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November 1 – Richard K. Webel, American landscape architect (b. 1900) November 5 – Jimmie Davis, American musician and politician (b. 1899) November 6 – L. Sprague de Camp, writer (b. 1907) November 14 – Robert Trout, American journalist (b. 1908) November 16 DJ Screw, American disc jockey (b. 1971) Joe C., American rapper and hype man ...
January 25, 2019 – The longest government shutdown in American history, which lasts from December 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019 (35 days), officially ends. January 30, 2019 – Large portions of the United States are hit with a polar vortex. The city of Chicago once again hit a record low: 27 degrees below zero.
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 ...
November 2 – The Godless Americans March on Washington brings together 2,000 atheists, freethinkers, agnostics, and humanists in a mile-long parade down the National Mall. November 3 – The 7.9 M w Denali earthquake shakes the Alaska Interior with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX ( Violent ), causing one injury and $20–56 million in losses.
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The US rover, Curiosity, takes a selfie on Mars and finds evidence of an ancient streambed of water on the Red Planet. Shenouda III, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, dies; Tawadros II succeeds him. Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh steps down. Northern Mali conflict, the MNLA declares Azawad an independent state.
1725 – J. S. Bach led the first performance of his chorale cantata Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, which features trumpet fanfares at the start and end.; 1801 – Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres, naming it after the Roman goddess of agriculture and of motherly love.
2000 was a century leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2000th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 1000th and last year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 2000s decade.