What happened in 2000

“Maria Maria”

Santana Featuring The Product G&B · 10 weeks at #1 in 2000

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1. Jan 1SmoothSantana Featuring Rob Thomas2 wks
2. Jan 15What A Girl WantsChristina Aguilera2 wks
3. Jan 29I Knew I Loved YouSavage Garden4 wks
4. Feb 19Thank God I Found YouMariah Carey Featuring Joe & 98 Degrees1 wk
5. Mar 4AmazedLonestar2 wks
6. Mar 18Say My NameDestiny's Child3 wks
7. Apr 8Maria MariaSantana Featuring The Product G&B10 wks
8. Jun 17Try AgainAaliyah1 wk
9. Jun 24Be With YouEnrique Iglesias3 wks
10. Jul 15Everything You WantVertical Horizon1 wk
11. Jul 22Bentmatchbox twenty1 wk
12. Jul 29It's Gonna Be Me'N Sync2 wks
13. Aug 12IncompleteSisqo2 wks
14. Aug 26Doesn't Really MatterJanet3 wks
15. Sep 16MusicMadonna4 wks
16. Oct 14Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)Christina Aguilera4 wks
17. Nov 11With Arms Wide OpenCreed1 wk
18. Nov 18Independent Women Part IDestiny's Child7 wks

Dates are the first chart week at #1 in 2000; weeks count only those in 2000.Find the #1 song on your birthday →

1. Jan 13Steve Ballmer replaced Bill Gates as the chief executive officer of Microsoft.
2. Jan 31Alaska Airlines Flight 261, experiencing problems with its horizontal stabilizer system, crashed in the Pacific Ocean off Anacapa Island, California, killing all 88 people on board.
3. Feb 29Chechens attack a guard post near Ulus Kert, eventually killing 84 Russian paratroopers during the Second Chechen War.
4. Apr 3In United States v. Microsoft Corp., Microsoft was found to have violated antitrust law by bundling the web browser Internet Explorer with its Windows operating system.
5. Apr 22In a pre-dawn raid, U.S. federal agents seized six-year-old Elián González from his relatives' home in Miami and returned him to his Cuban father.
6. May 2President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
7. May 7Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
8. Jun 13Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
9. Sep 28Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
10. Nov 7Hillary Clinton was elected as a US senator from New York, the first time a first lady had been elected to public office.
11. Nov 7The controversial US presidential election is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, electing George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States.
12. Nov 15Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.
13. Dec 12The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Bush v. Gore that the recount of ballots cast in Florida for the presidential election be stopped, effectively making George W. Bush the winner.
14. Dec 15The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.

Event summaries from Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Each links to its article.

• U.S. President

  Bill Clinton

• UK Prime Minister

  Tony Blair

• Prime Minister of Canada

  Jean Chrétien

• German Chancellor

  Gerhard Schröder

• Prime Minister of Japan

  Keizō Obuchi → Yoshirō Mori

• President of Russia

  Vladimir Putin

Everyone who held the office at some point in 2000, from Wikidata.

A selection of the best-documented titles on Wikidata, by first release year; not a box-office ranking.

• Ice SpiceAmerican rapper · Jan 1
• Noah CyrusAmerican singer, songwriter, and actress · Jan 8
• Reneé RappAmerican singer-songwriter and actress · Jan 10
• Odessa A'zionAmerican actress · Jun 17
• Meg DonnellyAmerican actress · Jul 25
• Marissa BodeAmerican actress · Aug 28
• Addison RaeAmerican social media personality, dancer, and singer · Oct 6
• Adin RossAmerican internet personality and streamer · Oct 11
• Sophie ThatcherAmerican actress · Oct 18
• Willow SmithAmerican singer, actress, and dancer · Oct 31

From Wikipedia’s “On this day”, CC BY-SA 4.0.