What Happened In August 2000 In History

Historical Events for August, 2000

• 8th » Confederate submarine 'H. L. Hunley (submarine) known as H.L. Hunley' is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
• 12th » The Oscar class submarine Russian submarine K-141 Kursk named K-141 'Kursk' of the Russian Navy Russian submarine Kursk explosion named explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
• 23rd » Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
• 27th » The convert 540 m ft 0 adj=on-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.

Famous Birthdays on August in 2000

• 3rd » Landry Bender, American actress
• 5th » Maya Bond, Japanese-American singer-songwriter and drummer
• 13th » Piper Reese, American actress and blogger
• 20th » Fátima Ptacek, American actress

Famous Deaths for August 2000

• 3rd » Joann Lõssov, Estonian basketball player and coach (b. 1921)
• 4th » Leslie Glass (adult model) e.g Leslie Glass, American porn actress and model (b. 1963)
• 5th » Otto Buchsbaum, Austrian-Brazilian journalist and activist (b. 1920)
• 5th » Tullio Crali, Italian painter (b. 1910)
• 5th » Alec Guinness, English actor (b. 1914)
• 9th » John Harsanyi, Hungarian-American economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
• 9th » Murder of Nicholas Markowitz or Nicholas Markowitz, American murder victim (b. 1984)
• 10th » Gilbert Parkhouse, Welsh cricketer and rugby player (b. 1925)
• 11th » Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer and academic (b. 1916)
• 12th » Gennady Lyachin, Russian captain (b. 1955)
• 12th » Loretta Young, American actress and singer (b. 1913)
• 13th » Nazia Hassan, Pakistani singer (b. 1965)
• 14th » Alain Fournier, French-Canadian computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
• 14th » Cuan McCarthy, South African cricketer (b. 1929)
• 17th » Jack Walker, English businessman (b. 1929)
• 19th » Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet, author, and educator (b. 1948)
• 19th » Tony Parisi (wrestler) named Tony Parisi, Italian-Canadian wrestler (b. 1941)
• 19th » Theodore Trautwein, American judge (b. 1920)
• 22nd » Professor Tanaka, American wrestler and actor (n. 1930)
• 23rd » John Anthony Kaiser, American priest and missionary (b. 1932)
• 24th » Andy Hug, Swiss martial artist and kick-boxer (b. 1964)
• 25th » Carl Barks, American author and illustrator (b. 1901)
• 25th » Frederick C. Bock, American soldier and pilot (b. 1918)
• 25th » Jack Nitzsche, American pianist, composer, and producer (The Wrecking Crew (music) or The Wrecking Crew and Crazy Horse (band) known as Crazy Horse) (b. 1937)
• 26th » Akbar Adibi, Iranian engineer and academic (b. 1939)
• 29th » Shelagh Fraser, English actress (b. 1922)
• 29th » Willie Maddren, English footballer and manager (b. 1951)
• 31st » Lucille Fletcher, American screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 31st » Dolores Moore, American baseball player (b. 1932)
• 31st » Patricia Owens (actress) e.g Patricia Owens, Canadian-American actress (b. 1925)

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