December 2000
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This article covers breaking news and events in December 2000.
Daily events
Friday December 1, 2000
- Mexico City / Mexico : Vicente Fox of the conservative National Action party is sworn in as president .
Sunday 3rd December 2000
- Eisenstadt / Austria : The new election of the Burgenland Landtag, which was brought forward at the request of the ÖVP and FPÖ, brings gains in the voting results among the three major parties only for the SPÖ . For them, 46.55% vote, while the ÖVP with 35.33% and the FPÖ with 12.63% are behind. In addition to the SPÖ, the Greens are also on the up and are winning seats for the first time.
Monday 4th December 2000
- New York / United States : The United Nations declares December 18 to be the annual International Migrants Day , in particular to draw attention to the situation of refugees .
Tuesday December 5, 2000
- New York / United States : The United Nations Security Council resolves that Iraq must continue to spend all revenues from the export of petroleum exclusively on products in the fields of food , nutrition and health .
Thursday December 7, 2000
- Germany , Kenya : The investment protection treaty between the two countries comes into force.
- Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Public Prosecutor at the Federal Court of Justice Kay Nehm announced that the arson attack on the New Synagogue in Düsseldorf was carried out on October 2 by two young people of Arab origin who were committed to the crime. Your motive was the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung describes this as an “unusual right-wing extremist background”.
- Nice / France : The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (EU) drawn up by the European Convention is proclaimed. It defines which EU fundamental rights exist for nationals of the member states of the EU, but is currently not legally binding in the member states of the Union.
Sunday December 10, 2000
- Bucharest / Romania : Ion Iliescu becomes President.
Monday December 11, 2000
Pelé (1963), Maradona (1986)
- Paris / France : The country pays to Burundi a development assistance amounting to 440 million US dollars .
- Rome / Italy : The world football association FIFA selects the “World Footballer of the Century” at a gala. The Brazilian Edson Arantes do Nascimento, known as Pelé , won the vote of the football experts, while the Argentinian Diego Maradona won an internet vote by FIFA. This then actually only wanted to award Pele, which led Maradona to the statement: "I am the best."
Tuesday December 12, 2000
- Algiers / Algeria : Ethiopia and Eritrea sign the Algiers peace treaty.
- Washington, DC / United States : The Supreme Court expresses constitutional reservations against a recount of all the votes by hand in November in Florida in the presidential election were cast. The repetition of the count was the last chance for Al Gore ( Democrats ) to get a majority in the Electoral College in the election of the next US president . With the decision of the Supreme Court, George W. Bush ( Republican ) is de facto new President.
Thursday December 14, 2000
- Paris / France : Slovakia becomes the 30th member state of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development .
Friday December 15, 2000
- Wiesbaden / Germany : " Black money affair " as a name for the CDU's illegal donation practice is the word of the year in Germany for the Society for German Language .
Saturday December 16, 2000
- Berlin / Germany : The television program ZDF - Hitparade is broadcast for the last time. In 1969 the presenter Dieter-Thomas Heck established it on German television. The current presenter Uwe Hübner was no longer able to address a sufficiently large audience by focusing on German Schlager music .
Wednesday December 20, 2000
- Paris / France : The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is included in UNESCO .
- Washington, DC / United States : The International Monetary Fund confirms the admission of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia as a new member and immediately grants the country a loan of 151 million US dollars .
Saturday December 23, 2000
- Warsaw / Poland : incumbent Aleksander Kwaśniewski from the Federation of Democratic Left takes the oath of office for his second term as president in front of the National Assembly .
Monday December 25, 2000
- Foxe Basin / Canada : During the partial solar eclipse , the sun is covered by the moon for the longest near the town of Cape Dorset . In densely populated areas of Mexico and the United States , less partial obscuration of the solar disk was previously observed.
Wednesday December 27, 2000
- Tehran / Iran : Defending champion Alexander Chalifman from Russia will not compete at the World Chess Federation FIDE . In the final, Viswanathan Anand from India wins the vacant title of world chess champion in four games against the Spaniard Alexei Schirow, who was born in the Soviet Union .
Thursday December 28, 2000
- Bucharest / Romania : Adrian Năstase ( Social Democrats ) becomes Prime Minister .
See also
- Nekrolog December 2000 for deaths that month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in December
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or days of action in December
Web links
Commons : December 2000 - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ hir.harvard.edu: The New Face of Mexico ( Memento from January 25, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ Burgenland had six red and three black governors since 1945. In: vienna.at, Russmedia Digital GmbH. Retrieved May 18, 2017 .
- ↑ All results. In: vol.at . Retrieved May 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Background: International Migrants Day. In: un.org . Retrieved April 20, 2017 .
- ^ Resolution of the UN Security Council 1330. In: documentarchiv.de, Kai Riedel. December 5, 2000, accessed October 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Investment protection in bilateral trade agreements between the Federal Republic of Germany and developing and emerging countries. In: bmwi.de . March 27, 2015, accessed November 20, 2018 .
- ^ Attack on the Düsseldorf synagogue. In: juedische-allgemeine.de . December 10, 2013, accessed October 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Suspects admit synagogue attack. In: faz.net . December 7, 2000, accessed October 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. In: europa.eu . December 18, 2000, accessed September 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Two "Footballers of the Century" honored. In: Welt Online . December 12, 2000. Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Ethiopia and Eritrea sign peace treaty. In: ag-friedensforschung.de . Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
- ↑ Gore before the end. In: spiegel.de . December 13, 2000, accessed September 16, 2016 .
- ^ List of OECD Member countries - Ratification of the Convention on the OECD. In: oecd.org . Retrieved November 9, 2018 .
- ^ Black money affair. In: tagesspiegel.de . December 15, 2000, accessed October 10, 2016 .
- ^ The ZDF hit parade. In: fernsehserien.de . Retrieved May 21, 2017 .
- ↑ IMF Approves Membership of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and US $ 151 million in Emergency Post-Conflict Assistance. In: imf.org . December 20, 2000, accessed December 30, 2017 .
- ^ Prezydent RP i przysięga wobec Zgromadzenia Narodowego 1922-2020. In: sejm.pl . Retrieved on August 29, 2020 (Polish): "23 grudnia 2000"
- ↑ Partial Solar Eclipse 2000 Dec 25. In: nasa.gov . Retrieved February 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Biography of Viswanathan Anand. In: biography.co.in. Retrieved June 16, 2017 .
