Explore 3773 historical events from 2000–2009.
Grand Theft Auto III is a 2001 action-adventure game developed by DMA Design and published by Rockstar Games. It is the first 3D game in the Grand Theft Auto series. Set in Liberty…
Grand Theft Auto III was released, helping to popularize open-world and mature-content video games.
Windows XP is a major release of Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. It was released to manufacturing on August 24, 2001, and later to retail on October 25 that year. It is a …
Windows XP, one of the most popular and widely used versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system, was released…
George Walker Bush is an American former politician, businessman, and U.S. Air Force veteran who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member of th…
President George W. Bush signed the Patriot Act into law, significantly expanding the authority of United States law…
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant fig…
Michael Jackson released Invincible, his final studio album and the most expensive album ever produced.
Air Philippines Flight 541 was a scheduled domestic flight operated by Air Philippines from Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Metro Manila to Francisco Bangoy International Air…
Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board
Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint, specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public …
Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwi
William Jefferson Clinton is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 42nd president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, he previou…
President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military
Geocaching is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and …
The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet
Kenneth Robert Livingstone is an English politician who served as the Leader of the Greater London Council (GLC) from 1981 until the council was abolished in 1986, and as the first…
Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. P…
Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia
The Second Chechen War took place in Chechnya and the border regions of the North Caucasus between the Russian Federation and the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, from Augus…
Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia
The Enschede fireworks disaster was a catastrophic fireworks explosion on 13 May 2000 in Enschede, Netherlands. The explosion killed 23 people, including four firefighters, and inj…
A fireworks storage depot explodes in a residential neighborhood in Enschede, Netherlands, killing 23 people and injurin
Southern Lebanon is the area of Lebanon comprising the South Governorate and the Nabatiye Governorate. The two entities were divided from the same province in the early 1990s. The …
Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation
The Arsenal Football Club is an English professional football club based in Islington, North London, England. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. …
Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufacture…
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-101 to resupply the International Space Station
On May 21, 2000, a British Aerospace BAe-3101 Jetstream 3101 operated by East Coast Aviation Services crashed into mountainous terrain in Bear Creek Township, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl…
Nineteen people are killed in a plane crash in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It is located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of …
In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna
Resistance and Liberation Day is a Lebanese holiday celebrated on May 25.
Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (with the exception of the disputed Shebaa
The United Nations (UN) is a global intergovernmental organization established by the signing of the UN Charter on 26 June 1945 with the articulated mission of maintaining internat…
The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon
Kim Dae-jung was a South Korean politician, activist, and statesman who served as the eighth president of South Korea from 1998 to 2003.
President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inte
The Russian Navy is the naval arm of the Russian Armed Forces. It has existed in various forms since 1696. Its present iteration was formed in January 1992 when it succeeded the Na…
The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire…
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. The company became influential in the rise of personal computers through…
Microsoft releases Windows Me.
The Six-Day War was a series of armed confrontations between Ugandan and Rwandan forces around the city of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 5 to 10 June 2000.…
The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan f
Mehmet Ali Ağca is a Turkish former hitman for Grey Wolves. On 1 February 1979, he murdered journalist Abdi İpekçi, known for his leftist views, and was imprisoned, but escaped. He…
Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981