2000

Events

• February 27 - Colombian Army general Crispiniano Quiñones Quiñones is assassinated in La Vega, Colombia by members of FARC.
• February 29 - 6-year old Dedric Owens shoots and kills his classmate Kayla Rolland, making him to be the youngest school shooter.
• April 18 - 10 year old, Candace Newmaker dies of Suffocation, after a attachment therapy went wrong, the preparators were charged the year later
• April 22 - Paul Kagame is sworn in as President of Rwanda following the resignation of his predecessor Pasteur Bizimungu.
• May 17 - Foday Sankoh is indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
• June 30 - David Copeland is sentenced to six consecutive life terms in prison for his role in the 1999 London nail bombings.
• July 17 - Bashar al-Assad is sworn in as President of Syria after the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad.
• September 28 - Beginning of the Second Intifada.
• September 30 - The Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda is founded.
• October 7 - Slobodan Milošević resigns from the presidency of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• October 7 - Hezbollah launches a raid against Israeli military personnel stationed on the Lebanon-Golan Heights border. Three soldiers were kidnapped and later killed.
• October 12 - The USS Cole is bombed by Al-Qaeda while refueling in Yemen's Aden harbor.
• November 22 - Alberto Fujimori flees to Japan to avoid being prosecuted for corruption and human rights violations; he is impeached in absentia by the Peruvian Congress.
• December 14 - Toni Lawrence is released from prison.
• Unknown - Chan Man-lok and his accomplices are given life in prison for the murder of Fan Man-yee.

Births

Villains births

• May 2 - Vladislav Roslyakov
• June 9 - Lamar Cruz
• June 16 - Tay-K
• June 29 - Paul Bryant Sr. (also known as GeminiOfficial)
• September 21 - Devon Erikson
• October 12 - Dimitrios Pagourtzis

Victims births

• Janruary 1 - Kieth Absalon
• February 25 - Daniel Benoit
• May 26 - Kian delos Santos
• October 27 - Daunte Wright
• November 30 - Mary Yates (5th child and only daughter of Andrea Yates)

Deaths

Villain deaths

• March 1 - Odell Barnes Jr.
• March 13 - Ayhan Kartal
• March 15 - Timothy Gribble
• March 16 - Herta Bothe
• April 2 - Tommaso Buscetta
• April 19 - Robert Glen Coe
• April 29 - Phạm Văn Đồng
• May 2 - Christina Marie Riggs
• June 10 - Hafez al-Assad
• August - Augustin Bizimana
• September 19 - Pastor Milciades Coronel
• September 26 - Aleksandras Lileikis

Victim deaths

• February 25 - Victoria Climbié
• February 27 - Crispiniano Quiñones Quiñones
• February 29 - John Price
• February 29 - Kayla Rolland
• April 18 - Candace Newmaker
• August 3 - Iriana DeJesus