Class of 2000

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Major Events, Births And, Deaths

• January 1 - Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world.

• January 10 - America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.

• January 16 - In Sacramento, California, a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the State Capitol building, killing the driver.

• January 18 - The strange, Tagish Lake meteorite impacted the Earth.

January 31 - Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.

February 6 - Hillary Clinton enters the New York Senate race

• February 13 - The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles Schulz.

• February 14 - The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.

• June 19 - The Los Angeles Lakers defeat the Indiana Pacers 116-111 in Game 6 of the 2000 NBA Finals.

• June 28 - Elian Gonzalez returns to Cuba with his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, ending a protracted custody battle.  

• July 2 - Vicente Fox is elected President of Mexico, as candidate of the rightist PAN (National Action Party).

• July 25 - Air France Flight 4590, a Concorde aircraft, crashes into a hotel in Gonesse just after takeoff from Paris, killing all 109 aboard and 4 in the hotel.

• November 7 - U.S. presidential election, 2000: Republican challenger George W. Bush defeats Democrat Vice President Al Gore, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.

• November 7 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.

• November 16 - Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting U.S. President to visit Vietnam.

• December 13 – Bush v. Gore: The U.S. Supreme Court stops the Florida presidential recount, effectively giving the state, and the Presidency, to George W. Bush.

• Deaths

• February 7 - Big Pun, American rapper

• February 12 - Charles M. Schulz, American comic strip artist (Peanuts)

• July 7 - Kenny Irwin, NASCAR driver

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