What significant world events took place in the year 2000?

Question

What significant world events took place in the year 2000?

Answer 1

The New Millenium and the Olympics.

Answer 2

I have a few for you here (not in any particular order):

*Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.

*The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles Schulz.

*In a predawn raid, federal agents seize six-year old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami, Florida and fly him to his Cuban father in Washington, DC, ending one of the most publicized custody battles in US history.

*A rare conjunction of seven celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets Mercury-Jupiter) occurs on the New Moon

*The billionth living person in India is born.

*The Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board.

*The 2000 summer Olympics are held in Sydney, Australia.

*First resident crew enters International Space Station.

Answer 3

not really world but 9/11