think it was October 23rd.

We've missed the 20th anniversary of the first iPod! I think it was October 23rd.

Yes, I remember they were wildly popular for a good part of the 2000s. I never owned one, however.

on topic:

November 29th 2001, British musician George Harrison died of cancer at 58 years of age. :\'(

December 11th 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO for short).

Two days late:

December 15th 2001, The Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens after 11 years and $27,000,000 spent to fortify it, without fixing its famous lean.

December 19th 2001 - A record high barometric pressure of 1,085.6 hectopascals (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl, Mongolia.

One day late... on December 27th 2001, The People's Republic of China is granted permanent normal trade status with the United States.

January 8th 2002, U.S. President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind Act into law.

January 18th 2002 - The Sierra Leone Civil War is declared over.

January 22nd 2002: Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

January 28th 2002 - TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100, crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 94. :o :\'(

February 3rd 2002, the Super Bowl was played in the month of February for the first time. This one, of course, was Super Bowl XXXVI. Patriots 20, Rams 17.

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13 February 2002, American country music singer Waylon Jennings passed away from diabetes at 64 years of age.

A bit late with this, but on 9th February 2002 Will Young became the first 'Idol' winner on Pop Idol in the UK.

March 1st 2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.

March 18th 2002, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inducted the following performers:
Isaac Hayes
Brenda Lee
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Gene Pitney
The Ramones
Talking Heads
Chet Atkins
Jim Stewart

March 27th 2002: American comedian Milton Berle passed away at the age of 93. English actor Dudley Moore also died; he was 66 (missed his 67th birthday by a month).

March 29th 2002 – In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.

March 30th 2002 - the UK's Queen Mother dies at the age of 101.

April 4th 2002 – The MPLA government of Angola and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan Civil War.

April 14th 2002 – Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.

April 26th 2002 - It was announced that Henry Winkler would share producing duties of "Hollywood Squares."

April 26th 2002 - It was announced that Henry Winkler would share producing duties of "Hollywood Squares."


Yes, but that was the later resurrected Hollywood Squares, produced by Whoopi Goldberg. Not the original 1960s/70s Hollywood Squares with Peter Marshall and the great Paul Lynde.

May 10th 2002 – FBI agent Robert Hanssen is sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for selling United States secrets to Russia for $1.4 million in cash and diamonds.

May 11th 2002, Over 500 Michael Jackson fans held a demonstration outside the Sony records building in Berlin complaining that the label hadn't promoted the singer's latest album 'Invincible'.

May 12th 2002: Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro, becoming the first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since the Cuban Revolution.

May 20th 2002 – East Timor regains its independence after 2 1/2 years of United Nations administration and 26 years of occupation by Indonesia since 1975.

May 22nd 2002 - Adam Ant appeared at The Old Bailey in London charged with possession of an imitation firearm. Ant, (Stuart Goddard) had been arrested in January after an altercation at The Prince of Wales pub in London when a bouncer refused to let him in.

May 23rd 2002 - 'Up For Grabs' opened at London's Wyndham's Theatre featuring Madonna in the lead role. The first night crowd complained that the singer was lacking in vocal power and strained to hear her lines.

May 23rd 2002 – The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.

May 23rd 2002 - 'Up For Grabs' opened at London's Wyndham's Theatre featuring Madonna in the lead role. The first night crowd complained that the singer was lacking in vocal power and strained to hear her lines.


May 23rd 2002 – The "55 parties" clause of the Kyoto Protocol is reached after its ratification by Iceland.


Also on that date, Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Shawn Green hit 4 home runs in his team's 16-3 victory over the Brewers in Milwaukee.

May 26th 2002 - The first episode of At Home With The Osbournes was shown on MTV in the UK. Already becoming a hit in the US, the show focused on the madman and his family (his wife Sharon, and two of their three children). Oblivious to the camera, they bicker, squabble, curse and hang out backstage at Ozzy shows.

May 28th 2002 - An independent commission appointed by the Football Association voted two-to-one to allow Wimbledon F.C. to relocate from London to Milton Keynes.

May 28th 2002 - An independent commission appointed by the Football Association voted two-to-one to allow Wimbledon F.C. to relocate from London to Milton Keynes.
I had a friend back then, sadly gone now, who supported Wimbledon FC, and he hated the move.

June 6th 2002 – Eastern Mediterranean event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at ten meters in diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb.

I had a friend back then, sadly gone now, who supported Wimbledon FC, and he hated the move.

Aw, too bad. :\'(

Btw, that same date was the second time in my life that I traveled outside of California. I flew with my parents to Minneapolis to attend a Catholic Press Association convention; the news publication that my dad worked for was nominated for some awards. The convention lasted the final three days of May; we flew home June 1.

June 10th 2002 - The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.

June 16th 2002 - Padre Pio is canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.

Appropriately enough, that was Father's Day (US).

June 22nd 2002, baseball pitcher Darryl Kile suddenly passed away from a heart condition; he was only 33. :\'(

Just four days beforehand, he made what would be his final career start, against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, picking up a win. (He was a member of the St. Louis Cardinals.)

June 27, 2002: John Entwistle, a member of British rock band The Who, passed away at the age of 57. :\'(

July 2nd 2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.

July 3rd 2002 - Sony/ATV Publishing announced it would buy a country music catalog from Gaylord Entertainment for $157 million.

July 3rd 2002 - Three diners at a newly opened Britney Spears owned restaurant suffered food poisoning. The three students who had eaten wild striped bass at the New York restaurant made official complaints and vowed never to eat they're again.

July 3rd 2002 - Three diners at a newly opened Britney Spears owned restaurant suffered food poisoning. The three students who had eaten wild striped bass at the New York restaurant made official complaints and vowed never to eat there again.


I didn't even know that the pop star had begun a restaurant chain. Must not have been as popular/well-known as her music. ::)

July 9th 2002:

The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, replacing the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). The organization's first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.
The Major League Baseball game infamously ended in a tie, 7-7, after 11 innings of play, due to both leagues using up all of their pitchers. ::)

10 July 2002 – At a Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens's painting The Massacre of the Innocents is sold for £49.5 million (US$76.2 million) to Lord Thomson.

July 14th 2002 - French president Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt from Maxime Brunerie during a Bastille Day parade at Champs-Élysées.

August 20th 2002 – A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.

I'm nearly a month late with this - a sad one! On 4th August 2002 in the UK, schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman went missing, later found killed by Ian Huntley. :( Not sure how much coverage this got worldwide.

I'm nearly a month late with this - a sad one! On 4th August 2002 in the UK, schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman went missing, later found killed by Ian Huntley. :( Not sure how much coverage this got worldwide.

Seems like a very sad story. :\'( I don’t remember hearing about it in the States.

I do remember that on August 26th of 2002 I started my second academic year at the university. It was a busy semester in which I took more units than usual.

September 4th 2002 - The Oakland Athletics won their 20th consecutive game, an American League record for longest winning streak by a team.

September 9th 2002 - A riot broke out at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, protesting a scheduled talk by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien during which a Holocaust survivor and a rabbi were assaulted. :\'(

September 11th 2002: Johnny Unitas, American football player and sportscaster, passed away at the age of 69. :\'(

October 10th 2002 – Iraq War: The United States Congress approves the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.

October 13th 2002:
Actor Keene Curtis died at the age of 79. :\'(

On a happier note, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim defeated the Minnesota Twinkies in the American League Championship Series to advance to the franchise's first-ever World Series!! :) :D

October 16th 2002 – The Bibliotheca Alexandrina opens in Egypt, commemorating the ancient library of Alexandria.

October 20th 2002, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim won Game Two of the World Series, to even it up with the San Francisco Giants.

October 24th 2002 - The San Francisco Giants defeated the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in a landslide, 16-4, in Game Five of the World Series, at present-day Oracle Park. This gave the Giants a 3-2 series lead.

This was the game in which 3-year-old bat boy Darren Baker (whose dad, Dusty Baker, was managing the Giants) narrowly missed being run over at home plate by baserunner David Bell before being grabbed and lifted by his jacket out of the way by J.T. Snow, narrowly preventing a serious collision at home plate. :o

October 26th 2002 - In Game Six of the World Series, played at Angel Stadium (in Anaheim, California), the Angels prevented the San Francisco Giants from capturing a title, by overcoming a 5-0 deficit late in the game. They scored 6 unanswered runs over the 7th and 8th innings to win the game 6-5, and force a decider the next day.

October 27th 2002 - The Los Angeles Angels won the winner-take-all game of the World Series on their home field, Angel Stadium, by defeating the San Francisco Giants 4-1.

This is also the most recent all-California World Series.

November 4th 2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.

November 6th 2002 – Jiang Lijun is detained by Chinese police for signing the Open Letter to the 16th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.

November 9th 2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441: The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences".

We have a topic for 'Dead People's Birthdays For Today' located here:

http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=30106.0

My bad, will move it over there then.

November 10th, 2002 - Sonic Mega Collection is released in North America for the Nintendo Gamecube

November 10th 2002 – Veteran's Day Weekend Tornado Outbreak: A tornado outbreak stretching from Northern Ohio to the Gulf Coast, one of the largest outbreaks recorded in November. The strongest tornado, an F4, hits Van Wert, Ohio, during the early to mid afternoon and destroys a movie theater, which had been evacuated.

November 12th, 2002 - Resident Evil Zero is released for the Nintendo Gamecube.

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November 13th 2002 – During the Prestige oil spill, a storm bursts a tank of the oil tanker MV Prestige, which was not allowed to dock and sank on November 19, 2002, off the coast of Galicia, spilling 63,000 metric tons of heavy fuel oil, more than the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

November 13th 2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441.

November 15th 2002 - Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.

Who was the leader of China 20 years ago?
That's right!

November 16th 2002 - The first cases of the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak are traced to Foshan, Guangdong Province, China. :\'(

November 19th 2002 – The Greek oil tanker Prestige splits in half and sinks off the coast of Galicia, releasing over 76,000 m3 (20 million US gal) of oil in the largest environmental disaster in Spanish and Portuguese history.

November 19th 2002 - Safety experts blasted Michael Jackson after dangling his baby from a third-floor hotel balcony. Jacko was in Berlin for an awards ceremony and was showing his nine-month old baby to his fans outside the hotel.

November 21st 22002 – NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.

December 1st 2002: Baseball pitcher Dave Mcnally died of cancer at the age of 60. :\'( (He would have turned 80 years old on Halloween this year.) He played in MLB during the 1960s and 1970s, mostly with the Baltimore Orioles.

December 13th 2002, was a Friday the 13th. On that day, Canadian-born musician Zal Yanovsky died of a heart attack, six days shy of his 58th birthday. :\'( He was a singer and guitarist of American-based rock band The Lovin' Spoonful.

Also on this day in 2002 – European Union enlargement: The EU announces that Cyprus, Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members on May 1, 2004.

December 22nd 2002 - Joe Strummer, a member of the British rock band The Clash, passed away at the age of 50. :\'(

December 27th 2002 - The musical black comedy crime film Chicago (based on the same-named 1975 musical) premieres in cinemas. The cast was led by Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere.

January 6th 2003: the game show Cram premiered on the Game Show Network (GSN).

January 11th 2003 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commuted the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.

January 16th 2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.

January 16th 2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.

:\'(

On a positive note, that was the day that my family adopted our Chloe dog. The people from the Chihuahua Rescue place brought her over to our house, and made sure that our house was safe for her.

January 21st 2003 – A 7.6 magnitude earthquake strikes the Mexican state of Colima, killing 29 and leaving approximately 10,000 people homeless. :\'( :o

January 24th 2003 – The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.

January 25th 2003 – Invasion of Iraq: A group of people leave London, England, for Baghdad, Iraq, to serve as human shields, intending to prevent the U.S.-led coalition troops from bombing certain locations.

January 26th 2003, was the day of Super Bowl XXXVII; it was the final time that the Super Bowl was played in the month of January. The game was played at the now-defunct Qualcomm Stadium, in San Diego, California. The NFC champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the AFC champion Raiders (who were then based in Oakland) by a score of 48 to 21.

January 26th 2003, was the day of Super Bowl XXXVII; it was the final time that the Super Bowl was played in the month of January. The game was played at the now-defunct Qualcomm Stadium, in San Diego, California. The NFC champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeated the AFC champion Raiders (who were then based in Oakland) by a score of 48 to 21.


Half time entertainment was provided by Shania Twain and No Doubt. A slow year for entertainment, no doubt.  ;D

Half time entertainment was provided by Shania Twain and No Doubt. A slow year for entertainment, no doubt.  ;D

Heehee ;)

I take it you’ve seen many of the halftime shows?

January 27th 2003 – The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.

February 1st 2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during the reentry of mission STS-107 into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.

February 1st 2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during the reentry of mission STS-107 into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.

A sad day in aerospace history indeed. :\'(

February 15th 2003 – Protests against the Iraq war take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between eight million and 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace demonstration in history.

February 20th 2003:

During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the Station nightclub ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others. :\'( This was known as the Station nightclub fire.
Filipino-American singer Olivia Rodrigo was born.

February 22nd 2003 - Paul McCartney performed a concert as a birthday gift for Wendy Whitworth. Ralph Whitworth offered to pay McCartney $1 million to play a show in San Diego for about 150 guests. McCartney agreed and said he would donate the money to the charity Adopt-A-Minefield.

March 1st 2003 – Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.

March 3rd 2003 was written in shorthand as 03/03/03.

March 13th 2003 – An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints.

March 20th 2003 – Iraq War: The United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland begin an invasion of Iraq.

March 20th 2003 – Iraq War: The United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Poland begin an invasion of Iraq.


I thought it was March 19. Anyhow I remember when the whole thing first started, and the anger towards the French for not wanting to join which started the trend of replacing everything with the word French with "freedom" (fries, toast, kiss, etc).

I thought it was March 19. Anyhow I remember when the whole thing first started, and the anger towards the French for not wanting to join which started the trend of replacing everything with the word French with "freedom" (fries, toast, kiss, etc).
Maybe it is down to the time difference between us and you, 20th in the UK and still the 19th in the US?

Maybe it is down to the time difference between us and you, 20th in the UK and still the 19th in the US?


That could be it. It was right after the 01:00 UTC deadline of the ultimatum that GWB gave to Saddam Hussein.

March 24th 2003 – The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a resolution demanding an end to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Two weeks late...

March 10th 2003 - During a concert in London, England, Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines said that the band was "ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas" (referring to Maines' hometown of Lubbock and the fact that President George W. Bush hailed from the same state). This was during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, the comment sparked intense controversy and outrage among Americans, including a large share of country music fans.

(Perhaps Ms. Maines didn't like GW Bush?)

March 26th 2003: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American sociologist and politician who was the 12th United States Ambassador to the United Nations, died at the age of 76. (b. 1927) :\'(

April 7th 2003 – Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Sadaam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later.

April 7th 2003 – Iraq War: U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Sadaam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later.
... 2003 – Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces.

... April 9th 2003 – Iraq War: Baghdad falls to American forces.

... yup.

April 14th 2003 - A man was arrested accused of making up a Bjork concert then selling tickets. Alex Conate allegedly sold tickets worth $14,000 at $40 each after persuading a San Diego nightclub owner that Bjork had agreed to play there. He was accused of taking the money and moving to Hawaii, where he was arrested.

April 16th 2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.

April 16th 2003 - Jerry Lee Lewis filed for divorce from his sixth wife, Kerrie McCarver Lewis. The 67-year-old singer married Kerrie in 1984 who was the president of Lewis Enterprises Inc. fan club.

April 17th 2003 – Anneli Jäätteenmäki takes office as the first female prime minister of Finland.

April 26th 2003 - Winnie Mandela (the second wife of Nelson Mandela) is sentenced to four years in prison (five years, less one-year suspended) for theft and fraud. :o

April 27th 2003 - Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Kevin Millwood threw a no-hitter against the San Francisco Giants.

April 30th 2003, The World Health Organization holds a meeting in Toronto regarding SARS.

May 1st 2003 – Invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, on board the USS Abraham Lincoln (off the coast of California), U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".

May 3rd 2003 - Suzy Parker, American model and actress, passed away at the age of 70. :\'(

One day late...

May 7th 2003 - Roger Moore collapsed during a matinee performance of the Broadway comedy "The Play What I Wrote." He finished the show after a 10-minute break. He was fitted with a pacemaker the following day.

May 16th 2003 – In Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks. :o

May 31st 2003 - Air France retires its fleet of Concorde aircraft.

June 2nd 2003 - A painting of Kylie Minogue wearing gold hot pants caused tempers to fray among drivers in Brighton. Artist Simon Etheridge, put up the almost life-size picture in his own Art Asylum gallery, as part of a Festival and since then motorists had caused regular traffic hold-ups as they stopped to take a second look.

June 2nd 2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.

June 3rd 2003 - Barry Manilow suffered a broken nose after he accidentally walked into a wall at his home in Palm Springs, California and knocked himself unconscious. Although he passed out for four hours, he didn't endure any lasting effects as doctors determined that surgery was not necessary.

June 3rd 2003 - Barry Manilow suffered a broken nose after he accidentally walked into a wall at his home in Palm Springs, California and knocked himself unconscious. Although he passed out for four hours, he didn't endure any lasting effects as doctors determined that surgery was not necessary.


I'm glad he was okay overall.

And in just two weeks from today, he's gonna turn 80!