2nd » President Bill Clinton announces that accurate Global Positioning System or GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States Armed Forces called United States military.
3rd » The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a Global Positioning System e.g GPS posted on Usenet.
4th » Ken Livingstone becomes the London mayoral election, 2000 e.g first Mayor of London.
7th » Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
11th » Second Chechen War: Chechen people named Chechen separatists Galashki ambush e.g ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
13th » In Enschede, the Netherlands, a Enschede fireworks disaster known as fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately €450 million in damage.
17th » Arsenal F.C. or Arsenal and Galatasaray S.K. e.g Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
24th » Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
25th » Liberation Day (Lebanon) Liberation Day of Lebanon. Israel withdraws its army from most of the Lebanon Lebanese territory after 22 years of its first Operation Litani invasion in 1978.