What significant world events took place in the year 2000?

Question: What significant world events took place in the year 2000!?
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January 1 - Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world!.
January 1 - Y2K passes without serious, widespread computer failures, despite fears to the contrary!.
January 10 - America Online announces an agreement to be bought out by Time Warner for $162 billion!. This is the largest-ever corporate merger!.
January 14 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722!.98, its highest ever (the peak of the Dot-com bubble)!.
February 13 - The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles Schulz!.
February 17 - Microsoft releases Windows 2000!.
March 10 - The NASDAQ Composite Index reaches an all-time high of 5048!.
March 21 - Pope John Paul II begins the first official visit by a Roman Catholic pontiff to Israel!.
April 1 - Japanese prime minister Keizo Obuchi suffers a stroke and falls into a coma!.
April 3 - United States v!. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors!.
April 25 - The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples!.
May 3 - A rare conjunction of seven celestial bodies (Sun, Moon, planets Mercury-Jupiter) occurs on the New Moon!.
May 11 - The billionth living person in India is born!.
June 1 - Mount Etna erupts on the island of Sicily!.
July 31-August 3 - The Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania nominates George W!. Bush for U!.S!. President and Dick Cheney for Vice President!.
August 12 - The Russian submarine K-141 Kursk sinks in the Barents Sea, resulting in the deaths of all 118 men on board!.
September 15-October 1 - The 2000 Summer Olympics are held in Sydney, Australia!.
October 26 - The New York Yankees defeat the New York Mets in Game 5 of the 2000 World Series, 4-1, to win their 26th World Series title (and latest to date)!. This was the first Subway Series matchup between the two crosstown rivals!. It was their 4th World Series win in the last 5 years under Manager Joe Torre!.
November 7 - United States presidential election, 2000: Republican candidate Texas Governor George W!. Bush defeats Democratic Vice President Al Gore in the closest election in history, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida!.
November 16 - Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting U!.S!. President to visit Vietnam!.
December 13 - Bush v!. Gore: The U!.S!. Supreme Court stops the Florida presidential recount, effectively giving the state, and the Presidency, to George W!. Bush!.
December 31 - The Millennium Dome closes its doors one year to the day of its opening!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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