January 2000

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This article covers breaking news and events in January 2000.

Daily events

Saturday January 1, 2000

• Berlin / Germany : Newborns with one parent who has been lawfully living in Germany for at least eight years and who has an unlimited right of residence are now Germans .
• Bern / Switzerland : The SVP politician Adolf Ogi , Federal President in 1993, takes over the office of Federal President for the second time. At the same time, the new federal constitution of the Swiss Confederation comes into force.
• Geneva / Switzerland : The Swiss Jakob Kellenberger takes over the office of President of the International Committee of the Red Cross from his compatriot Cornelio Sommaruga .
• Lisbon / Portugal : Portugal takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union from Finland . The office of head of government of the EC is given to António Guterres .
• New York / United States : Bangladesh , Jamaica , Mali , Tunisia and Ukraine are new non-permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations .

Sunday January 2, 2000

• Bochum / Germany : In a residential area in the Wattenscheid district , the Höntroper Loch is created by a break in the daylight . There are two funnels with a depth of about 15 m, other sources report 40 m deep.

Wednesday January 5, 2000

• Monaco / Monaco: Patrick Leclercq replaces Michel Lévêque as Minister of State .

Thursday January 6, 2000

• Bischofshofen / Austria : Andreas Widhölzl from Austria wins the 48th Four Hills Tournament ahead of defending champion Janne Ahonen from Finland .

Friday 7th January 2000

• Belgium / Brussels : The small state of Monaco opens its own representation in the European Union .

Sunday January 9, 2000

• Tashkent / Uzbekistan : In the presidential election, over 91% of the votes cast are taken as a vote for incumbent President Islom Karimov by the People's Democratic Party .

Friday January 14, 2000

• The Hague / Netherlands : In case IT-95-16-T, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia sentenced five ethnic Croats from Bosnia and Herzegovina to prison terms of up to 25 years for the Ahmići massacre in the Bosnian War on April 16, 1993. Another defendant is acquitted.

Tuesday January 18, 2000

Helmut Kohl

• Bonn / Germany : As a result of the CDU donation affair , the former Chancellor Helmut Kohl resigns from the party's honorary chairmanship at the request of the entire party leadership and after a one-to-one conversation with the CDU federal chairman Wolfgang Schäuble .
• United States : Martin Luther King Day , a national holiday in honor of civil rights activist Martin Luther Kings , is officially celebrated for the first time by all governments of the 50 states after South Carolina became the last missing state to participate.

Friday January 21, 2000

• Quito / Ecuador : coup and overthrow of President Jamil Mahuad .

Saturday January 22, 2000

• Accra / Ghana : Co-hosts Ghana will draw against Cameroon in the opening game of the 22nd African Cup of Nations .
• Chemnitz / Germany : Heino wins the folk music crown .
• Quito / Ecuador : Gustavo Noboa becomes new president.

Monday January 24, 2000

Logo from N24

• Berlin / Germany : The TV station N24 starts broadcasting.

Tuesday January 25, 2000

• Ratchaburi / Thailand : A special unit storms a hospital where members of the Karen ethnic group are holding 450 hostages. Ten rebels die in the attack. There are no fatalities among the hostages.

Sunday January 30, 2000

Scene from the
34th Super Bowl

• Abidjan / Ivory Coast : When Kenya Airways flight 431 crashes , 169 people die.
• Atlanta / United States : Super Bowl XXXIV in American football between the St. Louis Rams and the Tennessee Titans ends at 11:16 pm.
• Baia Mare / Romania : The dam of the tailings facility of a gold mine breaks . Approx. 300,000  t of liquid, which u. a. are interspersed with cyanides , pour into the river Tisza and trigger an environmental catastrophe, life in the river Danube is also seriously endangered. Until the end of the day it was not possible to close the breach in the dam.

Monday January 31, 2000

• Anacapa Island / United States : When Alaska Airlines flight 261 crashes , 88 people die. The machine crashes in the Pacific .

See also

• Nekrolog January 2000 for deaths that month
• List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in January
• Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in January

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ bundesregierung.de : Citizenship Law ( Memento from September 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ History of the Federal Presidium: Federal Presidents. In: admin.ch . Retrieved February 22, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation. In: admin.ch . April 18, 1999, accessed September 25, 2016 . 
4. ↑ ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger received by the Federal Council delegation. In: swissinfo.ch . February 24, 2000, accessed July 5, 2017 . 
5. ^ Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In: cvce.eu . July 28, 2016, accessed January 30, 2017 . 
6. ^ Countries Elected Members of the Security Council. In: un.org . Retrieved February 25, 2018 . 
7. ↑ The tunnel under the residential area cracked deep craters. In: ingenieur.de . January 7, 2000, accessed May 10, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Prestation de serment de SEM Patrick Leclercq, Ministre d'Etat. In: gouv.mc. January 14, 2000, accessed June 15, 2019 (French). 
9. ↑ Four Hills Tournament. In: ifosta.de, Jörg Thomas. Accessed December 31, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Thomas Veszelits: The Monaco AG: How the Grimaldis gild their principality . Campus-Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-593-37956-2 , pp. 222 .
11. ^ Republic of Uzbekistan. In: un.org . February 2004, accessed November 3, 2019 . 
12. ^ Prosecutor v. Zoran Kupreskic, Mirjan Kupreskic, Vlatko Kupreskic, Drago Josipovic, Dragan Papic, Vladimir Santic, also known as “Vlado”. In: icty.org . January 14, 2000, accessed May 6, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Wolfgang Schaeuble is 70. In: otz.de . September 18, 2012, accessed September 13, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Some states boycotted MLK Day at first. In: upi.com . January 21, 2013, accessed November 19, 2017 . 
15. ↑ Ghana plays 1: 1 against Cameroon. In: athlet.org. Retrieved June 21, 2019 . 
16. ↑ spin.de : Interesting facts about Heino ( Memento from November 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
17. ↑ Soldiers storm occupied clinic. In: rhein-zeitung.de . January 25, 2000, accessed October 20, 2016 . 
18. ↑ 2000. In: nfl.com . Retrieved September 13, 2019 . 
19. ↑ A dam breach leads to an environmental disaster. In: nzz.ch . January 28, 2015, accessed October 27, 2019 .