Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board
Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board
19 events found for 2000
Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board
Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwi
President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military
The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet
Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London (an office separate from that of the Lord Mayor of London)
Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia
Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia
A fireworks storage depot explodes in a residential neighborhood in Enschede, Netherlands, killing 23 people and injurin
Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-101 to resupply the International Space Station
Nineteen people are killed in a plane crash in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
In Sri Lanka, over 150 Tamil rebels are killed over two days of fighting for control in Jaffna
Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation
Liberation Day of Lebanon: Israel withdraws its army from Lebanese territory (with the exception of the disputed Shebaa
The Six-Day War in Kisangani begins in Kisangani, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, between Ugandan and Rwandan f
The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon
President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inte
Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981
The Secretary-General of the UN reports that Israel has complied with United Nations Security Council Resolution 425, 22