1st » Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
2nd » The Expedition 1 known as first resident crew to the ISS docked with their Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft.
7th » Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First Lady of the United States named First Lady to win public office in the United States, although she was actually still the First Lady.
7th » Controversial United States presidential election, 2000 or US presidential election that is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case.
11th » Kaprun disaster: 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a Funicular or cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel in Kaprun, Austria.
13th » Philippines e.g Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada.
15th » A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
15th » Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
17th » A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of Slovenian tolar named SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
17th » Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
25th » The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years.
27th » In the Canadian federal election, 2000 named Canadian federal election the Liberal Party of Canada wins its third consecutive election with a gain in the number of its members.