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What Happened In May 2000 In History

Historical Events for May, 2000

  • 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.

Famous Birthdays on May in 2000

  • 7th » Maxwell Perry Cotton, American actor
  • 30th » Jared S. Gilmore, American actor

Famous Deaths for May 2000

  • 1st » Ebrahim Al-Arrayedh, Indian poet and author (b. 1908)
  • 1st » Jukka Tapanimäki, Finnish game programmer (b. 1961)
  • 3rd » Júlia Báthory, Hungarian glass designer (b. 1901)
  • 4th » Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist (b. 1909)
  • 5th » Gino Bartali, Italian cyclist (b. 1914)
  • 5th » Bill Musselman, American basketball player and coach (b. 1940)
  • 6th » Gordon McClymont, Australian ecologist and educator (b. 1920)
  • 7th » Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (b. 1909)
  • 8th » Pita Amor, Mexican poet (b. 1918)
  • 8th » Alexander Chislenko, Russian-American theorist (b. 1959)
  • 8th » Dédé Fortin, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Les Colocs) (b. 1962)
  • 8th » Henry Nicols, American activist (b. 1973)
  • 9th » Arthur Davis (animator) called Arthur Davis, American animator and director (b. 1905)
  • 10th » Jules Deschênes, Canadian judge (b. 1923)
  • 10th » Dick Sprang, American illustrator (b. 1915)
  • 10th » Kaneto Shiozawa, Japanese voice actor (b. 1954)
  • 11th » René Muñoz, Cuban-Mexican actor and screenwriter (b. 1938)
  • 11th » Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)
  • 12th » Adam Petty, American race car driver (b. 1980)
  • 13th » Paul Bartel, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
  • 13th » Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese wrestler (b. 1951)
  • 14th » Keizō Obuchi, Japanese politician, 84th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
  • 16th » Bodacious (bull) named Bodacious, American bull (b. 1988)
  • 17th » Donald Coggan, English archbishop (b. 1909)
  • 18th » Muhammad Yusuf Ludhianvi, Indian-Pakistani scholar (b. 1932)
  • 18th » Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian-American composer (b. 1946)
  • 19th » Yevgeny Khrunov, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1933)
  • 20th » Jean-Pierre Rampal, French flute player (b. 1922)
  • 20th » Malik Sealy, American basketball player and actor (b. 1970)
  • 21st » Barbara Cartland, English author (b. 1901)
  • 21st » John Gielgud, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1904)
  • 21st » Mark R. Hughes, American businessman, founded Herbalife (b. 1956)
  • 22nd » Davie Fulton, Canadian politician and judge (b. 1916)
  • 24th » Kurt Schork, American journalist (b. 1947)
  • 24th » Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and songwriter (b. 1919)
  • 25th » Nicholas Clay, English actor (b. 1946)
  • 27th » Kazimierz Leski, Polish engineer and pilot (b. 1912)
  • 27th » Murray MacLehose, Baron MacLehose of Beoch, Scottish politician, 25th Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1917)
  • 27th » Maurice Richard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1921)
  • 28th » George Irving Bell, American physicist, biologist, and mountaineer (b. 1926)
  • 30th » Tex Beneke, American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1914)
  • 30th » Doris Hare, Welsh-English actress (b. 1905)
  • 31st » Johnnie Taylor, American singer (b. 1938)
  • 31st » A. Jeyaratnam Wilson, Sri Lankan historian, author, and academic (b. 1928)

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