Vision And Views

An Overview of Current Life Events

By Dr. Purushothaman Kollam

Tuesday 1 October 2013

Major World Events [29]



The end of Milosevic era in Serbia happened on 17th December 2000
Bush became the President of America by a narrow margin of votes on 4th November 2000
Yugoslavia became a member of United Nations on 1st November 2000

The first group of Astronauts (3 persons) landed on the International Space Station on 31st October 2000

In the USS cole attack in Yemen, a large number of sailors died (13-10-2000)

The opposition party in Yugoslavia came in to power on 25th September 2000

The Olympic games started in Australia on 15th September 2000

       
Wen Ho Lee, the Los Alamos scientist who was in jail was released on 13th September 2000   

Kursk, Russian submarine sunk in the Barents Sea (15-08-2000) and all 118 persons were died.

The Russian space module joined the Space Station on 25th July 2000

The Arms Deal between China & Israel was ended on 12th July 2000   

The human Genome was re-organized (26-06-2000)
   
There was a breakup of Microsoft administration by court orders (07-06-2000)

Suharto, the President of Indonesia was kept under house arrest (29-05-2000)
   
The Israeli army withdrew from Lebanon on 24th May 2000

The border war between Eritrea & Ethiopia started on 15th May 2000
   
Vladimir V Putin assigned the post of Russian President on 8th May 2000
 
The rate of jobless citizens in US maintained in the lowest rate since 1970 till 5th May 2000

The all time high rate of NASDAQ Composite Index (5000) was recorded on 9th March 2000
   
In Iran, the reformists took over the control of ruling (26-02-2000)

Pavle Bulatovic, the Yugoslav Defense Minister was assassinated on 7th February 2000

The Afgan plane was hijacked on 6th February 2000   
   
The Palestine - Israel summit failed on 3rd February 2000

The Chechen capital was captured by the Russian Force on 19th January 2000

The Threatening Y2K computer Virus problem was over by 1st January 2000



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