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2000 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2028. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

2000 Calendar

Historical Events Of 2000

• January 31, 2000 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
• February 5, 2000 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Dragon in Chinese astrology.
• February 14, 2000 – The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
• September 10, 2000 – Operation Barras successfully frees six British soldiers held captive for over two weeks and contributes to the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War.
• September 20, 2000 – The United Kingdom’s MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile. The perpetrators remain unidentified.
• October 11, 2000 – NASA launches STS-92, the 100th Space Shuttle mission, using Space Shuttle Discovery.
• October 31, 2000 – Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.
• November 1, 2000 – Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
• November 13, 2000 – Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
• December 25, 2000 – Russian President Vladimir Putin signs a bill into law that officially establishes a new National Anthem of Russia, with music adopted from the anthem of the Soviet Union that was composed by Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov.

Who Were Born On 2000?

• April 11, 2000 – Morgan Lily, American actress
• May 7, 2000 – Maxwell Perry Cotton, American actor
• June 1, 2000 – Willow Shields, American actress
• July 17, 2000 – Maria Aragon, Canadian singer
• July 25, 2000 – Preston Bailey, American actor
• August 20, 2000 – Fátima Ptacek, American actress
• September 26, 2000 – Princess Salma bint Abdullah of Jordan
• November 10, 2000 – Mackenzie Foy, American actress
• November 28, 2000 – Jacob Rica, Filipino actor