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2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 1,
Michelle Kwan won her third World Figure Skating title.
   (AP, 4/1/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 1, President Clinton,
speaking at a fund-raiser for his wife’s Senate campaign, accused
New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani of enlisting a "right-wing venom
machine" against Hillary Rodham Clinton.
   (AP, 4/1/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 1, Smith & Wesson,
a US gun maker, agreed to introduce a series of safety measures.
   (SFEC, 4/2/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 1, In Chechnya Russian
soldiers found 33 of their missing comrades. 32 were dead and
booby-trapped from the Mar 30 rebel attack.
   (SFEC, 4/2/00, p.A20)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 1, In Nanjing, China,
4 unemployed youths broke into the home of Jurgen Hermann Pfrang
(50), an executive for DaimlerChrysler, and stabbed him to death
along with his wife and 2 children. The 4 were found guilty of
murder and robbery on 7/14/00 and sentenced to death.
   (SFC, 7/15/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 1, In Colombia leftist
rebels stormed the Modelo jail in Cucuta and freed 74 prisoners.
   (SFC, 4/3/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 2, Connecticut won its
second women’s NCAA national championship with a 71-to-52 victory
over Tennessee.
   (AP, 4/2/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 2, More than 600
people set out on a five-day, 120-mile protest march to Columbia,
South Carolina, to urge state lawmakers to move the Confederate flag
from the Statehouse dome.
   (AP, 4/2/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 2, It was reported
that a Nov. 1999, 79-page CIA report: "International Trafficking in
Women to the United States: A Contemporary Manifestation of
Slavery," claimed 50,000 victims per year in the US.
   (SFEC, 4/2/00, p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 2, In Japan Prime
Minister Keizo Obuchi suffered a stroke and Mikio Aoki took over as
Acting Premier. He died more than a month later.
   (SFC, 4/3/00, p.A8)(AP, 4/2/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 2, In Rwanda Tutsi
leader Paul Kagame assumed office as the country’s 4th president.
   (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kagame)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â cApr 2, South Korea said
it would slaughter 350,000 hoofed livestock to stem public concerns
over an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
   (WSJ, 4/3/00, p.A21)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 2, In Sri Lanka a
rebel attack launched 7 days earlier had left 78 fighters dead.
Rebels said 700 government troops had been killed since the attack
began with 71 rebels dead. The army admitted to 102 deaths and
claimed 210 rebels killed. Thousands of residents were stranded near
the Elephant Pass causeway.
   (SFC, 4/3/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 3, In Indianapolis
Michigan State beat the Florida Gators for the NCAA basketball
championship, 89-to-76.
   (WSJ, 4/5/00, p.A24)(AP, 4/3/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 3, Judge Thomas
Penfield Jackson ruled that Microsoft violated the Sherman Act by
tying its Internet browser to its operating system, and by keeping
"an oppressive thumb" on competitors during the race to link
Americans to the Internet.
   (SFC, 4/4/00, p.A1)(AP, 4/3/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 3, The US granted
visas to the immediate family of Elian Gonzalez along with a cousin,
doctor, and teacher. 22 other visas were under review.
   (WSJ, 4/4/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 3, US defense chief
Cohen said that the US would join an int’l. force in south Lebanon
when Israel pulls out.
   (WSJ, 4/4/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 3, A regional director
of the National Labor Relations Board ruled that graduate students
who work as teaching and research assistants at New York Univ. may
organize a union.
   (SFC, 4/4/00, p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 3, The Nasdaq plunged
349 points while the Dow rose 300.
   (SFC, 4/4/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 3, In Massachusetts
the nation’s most comprehensive gun safety laws went into effect.
   (SFC, 4/3/00, p.A11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 3, It was reported
that 6 prestigious int’l. universities and cultural institutions
planned to sell knowledge and education over the Internet via the
Fathom Web site.
   (SFC, 4/3/00, p.A5)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 3, In Bosnia NATO
troops arrested Momcilo Krajisnik, former speaker of the Bosnian
Serb assembly, for war crimes and flew him to the Netherlands to
stand trial. Momcilo Krajisnik was convicted by the Yugoslav war
crimes tribunal in The Hague for persecuting and forcibly expelling
non-Serbs during the 1992-95 war in Bosnia. He was released in 2013
after serving two-thirds of a reduced 20-year sentence.
   (SFC, 4/4/00, p.A10)(SFC, 8/31/13, p.A6)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 3, In Colombia leftist
rebels of the national Liberation Army kidnapped 23 motorists in
northern Cesar state after calling for a transportation strike.
   (SFC, 4/4/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 3, Jean Dominique
(69), radio journalist, was killed by 2 gunmen as he drove in for a
morning newscast in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In 2004 Jonathan Demme
debuted his documentary film "The Agronomist," a paean to Dominique.
Claudy Gassant rose to fame in Haiti as the investigative judge
tasked with finding out who murdered Dominique and a security guard.
Gassant was found dead on July 31, 2021, in Santo Domingo, Dominican
Republic where he recently had been living.
   (SFC, 4/4/00, p.A12)(WSJ, 1/29/02, p.A1)(SFC,
4/30/04, p.E6)(Miami Herald, 8/1/21)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 3, In Madagascar a
cyclone left 2 people dead and nearly flattened the town of
Antalaha.
   (WSJ, 4/4/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 3, In Russia 2
cosmonauts were scheduled to lift off for the Mir space station.
   (WSJ, 4/3/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 3, Turkish warplanes
struck Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq.
   (SFC, 4/4/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 4, Ha Jin, Prof. of
English at Emory Univ. won the PEN/Faulkner Prize for His novel
"Waiting." Jin had arrived in the US from China in 1985.
   (SFC, 4/5/00, p.C3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 4, In a volatile day
on the US stock market, the Nasdaq composite index and the DJIA each
plunged 554 points before but recovered with a loss of 74.79 as
buyers flooded back into the market. The Dow fell 504 but recovered
with a net loss of 57.
   (SFC, 4/5/00, p.A13)(AP, 4/4/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 4, In India 532 rebels
of the United Liberation Front of Assam turned in their weapons and
gave up their struggle for independence. Some 2000 fighters still
remained in the jungles of Assam. Over 5,000 people had been killed
in the front’s campaign since 1979.
   (SFC, 4/5/00, p.A11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 4, In Iraq US and
British warplanes bombed military sites in the south and Iraqi news
reported 2 civilians killed and 2 wounded.
   (SFC, 4/5/00, p.A11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 4, In Japan the
cabinet resigned and allowed the Parliament to elect Yoshiro Mori as
the new Prime Minister. The former trade minister was elected as
president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party earlier the same
day.
   (SFC, 4/5/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 4, In Pakistan Arif
Khan (45), the governor of Kunduz province in Afghanistan, was shot
and killed along with his bodyguard by 2 gunmen in Peshawar.
   (SFC, 4/5/00, p.A11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 5, Ending a two-year
investigation, a US independent counsel cleared Labor Secretary
Alexis Herman of allegations that she’d solicited $250,000 in
illegal campaign contributions.
   (AP, 4/5/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 5, A 261-page report
by the 12-person National Research Council said "it was not aware of
any evidence suggesting foods on the market today are unsafe to eat
as a result of genetic modification."
   (SFC, 4/6/00, p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 5, The Netscape 6
browser was introduced.
   (WSJ, 4/5/00, p.B1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 5, The WHO and UNAIDS
recommended that the drug trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole (or
cotrimoxazole) be used to fight AIDS in Africa. The antibiotic, also
known as Bactrim, would help victims live longer.
   (SFC, 4/6/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 5, In Brazil Jose
Rainha Jr., leader of the Landless Rural Workers Movement, was
acquitted of the 1989 killing of farm owner Jose Machado Neto.
   (SFC, 4/6/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 5, Yoshiro Mori took
over as Japan’s new prime minister, succeeding Keizo Obuchi, who’d
been felled by a stroke.
   (AP, 4/5/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 5, In Mexico Rodolfo
Montiel, an imprisoned peasant leader, was awarded the $125,000
Goldman Environmental Prize for his efforts to protect the forests
of the Sierra Madre. 6 other winners were scheduled for Apr 17.
   (SFC, 4/6/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 5, In Pakistan Nawaz
Sharif was sentenced to life in prison for hijacking and terrorism
due to his Oct 12 refusal to let a passenger plane land with 198
people aboard.
   (SFC, 4/6/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 5, In Peru Alejandro
Toledo (54), the "Cholo," rose dramatically in the polls as
opposition candidate to Pres. Alberto Fujimori, the "Chino." Toledo
represented the Peru Possible Party.
   (SFC, 4/6/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 5, In Russia the FSB
arrested a US businessman for suspected espionage after he allegedly
bought information on defense technology from Russian scientists.
Edmond Pope was later identified as a retired navy captain working
for Pennsylvania State Univ. in applied research. The key witness
against Pope recanted his testimony in Nov.
   (SFC, 4/6/00, p.A12)(USAT, 4/7/00, p.6A)(SFC,
11/11/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 6, A private company
mapping the human genetic blueprint announced it had decoded all of
the DNA pieces that make up the genetic pattern of a single human
being.
   (AP, 4/6/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 6, The Muslim new year
1421 began with the new moon.
   (SFC, 1/1/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 6, US and British
warplanes bombed military sites in southern Iraq and Iraqi military
reported 14 civilians killed and 19 wounded.
   (SFC, 4/7/00, p.D2)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 6, Juan Miguel
Gonzalez, the father of Elian Gonzalez, arrived in Washington DC
with his wife and baby son to press his case for the return of his
son from relatives in Miami.
   (SFC, 4/7/00, p.A1)(AP, 4/6/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 6, In Michigan a house
fire in Royal Oak Township resulted in the deaths of five kids under
the age of 21. Juwan Deering Deering was convicted in 2006 and given
a life sentence after being charged with one count of arson and five
counts of first-degree murder. In 2021 his conviction and life
sentence were vacated after a review of case files found that
jailhouse informants that provided testimony that led to his jury
conviction in exchange for reduced sentences and plea bargains were
not disclosed to prosecutors or the court.
   (https://tinyurl.com/2wy5a6mx)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 6, In Colombia
suspected rightist paramilitaries killed 21 unarmed residents of
Tibu.
   (SFC, 4/7/00, p.D2)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 6, In Pakistan the
Anti-Terrorist Court declared the former PM Nawaz Sharif guilty of
attempted hijacking and terrorism and sentenced him to two life
imprisonment terms of 25 years each which would run concurrently.
   (www.ciaonet.org/olj/sa/sa_jan01kus01.html)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 6, Two Russian
cosmonauts docked with Mir. The destruction of the space station was
delayed after MirCorp. of Amsterdam agreed in Feb. to pay $10-20
million to lease commercial rights.
   (SFC, 4/7/00, p.D2)(SFEC, 6/11/00, p.T12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 6, In Tunisia Habib
Bourguiba former president and independence leader, died at age 96.
   (SFC, 4/7/00, p.D5)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 6, In Uganda
authorities issued 6 arrest warrants for the prominent figures of
the doomsday sect: Joseph Kibwetere, Credonia Mwerinde, Dominic
Kataribabo, Joseph Kasapurari, John Kamagara, and Ursula Komuhangi.
All were charged with 10 counts of murder, representing the first 10
identified victims of 924 corpses.
   (SFC, 4/7/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 6, In Venezuela Pres.
Chavez announced that the Pemon tribe had dropped their opposition
to construction of a 136-mile electrical line in the Canaina
National Park.
   (SFC, 4/7/00, p.D2)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 6, In Zimbabwe ruling
party lawmakers approved a bill empowering the government to seize
white-owned land without compensation. The squatter occupation
reached to 940 farms. 6 Western donors suspended $10 million in land
reform aid.
   (SFC, 4/7/00, p.D4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 7, Pres. Clinton
signed a bill to allow people aged 65-70 to earn as much as they can
without losing Social Security benefits.
   (SFC, 4/8/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 7, Attorney General
Janet Reno met in Washington with the father of Elian Gonzalez; Reno
later told reporters that officials would arrange for Juan Miguel
Gonzalez to reclaim his son, but she gave Elian’s Miami relatives
one more chance to drop their resistance and join in a peaceful
transfer.
   (AP, 4/7/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 7, A Miami jury ruled
that cigarettes caused the diseases of 3 smokers chosen as
representatives in a class-action suit. Compensatory damages totaled
12.7 million and opened the door to huge punitive damages.
   (SFC, 4/8/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 7, Iqbal Masih, a
slain child labor spokesperson, was named in Sweden as the first
winner of the World’s Children’s prize. Masih was gunned down at age
13 after speaking out against child labor in carpet factories where
he had worked from age 5-10. Prize money was earmarked to establish
the Iqbal Masih Freedom Center for the Rights of the Child in
Pakistan.
   (SFC, 4/8/00, p.C1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 8, US Catholic Bishops
honored this day as a National Day of Atonement."
   (SFEC, 4/9/00, p.C2)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 8, The Central
Intelligence Agency confirmed that personnel action had been taken
following the mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy during the
NATO war against Yugoslavia; one employee was reportedly fired.
   (AP, 4/8/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 8, A Marine Corps
aircraft, MV-22 tilt-rotor Osprey, with at least 18 people aboard
crashed at the Avra Valley Airport near Tucson. All 19 Marines
onboard were killed in the crash.
   (SFEC, 4/9/00, p.A15)(SFEC, 4/10/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 8, Claire Trevor,
Hollywood actress, died at age 90 [91]. She had starred in over 60
films which included "Key Largo" (1948) and "The High and the
Mighty" (1954).
   (SFEC, 4/9/00, p.C14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 8, In Bolivia Pres.
Banzer declared a state of emergency following a week of protests. 3
protesters were reported killed in 3 separate clashes which began in
Cochabamba over a 20% increase in water rates.
   (SFEC, 4/9/00,
p.C13)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Cochabamba_protests)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 8, In Haiti violence
broke out following the funeral of radio broadcaster Jean Dominique
and Aristide supporters set fire to offices of the Confederation of
Democratic Unity in Port-au-Prince. The government continued to
delay elections.
   (SFEC, 4/9/00, p.C13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 9, Vijay Singh of Fiji
won the Masters Golf Tournament.
   (WSJ, 4/10/00, p.A24)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 9, Some 10-30 thousand
protesters began gathering in Washington DC for the meeting of the
WTO. They planned to target the World Bank and the IMF. The World
Bank’s 181 members accessed some $30 billion annually in loans
through 5 institutions: The Int’l. Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (IBRD), the Int’l. Development Assoc. (IDA), the Int’l.
Finance Corp. (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
(MIGA) and the Int’l. Center for settlement of Investment Disputes
(ICSID).
   (SFEC, 4/9/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 9, In Bolivia
thousands of Aymara Indian farmers clashed with soldiers in
Achacachi and Batallas. The clashes over economic problems left 3
soldiers and 2 farmers dead.
   (SFC, 4/10/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 9, In Bosnia the
moderate Social Democratic party claimed victory in 20 cities of the
Muslim-Croat Federation. In the Serb Republic the Serbian Democratic
Party won 56.5% of the vote.
   (SFC, 4/10/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 9, In Georgia Pres.
Eduard Shevardnadze won re-election with some 82% of the vote.
Dzhumber Patiashvili, ex-Communist leader, trailed with 17% and
charged that there was widespread vote rigging.
   (SFC, 4/10/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 9, In Greece Premier
Costas Simitis declared a narrow victory over the New Democracy
opposition, 43.68-43.03%.
   (SFC, 4/10/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 9, North and South
Korea agreed to a summit meeting in June.
   (SFC, 4/10/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 9, In Peru Pres.
Fujimori led Alejandro Toledo with 48% of the vote and a runoff was
planned.
   (SFC, 4/10/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 10, David M. Kennedy
won a Pulitzer prize for "Freedom From Fear: The American People in
Depression and War, 1929-1945." Jhumpa Lahiri won the fiction award
for "Interpreter of Maladies." The Washington Post won three
Pulitzer Prizes, including the public service award for the second
year in a row; The Wall Street Journal took two honors, and The
Associated Press won for investigative reporting on the killing of
civilians by US troops at the start of the Korean War.
   (SFC, 4/11/00, p.A2)(AP, 4/10/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 10, Actor Larry
Linville, one of the stars (Major Frank Burns) of the situation
comedy "M*A*S*H," set during the Korean War, died in New York at age
60.
   (AP, 4/10/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 10, EU foreign
ministers toughened sanctions against Burma due to the increased
repression of civil and political rights.
   (SFC, 4/11/00, p.D4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 10, In Gambia police
fired on a student demonstration in Banjul and 12 people were
killed.
   (SC, 4/11/00, p.D4)(SFC, 4/12/00, p.A17)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 10, South Korea and
North Korea announced a June date for their first summit since the
Korean peninsula was divided in 1945.
   (AP, 4/10/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 10, In the Philippines
government troops attacked Camp Bilai, a Muslim rebel camp of the
Moro Islamic Liberation Front. A number of guerrillas were killed.
278 rebels and 18 soldiers had died in clashes over the last month.
   (SFC, 4/11/00, p.D4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 11, Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Barak met with President Clinton at the White House in
what a senior US official described as a good, productive, serious
discussion.
   (AP, 4/11/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 11, In Bolivia some
anti-government protests continued but in Cochabamba tensions eased
after the government cancelled a contract with Aguas del Tunari, a
Bechtel subsidiary, that threatened increased water prices. In 2002
Bechtel demanded $25 million for suspension of the 40-year lease.
   (SFC, 4/12/00, p.A17)(SFC, 2/2/02, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 11, In Bosnia 3
children were killed after they wandered into a mine field near
Serajevo.
   (WSJ, 4/12/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 11, A British judge
branded historian David Irving an anti-Semite racist and an
apologist for Adolf Hitler, ruling that an American scholar was
justified in calling him a Holocaust denier.
   (AP, 4/11/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 11, In Gambia students
set fire to government buildings across the country to protest the
killing of 12 people at a demonstration.
   (SFC, 4/12/00, p.A17)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 11, In Peru the vote
count reached 49.79% for Pres. Fujimori and tensions mounted under
suspected irregularities.
   (WSJ, 4/12/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 12, Attorney General
Janet Reno met in Miami with the US relatives of Elian Gonzalez,
after which she ordered them to bring the six-year-old boy to an
airport the next day so he could be taken to a reunion with his
father in Washington. Elian was seized by federal agents ten days
after Reno’s order to turn him over.
   (SFC, 4/13/00, p.A1)(AP, 4/12/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 12, Detroit police
arrested John Eric Armstrong (26), a suspected serial killer.
Armstrong was reported to be responsible for killing some 20
prostitutes since 1992, when he served in the US Navy aboard the
Nimitz.
   (SFC, 4/14/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 12, It was reported
that the Vermont-based Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream maker would be
sold to Unilever Corp.
   (SFC, 4/13/00, p.D1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 12, Terayon
Communications stock plunged 26% to 119.75. It had peaked 2 days
earlier at $277.62.
   (SSFC, 11/9/03, p.A20)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 12, China’s Pres.
Jiang Zemin arrived in Israel to support commercial defense
relations between the two countries.
   (SFC, 4/13/00, p.A15)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 12, In Colombia police
and US drug agents swept over 4 cities in "Operation Millennium II"
and made 49 arrests in the country’s largest heroin ring.
   (SFC, 4/13/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 12, In Israel the
Supreme Court ruled that the detention of Lebanese men for more than
a decade was illegal. A release was scheduled for 13 men on Apr 17.
   (SFC, 4/13/00, p.A14)
000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 12, In Pakistan at
least 11 people were killed in Mulawali when gunmen hurled a grenade
into a prayer meeting of Shiite Muslims followed by automatic rifle
fire. 30 people were injured.
   (SFC, 4/13/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 12, In Peru officials
announced that a runoff election would be held between Pres.
Fujimori and Alejandro Toledo.
   (SFC, 4/13/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 12, In the Philippines
the Arlahada ferryboat capsized after leaving Jolo and at least 56
people died. Another 100 were missing and feared dead. The death
toll later rose to 133.
   (SFC, 4/13/00, p.A16)(WSJ, 4/17/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 13, President Clinton,
during a question-and-answer session with newspaper editors,
heatedly said "I’m not ashamed" about being impeached and "I’m not
interested" in being pardoned for any alleged crimes in the Monica
Lewinsky scandal and Whitewater investigation.
   (AP, 4/13/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 13, US drug agents
arrested at least 45 people in a Jamaican-led marijuana ring that
bribed FedEx workers to distribute the drug for East Coast markets.
22 of those arrested were FedEx employees.
   (WSJ, 4/14/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 13, The heavy metal
rock group Metallica filed suit against Napster for copyright
infringement and racketeering.
   (WSJ, 9/9/03, p.B1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 13, Shareholders led
by Edward Rose III of Dallas filed a 58-page suit against the
Terayon Communications for securities fraud, one day after the stock
fell 26%. Rose, a short seller and founder of Cardinal Investment
Co. had partnered with George Bush in the 1989 bid for the Texas
Rangers.
   (SSFC, 11/9/03, p.A20)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 13, Giorgio Bassani,
Italian author, died at age 84. His books included "The Garden of
the Finzi-Continis."
   (SFC, 4/14/00, p.D5)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 13, In Mexico 7 people
died in a train carrying illegal immigrants from Central America in
a bid to enter the US. 46 people were hospitalized from suffocating
conditions.
   (WSJ, 4/14/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 13, In South Korea
election results gave 115 seats to the ruling Millennium Democratic
Party of Pres. Kin Dae Jung. The opposition Grand National Party won
133 seats.
   (SFC, 4/14/00, p.A21)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 13, In Zimbabwe acting
Pres. Joseph Msika called for an end to squatter invasions of
white-owned farms after the high court ruled that police must comply
with an order to remove liberation war veterans and other government
supporters occupying the farms. Pres. Mugabe was visiting Cuba for a
summit of developing nations. Mugabe repudiated Msika’s order on his
return.
   (SFC, 4/14/00, p.A20)(WSJ, 4/17/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 14, US stock markets
plunged with the Dow down 617.78 to 10305.77 and the Nasdaq down
355.49 to 3321.29. Inflation fears were cited. This capped one of
the worst weeks ever for US stocks. In Washington, protesters dumped
manure on Pennsylvania Avenue, seeking to disrupt meetings of the
World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
   (SFC, 4/15/00, p.A1)(AP, 4/14/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 14, Leaders of
developing nations called for a "New Global Human Order’ to spread
the world’s wealth and power. The Group of 77, expanded to 133, made
the call during a 3 day summit in Havana.
   (SFC, 4/15/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 14, In Congo several
explosions took place at the airport in Kinshasa and a number of
people were killed. State radio reported that a short circuit
sparked a fire that triggered explosions at an army munitions depot
and that a fire spread to a fuel depot. The death toll reached 101
and 216 seriously injured.
   (SFC, 4/15/00, p.A13)(SFEC, 4/16/00, p.A21)(SFC,
4/17/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 14, In Russia the Duma
passed the START II Arms Treaty.
   (SFC, 4/15/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 14, In Serbia some
100,000 people rallied against Pres. Milosevic in Belgrade.
   (SFC, 4/15/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 15, Rem Koolhaas (56),
Dutch architect, won the annual $100,000 Pritzker Architecture
Prize.
   (SFEC, 4/16/00, p.A4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 15, In California
Pres. Clinton created Giant Sequoia National Monument in Sequoia
National Park. It protected 328,000 acres and 34 groves of Sequoias
from timber harvest within 2 ½ years.
   (SFEC, 4/16/00, p.C7)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 15, The world’s
leading financial officials, meeting in Washington, pledged
cooperation to promote global prosperity as anti-globalization
protesters gathered. An estimated 600 people were arrested in
Washington DC prior to the meeting of the IMF and World Bank.
   (SFEC, 4/16/00, p.A1)(AP, 4/15/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 15, Cal Ripken of the
Baltimore Orioles became the 24th player to reach three-thousand
hits when he lined a clean single to center off Twins reliever
Hector Carrasco. The Orioles won the game, 6-to-4.
   (AP, 4/15/01)  Â
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 15, Wellesley Women’s
College in Massachusetts received a $25 million gift from Lulu Wang
and her husband Anthony.
   (SFEC, 4/16/00, p.A17)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 15, The Int’l. Whaling
Commission turned down a requests from Japan and Norway to allow
expanded limited whaling. 2000 delegates were gathered in Nairobi,
Kenya, for a 10 day UN Convention on Int’l. Trade in Endangered
Species (CITES).
   (SFEC, 4/16/00, p.A22)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 15, In Zimbabwe David
Stevens, a white farmer, was abducted and killed by squatters near
Macheke. 4 neighbors who went to help him were missing.
   (SFEC, 4/16/00, p.C22)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 16, In Washington DC
police blocked some 10,000 protesters from disrupting the meetings
of the World Bank and the IMF. Finance ministers and central bankers
issued a statement that pledged to seek greater debt relief for the
poorest countries and to reform the IMF to prevent future financial
crises.
   (SFC, 4/17/00, p.A1)(AP, 4/16/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 16, The rest of the
winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize were announced: Nat
Quansah (46), an ethnobotonist in Madagascar; Oscar Rivas (45) and
Elias Diaz (54) of Paraguay for their work in defeating government
plans to reconfigure the Paraguay and Parana rivers for shipping at
environmental expense; Vera Mischenko (47) for environmental legal
work in Russia; Oral Ataniyazova (43), for founding a clinic and
fighting pesticide contamination in Karakalpakstan, an autonomous
region of Uzbekistan; and Alexander Peal (55), for environmental
work and founding a national park in Liberia.
   (SFC, 4/17/00, p.A2)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 16, In the Philippines
at least 4 people were killed when gunmen threw a grenade at police
near a crowded church following a mall robbery.
   (WSJ, 4/17/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 16, In Portugal 7
people were killed in a stampede at the Luanda nightclub in Lisbon
after canisters thought to contain pepper gas were released.
   (SFC, 4/17/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 17, Elijah Lagat of
Kenya won the 104th Boston Marathon. Catherine Ndereba of Kenya won
the women’s race.
   (WSJ, 4/18/00, p.A1)(AP, 4/17/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 17, The Clinton
administration approved the sale of upgraded missiles and a
long-range radar system for Taiwan but not 4 hi-tech destroyers.
   (SFC, 4/18/00, p.A8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 17, The IMF and World
Bank ministers ended their meetings and pledged to speed debt relief
to poor countries and to increase support for fighting AIDS. Police
blocked all protestor attempts to disrupt the meetings.
   (SFC, 4/18/00, p.A1)(AP, 4/17/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 17, African nations
agreed to a compromise on the trade of ivory. A ban on legal sales
was restored until an effective system to combat poaching can be
instituted.
   (SFC, 4/18/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 17, In Spokane, Wa.,
Robert L. Yates Jr., a National Guardsman and the father of 5, was
arrested for the murder of a 16-year-old prostitute and suspected in
the murder of as many as 17 other slayings in Washington state.
   (SFC, 4/20/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 17, In Bolivia coca
leaf farmers in the Yungas region scuffled with truckers in a
protest against government plans to destroy illegal coca
plantations.
   (SFC, 4/18/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 17, In England
Russia’s Pres. Putin met with Tony Blair and promised to implement
economic reforms and root out corruption. Putin looked for closer
ties with Europe despite differences over Chechnya.
   (WSJ, 4/18/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 17, In the Philippines
Abu Sayyaf rebels on Basilan Island threatened to kidnap and kill
Americans if the US does not release the men convicted for bombing
the World Trade Center in New York.
   (SFEC, 4/23/00, p.T9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 17, In Rwanda Paul
Kagami was elected the country’s first Tutsi president.
   (SFC, 4/18/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 18, In his first game
back following a 12-game suspension for making disparaging remarks
about minorities, gays and immigrants, Atlanta’s John Rocker pitched
a scoreless ninth inning in a 4-to-3, 12-inning victory over
Philadelphia.
   (AP, 4/18/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 18, In a defeat for
the United States, a United Nations commission in Geneva voted
22-to-18 against censuring China’s human rights record.
   (AP, 4/18/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 17, In Spokane, Wa.,
Robert L. Yates Jr., a National Guardsman and the father of 5, was
arrested for the murder of a 16-year-old prostitute and suspected in
the murder of as many as 17 other slayings in Washington state. On
Oct 16 Yates agreed to plead guilty to 13 murders to avoid the death
penalty. He was sentenced to 408 years in prison.
   (SFC, 4/20/00, p.A10)(SFC, 10/17/00, p.A12)(AP,
4/18/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 18, The Nasdaq gained
254.41 (7.19%) to 3793.57 for its biggest point gain ever.
   (WSJ, 4/19/00, p.C1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 18, The US FDA
approved the antibiotic Zyvox, made by Pharmacia, for use in
hospitals and other medical settings to treat drug-resistant
infections.
   (WSJ, 4/19/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 18, In Michigan
Kenneth Ray Miller (55), a tenant at a senior apartment house in
Lincoln Park, shot and killed 2 women after he was summoned to
discuss complaints about his vulgar language. A 3rd woman died days
later.
   (SFC, 4/19/00, p.A3)(SFC, 4/22/00, p.B10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 18, In Zimbabwe Martin
Olds, a white cattle rancher, was fatally shot by squatters.
   (SFC, 4/19/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 19, President Clinton
knelt among 168 empty chairs memorializing each victim of the
Oklahoma City bombing and declared the site "sacred ground" in the
soul of America during a fifth-anniversary dedication ceremony.
   (AP, 4/19/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 19, The new Oprah
Winfrey magazine "O" hit the newsstands.
   (WSJ, 4/20/00, p.A24)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 19, In Arizona Richard
Glassel killed 2 women and injured 4 others in a retirement
community in Peoria.
   (SFC, 4/20/00, p.A10)(WSJ, 4/20/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 19, In Tennessee
Robert Glen Coe, convicted for the 1979 murder and rape of Cary Ann
Medlin (8), was executed by injection. This was the state’s first
execution in 40 years.
   (SFC, 10/12/99, p.A3)(SFC, 3/24/00, p.A5)(SFC,
4/20/00, p.A4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 19, In the Brittany
region of France a bomb exploded in a McDonald’s restaurant in Dinan
and one worker was killed.
   (SFC, 4/20/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 19, In southern Congo
6 Rwandan army officers and 4 Russian crew members were killed when
their Antonov-8 aircraft crashed on takeoff at Pepa.
   (SFC, 4/21/00, p.A20)(WSJ, 4/21/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 19, In Israel 13
Lebanese prisoners, held as bargaining chips for an Israeli airman,
were released.
   (SFC, 4/20/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 19, In Nigeria dozens
of boat passengers were missing and feared dead after a boat
carrying as many as 500 villagers sank on the Nembe River.
   (SFC, 4/21/00, p.A20)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 19, An Air Philippines
Boeing 737-200 jet crashed and all 131 people aboard were killed on
Samal Island following an attempted landing at Davao City. It was
the worst air crash in Philippine history.
   (SFC, 4/19/00, p.A1)(AP, 4/19/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 19, In Somalia over
110 people died over the last 2 days from an outbreak of cholera. 70
dead were in the Ufatest commune and 40 in the village of Bulo
Addey.
   (SFC, 4/20/00, p.C4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 19, In Sri Lanka the
Defense Ministry reported 12 soldiers dead from fighting over the
causeway linking Jaffna to the mainland. Rebels reported 100
soldiers killed and 26 rebels dead.
   (SFC, 4/20/00, p.C4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 20, Littleton,
Colorado, paused to remember the victims on the first anniversary of
the Columbine High School massacre.
   (AP, 4/20/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 20, In Chechnya Pres.
Maskhadov told a Russian news agency that he had declared a
unilateral cease-fire. Maskhadov later said his remarks meant that
fighting would stop only if both sides agreed to stop fighting and
negotiate a settlement.
   (WSJ, 4/21/00, p.A1)(SFC, 4/25/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 20, In China the
Communist party announced that Cheng Kejie, a deputy chairman in the
national legislature, was expelled and charged with amassing $4.5
million in bribes and kickbacks.
   (SFC, 4/21/00, p.A20)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 20, In Italy the
center-left parties closed ranks behind Treasury Minister Giuliano
Amato following the resignation of Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema.
   (WSJ, 4/21/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 20, In Slovakia police
arrested former Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar for paying
unauthorized bonuses to Cabinet members during his 5 years in
office. He was released after several hours.
   (SFC, 4/21/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 21, Scientists
reported that the 66 million-year-old plant-eating dinosaur,
Thescelosaurus, had a 4-chambered heart and was likely warm-blooded.
   (SFC, 4/21/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 21, Jerry Andrew Amaro
III (36) of Oakland, Ca., died of pneumonia due to fractured ribs.
He had been beaten kicked on March 23 in the chest by Capt. Ed
Poulson following his arrest by undercover cops for buying drugs. In
2009 the FBI opened in inquiry in the case. In 2011 Amaro’s family
brought legal action against Oakland.
   (SFC, 1/24/09, p.B3)(SSFC, 5/10/09, p.A1)(SFC,
7/29/11, p.C1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 21, In Bosnia NATO
troops arrested Dragan Nikolic (42) for war crimes at the Susica
detention camp in 1992.
   (SFEC, 4/23/00, p.C17)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 21, In Russia the
lower house of parliament ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test
Ban Treaty, which the US Senate rejected in 1999. It would oblige
Russia to end all nuclear test explosions.
   (SFC, 4/22/00, p.A1)(AP, 4/21/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 21, The Russian Coast
Guard fired on a Japanese fishing boat near the disputed Kuril
Islands and took it back to Yuzhno-Kurilsk island.
   (SFC, 4/22/00, p.A8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 21, Zimbabwe Pres.
Mugabe met with Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, Joaquim
Chissano of Mozambique and Sam Nujoma of Namibia at Victoria Falls
concerning the crises in Zimbabwe.
   (SFEC, 4/23/00, p.C12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 22, In Miami US INS
agents stormed the home of Lazaro Gonzalez and took away Elian
Gonzalez to Washington, where he was united with his father. Riots
erupted in Little Havana and 290 protesters were arrested.
   (SFEC, 4/23/00, p.A1,4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 22, Earth Day 2000,
the 30th annual anniversary, was celebrated in Washington DC with
the theme "Clean Energy Now."
   (SFEC, 4/23/00, p.C8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 22, Broadway producer
Alexander Cohen died in NYC at age 79.
   (AP, 4/22/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 22, In Chechnya
guerrillas attacked a Russian convoy and killed 15 soldiers near
Serzhen-Yurt.
   (SFC, 4/25/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 22, Iran arrested
reporter Akbar Ganji and charged him with spreading propaganda
against the Islamic system. He is author of the best-selling book
“Dungeon of Ghosts,” a collection of his newspaper articles
published in early 2000, in which he implicated the former
president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, and other leading conservative
figures in the "serial murders" of five writers and intellectuals in
1998.
   (SSFC, 10/23/05, p.E3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 22, In Rwanda Paul
Kagami became president and appealed for an end to ethnic strife.
   (WSJ, 4/24/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 22, In Sri Lanka
rebels took over Elephant Pass.
   (SFC, 5/9/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 23, Elian Gonzalez
spent a secluded Easter with his father at Andrews Air Force Base
outside Washington, a day after the six-year-old boy was removed
from his Miami relatives’ home in a pre-dawn raid by immigration
agents.
   (AP, 4/23/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 23, In China Li
Chenglong (48), deputy mayor of Guigang city, was executed. He had
been convicted of corruption during his term as Communist Party
secretary of Yulin city between 1991 and 1996.
   (SFC, 4/24/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 23, In Iran 5 liberal
publications were shut down and Latif Safari, director of the banned
Neshat daily, was jailed.
   (SFC, 4/24/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 23, Jordan’s King
Abdullah II made his first state visit to Israel and spent 4 hours
in Eilat with Prime Minister Barak.
   (SFC, 4/24/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 23, Philippine gunmen,
Abu Sayyaf rebels, abducted 20-21 tourists and workers from a
Malaysian resort on Sipadan Island. Islamic insurgents took credit
for the attack. They later freed 2 hostages and demanded $2.4
million in ransom for 19 captives. [see Aug 27]
   (SFC, 4/25/00, p.A10)(WSJ, 4/27/00, p.A1)(SFC,
7/15/00, p.A13)(AP, 4/23/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 23, In Sri Lanka the
government confirmed that it lost the battle for the control of
Elephant Pass. Rebels claimed 1000 soldiers died in the fight.
   (WSJ, 4/24/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 24, Concerned about
the disappearance of a laptop computer with highly sensitive
documents, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced a
five-point plan to help guard against such lapses in the future.
   (AP, 4/24/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 24, In Washington DC a
shootout at the National Zoo left 7 children wounded. A 16-year-old
high school student, the son of a convicted enforcer, was later
arrested.
   (WSJ, 4/25/00, p.A1)(SFC, 4/26/00, p.A3)(SFC,
4/27/00, p.A4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 24, In Peoria, Ill., 3
construction workers were killed when scaffolding broke away from
the McClugage Bridge.
   (SFC, 4/25/00, p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 24, In NYC an 8th
livery cab driver was found shot to death in the Bronx. 11 drivers
were killed in 1999.
   (SFC, 4/25/00, p.A5)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 24, In Colombia Pres.
Pastrana reached a preliminary agreement with the ELN to withdraw
government troops from a northern region as a condition for peace
talks. Meanwhile FARC rebels announced a campaign to kidnap
millionaires and corporate executives who refuse to pay tribute.
   (SFC, 4/25/00, p.A11)(SFC, 4/27/00, p.A11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 24, It was reported
that officially 5000 new AIDS cases were registered in Irkutsk,
Russia, over the last year along with 8,500 heroin addicts. 40% of
Russian prostitutes were reported to be HIV-positive.
   (SFC, 4/24/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 24, In South Africa
Pres. Mbeki brokered a deal with Pres. Mugabe of Zimbabwe for an end
to the campaign against white farmers in exchange for US and British
funding for land reform and a restoration of relations with the IMF.
   (SFC, 4/25/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 24, Nguyen Thi Hiep,
arrested in 1996 for drug smuggling, was executed in Vietnam. The
execution prompted Canada to suspend contacts and meetings for
development aid.
   (SFC, 5/2/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 24, In Zimbabwe David
Nhaurva, a black supporter of the MDC, was killed by ax blows to the
head north of Harare.
   (SFC, 4/26/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 25, The Ohio state
motto, "with God, all things are possible," was declared
unconstitutional by a federal appeals court.
   (SFC, 4/26/00, p.B8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 25, In Vermont the
Legislature approved civil unions for homosexuals and Gov. Howard
Dean promised to sign the legislation effective July 1.
   (SFC, 4/26/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 25, Broadway producer
David Merrick died in London at age 88.
   (AP, 4/25/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 25, In Burundi 66
people were reported killed in renewed fighting between Hutu rebels
and government troops.
   (SFC, 4/26/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 25, In India it was
reported that some 50 million people faced severe drought in
Rajasthan and Gujarat.
   (SFC, 4/25/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 25, In Serbia Zika
Petrovic (62), head of the Yugoslav Airlines and ally of Pres.
Milosevic, was shot to death near his home in Belgrade.
   (SFC, 4/26/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 25, In southwestern
Somalia nearly 400 people in famine-ridden villages were reported
dead from cholera over the last 2 weeks.
   (SFC, 4/25/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 25, In Turkey Prime
Minister Ecevit rallied opposition parties behind Ahmet Necdet
Sezer, chief justice of the top court and candidate for the
presidency. Sezer needed 367 of 550 parliamentary votes.
   (SFC, 4/26/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 26, Vermont Governor
Howard Dean signed the nation’s first bill allowing same-sex couples
to form civil unions.
   (AP, 4/26/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 26, In Texas a prison
riot between Blacks and Hispanics left one person dead and 31
injured.
   (WSJ, 4/27/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 26, Sparkle Rai (22),
a black woman, was found dead in her Georgia apartment. She had
recently married Ricky Rai (20), the manager of a grocery store in
which she worked. In 2008 Chiman Rai (68) was convicted of felony
murder. Prosecutors charged that Rai teamed up with Willie Fred
Evans and Herbert Green to serve as middlemen. The two men passed
along $10,000 to brothers Cleveland and Carl Clark. Carl Clark
allegedly drove the car and Cleveland Clark, a 300-pound ex-con who
also faces the death penalty, carried out the killing.
  Â
(http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_n26/idn2008.06.25.13.17.14.html)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 26, In Chechnya
Russian troops were ambushed near Serzhen-Yurt. 17 rebels and 10
Russians were reported killed.
   (SFC, 4/28/00, p.D3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 26, In Lebanon Prime
Minister Salim Hoss announced that UN peacekeepers would be allowed
to fill the vacuum left by departing Israelis.
   (SFC, 4/27/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 26, In Zimbabwe Morgan
Tsvangirai, president of the Movement for Democratic Change,
threatened to retaliate if attacks by ruling militants were not
stopped.
   (SFC, 4/27/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 27, New York City
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani disclosed that he had prostate cancer. He
later bowed out of the US Senate race against Hillary Rodham
Clinton.
   (AP, 4/27/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 27, In Colombia a riot
broke out at Bogota’s El Modelo federal prison after an inmate’s
mutilated body was found in a sewer pipe. 26 people were killed over
the next 24 hours in fighting between paramilitary and common
criminals.
   (SFC, 4/29/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 27, Some 288 migrant
Haitians were rescued from Flamingo Cay in the Bermuda Islands after
their boat ran aground. 2-14 of the migrants died of exposure and
dehydration while awaiting rescue.
   (SFC, 4/28/00, p.D4)(SFC, 4/29/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 27, In Iran Islamic
hard-liners closed 3 more newspapers, including the daily run by the
brother of Pres. Khatami.
   (SFC, 4/28/00, p.A19)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 27, In Uganda workers
in Ggaba, a residential area south of Kampala, exhumed the bodies of
55 more people associated with the Movement for the Restoration of
Ten Commandments. Total deaths stood at 979.
   (SFC, 4/28/00, p.D2)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 28, In a sharp
repudiation of President Clinton’s policies, the House rejected, on
a tie vote of 213-to-213, a measure expressing support for NATO’s
five-week-old air campaign against Yugoslavia; the House also voted
249-to-180 to limit the president’s authority to use ground forces
in Yugoslavia.
   (AP, 4/28/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 28, The US Justice
Dept. and 17 states filed to split Microsoft Corp. into 2
corporations.
   (SFC, 4/29/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 28, In Florida William
O’Brien, the Miami police chief, resigned after Mayor Joe Carollo
fired Donald Warshaw, the city manager, who refused to fire O’Brien.
O’Brien did not alert the mayor to the federal action in the Elian
Gonzalez seizure.
   (SFC, 4/29/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 28, In Pennsylvania
Richard Baumhammers (34) shot and killed 5 people in a racially
motivated shooting spree in McKees Rocks. He was sentenced to death
in 2001.
   (SFC, 4/29/00, p.A3)(BS, 5/12/01, p.3A)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 28, English writer
Penelope Fitzgerald (b.1916) died. In 2012, The Observer named her
final novel, The Blue Flower (1995), as one of "the ten best
historical novels." In 2013 Hermione Lee authored “Penelope
Fitzgerald: A Life.”
  Â
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Fitzgerald)(Econ, 11/2/13,
p.91)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 28, In southern
Lebanon guerrillas attacked the Aramta outpost with a car bomb and
killed 3-4 Israeli-allied militiamen.
   (SFC, 4/28/00, p.A19)(SFC, 4/29/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 28, In the Philippines
government troops on Basilan Island gained control of the rebel
stronghold after week of fighting that left 6 soldiers were dead and
32 wounded. No hostages were recovered.
   (SFC, 4/29/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 29, Lennox Lewis
knocked out Michael Grant in the second round at Madison Square
Garden in New York to retain his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles.
   (AP, 4/29/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 29, Tens of thousands
of angry Cuban-Americans marched peacefully through Miami’s Little
Havana, protesting the raid in which armed federal agents yanked
six-year-old Elian Gonzalez from the home of relatives.
   (AP, 4/29/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 29, In Washington DC
some 1000 gay and lesbian couples proclaimed their love at the
Lincoln Memorial as part of the events leading to the 4th annual
Millennium March the next day.
   (SFEC, 4/30/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 29, In Chechnya Alman
Mesiyev, the mayor of Khattuni, was shot at close range by rebels
for cooperating with Russian troops.
   (SFC, 5/4/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 29, In Malaysia a
court upheld the 1999 corruption conviction against former finance
minister Anwar Ibrahim.
   (SFEC, 4/30/00, p.A17)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 29, In Pakistan it was
reported that the worst drought in 100 years ravaged southern Sindh
and Baluchistan provinces. Up to 500 people were dead from diseases
related to the drought.
   (SFC, 4/29/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 29, In the Philippines
fighting on Basilan Island left 4 soldiers dead and 27 wounded. On
Sulu Island kidnappers made a written demands that included the
return of barter trade to the southern Philippines, a ban on large
fishing boats to protect local fishermen, and full implementation of
a 1976 agreement that called for a 13-province Muslim autonomous
region.
   (SFEC, 4/30/00, p.C14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 29, In Vietnam Pham
Van Dong (94), former revolutionary and prime minister, died.
   (SFC, 5/3/00, p.A24)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 30, The Clinton
administration defended their decision to classify AIDS as a threat
to national security as a means to garner attention and funding to
fight the disease worldwide.
   (SFC, 5/1/00, p.A7)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 30, The 4th annual gay
rights rally, billed as the Millennium March, was held in Washington
DC. The crowd in the national Mall was estimated from 200-750
thousand.
   (SFEC, 4/30/00, p.A13)(AP, 4/30/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 30, It was reported by
the Royal Swedish Academy that the Earth is currently hotter than at
any time in recorded human history.
   (SFEC, 4/30/00, p.A17)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 30, In Guatemala
villagers in Todos Santos Cuchuman stoned to death a Japanese
tourist, Tetsuo Yamahiro (40), and his tour’s bus driver, Edgar
Castellanos (35), in the belief that they had come to steal
children. The driver was cremated with gasoline.
   (SFC, 5/1/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr 30, In Sri Lanka
rebels captured a key army base at Pallai.
   (SFC, 5/1/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr, The FBI issued an
alert to American agencies warning of a possible al Qaeda attack. It
was based on allegations by Niaz Khan, a Briton of Pakistani descent
who turned himself in to US authorities.
   (WSJ, 6/7/04, p.A8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr, In Britain Jason
Ricketts, a convicted burglar serving a five-year sentence at
Cardiff Prison, strangled Colin Bloomfield (35) to death in their
cell, cut him open and removed his liver, spleen and one eye. In
2006 a British court awarded six prison officers damages and legal
costs reported to be in excess of 1 million pounds (US$1.75 million,
euro1.45 million) for "walking into the scene of gothic horror."
   (AP, 3/16/06)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr, Leaders of Ghana,
Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Gambia and Guinea signed a joint
declaration to adopt a common currency by 2003 and possible union
with the 8 Francophile West African countries that share the
French-backed CFA franc.
   (WSJ, 4/24/00, p.A21)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 1, A US State Dept.
annual report on efforts to combat terrorism listed Cuba, Iran,
Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria as state sponsors for
terrorism. The report indicated a shift from the Middle East to
South Asia with Afghanistan and Pakistan listed as threatening.
   (SFEC, 4/30/00, p.A6)(SFC, 5/2/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 1, The US government
began allowing civilian GPS receivers to pick up more accurate
satellite signals. The sport of geocaching began 2 days later.
   (WSJ, 3/19/02, p.A20)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 1, About three and
a-half million Time Warner cable subscribers temporarily lost access
to seven Disney-owned ABC stations in a quarrel over transmission
rights.
   (AP, 5/1/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 1, Steve Reeves,
actor, died in Escondido, California, at age 74. He starred in such
films as "Hercules," "The Last Days of Pompeii," and "Duel of the
Titans."
   (SFC, 5/4/00, p.C4)(AP, 5/1/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 1, May Day marches and
protests took place around the world. In Berlin violence erupted as
some 10,000 anarchists marched against "capitalism and imperialism"
after some 1200 neo-Nazis rallied. In London some 2,000
demonstrators caused havoc in London. Tens of thousands gathered in
Madrid and some 15,000 demonstrated in both Russia and Istanbul.
Hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Sao Paulo, Brazil and some
20,000 marched in Quito, Ecuador.
   (SFC, 5/2/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 1, Joerg Haider,
leader of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party, stepped down after 14
years as party leader.
   (AP, 5/1/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Apr, In India an explosion
at a weapon’s dump in the Rajasthan desert killed 2 soldiers and
destroyed $90 million of ammunition. It was blamed on unkept long
grass that had caught fire.
   (Economist, 9/29/12, p.66)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 1, In Iran Hamid
Tefileen, one of 13 Jewish men arrested for espionage, was displayed
on TV and admitted to being paid $500 a month by Israeli
intelligence, Mossad.
   (SFC, 5/2/00, p.A8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 1, In Puerto Rico 2 US
warships arrived off the coast of Vieques and some 50 protestors
braced for the arrival of federal agents.
   (SFC, 5/2/00, p.A5)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 1, In Zimbabwe
thousands opposed to the rule of Pres. Mugabe rallied in Harare.
   (WSJ, 5/1/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 1-5, In Afghanistan
fighting was halted to allow UN workers to immunize some 4.5 million
children under age 5 against polio.
   (SFC, 5/6/00, p.C1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 2, An investigating
panel concluded that Texas A&M University students cut corners
in construction and school officials failed to adequately supervise
them before a bonfire collapse in November 1999 that killed 12
people.
   (AP, 5/2/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 2, Jockey Julie Krone
became the first female elected to thoroughbred racing’s hall of
fame.
   (AP, 5/2/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 2, Former nurse
Christina Marie Riggs was executed by injection in Arkansas for
smothering her two young children.
   (AP, 5/2/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 2, In Armenia Pres.
Robert Kocharian fired Prime Minister Aram Sarkisian and his
government for allowing the economy to deteriorate and for ignoring
discord in the military. Police security was tightened around
government buildings.
   (SFC, 5/3/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 2, In Belgium the
Parliament opened an inquiry into possible government involvement in
the 1961 killing of Congo’s Premier Patrice Lumumba. This followed
allegations in the new book "The Murder of Lumumba" by Ludo De
Witte.
   (SFC, 5/3/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 2, In Israel the Day
of the Shoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, was observed. The date was
fixed by Israel to commemorate the Warsaw Jewish ghetto uprising of
1943.
   (SFC, 5/3/00, p.A12,13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 2, In Indonesia it was
reported that a tribal conflict between the Wampe and Bilaga on West
Papua, formerly Irian Jaya, had left over 100 people dead in the
last year.
   (SFC, 5/2/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 2, In the Philippines
rebels at Talipao threatened to behead 2 hostages if military troops
were not pulled back.
   (SFC, 5/3/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 2, In Rwanda health
minister Ezechias Rwabuhihi reported that some 500,000 Rwandans, 6%
of the population, were infected with AIDS.
   (SFC, 5/4/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 2, In Sierra Leone
Revolutionary United Front rebels seized 50 UN workers over the last
2 days as the West African intervention force completed its pullout.
The seizures took place in Makeni, Kailahun and Magburaka.
   (SFC, 5/3/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 3, Gen. Wesley Clark
left his post as NATO’s supreme allied commander. He was replaced by
Gen. Joseph Ralston.
   (SFC, 5/3/00, p.A11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 3, The sport of
geocaching began with a cache hidden outside Portland, Oregon. [see
May 1]
   (WSJ, 3/19/02, p.A20)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 3, The US FDA approved
the first device to aid women with sexual dysfunction.
   (SFC, 5/4/00, p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 3, Cardinal John
O’Connor (80), the archbishop of New York, died.
   (SFC, 5/4/00, p.A3)(AP, 5/3/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 3, The Euro fell below
90 cents to the dollar for the first time.
   (WSJ, 5/4/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 3, In Chechnya Russian
troops ambushed a rebel band and killed at least 18 men.
   (WSJ, 5/5/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 3, In Iran 2 more
Iranian Jews admitted, while on trial, that they had spied for
Israel.
   (SFC, 5/4/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 3, In Japan a teenager
(17) hijacked a bus and killed a woman before being overcome after a
15-hour, 190-mile chase on Sanyo Expressway.
   (SFC, 5/4/00, p.A17)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 3, In Mexico police
arrested Ismael Higuera Guerrero, a senior member of the Arellano
Felix drug gang, along with his son (15) and 8 others near Ensenada.
   (SFC, 5/5/00, p.A15)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 3, The trial of two
alleged Libyan intelligence agents accused of blowing Pan Am Flight
103 out of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 opened in the
Netherlands. In January 2001, one of the defendants, Abdel Basset
Ali al-Megrahi, was convicted of murder; the other defendant, Lamen
Khalifa Fhimah, was acquitted.
   (AP, 5/3/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 3, In the southern
Philippines 2 hostages died as the military clashed with rebels
under Commander Robot (Ghalib Andang) at Talipao. On Basilan Island
15 hostages, 9 children and 6 teachers, were rescued and 4 were
killed when government troops engaged the rebels. At Zamboanga,
Mindanao, the MILF took some 100 hostages and at least 4 people were
killed.
   (SFC, 5/3/00, p.A12)(SFC, 5/4/00, p.A16)(SFC,
5/5/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 3, Rebels of the
Revolutionary United Front killed 7 UN Kenyan peacekeepers. The
number was later reduced to 4 presumed dead.
   (SFC, 5/4/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 5/5/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 4, The e-mail virus
"ILOVEYOU" bug hit millions of computers around the world. It was
considered the most virulent, most damaging ($2.6 bil), most costly
and most rapidly spread virus to date. In Manila Onel de
Guzman, a former computing student, was later released with all
charges dismissed due to lack of evidence.
   (SFC, 5/5/00, p.A1)(SFC, 5/6/00, p.A1)(SFC,
8/22/00, p.A11)Â Â Â
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 4, In London Ken
Livingston (54), a socialist member of parliament, was elected
mayor.
   (SFC, 5/5/00, p.A14)(AP, 5/4/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 4, Congo agreed to
cooperate with UN plans for a 5,500 member observer force to monitor
the cease-fire.
   (SFC, 5/5/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 4, In Indonesia the
government announced an agreement for a cease-fire with separatists
in Aceh province.
   (SFC, 5/5/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 4, In Indonesia a 6.5
earthquake was centered in the Maluku Sea off Pelang Island and at
least 17 people were killed.
   (SFC, 5/5/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 4, It was reported
that Israel planned to deploy a laser shield named THEL, Tactical
High Energy Laser (TRW Inc.), to shoot down rockets fired by
guerrillas following its withdrawal from southern Lebanon.
   (SFC, 5/4/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 4, Lebanese guerrillas
fired some 20 Katyusha rockets into Kiryat Shemona, a town in
northern Israel. One Israeli soldier was killed and over 24 people
were injured. Israel retaliated with heavy air strikes.
   (SFC, 5/5/00, p.A14)(WSJ, 5/5/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 4, Hendrik Casimir
(b.1909), Dutch physicist, died. He was best known for his research
on the two-fluid model of superconductors (together with C. J.
Gorter) in 1934 and the Casimir effect (together with D. Polder) in
1946.
   (Econ, 5/24/08,
p.105)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrik_Casimir)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 4, In Puerto Rico US
federal agents moved and arrested 216 protestors from the bombing
range on Vieques Island.
   (SFC, 5/5/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 4, In Sierra Leone
rebels seized more UN troops and brought the total of hostages to
90.
   (SFC, 5/5/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 4, In Sri Lanka the
government imposed censorship on the foreign media and gave wide
powers to the military as rebels poised to recapture Jaffna.
   (SFC, 5/5/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 5, President Clinton
met at the White House with Japan’s new prime minister, Yoshiro
Mori.
   (AP, 5/5/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 5, The Labor
Department reported the nation’s unemployment rate had hit a 30-year
low of 3.9% percent in April 2000, with blacks and Hispanics
recording the lowest jobless rates in history.
   (SFC, 5/6/00, p.A1)(AP, 5/5/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 5, In Congo Ugandan
and Rwandan troops clashed at Kisangani and at least 10 civilians
were killed and 100 wounded.
   (SFC, 5/6/00, p.C1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 5, Reformers swept
Iran’s run-off elections, winning control of the legislature from
conservatives for the first time since 1979 Islamic revolution.
   (AP, 5/5/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 5, Israel and
Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon agreed to a cease-fire.
   (SFC, 5/6/00, p.C1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 5, In The Philippines
the government and the MILF agreed to a 48-hour cease-fire on
Mindanao.
   (SFC, 5/6/00, p.A11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 5, In Sierra Leone
rebels seized more UN troops and were reported to be holding 300
troops and observers hostage. Gen. Vijay Kumar Jetley of India
scrambled to consolidate his UN troop positions.
   (SFC, 5/6/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 5, Turkey’s parliament
elected judge Ahmet Necdet Sezer (b.1941) as the country’s 10th
president. Sezer served until Aug 28, 2007.
   (SFC, 5/6/00,
p.C1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmet_Necdet_Sezer)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 6, Fusaichi Pegasus
won the 126th Kentucky Derby. He was the first favorite to win the
Kentucky Derby since "Spectacular Bid" in 1979.
   (SFEC, 5/7/00, p.D1)(AP, 5/6/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 6, The 1st geocaching
cache was found hidden outside Portland, Oregon, by Mike Teague.
[see May 3]Â
   (WSJ, 3/19/02, p.A20)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 6, Jack Mazzan, who’d
spent 20 years on death row for the murder of a judge’s son, was
released on bail, three months after the Nevada Supreme Court
reversed his conviction. Before he could be tried again, Mazzan
pleaded guilty to killing Richard Minor Jr. and received a life
sentence; Mazzan has since sought parole, unsuccessfully.
   (AP, 5/6/05)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 6, The Chiang Mai
Initiative (CMI) was set up to help East Asian cash strapped
countries defend their currencies in times of trouble. The
initiative came in response to the 1997 East Asian financial crises.
ASEAN, China, Japan, and South Korea launched the multilateral
arrangement of currency swaps (CMI).
   (WSJ, 5/5/05,
p.A12)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Mai_Initiative)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 6, It was reported
that Jin Wenchao, a former soldier and head of a Chinese
construction firm involved in the Three Gorges dam project, had
disappeared with over $120 million.
   (SFC, 5/6/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 6, In Sierra Leone
rebels clashed with UN peacekeepers and advanced on Freetown. Rebel
leader Foday Sankoh halted the rebel advance.
   (SFEC, 5/7/00, p.A1)(SFC, 5/8/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 6, In Sudan Pres. Omar
el-Bashir dismissed Hassan Turabi as the secretary-general of the
ruling National Congress Party.
   (SFC, 5/8/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 7, A second fire was
set to contain an earlier blaze that was begun to clear brush on the
Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico; the second fire blew out
of control, destroying more than 200 homes and damaging part of the
Los Alamos National Laboratory before it was controlled.
   (AP, 5/7/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 7, Douglas Fairbanks
Jr., film actor, died at age 90.
   (SFC, 5/8/00, p.A5)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 7, In the Philippines
13 soldiers and 3 rebels were killed in a clash on Basilan Island.
   (SFC, 5/8/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 7, In Russia Pres.
Putin was inaugurated. He named Mikhail Kasyanof as the prime
minister and pledged to restore the country to world-power status.
   (SFC, 5/8/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 7, Pres. Kagami
announced that Rwanda was prepared to quickly implement a phased
withdrawal from Congo.
   (SFC, 5/8/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 7, In Spain Jose Luis
Lopez de La Calle, a columnist for El Mundo, was shot and killed in
Andoain. The ETA was blamed.
   (SFC, 5/8/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 7, In Thailand
thousands of protestors besieged the annual meeting of the Asian
Development Bank. The 13 nations agreed to rescue each other’s
currencies to fend off economic crises.
   (SFC, 5/8/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 7, In Zimbabwe
squatter leader Chenjerai Hunzvi urged people attending a ruling
party rally in Glen Norah to seek out British passport holders and
force them out of the country. Allan Dunn was murdered at his farm
by squatters.
   (SFC, 5/8/00, p.A13)(WSJ, 6/8/00, p.a24)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 8, The San Francisco
Board of Supervisors voted to ban discrimination based on weight or
height.
   (AP, 5/8/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 8, Scientists
announced that they had mapped chromosome 21 which is associated
with Down syndrome, epilepsy, Lou Gehrig’s disease and Alzheimer’s.
   (SFC, 5/9/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 8, In New Mexico a
controlled burn Bandolier National Monument near the Los Alamos
National Laboratory blew out of control and 500 people were forced
to evacuate the area.
   (SFC, 5/9/00, p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 8, The remains of
Cardinal John O’Connor were entombed inside New York’s St. Patrick’s
Cathedral after a funeral Mass that drew thousands of mourners,
including President Clinton.
   (AP, 5/8/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 8, In Congo the city
of Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville) was declared a neutral zone as
Rwanda and Uganda agreed to withdraw their troops from the area and
allow UN forces to take over.
   (SFC, 5/9/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 8, In Iran 2 more
Iranian Jews confessed to spying for Israel.
   (WSJ, 5/9/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 8, In Japan Hogen
Fukunaga, founder of the Hono Hana Sampogyo, cult was arrested on
fraud charges. Members were told that they would get cancer or die
if their feet were not inspected by Fukunaga.
   (SFC, 5/9/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 8, In the Philippines
investigators arrested a Manila bank employee, Reomel Ramones,
suspected in the creation of the "Love Bug" computer virus.
   (SFC, 5/9/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 8, In Puerto Rico the
US Navy resumed practice bombing on Vieques Island with dummy bombs.
   (SFC, 5/9/00, p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 8, In Sierra Leone
bodyguards of Foday Sankoh fired into a crowd of pro-government
protestors in Freetown and killed 7 people. Sankoh later
disappeared.
   (SFC, 5/9/00, p.A1)(SFC, 5/10/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 9, Senator John McCain
endorsed Texas Governor George W. Bush for president.
   (SFC, 5/10/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 9, Former four-term
Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards was convicted of extortion schemes
to manipulate the licensing of riverboat casinos. Edwards was
sentenced in January, 2001, to ten years in prison and fined a
quarter of a million dollars.
   (AP, 5/9/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 9, In Kentucky a fire
at the Wild Turkey Distillery caused an alcohol runoff into an
8-mile stretch of the Kentucky River and a huge fish kill followed
within days.
   (SFC, 5/20/00, p.D8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 9, It was reported
that 10% of the world’s 608 primate species and subspecies on 3
continents were critically imperiled.
   (WSJ, 5/9/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 9, In the Philippines
Reomel Ramones, suspect in the "Love Bug" computer virus case, was
released due to lack of evidence. His girlfriend, Irene de Guzman,
failed to turn herself in as promised.
   (SFC, 5/10/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 10, Pres. Clinton
issued an executive order to make drugs for AIDS less expensive in
Africa.
   (SFC, 5/11/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 10, The fire at Los
Alamos, New Mexico, burned 30 homes and forced the evacuation of all
11,000 residents. 3,700 acres were scorched. The fire had been set
to contain an earlier blaze intended to clear brush.
   (SFC, 5/11/00, p.A3)(WSJ, 5/11/00, p.A1)(AP,
5/10/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 10, Actor Craig
Stevens, who’d starred in the 1950’s TV series "Peter Gunn," died in
Los Angeles at age 81.
   (AP, 5/10/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 10, In Chechnya rebels
claimed to have trapped a Russian unit and killed 30-34 soldiers
with 4 rebels dead. Russian officials denied the claim.
   (SFC, 5/11/00, p.A24)(WSJ, 5/11/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 10, In Sierra Leone
the cease-fire ended as pro-government forces rushed to fight rebels
moving toward Freetown as refugees clogged the roads. The rebels
were pushed back 23 miles to Newton.
   (SFC, 5/11/00, p.A18)(WSJ, 5/11/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 10, In Sri Lanka Tamil
rebels attacked army posts on three fronts near Jaffna after the
government rejected an offer to allow 40,000 troops to withdraw.
   (WSJ, 5/11/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 11, Gov. Angus King
signed a bill that made Maine the 1st state to threaten the
pharmaceutical industry with price controls.
   (SFC, 5/12/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 11, Pope John Paul II
named Bishop Edward M. Egan of Bridgeport, Connecticut, the new head
of the New York archdiocese, succeeding the late Cardinal John
O’Connor.
   (AP, 5/11/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 11, At Los Alamos
25,000 people were evacuated and the fire destroyed at least 150-260
homes. Flames scorched parts of the nuclear weapons facility.
   (SFC, 5/12/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 5/12/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 11, Chechen rebels
ambushed a Russian troop convoy west of Chechnya and killed 18
soldiers.
   (SFC, 5/12/00, p.D3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 11, In Japan the Aum
Shinri Kyo cult, renamed Aleph, agreed to pay $37.4 million in
compensation to victims of the 1995 gas attack in Tokyo.
   (SFC, 5/12/00, p.D2)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 11, Mexico reached a
free-trade agreement with Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.
   (SFC, 5/12/00, p.D2)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 11, In Russia masked
police raided the offices of Media Most, the country’s largest
private media company and outspoken critic of Pres. Putin.
   (WSJ, 5/12/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 12, During visits to
Ohio and Minnesota, President Clinton called for open trade with
China, saying it would help the communist nation move closer to
democracy.
   (AP, 5/12/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 12, The Los Alamos
fire toll covered 30,000 acres with 191 housing structures burned.
   (SFC, 5/13/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 12, Adam Petty, 19,
the fourth-generation driver of NASCAR's most famous family, died in
a crash during practice for the Busch 200 at New Hampshire
International Speedway.
   (AP, 5/12/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 12, In Argentina at
least 23 police and 22 protestors were injured in the province of
Salta where thousands of jobless workers had blocked a federal
highway for 10 days to protest welfare cuts.
   (SFC, 5/13/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 12, In Chechnya
Russian forces staged two ambush attacks on rebels and claimed 41
killed.
   (SFC, 5/13/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 12, War erupted
between Eritrea and Ethiopia after Ethiopian troops left their
trenches and attacked Eritrean defenses. 600,000 troops were dug in
along the 600-mile border.
   (SFC, 5/13/00, p.A8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 12, The Indonesian
government and separatist rebels negotiated a cease-fire in
Switzerland, the 1st in 25 years of fighting. The 3 month cease-fire
was set to begin Jun 2.
   (SFC, 5/13/00, p.A8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 12, Pakistan’s Supreme
Court ruled that the military takeover in October 1999 was justified
under the "doctrine of necessity." Pres. Musharraf had dismissed 13
senior judges and got the remaining judges to decree that his coup
was legal and necessary.
   (www.ciaonet.org/olj/sa/sa_jan01kus01.html)(Econ,
7/8/06, Survey p.6)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 12, Igor Domnikov
(42), a reporter for Russia’s Novaya Gazeta, was found in a pool of
blood at his Moscow apartment building. Domnikov died July 16. In
2007 a court in the city of Kazan sentenced four men to life in
prison, and three others to prison terms ranging from 18 to 25 years
after finding them guilty of killing 23 men, including Domnikov, and
of eight kidnappings. The convicted gang's leader Eduard Tagiryanov,
who was sentenced to life, told the court that Domnikov's killing
had been ordered by former deputy governor of western Lipetsk region
Sergei Dorovsky for a series of critical articles on his policies.
  Â
(www.cpj.org/protests/01ltrs/Russia08jan01pl.html)(WSJ, 12/8/06,
p.A12)(AP, 8/31/07)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 12, In Sri Lanka some
Tamil Tiger rebels rolled into Jaffna and forced government troops
to retreat.
   (SFC, 5/13/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 13, In the Netherlands
a fireworks depot exploded in Enschede and 20 people were killed
with 589 injured. An estimated 100 tons of fireworks exploded and
flattened some 400 houses.
   (SFEC, 5/14/00, p.A12)(SFC, 5/15/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 13, In Russia Pres.
Putin divided Russia’s 89 regions into 7 federal districts headed by
a Kremlin representative.
   (WSJ, 5/15/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 13, In Yugoslavia
Bosko Perosevic (43), head of the Vojvodina provincial government,
was shot and killed at a trade fair. Milivoje Gutovic (50), an
off-duty security guard, was arrested for the murder. Pres.
Milosevic later blamed the student organization Otpor and the
opposition Serbian Renewal Movement party.
   (SFC, 5/14/00, p.C13)(SFEC, 5/15/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 14, In Washington DC
tens of thousands took part in the Million Mom March for tougher gun
laws.
   (SFC, 5/15/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 14, Ethiopia claimed a
major victory against Eritrea and claimed that 8 divisions had been
destroyed over the last 2 days. Eritrea said 25,000 Ethiopian
soldiers were killed or wounded.
   (SFC, 5/15/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 14, In Ethiopia
elections were held and 7 people were reported killed when
government forces threw a grenade into a crowd of protestors and
fired into another in the southern region of Hadiya.
   (SFC, 5/15/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 14, Thousands of
Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza demonstrated and violence
erupted with at least one person killed.
   (SFC, 5/15/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 14, In Japan former
prime minister Keizo Obuchi died at age 62.
   (SFC, 5/15/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 14, In Sierra Leone
rebels handed over 139 UN peacekeepers to Liberia while officials in
Freetown secured the release of 18 others. Meanwhile fighting
continued for control of Masiaka town 30 miles east of Freetown.
   (SFC, 5/15/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 14, In Zimbabwe
elections were set for June 24-25, but the opposition objected
because voting districts were not yet established and a May 29
deadline for candidates was thought too soon.
   (SFC, 5/17/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 15, By a five-to-four
vote, the US Supreme Court threw out a key provision of the 1994
Violence Against Women Act, saying that rape victims could not sue
their attackers in federal court.
   (AP, 5/15/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 15, United Press
International was sold to the parent company of The Washington
Times.
   (AP, 5/15/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 15, A consortium of
Western oil companies found a large oil reserve in the northern
Caspian Sea off the coast of Kazakhstan. The 480-sq. mile Kashagan
field was estimated at 8 to 50 billion barrels of oil. In 2007 it
was reported that the Kashagan field contained some 12-billion
barrels of oil.
   (SFC, 5/16/00, p.A14)(Econ, 11/17/07, p.43)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 15, Near Chiquinquira,
Columbia, Elvia Cortez (53) and Jairo Lopez, a bomb technician, were
killed by explosives placed on her neck by kidnappers who claimed to
be members of FARC and demanded $7,500.Â
   (SFC, 5/16/00, p.A13)(SFC, 5/17/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 15, In Ethiopia tens
of thousands marched in Addis Ababa in support of the renewed border
war with Eritrea.
   (WSJ, 5/16/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 15, In Greece the
government ordered the removal of religious affiliation from state
identity cards.
   (SFC, 5/17/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 15, Palestinian police
and Israeli soldiers fought gun battles across the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. 4 people were killed and hundreds were wounded.
   (SFC, 5/16/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 15, In Serbia some
20,000 opposition supporters rallied in Belgrade for free elections
and the resignation of Pres. Milosevic.
   (WSJ, 5/16/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 16, The Federal
Reserve raised its federal funds rate by one-half point, the biggest
increase in five years.
   (SFC, 5/17/00, p.A1)(AP, 5/16/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 16, The New York
Democratic Party, meeting in Albany, nominated first lady Hillary
Rodham Clinton for the US Senate.
   (AP, 5/16/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 16, In Oregon ballots
were counted in the nation’s first regular primary election
conducted by mail. Estimated response was 47%.
   (SFC, 5/17/00, p.A8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 16, Veteran White
House correspondent Helen Thomas resigned from United Press
International, a day after the wire service was sold to the parent
firm of The Washington Times.
   (AP, 5/16/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 16, The 3M Co.
announced that it would stop making many Scotchguard stain repellent
products. The company found that the compound perfluorooctane
sulfonate (PFOA), one of the ingredients, tended to persist in the
environment and in the bloodstream of people worldwide. The US
market was left to DuPont.
   (SFC, 5/17/00, p.A7)(SFC, 4/15/03, p.A5)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 16, In China some
5,000 retired or laid-off workers in Liaoyang clashed with police
following protests over non-payment of pensions and wages.
   (SFC, 5/17/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 16, In Congo an
immediate pullout from Kisangani of forces from Rwanda and Uganda
was agreed to in a bid to avert a wider war.
   (WSJ, 5/17/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 16, Ethiopian troops
penetrated into western Eritrea and attempted to cut off retreating
forces.
   (WSJ, 5/17/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 16, In Iran the
Hammihan daily, a major reformist newspaper, was shut down on 17
counts of press law violations.
   (SFC, 5/17/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 16, Palestinian
demonstrators continued to fight Israeli forces for a 5th day but
Palestinian authorities appeared to contain most of the violence.
   (SFC, 5/17/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 17, Two former Ku Klux
Klansmen were arrested on murder charges in the 1963 church bombing
in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four black girls. Thomas Blanton
Junior was convicted and sentenced to life in prison May 1, 2001.
Bobby Frank Cherry was indicted in 2000 and later convicted and
sentenced to life in prison.
   (AP, 5/17/01)(AP, 5/17/05)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 17, In the Dominican
Republic Hipolito Mejia, the populist opposition leader, was on the
verge of winning the election with enough votes to avoid a runoff.
Danilo Medina of the incumbent Liberation party had 24.9% and
Joaquin Balaguer had 24.6% for the Social Christian Reformist Party.
   (SFC, 5/18/00, p.C16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 17, Ethiopian forces
pushed into Eritrean territory and the UN Security council approved
an embargo against both countries.
   (SFC, 5/18/00, p.A11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 17, In Iraq a
US-British air attack killed Omran Harbi Jawair (13), a shepherd
boy, near Toq al-Ghazalat. 4 other shepherds were injured. Some 300
Iraqis were killed and 800 wounded over the last 18 months from US
and British bombing.
   (SFC, 6/23/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 17, In the Philippines
Islamic rebels asked for $2 million for the freedom of ailing German
hostage Renate Wallert. They also issued written conditions that
included the creation of an independent Islamic state and a global
probe into the plight of the Muslim minority.
   (SFC, 5/18/00, p.A11)(WSJ, 5/18/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 17, In Sierra Leone
pro-government troops captured rebel leader Foday Sankoh.
   (SFC, 5/18/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 17, In Taiwan a wave
of earthquakes left 3 people dead in Taichung County of the central
mountain region.
   (SFC, 5/18/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 17, In Yugoslavia
Pres. Milosevic ordered the seizure of independent radio and TV
stations and charging that they were advocating an uprising against
the government. Tens of thousands protested the crackdown.
   (SFC, 5/18/00, p.A10)(WSJ, 5/18/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 18, Sante Kimes and
Kenneth Kimes, mother-and-son grifters, were convicted in New York
of murdering Irene Silverman in a plot to steal her elegant
townhouse mansion. The body of the 82-year-old millionaire widow has
never been found.
   (AP, 5/18/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 18, Former Ukraine
prime minister Pavel Lazarenko was indicted by a San Francisco grand
jury for money laundering and transportation of stolen property. In
2003 he put up an $86 million bail and was confined to a SF
apartment. In 2004 a federal judge in SF dismissed nearly half the
charges against Lazarenko. On June 3, 2004, Lazarenko was convicted
on 29 felony charges. His money laundering was guessed to be in
excess of $40 million.
   (SFC, 6/2/00, p.A19)(SSFC, 10/19/03, p.A25)(SFC,
5/8/04, p.B3)(SFC, 6/4/04, A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 18, Another computer
virus, described as a complex polymorph, began to spread around the
world.
   (SFC, 5/19/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 18, Columbia/HCA
Healthcare agreed to pay $745 million to the US federal government
to resolve Medicare fraud allegations.
   (WSJ, 5/19/00, p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 18, In the Dominican
Republic Hipolito Mejia was declared the winner in the presidential
race after his opponents withdrew.
   (SFC, 5/19/00, p.D4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 18, Ethiopian troops
captured Barentu in Eritrea and some 250-550 thousand refugees were
reported displaced by the fighting.
   (SFC, 5/19/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 18, In Fiji 7 men led
by George Speight, a Fijian businessman, staged a coup. They stormed
the parliament and seized prime minister Chaudhry and 7 cabinet
ministers. At the same time a march in Suva by supporters of the
nationalist Taukei Movement erupted into rioting. Pres. Ratu Sir
Kamisese Mara declared a state of emergency and took command of the
military.
   (SFC, 5/19/00, p.A20)(SFC, 5/20/00, p.A8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 18, The World Bank
approved 2 loans for Iran totaling $232 million.
   (SFC, 5/19/00, p.D2)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 18, In the Ivory Coast
Gen. Robert Guei dissolved the interim government.
   (SFC, 5/19/00, p.D4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 18, North and South
Korea agreed to an agenda for their 1st summit meeting. In
2003 it was reported that South Korea's Hyundai business group drew
$186 million from a government-owned bank shortly before the summit
and allegedly spent the money on unspecified projects in the North.
In 2006 it was reported that Hyundai sent some $500 million to Kim
Jong Il to secure the June 13, 2000, summit with Pres. Kim Dae-jung.
   (WSJ, 5/19/00, p.A1)(AP, 2/1/03)(Econ, 10/28/06,
p.49)(Econ, 8/29/09, p.76)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 18, In the Philippines
explosions hit in Jolo and Zamboanga and 5 people were killed with
some 58 wounded.
   (SFC, 5/19/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 18, In East Timor
floodwaters from monsoon rains drowned at least 50 people in refugee
camps.
   (SFC, 5/19/00, p.D4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 18, The UN called for
a new land reform program in Zimbabwe as 2 more people were killed
in clashes.
   (WSJ, 5/19/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 19, NYC Mayor Giuliani
dropped out of the race for a US senate seat due to prostate cancer.
He was also beleaguered by a personal scandal.
   (SFC, 5/20/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 19, Scientists led by
Robert Gallo announced plans for an oral AIDS vaccine to be tested
in Uganda for less than $1 per dose. Trials might begin within 18
months.
   (SFC, 5/20/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 19, The shuttle
Atlantis lifted off with 7 astronauts on a mission to fix the Int’l.
Space Station.
   (SFC, 5/20/00, p.A7)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 19, China and the
European Union reached a market-opening trade deal, clearing
Beijing’s largest remaining hurdle to joining the World Trade
Organization (WTO).
   (SFC, 5/20/00, p.A8)(AP, 5/19/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 19, Masked gunmen
launched a coup in Fiji that toppled Prime Minister Mahendra
Chaudhry, the country’s first ethnic Indian premier.
   (AP, 5/19/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 19, In France an
11-day strike by armored truck guards left the country short of
cash.
   (SFC, 5/20/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 19, Nine countries
banded together to petition entry into NATO in 2002. They included
Albania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania,
Slovakia and Slovenia.
   (SFC, 5/20/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 19, In Paraguay Pres.
Luis Gonzalez Macchi announced that an attempted coup by soldiers
and police was stopped.
   (SFC, 5/20/00, p.A8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 20, "Red Bullet" won
the Preakness Stakes, outpacing Kentucky Derby winner "Fusaichi
Pegasus."
   (AP, 5/20/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 20, In North Carolina
a bridge collapsed at the Winston NASCAR stock car race in Concord.
107 people were treated and 53 were hospitalized.
   (SFC, 5/22/00, p.A2)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 20, Jean-Pierre
Rampal, classical flutist, died in Paris at age 78.
   (SFEC, 5/21/00, p.B11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 20, Israeli warplanes
attacked Palestinian targets in Lebanon and destroyed 10 tanks.
Israeli soldiers clashed with Palestinian demonstrators for the 9th
day in Palestinian territories within Israel.
   (SFEC, 5/21/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 20, In Taiwan Lee
Teng-hui (b.1923) ended his 12-year presidency.
   (Econ, 7/9/11, p.42)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 20, The 5 nuclear
powers of the UN Security Council agreed to eliminate their nuclear
arsenals over time as part of a new disarmament agenda approved by
187 countries.
   (SFEC, 5/21/00, p.A8)
  Â
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 21, "Dancer in the
Dark" won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival; the Grand
Prize went to "Devils on the Doorstep."
   (AP, 5/21/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 21, In Pennsylvania a
commuter plane, returning from Atlantic City, NJ, crashed in the
Pocono Mountains near Wilkes-Barre and all 19 people aboard were
killed.
   (SFC, 5/22/00, p.A1)(AP, 5/21/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 21, Mark Hughes (44),
the late founder of Herbalife International, a maker of nutritional
supplements, died. His son Alex (8) was the sole beneficiary of a
$400 million trust.
   (AP, 9/13/05)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 21, Sir John Gielgud
English actor, died in Aylesbury at age 96. In 2004 Richard Mangan
introduced and edited “Sir John Gielgud: A Life in Letters.”
   (SFC, 5/23/00, p.A1)(AP, 5/21/01)(WSJ, 6/18/04,
p.W10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 21, In Britain Dame
Barbara Cartland (98), author of 723 romance novels, died.
   (SFC, 5/22/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 21, In Fiji 10 junior
MPs were released after they signed resignation letters. Prime
Minister Chaudhry also agreed to sign a letter of resignation.
   (SFEC, 5/21/00, p.B11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 21, In Haiti elections
began for 7,625 positions. The Family Lavalas party of former Pres.
Aristide won 14 of 19 senate seats.
   (SFC, 5/22/00, p.A11)(SFC, 5/27/00, p.A13)(SFC,
5/31/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 21, In the Philippines
soldiers rescued 2 children held by hostages on Basilan. 7 hostages
still remained with Muslim rebels.
   (SFC, 5/22/00, p.A11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 21, In Sierra Leone
rebels freed 54 more UN workers as government forces advanced on
rebel positions.
   (SFC, 5/22/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 21, Syria’s former PM
Mahmoud el-Zoubi (al-Zubi) committed suicide rather than answer
questions on corruption.
   (SFC, 6/15/00, p.A16)(Econ, 10/15/05, p.50)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 22, The Supreme Court
struck down, 5-to-4, a federal law that shielded children from
sex-oriented cable TV channels. The US Supreme Court invalidated
part of a 1996 law that relegated pornography on cable TV to
late-night hours.
   (AP, 5/22/01)(WSJ, 3/24/04, p.A4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 22, A committee of the
Arkansas Supreme Court recommended that President Clinton be
disbarred for giving false testimony about his relationship with
Monica Lewinsky in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. Clinton
later agreed to give up his Arkansas law license for five years.
   (AP, 5/22/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 22, In Israel the
Supreme Court ruled that women may read out load from the Torah and
wear a prayer shawl at the Western Wall. In 2003 the Supreme Court
rejected the rule.
   (SFC, 5/23/00, p.A10)(SFC, 4/7/03, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 22, Israel’s 22-year
occupation of southern Lebanon crumbled as Islamic guerrillas and
civilians laid claim to disputed lands.
   (SFC, 5/23/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 22, In Liberia 29
captured UN peacekeepers were freed while in Sierra Leone a halt
dozen men with UN uniforms and Zambian insignia were found dead.
   (SFC, 5/23/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 22, In Nigeria fresh
Christian-Muslim clashes left 3 people dead in Kaduna.
   (WSJ, 5/23/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 22, In Peru election
observers suspended monitoring preparations for elections. Alejandro
Toledo formally pulled out of the race after his demand for an
election postponement was rebuffed.
   (WSJ, 5/23/00, p.A1)(SFC, 5/23/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 22, Russia asserted
that Afghanistan’s Taliban had signed an agreement with Chechen
rebels and that it might launch air strikes against Afghanistan.
   (SFC, 5/23/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 22, Pres. Putin
abolished the chief agency for environmental protection and
transferred its powers to a ministry that hands out oil and gas
leases.
   (SFC, 5/23/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 22, In Sri Lanka over
150 Tamil rebels were killed over 2 days of fighting for control in
Jaffna. Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister met with Foreign Minister
Lakshman Kadirgamar in Colombo in an attempt to broker a peace.
   (SFC, 5/23/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 22, In Yugoslavia a
Serbian court convicted 143 ethnic Albanians from Djakovica, Kosovo,
on terrorism charges for attacks against Serbian police during 1999
NATO bombings.
   (SFC, 5/23/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 23, Two weeks before a
US-Russia arms summit, presidential candidate George W. Bush said he
would slash America’s nuclear arsenal as part of a broad national
security review that would call for a missile-defense system.
   (AP, 5/23/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 23, The US Nasdaq
market fell 6% to 3,164.55.
   (SFC, 5/24/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 23, Ethiopian forces
reclaimed Zalambessa, which was seized by Eritrea 2 years ago.
   (WSJ, 5/24/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 23, In France the
15-day strike by armored truck security guards ended after they
agreed to a risk premium of $138 per month.
   (SFC, 5/24/00, p.C4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 23, The South Lebanon
Army abandoned its positions and Israel’s 22-year occupation of its
"security zone" ended.
   (SFC, 5/24/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 23, In Nigeria
Christians and Muslims clashed for a 2nd day in Kaduna and the death
toll mounted to 100.
   (SFC, 5/24/00, p.C4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 24, Isaiah Thomas, Bob
McAdoo and Tennessee women’s coach Pat Summitt were elected to the
Basketball Hall of Fame.
   (AP, 5/24/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 24, The US House voted
237 to 197 to grant China permanent normal trade status.
   (SFC, 5/25/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 24, New US $5 and $10
bills were scheduled to be shipped to banks. The engravings of
Lincoln and Hamilton would be larger and off center.
   (WSJ, 4/27/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 24, The state of
Maryland dismissed its wiretapping case against Linda Tripp after
judge disallowed most of Monica Lewinsky’s testimony.
   (AP, 5/24/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 24, Two gunmen killed
5 workers in a Wendy’s restaurant in the Queens borough of NYC. John
Taylor (36) and Craig Godineaux (31) were arrested 2 days later.
Taylor was sentenced to death in 2002.
   (SFC, 5/26/00, p.A2)(SFC, 5/27/00, p.A2)(WSJ,
11/27/02, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 24, In Chile an
appeals court ruled that Gen. Pinochet cannot claim immunity from
prosecution.
   (SFC, 5/25/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 24, Eritrea decided to
withdraw from land it seized in 1998 following a 12-day offensive by
Ethiopia.
   (SFC, 5/25/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 24, Israeli troops
pulled out unilaterally from south Lebanon, ending 18 years of
occupation.
   (AP, 5/24/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 24, In Sierra Leone 2
journalists and 4 soldiers were killed by rebel soldiers some 60
miles northeast of Freetown. Kurt Schork (53) of Reuters was one the
journalists killed.
   (SFC, 5/25/00, p.C16)(SFEC, 5/28/00, p.C14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 25, The US government
proposed a rating system telling consumers how prone vehicles are to
rolling over.
   (AP, 5/25/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 25, The China
Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) was founded in Beijing.
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(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Philharmonic_Orchestra)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 25, Iranian state
radio announced that former President Hashemi Rafsanjani had
resigned from the incoming parliament, depriving hard-liners of a
leading figure in the power struggle between conservatives and
reformists.
   (AP, 5/25/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 25, In Russia Pres.
Putin unveiled a new plan to revive the economy that included a flat
13% income tax.
   (SFC, 5/26/00, p.A15)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 25, In Venezuela the
high court postponed general elections due to technical problems.
   (SFC, 5/26/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 25, Yugoslavia ordered
all universities to close a week early for the spring semester in
fear of a student uprising against the government crackdown on
independent media.
   (SFC, 5/26/00, p.A17)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 26, The "Killer
Resume" computer virus began to circulate.
   (SFC, 5/27/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 26, In Florida,
Nathaniel Brazill, a 13-year-old student, shot and killed teacher
Barry Grunow (35) on the last day of classes at Lake Worth Community
Middle School after the teacher refused to let him talk with two
girls in his classroom. Brazill, a seventh grader, had been sent
home for throwing water balloons. In 2001 Brazill was tried as an
adult, convicted of 2nd degree murder and sentenced to 28 years in
prison.
   (SFC, 5/27/00, p.A3)(SFC, 5/10/01, p.C2)(SFC,
5/17/01, p.A3)(AP, 5/26/05)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 26, In Canada an
outbreak of E. coli in Walkerton, Ontario, left 5 people dead and
made over 1,000 very ill. The local water system had become
contaminated.
   (SFC, 5/27/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 26, Eritrea and
Ethiopia agreed to resume peace talks even as Ethiopia continue to
push into Eritrean territory.
   (SFC, 5/27/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 26, In Fiji Pres. Mara
fired the elected government and said he would probably grant
immunity to coup leaders.
   (SFC, 5/27/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 26, Haitian rights
activists denounced the arrests of dozens of opposition candidates
following the apparent victory of the Lavalas party. Most of the
arrested opposition candidates were soon released.
   (SFC, 5/27/00, p.A13)(SFC, 5/31/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 26, In Kyrgyzstan
gunmen opened fire on a visiting Chinese delegation and one official
was killed. The visitors had planned to investigate an arson attack
at a Chinese market.
   (SFC, 5/27/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 26, In Sierra Leone
rebels released another 180 UN hostages. Pres. Kabbah announced
plans to prosecute rebel leader Foday Sankoh. The government issued
a statement promising not to recruit children under 18.
   (SFC, 5/27/00, p.A12,14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 26, In Turkey a 6
volume report by a parliamentary human rights panel was obtained by
the Associated Press. It documented cases of torture in police
stations across the country.
   (SFC, 5/27/00, p.C1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 27, A freight train
derailed near Eunice, La., and some 3,500 people were evacuated due
to the release of methyl chloride, acrylic acid, toluene
diisocyanate, and dichloropropane.
   (SFEC, 5/28/00, p.A2)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 27, It was reported
that researchers in Canada successfully used transplanted pancreas
cells to help cure Type I diabetes.
   (SFC, 5/27/00, p.3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 27, The wreck of the
Carpathia, the steamer that rescued passengers of the Titanic in
1912, was found in 500 feet of water, 120 miles south of Fastnet,
Ireland.
   (SFC, 9/22/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 27, In Australia the
"Declaration of Reconciliation" was presented by prime Minister John
Howard to help heal the history of government racism toward the
native aborigines. Howard removed a phrase of apology in one passage
and substituted regret.
   (SFC, 5/26/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 27, In Northern
Ireland the Ulster Unionist Party’s ruling council voted to accept
an IRA offer to put its weapons beyond use.
   (SFEC, 5/28/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 28, Juan Montoya won
the 84th Indianapolis 500, becoming the first rookie champion since
Graham Hill in 1966.
   (AP, 5/28/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 28, In Eritrea
Ethiopian warplanes bombed a nearly completed power plant in Massawa
as thousands of refugees fled north.
   (SFC, 5/29/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 28, In Fiji some 200
rebel supporters stormed through Suva and one police officer was
killed. The Fiji Television building was rampaged and knocked off
the air. George Speight called for the resignation of Pres. Mara and
for the constitution to be scrapped.
   (SFC, 5/29/00, p.A11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 28, In Israel Pres.
Weizman announced that he would resign July 10 due to past financial
misdealings.
   (SFC, 5/29/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 28, In southern
Lebanon 2 children were killed and 7 people were injured when their
car drove over a land mine. In Rmeiche a Hezbollah fighter killed a
Christian man. At Kafr Kila Israeli soldiers fired on Lebanese and
Palestinian civilians throwing stones across the border.
   (SFC, 5/29/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 28, In Peru Pres.
Fujimori claimed victory with 50.8% of the vote in elections tainted
by alleged fraud and irregularities. The runoff vote was boycotted
by his opponent.
   (SFC, 5/29/00, p.A1)(AP, 5/28/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 28, In the Philippines
Muslim guerrillas staged 3 attacks and killed at least 15 people
including 12 civilians. Separately 26 people were arrested on
suspicion of involvement in the recent Manila bombings.
   (SFC, 5/29/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 28, In Poland the
Freedom Union Party voted to resign from the coalition government of
Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek.
   (SFC, 5/29/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 28, In Russia Pres.
Putin signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. It would not
be effective until the US and other nations also approve.
   (SFC, 5/29/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 28, In Sierra Leone
the last 85 UN peacekeepers were released by rebels into Liberia and
returned to Freetown.
   (SFC, 5/29/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 28, In Kosovo,
Yugoslavia, an attacker shot and killed a 4-year-old Serb boy and 2
men in Cermica.
   (SFC, 5/30/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 29, President Clinton
left Washington for a weeklong European tour.
   (AP, 5/29/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 29, The US State Dept.
called the vote in Peru invalid.
   (SFC, 5/30/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 29, The space shuttle
Atlantis landed at Cape Canaveral in the early morning dark after a
successful overhaul of the Int’l. Space Station.
   (SFC, 5/30/00, p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 29, In Eritrea
Ethiopian planes launched air raids on a military airstrip near
Asmara as their foreign ministers prepared for talks in Algeria.
   (SFC, 5/30/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 29, In Fiji Commodore
Frank Bainimarama seized power to restore order following the coup.
Pres. Mara stepped down from power and retired to Lau.
   (SFC, 5/30/00, p.A12)(Econ, 4/24/04, p.88)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 29, In Indonesia
former pres. Suharto was put under house arrest pending a trial for
corruption and abuse of power. However, Suharto’s trial on
corruption charges was abandoned because of health concerns. In
North Moluku at least 44 people were killed in an armed raid on a
mostly Christian village on Halmahera Island. The attackers were
believed to be members of the Lasker Jihad from a neighboring
island.
   (SFC, 5/30/00, p.A12)(SFC, 5/31/00, p.A11)(AP,
5/29/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 29, North Korean
leader Kim Jong il began a 3-day to China and met with Pres. Jiang
Zemin and the ruling Communist Party’s inner circle. He received
promises of free food and other material assistance. Kim Jong Il had
not visited China since 1983.
   (SFC, 6/2/00, p.A16)(Econ, 7/2/11, p.36)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 29, In Zimbabwe
Thadeus Rukuni, a candidate for the Movement for Democratic Change,
was beaten to death in Bikita.
   (SFC, 6/2/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 30, Last Monday of the
month. Memorial Day, which began in 1868 as Decoration Day, was set
aside to remember those who have died in the service of their
country. Celebrated on May 30 for the first 100 years, Memorial Day
was officially changed to the last Monday in May in 1968.
   (HNPD, 5/31/99)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 30, Pres. Clinton
traveled to Portugal for talks with the EU and met with Pres. Jorge
Sampaio at the Belem Palace outside of Lisbon. Clinton opened a
week-long visit to Europe.
   (SFC, 5/31/00, p.A10)(AP, 5/30/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 30, It was reported
that a US government study indicated a direct link between smoking
and gum disease.
   (SFC, 5/30/00, p.A4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 30, It was reported
that physicists had conducted experiments in which light beams
appeared to travel faster that the speed of light.
   (SFC, 5/30/00, p.A2)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 30, Former
Pennsylvania Governor Robert P. Casey died in Scranton at age 68.
   (AP, 5/30/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 30, Gordon "Tex"
Beneke, a singer and sax player with the Glenn Miller Orchestra,
died in Costa Mesa, California, at age 86.
   (AP, 5/30/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 30, Three crew members
of the Maria Estela skiff, enroute from Guatemala to Belize, killed
at least 5 people and threw survivors overboard into the Gulf of
Honduras. 3 of 10 passengers survived.
   (SFC, 6/1/00, p.A15)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 30, Ethiopia and
Eritrea opened peace talks in Algeria.
   (SFC, 5/31/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 30, In Japan it was
reported that the Bandai Corp., a major toy maker, had begun
offering employees $10,000 for every baby after their 2nd child due
to low national birth rate.
   (SFC, 5/30/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 31, Pres. Clinton
proposed to EU allies in Portugal to share key technology on a US
missile defense program to calm fears of a nuclear arms race that
would leave Europe vulnerable.
   (SFC, 6/1/00, p.A16)(AP, 5/31/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 31, Tito Puente, Latin
jazz bandleader, died in New York at age 77. He recorded some 119
albums from 1949 to 2000.
   (SFC, 6/2/00, p.D2)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 31, In Chechnya Sergei
Zveryev, Russia’s 2nd highest official in the area, was killed by a
remote controlled bomb in Grozny. Grozny’s Mayor Supyan Makhchayev
was injured and his assistant was also killed.
   (SFC, 6/1/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 31, Ethiopia declared
victory over Eritrea as peace talks continued in Algeria.
   (SFC, 6/1/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 31, In Luxembourg Neji
Bejaoui, an unemployed Tunisian immigrant, took 37 children and 3
teachers hostage in Wasserbillig. Police posing as journalists shot
and wounded the hostage-taker after a 30-hour standoff. No one else
was injured.
   (SFC, 6/1/00, p.A17)(SFC, 6/2/00, p.A14)(SFC,
6/3/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May 31, In Montenegro
Goran Zugic (39), security advisor to Pres. Milo Dzukanovic, was
gunned down as he arrived home.
   (SFC, 6/2/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May, Britain’s Tate Modern
opened at the former Bankside Power Station in London. It was
dedicated to international modern and contemporary art.
  Â
(http://www.tate.org.uk/about/who-we-are/history-of-tate)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May, The Iranian embassy
in Vienna granted refuge to Holocaust denier Wolfgang Frohlich.
  Â
(www.adl.org/presrele/holocaustdenial_83/3756_83.asp)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May, Pres. Putin declared
direct rule over Chechnya from Moscow. Former Chechen cleric Akhmad
Kadyrov was appointed as administrative head.
   (USAT, 9/2/04, p.13A)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May, Russian security
arrested Ruslan Alikhadzhiyev, a Chechen parliamentary speaker in
Shali. In Sept. it was reported that Alikhadzhiyev was missing and
had reportedly been killed following torture.
   (SFC, 9/6/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May, A new island formed
by the Kavachi volcano began to emerge from the Bismarck Sea, 22
miles north of the Solomon Islands.
   (SFC, 5/27/00, p.D10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May, The Kimberley process
started when Southern African diamond-producing states met in
Kimberley, South Africa, to discuss ways to stop the trade in
‘conflict diamonds’ and ensure that diamond purchases were not
funding violence.
  Â
(www.kimberleyprocess.com/background/index_en.html)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â May, In Venezuela Ford
Motor Co. began a recall of Ford Explorers due to problems with
their Firestone tires.
   (SFC, 9/9/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 1, In San Francisco
gas station attendant Thomas Lee (60) was found gunned down behind a
filling station at Washington Street and Van Ness Ave. In 2018
police served an arrest warrant on Roy Donovan Lacy (38), a former
SF Bay Area resident serving time for bank robbery in a Florida
prison.
   (SSFC, 5/20/18, p.C3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 1, In Atlanta 3
federal appellate judges ruled that immigration officials acted
reasonably in denying Elian Gonzalez an asylum hearing.
   (SFC, 6/2/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 1, At Los Alamos hard
drives with classified nuclear secrets were discovered missing. They
were found June 16 behind a photocopier.
   (WSJ, 6/13/00, p.A1)(SFC, 6/17/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 1, With about half an
hour to spare, Texas Governor George W. Bush blocked the scheduled
execution of convicted killer Ricky McGinn so that possibly
exculpatory DNA evidence could be reviewed. The DNA tests failed to
establish McGinn’s innocence, and he was put to death by injection
the following September.
   (AP, 6/1/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 1, Rick Wagoner, the
president of General Motors, was named CEO of GM.
   (WSJ, 3/30/09, p.A5)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 1, The organophosphate
pesticide called chlorpyrifos, sold under names including Dursban,
was reported to pose a risk to children. The EPA announced a ban on
its use for most applications on June 8.
   (WSJ, 6/1/00, p.A1)(SFC, 6/9/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 1, In Germany the Expo
2000 opened in Hanover and ran to Oct 31.
   (WSJ, 6/29/00, p.A24)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 1, Stores across Japan
emptied beer vending machines to comply with a voluntary ban on beer
vending to help reduce alcoholism.
   (SFC, 6/2/00, p.B11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 1, In Kosovo Albanians
killed a woman and wounded 3 men when they opened fire on a group of
Serbs in the US zone.
   (WSJ, 6/2/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 1, In Zimbabwe Pres.
Mugabe announced that the state would begin seizing 804 mostly
white-owned farms and resettle them with landless blacks.
   (SFC, 6/3/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 2, President Clinton,
visiting Germany, was honored with the prestigious International
Charlemagne Prize at Aachen Cathedral.
   (AP, 6/2/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 2, In Olathe, Kansas,
John Edward Robinson was arrested on sexual assault charges. 2
female bodies were found on his property in La Cygne, Kansas, the
next day and 3 more 2 days later in 55-gallon drums in a storage
locker in Missouri. 3 of the women were identified as Beverly Bonner
(49), who disappeared in 1994, Suzette Marie Trouten (28), and
Izabela Lewicka (22). Another 6 missing women were linked to
Robinson. In July Robinson was charged in connection with the death
of Lisa Stasi, who disappeared in 1985. In 2003 Robinson pleaded
guilty to another 5 murders in Missouri.
   (SFC, 6/7/00, p.A10)(SFC, 6/16/00, p.A9)(SFC,
7/29/00, p.A7)(ST, 10/17/03, p.A7)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 2, In Kashmir an
explosive device killed at least 11 people in Gundqasim during
Shiite Muslim religious services.
   (SFC, 6/3/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 2, In Kosovo 2 Serb
villagers were killed when their vehicle drove over a land mine near
Pristina. A mother and her 2 children were injured.
   (SFC, 6/3/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 2, In Peru a truck
leaving the Yanacocha gold mine leaked 330 pounds of liquid mercury.
Local residents soon suffered mercury poisoning. A legal suit
against Denver-based Newmont Mining moved forward in 2005.
   (SFC, 3/14/05, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 2, In the Philippines
over 30 Moro rebels were killed along with one government soldier in
North Cotabato province.
   (SFC, 6/3/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 2, In TurkeyÂ
delegates in Istanbul from over 150 nations concluded the latest
World Radiocommunication Conference. They agreed to reserve 3 blocks
of airwaves for advanced services such as wireless Internet access.
   (SFC, 6/3/00, p.B1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 3, Pres. Clinton met
with Russia’s Pres. Putin in Moscow and began discussions on trade,
missile defense and arms control.
   (SFEC, 6/4/00, p.A1)(AP, 6/3/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 3, William Simon, head
of the US Treasury Dept. from 1974-1977, died at age 72. His
published work included "A Time for Truth" and "A Time for Action."
Simon left Wall Street as a bond trader to serve under Nixon as
Deputy Sec. of the Treasury in 1973. From 1977-1980 he served as
treasurer of the US Olympic Committee.
   (SFEC, 6/4/00, p.C15)(WSJ, 6/7/00, p.A26)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 3, Leonard Baskin
(b.1922), American artist, writer and teacher, died. His work
included paintings, sculptures, woodcuts and etchings.
   (SFEC, 7/23/00, DB
p.36)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Baskin)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 4, The play
"Copenhagen" by Michael Frayn won the best play Tony at the 54th
annual Tony Awards in Manhattan. The dance-play "Contact" won for
best new musical. "Kiss Me, Kate" won for best musical revival.
   (SFC, 6/5/00, p.D1)(AP, 6/4/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 4, Pres. Clinton and
Pres. Putin agreed to each dispose 34 metric tons of weapons-grade
plutonium and to establish a military center in Moscow for US and
Russian officers to share early warning data on missile and space
launches. Clinton then answered questions from the public at the
Ekho Moskvy radio station.
   (SFC, 6/5/00, p.A1,8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 4, In NYC 150 people
posed face-down flat nude beneath the Williamsburg Bridge for a
photo shoot by Spencer Tunick.
   (SFC, 6/5/00, p.A7)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 4, NASA directed the
$670 million, 17-ton, crippled Compton Gamma Ray Observatory into a
suicide plunge into the Pacific Ocean in a controlled re-entry to
avoid debris over populated areas.
   (SFC, 6/3/00,
p.A6)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Gamma_Ray_Observatory)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 4, It was reported
that IBM planned to build the "Blue Gene" computer over the next
five years to model the way human proteins fold into shapes that
give them unique biological properties.
   (SFEC, 6/4/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 4, A 3-day meeting on
trade of the 34-nation OAS, Organization of American States, began
in Windsor, Canada. Police arrested 41 protesters.
   (SFEC, 6/4/00, p.A20)(SFC, 6/5/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 4, In Indonesia a 7.3
earthquake hit Sumatra and over 100 people were killed with
relentless aftershocks.
   (SFC, 6/5/00, p.A8)(SFC, 6/6/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 4, In West Papua
separatists made a declaration of independence from Indonesia. Thaha
Alhamid read the declaration before thousands gathered in Jayapura.
500 West Papuans had gathered for a "congress" that resulted in the
declaration.
   (SFC, 6/5/00, p.A8)(SFC, 7/7/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 4, In Pakistan a new
government tax caused protests and strikes. In Peshawar police broke
up a rally with tear gas and batons. Small traders refused to open
their shops and transport workers joined the strikes.
   (SFEC, 6/11/00, p.T10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 4, In the Solomon
Islands insurgents of the Malaita Eagle Force militia took Prime
Minister Bartholomew Ulufa’alua hostage in Honiara. The Malaita
Force was fighting the Isatabu force, which was trying to drive
thousands of migrants from Malaita off of Guadalcanal.
   (SFC, 6/5/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 5, Pres. Clinton met
with Pres. Kuchma in Ukraine and Kuchma announced the closure of the
Chernobyl nuclear power plant by Dec 15. Clinton pledged $80 million
to help pay the $750 million cost to stabilize the sarcophagus of
the ruined reactor.
   (SFC, 6/6/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 5, Baltimore Ravens
linebacker Ray Lewis pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count under an
agreement that dropped murder charges in the stabbing deaths of two
men outside a Super Bowl party in Atlanta. Lewis was sentenced to a
year of probation.
   (AP, 6/5/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 5, Computer rebels
planned to launch a data haven, an independent colony in cyberspace,
based on the island of Sealand, a WW II military fortress 6 miles
off the coast of England.
   (SFEC, 6/4/00, p.A4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 5, Eritrea claimed
that an Ethiopian attack near Assab was foiled and that 3,755
Ethiopian troops were "killed, wounded, or taken prisoner."
   (SFC, 6/6/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 5, In Ethiopia 14
children were trampled to death at the Mega Amphitheater in Addis
Ababa when a crowd pushed to get out of the rain.
   (SFC, 6/6/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 5, Ethiopia accused
Eritrea of rounding up 7,529 Ethiopian citizens and putting them
under armed guard for deportation.
   (SFC, 6/6/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 5, Russia’s Pres.
Putin traveled to Italy and met with Prime Minister Giuliano Amato.
Putin then met with Pope John Paul II.
   (SFC, 6/6/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 5, In Sri Lanka the
government claimed that it had killed some 1,000 rebels in recent
days. The censorship over foreign media was lifted.
   (WSJ, 6/6/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 6, In New Orleans the
National D-Day Museum opened on the 56th anniversary of the Allied
landing to liberate Europe from Nazi terror.
   (SFC, 6/7/00, p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 6, Unilever agreed to
buy Bestfoods for $20.3 billion in a deal creating the world’s
biggest food company.
   (AP, 6/6/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 6, The World Bank
approved a $3.7 billion oil well and pipeline project led by Exxon
and Mobile to link oil fields in Chad across 663 miles to the
Atlantic coast of Cameroon.
   (SFC, 6/7/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 7, US District Judge
Thomas Penfield Jackson ordered the breakup of Microsoft
Corporation, declaring the software giant should be split into two
because it had "proved untrustworthy in the past." Microsoft vowed
to appeal. An appeals court later threw out the breakup order; the
Justice Department, under the Bush administration, said it would no
longer seek a breakup of Microsoft.
   (SFC, 6/8/00, p.A1)(AP, 6/7/05)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 7, In Burundi Pres.
Pierre Buyoya made concessions to end the 7-year war. He agreed to
integrate the Tutsi-led army and to close down the regroupment camps
by July 31.
   (SFC, 6/8/00, p.C3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 7, In Chechnya a
suicide attack killed 2 Russian policemen and wounded 5 in
Alkhan-Yurt.
   (WSJ, 6/8/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 7, In Congo troops
from Uganda and Rwanda fought an artillery duel in Kisangani that
set the city’s cathedral on fire.
   (WSJ, 6/8/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 7, In the Solomon
Islands Malaita rebels released Prime Minister Bartholomew Ulufa’alu
from house arrest and dropped demands that he resign.
   (SFC, 6/8/00, p.C3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 7, In Sri Lanka C.V.
Gooneratne, Minister for Industrial Development, was killed along
with 20 other people on War Heroes Day by a suicide bomber near
Colombo. Gooneratne’s wife died the next day and the toll climbed to
23.
   (SFC, 6/8/00, p.A12)(SFC, 6/9/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 8, Jeff MacNally (52),
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, died in Baltimore, Maryland.
   (AP, 6/8/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 8, In Greece Brigadier
Stephen Saunders (53), a British diplomat, was assassinated in
Athens. The November 17 terrorist group claimed responsibility,
saying it killed Saunders because of his role in NATO airstrikes
against Yugoslavia. In 2002 Iraklis Kostaris was charged with
participating in the murder and Vassilis Xiros confessed to the
assassination.
   (SFC, 6/9/00, p.A14)(AP, 6/8/01)(SFC, 7/22/02,
p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 8, In Nigeria rioting
in Lagos and a nationwide strike began after a 50% increase in fuel
prices.
   (SFC, 6/9/00, p.A15)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 8, In Russia Pres.
Putin took personal control over Chechnya. A provisional government
was planned headed by a Kremlin-appointed official.
   (SFC, 6/9/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 8, The UN voted
(Resolution 1302) to extend Iraq’s oil for food program. Over the
next 2 years the extensions were repeated every 180 days.
   (SFC, 9/24/02, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 9, The Justice
Department released a report saying an 18-month investigation had
found no credible evidence that conspirators aided or framed James
Earl Ray in the 1968 assassination of civil rights leader Martin
Luther King Junior.
   (AP, 6/9/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 9, The FBI began
discussions on the "Serbian Badman Trojan" computer virus disguised
as a movie clip and embedded in some 2000 commercial and home
computers.
   (SFC, 6/9/00, p.A7)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 9, Painter Jacob
Lawrence (b.1917) died in Seattle at age 82. His family moved to
Harlem in 1930.
   (AP, 6/9/01)(WSJ, 8/3/01, p.W8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 9, George Segal
(b.1924), sculptor and painter, died at his home in south Brunswick,
N.J., at age 75.
   (SFC, 6/10/00, p.A23)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 9, In Argentina
millions of workers went on strike to protest the economic austerity
policies of Pres. Fernando de la Rua and the 14% unemployment rate.
   (SFC, 6/10/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 9, In Brazil legal
rights for same-sex couples were extended to include inheritance,
pension and social security benefits.
   (SFC, 6/10/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 9, At least 74 people
were reported killed in Sichuan, China, from floods and mudslides
following torrential rain and hail.
   (SFC, 6/10/00, p.A24)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 9, In Congo the
22-month civil war averaged some 2,600 deaths every day. The total
was estimated at 1.7 million dead.
   (SFC, 6/9/00, p.A20)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 9, It was reported
that some 5 dozen intravenous drug users in Scotland, Ireland and
England had died since April from a mysterious illness. Heroin was
later found to be contaminated with Clostridium novyi Type A.
   (SFC, 6/9/00, p.D3)(SFC, 6/15/00, p.A19)(WSJ,
6/16/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 9, Eritrea accepted an
Organization of African Unity plan to end the conflict with
Ethiopia.
   (SFC, 6/10/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 10, In Dallas the New
Jersey Devils won their second Stanley Cup in six seasons with a
2-to-1 victory in double overtime over the Dallas Stars in Game Six
of the finals.
   (WSJ, 6/12/00, p.A1)(AP, 6/10/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 10, "Commendable" won
the Belmont Stakes.
   (AP, 6/10/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 10, Frenchwoman Mary
Pierce beat Conchita Martinez 6-2, 7-5 to win the French Open
women’s singles title.
   (AP, 6/10/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 10, A UN Women’s
Conference in NYC approved a new plan to advance the 1995 Beijing
Agenda.
   (SFEC, 6/11/00, p.A27)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 10, In London the new
$25 million Millennium Bridge, a 1,090 foot pedestrian suspension
bridge over the Thames, opened. It soon closed due to a problem of
excessive swaying. It was designed by Sir Norman Foster, sculptor
Anthony Caro and the Arup engineering company. It reopened in 2002.
   (SFEC, 6/11/00, p.A17)(SFC, 6/13/00, p.A11)(SSFC,
3/31/02, p.C2)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 10, Ethiopian troops
stormed Eritrean positions on all 3 fronts of the disputed border in
a break of the cease-fire. The Ethiopian government accepted
cease-fire terms brokered in Algeria but asked for a "brief delay."
   (SFEC, 6/11/00, p.A31)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 10, In Germany the
3-day Rock of the Ring music festival in Neurburg drew some 100,000
people to see 90 bands.
   (SFEC, 6/11/00, p.A31)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 10, In Syria Pres.
Hafez Assad (69), the "Lion of Damascus," died. His son Bashar Assad
(34) was expected to be named his successor. Assad had given
Alawites powerful positions in the army and Baath party while the
Sunnis were given a free rein in trade and industry.
   (SFEC, 6/11/00, p.A1)(SFC, 6/15/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 11, In NYC’s Central
Park young male gangs attacked some 47 women with harassment,
molestation and robbery during the annual Puerto Rico Day parade.
Some of the assaults were captured on home video. 16 of 60 suspects
were arrested over the next week. Some police officers also faced
discipline for lack of response.
   (SFC, 6/17/00, p.A6)(SFC, 6/19/00, p.A2)(AP,
6/11/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 11, Gustavo Kuerten of
Brazil won his second French Open title, beating Magnus Norman 6-2,
6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (6).
   (AP, 6/11/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 11, In Congo Rwandan
troops drove Ugandan forces from Kisangani to end a week of
indiscriminate shelling.
   (SFC, 6/12/00, p.A13)  Â
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 11, In Dessau,
Germany, Alberto Adriano (39), a 20-year German resident from
Mozambique, was kicked to death by 3 men. Enrico Hilprecht (24) was
later convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Two 16-year-old
accomplices were sentenced to 9 years each.
   (SFC, 8/31/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 11, A former
hard-liner who has recently favored democratic reforms was elected
as the speaker of Iran's first reformist-dominated parliament in
more than 20 years.
   (AP, 6/11/03)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 11, In Montenegro
voters kept the pro-West government in the capital, Podgorica, but
elected allies of Slobodan Milosevic in Herceg Novi.
   (WSJ, 6/12/00, p.A1)(SFC, 6/13/00, p.A11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 11, A day after the
death of Syrian President Hafez Assad, his son, Bashar, was
unanimously nominated by Syria’s ruling Baath Party to succeed his
father.
   (AP, 6/11/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 12, US Supreme Court
Justices in a unanimous ruling curbed patient’s rights and ruled
that HMOs can’t be sued over doctor’s incentives to cut treatment
costs.
   (WSJ, 6/13/00, p.A1)(AP, 6/12/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 12, The US Justice
Dept. agreed to compensate the Nixon estate $18 million for the
tapes and presidential papers seized in 1974.
   (SFC, 6/13/00, p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 12, In St. Louis, Earl
Murray, a drug dealer, and his friend Ronald Beasley were killed by
police during an attempted drug arrest. The two men were unarmed and
police fired 20 bullets into their car.
   (SFC, 6/28/00, p.A11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 12, Akhmad Kadyrov, a
Muslim cleric, was appointed by Pres. Putin to head the
administration in Chechnya.
   (SFC, 6/13/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 12, In Chile the worst
rains in 20 years began and caused flooding in Santiago and a large
portion of the central and southern parts of the country.
   (SFC, 6/15/00, p.C4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 12, In Indonesia at
least 8 people were killed in Muslim-Christian fighting in Maluku.
   (SFC, 6/13/00, p.A11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 12, Saudi Arabia and
Yemen signed an agreement to end decades of border disputes.
   (SFC, 6/13/00, p.A11)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 12, Rifaat Assad, the
brother of Hafez Assad, claimed himself the rightful heir of power
in Syria. Syrian security forces were ordered to arrest Rifaat if he
entered the country.
   (SFC, 6/13/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 13, The MacArthur
Foundation awarded "genius grants" to 25 people.
   (WSJ, 6/14/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 13, In Argentina Pres.
Fernando de la Rua apologized for his country’s role in providing
sanctuary to Nazis after WW II.
   (SFC, 6/14/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 13, In Chile the
military agreed to search for the remains of the 1,200 dissidents
who disappeared between 1973-1990 under Gen. Pinochet.
   (SFC, 6/14/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 13, In Italy the
government pardoned Mehmet Ali Agca (42), the man who wounded Pope
John Paul II in 1981. Agca was flown to Turkey to finish serving 8
years for the 1979 murder of a newspaper editor.
   (SFC, 6/14/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 13, Pres. Kim Jong Il
of North Korea met with Pres. Kim Dae Jung of South Korea in the 1st
meeting ever between leaders of the 2 countries. They agreed to try
to satisfy their people’s desire for reconciliation. Border
loudspeakers that blasted insults at South Korea were shut off.
   (SFC, 6/13/00, p.A10)(SFC, 6/14/00, p.A1)(SFC,
6/17/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 13, In Nigeria a
national strike ended after the government agreed to a substantial
reduction in the 50% increase to fuel prices.
   (SFC, 6/14/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 13, In Russia Vladimir
Gusinsky, head of Media-Most, was arrested on charges of swindling
and grand larceny.
   (SFC, 6/14/00, p.A12)(WSJ, 6/14/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 14, The Southern
Baptist Convention declared that women should no longer serve as
pastors.
   (AP, 6/14/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 14, Federal
prosecutors in Manhattan charged a record 120 people that included
reputed mafia members with securities fraud in a yearlong probe
code-named "Uptick."
   (SFC, 6/15/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 14, In Florida George
Trofimoff (73) was arrested for spying for the Soviet KGB from
1969-1995. He had served as chief of an Army unit responsible for
interviewing Warsaw pact defectors.
   (SFC, 6/15/00, p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 14, US federal marine
specialists reported that the US Navy induced underwater noise
caused the death of at least a dozen whales in the Bahamas in March.
Hemorrhages were found around the animals’ ears.
   (SFC, 6/15/00, p.a7)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 14, In San Francisco
temperatures hit 103 degrees, matching the record high set on July
17,1988. Eugene Kesselman (27) disappeared after he left his Sunset
home to buy a car. His body was found 9 days later in the trunk of
his car in the Excelsior district. In Sept. police arrested Shonte
Pratt (25) and Brandon Ry (20) for suspicion of murder and armed
robbery.
   (SFC, 9/6/00, p.A23)(SFC, 12/25/08, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 14, Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder agreed with heads of the nuclear power industry to end the
use of atomic energy. With an expected life span of 32 years closure
of all 17 plants would occur by 2020. In 2005 the timetable was
confirmed. In 2007 an expansion of the timetable for closure was up
for consideration.
   (SFC, 6/15/00, p.A16)(Econ, 2/10/07, p.50)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 14, Pres. Kim Jong Il
of North Korea and Pres. Kim Dae Jung of South Korea pledged
concrete steps toward unifying their divided peninsula and signed an
agreement to allow visits for some families separated for the last
five decades.
   (SFC, 6/15/00, p.A1)(AP, 6/14/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 14, In Sri Lanka a
suicide bomber killed himself and 2 civilians when he rammed a bus
with 25 sick air force soldiers. None of the troops were hurt.
   (SFC, 6/15/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 15, Denis Savard, Joe
Mullen and Walter L. Bush Junior were selected to the Hockey Hall of
Fame.
   (AP, 6/15/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 15, Al Gore named
Commerce Secretary William Daley to take over his presidential
campaign, replacing Tony Coelho, who had abruptly resigned, citing
health problems.
   (AP, 6/15/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 15, US federal agents
made over 170 arrests in the breakup of a Mexican heroin ring based
in Nayarit state. The US-based ringleader, Oscar Hernandez (35), and
his wife, Maria Lopez (39), were arrested in Panorama City.
Operation Tar Pit began last October in San Diego.
   (SFC, 6/16/00, p.A5)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 15, In Canada
demonstrators in Toronto protested cuts in social programs and
clashed with police.
   (SFC, 6/16/00, p.A19)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 15, Ethiopia accepted
a preliminary cease-fire plan and together with Eritrea planned to
sign documents in Algeria.
   (SFC, 6/16/00, p.A19)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 15, In Kosovo 2 Serbs
were killed and another wounded when their vehicle ran over a land
mine. NATO peacekeepers raided an ethnic Albanian stronghold in
Drenica and seized a large quantity of weapons and ammunition. Halil
Dreshaj, a member of the Democratic League of Kosovo, was shot and
killed by masked men wearing uniforms of the disbanded KLA.
   (SFC, 6/15/00, p.A19)(SFC, 6/17/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 16, The US Senate
passed a bill to allow e-signatures for online contracts. Pres.
Clinton said he would sign the bill. The E-Sign Act of 2000 defined
signature as any sound, symbol or process that is logically
associated with a document, a person and an intent.
   (SFC, 6/17/00, p.A3)(Econ, 6/10/06, p.62)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 16, Federal regulators
approved the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE Corporation, creating
the nation’s largest local phone company.
   (AP, 6/16/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 16, Inacom Corp., once
the world’s largest computer dealer, sent most of its 5,100
employees an e-mail directing them to a toll-free phone number with
a recorded message that fired them.
   (WSJ, 11/8/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 16, Scientists
reported the discovery the sugar molecule, glucoaldehyde, near the
center of the Milky Way at Sagittarius North, 26,000 light-years
away.
   (SFC, 6/17/00, p.A2)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 16, Raynard Johnson,
17, was found hanging from a tree in Marion County, Mississippi;
investigators later ruled it a suicide, not a lynching.
   (AP, 6/16/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 16, In Chechnya Umar
Idrisov, a Muslim leader, was shot and killed by attackers following
a sermon for peace. 2 Chechen police officers working for Russian
authorities were found beheaded.
   (SFC, 6/17/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 16, In Ethiopia the
election board announced that the 4-party Ethiopian People’s
Revolutionary Democratic Front won a landslide victory in 4 key
regions in the may 14 elections.
   (SFC, 6/17/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 16, The Israeli
pullout from Lebanon was finished according to UN Sec.-Gen. Kofi
Annan. Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss claimed that some Israeli
outposts were still present inside their border.
   (SFC, 6/17/00, p.A8)(SFEC, 6/18/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 16, Empress dowager
Nagako, widow of Japan’s Emperor Hirohito, died in Tokyo at age 97.
   (SFC, 6/17/00, p.A20)(AP, 6/16/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 16, In Mexico American
expatriates Norris (67) and Nancy (62) Price were found shot to
death in Ajijic near Guadalajara. A land dispute was suspected.
   (SFC, 6/17/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 16, Serb opposition
leader Vuk Draskovic was slightly wounded in an assassination
attempt at his vacation home in Budva, Montenegro. Montenegro
authorities reported the arrest of the attackers.
   (SFC, 6/16/00, p.A19)(SFC, 6/17/00, p.A8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 16, In Russia Pres.
Putin proposed a Moscow-based early warning center for missile
launches around the world.
   (SFC, 6/17/00, p.A8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 16, In Russia media
mogul Vladimir Gusinsky was released from jail but swindling and
theft charges were maintained.
   (SFC, 6/17/00, p.A8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 16, South Korea turned
off its anti-Communist broadcasts over border speakers at North
Korea.
   (SFC, 6/17/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 17, In Belgium English
and German soccer fans clashed in Charleroi prior to a game in the
European Soccer Championship.
   (SFEC, 6/18/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 17, In Cuba, more than
300,000 people turned out to protest the continued stay of Elian
Gonzalez in the United States; it was the largest such demonstration
since the previous December, when Cuba launched a national campaign
of mass gatherings demanding the boy’s return.
   (AP, 6/17/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 17, In India
upper-class militia stormed Miapur village in Bihar state and
massacred 34 women, children and old men. The attack was in
retribution for the murder of 12 upper-caste farmers five days
earlier, which in turn was preceded by the murder of 5 low-caste
Yadavs. Police later arrested 11 landlord-paid militiamen.
   (SFEC, 6/18/00, p.A12)(WSJ, 6/19/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 17, In Iran thousands
of dead fish were reported to be spread over 5,400 acres of the
dried up Arjang Lagoon, near the city of Shiraz, due to a 2-year
drought.
   (SFC, 6/17/00, p.D8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 17, In Kenya an
ongoing drought was reported to have caused hungry baboons into
villages in search of food. A crop failure for the 3rd consecutive
year placed 22 million Kenyans on the brink of starvation.
   (SFC, 6/17/00, p.D8)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 17, Zimbabwe Pres.
Mugabe said that whites may live in Zimbabwe, but they will never
have a voice equal to that of blacks.
   (SFEC, 6/18/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 18, Tiger Woods
won the US Open Golf Championship at Pebble Beach by 12 under par
and 15 strokes ahead of his nearest rival.
   (SFC, 6/19/00, p.A1)(AP, 6/18/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 18, A US F-14 Tomcat
fighter jet crashed during an air show at Willow Grove, Pa. Two
naval aviators were killed.
   (SFC, 6/20/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 18, Nancy Marchand,
Emmy-winning actress (The Sopranos), died in Stratford, Connecticut,
a day before her 72nd birthday.
   (AP, 6/18/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 18, In Algeria the
Foreign Ministers of Ethiopia and Eritrea signed an accord to cease
hostilities immediately. The agreement called for an int’l.
peacekeeping force in a buffer zone reaching 15 miles into Eritrea.
   (SFC, 6/19/00, p.A8)(SFC, 6/20/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 18, In England
officials found 58 bodies in the back of a truck carrying tomatoes
at Dover. The truck had arrived from Zeebrugge under 86-degree heat
and 54 male and 4 female Chinese immigrants from Fujian province
appeared to have suffocated. There were 2 survivors. The chief
suspect was arrested in Rotterdam in 2001. In 2001 Dutch driver
Perry Wacker (32) was convicted and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Ying Guo (30) was convicted of conspiracy and was sentenced to 6
years in prison.
   (SFC, 6/19/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/20/00, p.A1)(SFC,
6/21/00, p.A12)(SFC, 1/23/01, p.C14)(SFC, 4/6/01, p.D6)
2004Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 18, Ethiopia and
Eritrea agreed to cease hostilities in a two-year-old border war.
   (AP, 6/18/05)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 18, In Jordan King
Abdullah II accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Abdur-Ra-‘uf
Rawabdeh and appointed economist Ali Abu Ragheb (54) to form a
cabinet.
   (SFC, 6/19/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 18, In Haiti Leon
Manus (78), the top election official, refused to approve the
results of the election and fled to the US.
   (SFC, 6/19/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 18, In Syria Bashar
Assad was elected as sec. gen. of the ruling Baath Party.
   (SFC, 6/19/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 19, The Los Angeles
Lakers won their first championship in 12 years, defeating the
Indiana Pacers 116-to-111 in game six of the NBA Finals. The
post-game celebration, however, was marred by violent fans.
   (SFC, 6/21/00, p.A3)(AP, 6/19/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 19, The Clinton
administration moved to lift trade sanctions against North Korea.
   (SFC, 6/20/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 19, The US Supreme
ruled that cities and states may not boycott companies that do
business with Burma and that only the president and Congress have
the authority to set foreign policy.
   (SFC, 6/20/00, p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 19, The Supreme Court
reaffirmed, 6-to-3, that praying in public schools had to be
private, barring officials from letting students lead stadium crowds
in prayer before football games.
   (AP, 6/19/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 19, In Colombia
Guillermo Valencia Cossio, the brother of peace negotiator Fabio
Valencia Cossio, was abducted. Carlos Castano, head of the feared
Self-Defenses Forces, later confirmed that he ordered the
kidnapping.
   (SFC, 6/22/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 19, EU leaders in
Portugal approved Greece’s bid to join the EU beginning Jan 1, 2001.
   (WSJ, 6/20/00, p.A23)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 19, In Haiti militant
supporters of Pres. Aristide shut down the 3 largest cities and
demanded the release of election results. The Elections Council in
response announced that Aristide’s party won control of the Senate.
   (SFC, 6/20/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 19, In Indonesia
sectarian fighting killed as many as 161 people in the Maluku
Islands, also known as the Moluccas or Spice Islands. Thousands of
Muslims attacked Christians in the village of Duma.
   (WSJ, 6/20/00, p.A1)(SFC, 6/21/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 19, Noboro Takeshita,
former leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party and premier from
1987-1989, died at age 76.
   (SFC, 6/19/00, p.E2)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 19, Representatives of
Nigeria said they found bank accounts in Liechtenstein with over
$150 million held by family members of former dictator Gen Sani
Abacha.
   (SFC, 6/20/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 19, In Zimbabwe
officials said elections would not be monitored by foreign
nongovernmental organizations.
   (WSJ, 6/20/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 20, After a furious
last-minute lobbying blitz by the Clinton administration, the Senate
voted 57-to-42 to approve legislation making it easier for federal
prosecutors to try hate crimes, attaching the measure to a defense
authorization bill. However, the House stripped the hate crimes
provision from the defense bill the following October.
   (AP, 6/20/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 20, Vivendi agreed to
acquire Seagram’s Corp. for $30 billion.
   (SFC, 6/21/00, p.C16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 20, Brazil decreed an
immediate ban on the sale of firearms as part of a broad $1.7
billion national security plan.
   (SFC, 6/21/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 20, In Northern
Ireland Ulster Freedom Fighters threatened break their cease-fire
and accused Catholic groups of attacking protestant homes.
   (SFC, 6/21/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 20, In South Korea
some 50 thousand members of the medical association went on strike
to protest a new system that bans them from selling most drugs.
   (SFC, 6/21/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 20, In Russia the
prosecutor’s office filed to reverse the privatization of Norilsk
Nickel, the largest metal company, controlled by oligarch Vladimir
Potanin.
   (SFC, 6/21/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 21, Some 55 years
after World War Two ended, 22 Asian-American veterans received the
Medal of Honor for bravery on the battlefield during a White House
ceremony.
   (AP, 6/21/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 21, In San Leandro,
Ca., Stuart Alexander (39), owner of the Santo Linguisa sausage
factory, shot and killed 3 government meat inspectors, Jean Hillery
(56), Tom Quadros (52), and Bill Shaline (57). In 2004 Alexander was
convicted of 3 counts of 1st-degree murder. In 2005 Alexander was
sentenced to death. On Dec 27, 2005, Alexander was found dead in his
San Quentin jail cell.
   (SFC, 6/22/00, p.A1)(SFC, 6/23/00, p.A6)(SFC,
10/20/04, p.B1)(SFC, 2/16/05, p.B5)(SFC, 12/28/05, p.B1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 21, In Chechnya 2
Russian soldiers were killed and 2 wounded in a rebel ambush near
Mesker-Yurt.
   (SFC, 6/23/00, p.A20)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 21, North Korea
extended its ban on missile flight-testing and the US responded with
plans to renew talks to curb the long-range missile program. North
Korea promised to refrain from long-range missile tests after the
United States lifted some economic sanctions against it.
   (SFC, 6/22/00, p.A12)(AP, 6/21/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 22, Independent
Counsel Robert Ray ended his investigation of the 1993 firings in
the White House travel office, issuing no indictments but saying
he’d found "substantial evidence" that First Lady Hillary Rodham
Clinton played a role in the dismissals.
   (AP, 6/22/01)  Â
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 22, In Texas Gary
Graham was executed for the 1981 murder of Bobby Lambert in a holdup
near a Houston supermarket. Graham claimed his innocence to the very
end.
   (SFC, 6/23/00, p.A3)(AP, 6/22/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 22, The Int’l.
Financial Action Task Force accused 15 areas of facilitating money
laundering.
   (SFC, 6/23/00, p.A17)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 22, In Bosnia a new
cabinet proposed by Prime Minister Spasoje Tusevljak won
parliamentary approval. Tusevljak, an economics professor, was
approved by parliament earlier in June.
   (SFC, 6/24/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 22, In China an
overloaded ship capsized on the Yangtze River in Sichuan province
and 59 people were either killed or missing. Separately a Yunshuji-7
turboprop was struck by lightning in Hubei province and all 42
people aboard were killed. 4 people were missing.
   (SFC, 6/23/00, p.D3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 22, In Kazakstan some
11,000 seals were reported found dead on the shores of the Caspian
Sea. Infectious disease linked to weakened immune systems due to
oil-related pollutants were blamed.
   (SFC, 6/23/00, p.D3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 23, Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright, during a visit to South Korea, said American
troops would remain in the country indefinitely to maintain
strategic stability in the Pacific area.
   (AP, 6/23/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 23, The federal
government pledged over $22 million to help fight the glassy-winged
sharpshooter, a pest threatening the California vineyards.
   (SFC, 6/24/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 23, The new $250
million, 140,000-sq.-foot Experience Music Project opened in
Seattle. It was funded by Paul G. Allen, designed by Frank Gehry and
dedicated to the celebration of creativity in music.
   (SFC, 4/15/99, p.E8)(SFC, 6/22/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 23, Jerome Richardson
(b.1920), SF Bay Area jazz musician, died.
   (SFC, 2/19/08,
p.D1)(www.jazzhouse.org/gone/lastpost2.php3?edit=962098717)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 23, In Australia a
fire at a hostel in Childers, 130 miles north of Brisbane, killed at
least 15 foreign backpackers.
   (SFC, 6/23/00, p.D3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 23, The Cotonou
Agreement, a treaty between the European Union and the group of
African, Caribbean and Pacific states (ACP countries), was signed in
Cotonou, the largest city in Benin, by 79 ACP countries and the then
fifteen Member States of the EU. It entered into force in 2002 and
is the latest agreement in the history of ACP-EU Development
Cooperation. As of Dec 31, 2007, the Cotonou Agreement ceased to be
legal under the rules of the WTO.
   (Econ, 5/28/05, p.78)(Econ, 1/5/08,
p.74)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotonou_Agreement)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 23, In Colombia
Guillermo Valencia was freed after 4 days. Luisa Cano (5) was also
freed by guerrillas after being kidnapped Apr 15.
   (SFC, 6/24/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 23, In Indonesia
street battles in the Maluku Islands between Christians and Muslims
left at least 18 people dead.
   (SFC, 6/24/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 23, In the Philippines
the military captured Camp Rajamuda, a guerrilla stronghold in
Maguindanao and North Catabato provinces. The weeklong operation
left 4 guerrillas and one soldier dead.
   (SFC, 6/24/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 23, A Panamanian
registered tanker sank off Cape Town, South Africa and at least
1,300 tons of seeped out. Oil began to soak the local penguins at
Robben Island.
   (SFC, 6/30/00, p.A16)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 24, Revising an
earlier plan, President Clinton proposed using $58 billion from the
growing budget surplus to help senior citizens pay for prescription
drugs in 2002.
   (AP, 6/24/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 24, Vera Atkins
(b.1908), British intelligence officer during WW II, died in Sussex,
England. In 2005 Sarah Helm authored “A Life in Secrets: The Story
of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE.”
   (Econ, 3/17/07,
p.90)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Atkins)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 24, A red tide of
algal bloom over 2,700 square miles was reported over the East China
Sea. China’s environmental protection agency blamed pollutants and
weather conditions.
   (SFC, 6/24/00, p.A24)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 24, Israeli police
fired across the Lebanese border at the Fatima gate at Kfar Kila. 3
Jordanian civilians were wounded.
   (SFC, 6/25/00, p.A6)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 24, After months of
political violence, elections began in Zimbabwe.
   (SFC, 6/24/00, p.A1)(AP, 6/24/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 25, Juli Inkster
became the first player in 16 years to successfully defend the LPGA
Championship.
   (AP, 6/25/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 25, The Broadway show
"Cats" was scheduled to close after 7397 performances. It was
extended to September.
   (SFEC, 5/7/00, Par p.30)(SFC, 9/11/00, p.F4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 25, The US Green party
nominated Ralph Nader as its presidential candidate with running
mate Winona LaDuke, an Ojibwe activist from Minnesota.
   (SFC, 6/26/00, p.A3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 25, Philip Morris
announced it was buying Nabisco for $14.9 billion.
   (AP, 6/25/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 25, In Puerto Rico US
Navy bombing in Vieques resumed with nonexplosive dummy bombs after
37 demonstrators were arrested. A fatal accident had prompted a
yearlong occupation by protesters.
   (WSJ, 6/26/00, p.A1)(SFC, 6/28/00, p.A3)(AP,
6/25/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 25, In Japan Prime
Minister Yoshiro Mori’s LDP lost power to its coalition partners in
parliamentary elections. The coalition won 271 of 480 seats in the
lower house.
   (SFC, 6/26/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 25, South Korea marked
the 50th anniversary of the start of the Korean Conflict.
   (AP, 6/25/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 25, In Kuwait a
refinery explosion at the Mina al-Ahmedi plant killed 5 people and
closed the largest of the 3 oil processing facilities.
   (WSJ, 6/26/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/28/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â cJun 25, Montenegro told
the UN that it no longer wants to be represented by Yugoslavia.
   (WSJ, 6/26/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 25, In Poland a 3-day
world Forum on Democracy in Warsaw was sponsored by the NY-based
Freedom House and the Warsaw-based Stefan Batory Foundation.
   (SFEC, 6/25/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 25, In Russia the
military declared that air and artillery attacks in Chechnya had
been suspended. The next day the Kremlin said that attacks would
continue.
   (SFC, 6/26/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 25, In Zimbabwe EU
observers said the voting in parliamentary elections was "not free
or fair."
   (WSJ, 6/26/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 26, The Supreme Court
gave new power to its landmark Miranda decision of 1966, ruling
police still must warn the people they arrest of their "right to
remain silent" when questioned.
   (AP, 6/26/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 26, The Supreme Court
struck down California’s system of "blanket primaries." It ruled
that political parties have the right to exclude nonparty members
from choosing their candidates.
   (SFC, 6/27/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 26, Public and private
gene researchers, Celera Genomics and the National Human Genome
Research Institute, announced at the White House that they had
roughly mapped the human genome. Craig Venter, head of Celera,
acquired private funding in 1998 and began decoding in September
1999. In 2007 Venter authored “A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life.”
A truly complete sequence was not published until 2003.
   (SFC, 6/27/00, p.A1)(AP, 6/26/01)(WSJ, 10/27/07,
p.W6)(Econ, 6/19/10, SR p.3)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 26, The new United
Religions organization planned a charter signing ceremony at
Carnegie Mellon Univ. in Pittsburgh. Episcopal Bishop William Swing
first announced his dream June, 1995, at Grace Cathedral in SF. A
41-member Global Council will coordinate activities. 24 members will
be chosen by a worldwide membership in 8 regional elections, with a
dozen at-large trustees and 5 seats from the current board. The
basic unit of the organization will be a group of 7 or more people
from a mix of religious traditions.
   (SFC, 6/19/00, p.A1,5)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 26, In Germany a
6-year-old Turkish boy was attacked and killed in a school yard in
Hamburg by a pit bull and a Staffordshire terrier. The attack led
German states to enact new rules on dog ownership.
   (SFC, 7/1/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 26, In Indonesia Pres.
Wahid declared a state of emergency in the eastern Maluku Islands.
Over the last 6 days 60 people were reported killed in Ambon.
   (SFC, 6/27/00, p.A14)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 26, In Northern
Ireland the IRA allowed an independent examination of its
clandestine arms for the 1st time in its 81 year history.
   (SFC, 6/27/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 26, In Poland a 2-day
ministerial-level conference, "Toward a Community of Democracies,"
was the 1st of a planned biannual series.
   (SFEC, 6/25/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 26, The Vatican
unveiled the 62-line handwritten account of Lucia de Jesus dos
Santos from the Fatima, Portugal, vision of Jul 13, 1917.
   (SFC, 6/27/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 27, US House
Republicans cut a deal to allow direct sales of food to Cuba for the
first time in four decades.
   (AP, 6/27/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 27, In Chechnya 2 days
of fighting left 12 Russians dead and up to 60 rebels killed
according to Russian officials.
   (SFC, 6/29/00, p.C6)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 27, In Poland 107
participants joined to endorse a declaration of the "community of
democracies." France alone excluded itself.
   (SFC, 6/28/00, p.B10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 27, In Zimbabwe Pres.
Mugabe promised to work with the newly elected parliament. The
Movement for Democratic Change made historic gains and won 57 seats
vs. 62 for Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party.
   (SFC, 6/28/00, p.A12)(AP, 6/27/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 28, The US Supreme
Court ruled that the Boy Scouts can exclude gays from its
organization (from serving as troop leaders). The ruling allowed the
organization to set standards for membership.
   (SFC, 6/29/00, p.A1)(AP, 6/28/01)(SSFC, 11/3/02,
p.A5)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 28, The US Supreme
Court also ruled that Nebraska’s ban on "partial-birth abortion" put
an "undue burden" on a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy.
   (SFC, 6/29/00, p.A1)(AP, 6/28/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 28, Seven months after
he was cast adrift in the Florida Straits, Elian Gonzalez was
returned to his native Cuba with his father.
   (SFC, 6/29/00, p.A1)(AP, 6/28/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 28, In Oregon
Leah Freeman (15) went missing. Her body was found on August 3
outside of her hometown of Coquille. Her gym shoes, one of them
bloody, were virtually the only physical clues police had to figure
out what had happened to the missing girl. Her boyfriend Nick
McGuffin was arrested on Aug. 23, 2010, and charged with murder.
Nearly 20 years later, DNA evidence from one of those same shoes
played a key role in freeing McGuffin from prison the only person
who has ever been convicted of killing her.
   (ABC News, 2/27/20)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 28, In China the
government announced a $48 million emergency plan to fight the
drought in the northern provinces of Shanxi, Hebei, Gansu, and
Ningxia.
   (SFC, 6/29/00, p.C6)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 28, In Iraq 2 UN
staffers were shot and killed in a UN building in Baghdad. Fowad
Hussein Haydar (38) was arrested in the attack which he staged to
protest int’l. sanctions.
   (SFC, 6/29/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 28, In the Philippines
Communist guerrillas killed 12 soldiers and an army brigade
commander in the town of Jones in northern Isabela province.
   (SFC, 6/29/00, p.C6)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 28, In Russia The
Kremlin issued a plan to overhaul the economy. Separately the upper
house of parliament, the Federation Council, voted down a proposal
by Pres. Putin to disband it.
   (SFC, 6/29/00, p.C6)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 28, In Taiwan Pres.
Chen Shui-bian told visiting Americans that he accepts that there is
"one China."
   (SFC, 6/29/00, p.A10)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 29, President Clinton
nominated former Congressman Norman Mineta to lead the Commerce
Department and become the first Asian-American Cabinet secretary.
   (AP, 6/29/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 29, John Hopkins
cancer researchers reported that the experimental substance C75, a
potential weight-loss drug, suppressed appetite but not metabolism.
   (WSJ, 6/30/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 29, Actor Vittorio
Gassman died in Rome at age 77.
   (AP, 6/29/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 29, In Indonesia the
ferry Cahaya Bahari was feared to have sunk with 492 passengers
killing all but ten known survivors. The ship left Tobelo on
Halmahera in North Maluku and was bound for Manado in North Sulawesi
with many fleeing sectarian violence.
   (SFC, 6/30/00, p.A16)(AP, 6/29/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 29, Iraq said US and
British warplanes bombed North Rumeila and killed a woman shepherd
and injured her husband.
   (SFC, 6/30/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 29, The OAS said it
would set up a permanent office in Lima, Peru, to oversee democratic
reforms.
   (SFC, 6/30/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 29, In Sierra Leone 21
UN peacekeepers were freed by rebels and arrived in Liberia.
   (SFC, 6/30/00, p.A18)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 30, Pres. Clinton
signed legislation for "digital signatures."
   (WSJ, 7/3/00, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 30, An Arkansas
Supreme Court committee sued President Clinton to strip him of his
law license. Clinton later agreed to pay a fine and give up his law
license for five years.
   (AP, 6/30/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 30, In Canada a bill
that erased virtually all legal distinctions between heterosexual
marriages and same-sex unions went into effect.
   (SFC, 7/3/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 30, In Chechnya
Russian Gen. Gennady Troshev said that a 5-day firefight at
Serzhen-Yurt was over and that over 100 rebels were killed.
   (SFC, 7/1/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 30, In Denmark 9
people were crushed to death at the Roskilde rock festival during a
Pearl Jam concert.
   (SFC, 7/1/00, p.A12)(AP, 6/30/01)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 30, North and South
Korea signed an agreement to allow 100 people each to reunite with
families across their border beginning Aug 15.
   (SFC, 7/1/00, p.A12)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 30, In Russia the
lower house voted to give pres. Putin the right to fire any of the
nation’s 89 governors for cause.
   (SFC, 7/1/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 30, In the Solomon
Islands Mannasseh Sogavare replaced Bartholomew Ulufa’alu as prime
minister.
   (SFC, 7/1/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun 30, In Sri Lanka the
Supreme Court threw out the government’s news censorship system.
   (SFC, 7/1/00, p.A13)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun, The US government
passed the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act. It gave 23 sub-Saharan
countries the opportunity to ship a range of textile products to the
US duty-free.
   (WSJ, 1/2/02, p.A1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun, In SF Brian Singer,
aka Someguy, launched his 1000 Journals Project from San Francisco.
He began sending out blank notebooks with instructions for users to
create entries, pass the journals on, and return them to him on
completion. In 2003 the 1st one returned. In 2003 Andrea Kreuzhage,
a German-born Los Angeles filmmaker, heard of the project and began
filming a documentary, which was completed in 2008. In 2007
Chronicle books of SF published “The 1000 Journals Project,” a
compendium of outstanding images from several journals.
   (SSFC, 10/19/03, p.A1)(www.1000journals.com)(SFC,
7/29/08, p.E1)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun, Stephen Pendergrast,
co-founded Fictionwise, a retailer of electronic books, in Chatham,
NJ. In 2009 Barnes & Noble acquired the company for $15.7
million.
   (WSJ, 3/6/09, p.B4)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun, Jose Manuel Vigoa
Perez robbed the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, continued a string of
robberies that began in 1998. He was soon caught and imprisoned. In
2008 John Huddy authored “Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born,
Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five
World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars.”
   (WSJ, 8/30/08, p.W7)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun, In Florida the body
of Kimberly Dietz-Livesey (35) was found in a suitcase on a roadside
in Cooper City, Fla., southwest of Fort Lauderdale. Several weeks
later, the body of Sia Demas (21) was found in a duffel bag near
Dania Beach, also in Broward County. A year later, the body of
Jessica Good (24) was spotted floating in Biscayne Bay, in Miami.
Police soon identified Roberto Wagner Fernandes as a suspect, but he
fled to Brazil and in 2005 died in a plane crash in Paraguay. DNA
evidence later confirmed Fernandes as the killer.
   (NY Times, 8/31/21)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun, Brazil’s Senate
expelled Luiz Estevao (50) for lying about his involvement in a
construction company that helped build a federal courthouse. He
allegedly diverted $100 million in government funds for the project.
It was the 1st expulsion in the Senate’s 170 year history.
   (SFC, 7/4/00, p.A9)
2000Â Â Â Â Â Â Jun, In India two bombs
were set off at crowded shopping area near the Red Fort, a massive
17th-century sandstone palace in New Delhi. Two people died in the
blasts. On Jan 1, 2010, three Pakistani men, convicted of the
bombing, escaped from custody shortly before they were to be
deported.
   (AP, 1/3/10)
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