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The 2000s (pronounced "two-thousands"; shortened to the ' 00s and known as the aughts or noughties) was the decade that began on January 1, 2000, and ended on December 31, 2009. The early part of the decade saw the long-predicted breakthrough of economic giants in Asia, like India and China , which had double-digit growth during nearly the ...
The year 2000 is sometimes abbreviated as "Y2K" (the "Y" stands for "year", and the "K" stands for "kilo" which means "thousand"). [4] [5] The year 2000 was the subject of Y2K concerns, which were fears that computers would not shift from 1999 to 2000 correctly. However, by the end of 1999, many companies had already converted to new, or ...
2000s; 2010s; 2020s; 2030s; 2040s; 2050s; 16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; ... Political timelines of the 2000s by year (16 P) ... List of international trips made by Colin ...
April – The labor force participation rate hits a historical peak of 67.4%. April – The employment-population ratio reaches an all-time high of 64.8%. April 1 The 2000 United States census determines the resident population of the United States to be 281,421,906. Boomerang, a secondary digital Cartoon Network channel, debuts.
Reactions to 2000s events (3 C, 32 P) 0–9. 2000 events by month (20 C) 2001 events by month (20 C) 2002 events by month (20 C) 2003 events by month (20 C)
October 23: At the end of an 11-year demining process, the Falkland Islands are declared free of land mines, 38 years after the end of the Falklands War. October 29: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) confirms the death of least 140 migrants who drowned off the coast of Senegal on a vessel bound for the Spanish Canary Islands.
January 1 – Year 2000 problem proves to be of little global significance. [6] March 4 – Sony Computer Entertainment releases the PlayStation 2 sixth generation home video game console in Japan. March 14 – Stephen King's horror story Riding the Bullet is published in e-book format only, the world's first mass-market electronic book.
January 14 – A United Nations tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of over 100 Bosnian Muslims in a Bosnian village. [ 1 ] January 24 – God's Army , a Karen militia group led by twins Johnny and Luther Htoo , takes 700 hostages at a Thai hospital near the Burmese border.