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This article covers breaking news and events in July 2000.
Daily events
Saturday 1st July 2000
- Antarctica : Today's partial solar eclipse off the Antarctic coast is also visible from the south of Argentina and Chile .
- Oresund : Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and King Carl XVI. Gustaf of Sweden meet halfway on the newly built Øresund link and inaugurate the 16 km long bridge from Copenhagen to Malmö .
- Paris / France : France takes over the presidency of the Council of the European Union from Portugal . The Office of the Government of the EC receives Lionel Jospin .
Sunday July 2, 2000
- Klagenfurt / Austria : The German writer Georg Klein wins the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2000 for the fiction of an untitled travelogue .
- Mexico City / Mexico : In the presidential election Vicente Fox of the National Action Party got 42.5% of the vote. Only 36.1% of the voters cast their vote for Francisco Labastida , the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party to which all previous presidents have belonged since 1946.
- Rotterdam / Netherlands : The French national football team defeated Italy in the final of the European Football Championship with a golden goal from David Trezeguet 2-1 and became European champions for the second time.
Thursday July 6, 2000
- Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag adopts the law to outlaw violence in the upbringing of children, in which parental punishment is declared inadmissible.
Saturday July 8, 2000
- London / United Kingdom : American Venus Williams wins the women's singles tournament at the Wimbledon Championships in tennis by beating her compatriot Lindsay Davenport in the final .
- United States , United Kingdom : The fourth volume in the Harry Potter children's book series is published in English. At the start, the novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is 4.8 million copies. The German translation will go on sale in autumn.
Sunday 9th July 2000
- London / United Kingdom : Pete Sampras from the USA wins the men's singles tournament of the Wimbledon Championships in tennis against the Australian Patrick Rafter in five sets. It is Sampras' fourth consecutive win of the tournament and the seventh Wimbledon title of his career.
Thursday July 13, 2000
- Hamburg / Germany : Ronald Schill , with supporters of his political ideas, founds the Rule of Law Offensive party , also known as the Schill Party, which is to run for the 2001 general election.
- Hamburg / Germany : On the second “Social Day” organized by Schüler Helfen Leben , 100,000 schoolchildren in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein swap their school desk for a paid job and donate over 2.1 million euros to charity.
Sunday July 16, 2000
- Delta / Nigeria : At least 250 people die in a village near the city of Sapele as a result of a pipeline explosion and the subsequent fire. The illegal tapping of the line is a possible reason for the explosion.
Monday 17th July 2000
- Damascus / Syria : Bashar al-Assad becomes president.
Friday July 21, 2000
- Nago / Japan : The heads of state of the Group of Eight and the President of the European Commission meet for the 26th World Economic Summit . In addition to global questions on economic development, infectious diseases and environmental aspects, the problem of increasing money laundering is on the agenda.
Sunday July 23, 2000
- Nago / Japan : At the end of the world economic summit, the participants promise to take the concerns of globalization critics seriously. For example, there should be more communication between the states of the Group of Eight (G8) and the states that do not belong to the G8. Regarding the economy, the participants "unprecedented progress" with ( English "unprecedented economic progress" fixed).
- Paris / France : Lance Armstrong from the USA wins the Tour de France cycling tour for the second time .
Tuesday July 25, 2000
- Paris / France : After taking off from Charles de Gaulle Airport , Air France flight 4590 crashes into a hotel, killing 113 people. With the disaster, the Concorde as a commercial aircraft , the use of which has long been controversial, comes under further pressure.
- Saint Petersburg / United States : The first entry in the article namespace of the online encyclopedia Nupedia based on an idea by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger is published. He deals with the phenomenon of musical atonality .
Wednesday July 26, 2000
- Brussels / Belgium : The pharmaceutical and chemical groups Novartis and AstraZeneca are allowed to merge , following a decision by the EU Commission, to form Syngenta , the world's largest producer of pesticides .
- Smolensk / Russia : Sergei Novikow , owner of an independent radio station, is murdered.
- Ulaanbaatar / Mongolia : Nambaryn Enchbajar becomes government president.
Thursday July 27, 2000
- Düsseldorf / Germany : During the bomb attack at the Düsseldorf-Wehrhahn S-Bahn station , a pipe bomb explodes in a plastic bag. The suspect is a neo-Nazi nicknamed "Sheriff von Flingern ".
- Skopje / Macedonia : fourth government reshuffle.
Monday July 31, 2000
- Davis Strait : In today's partial solar eclipse , the coverage of the sun by the moon is greatest between Greenland and the Canadian Baffin Island . In the evening, the solar eclipse can also be observed from the American west coast .
- Jerusalem / Israel : The Knesset elects Moshe Katsav from the union as the new president . Katsav's lead over Shimon Peres from the Labor party is six votes.
See also
- Nekrolog July 2000 for deaths that month
- List of annually recurring days of remembrance and action in July
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in July
Web links
Commons : July 2000 - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Partial Solar Eclipse 2000 Jul 01. In: nasa.gov . Retrieved on August 14, 2019 .
- ^ Connection between Denmark and Sweden. In: 123-und-weg.de, Testroom GmbH. Retrieved April 18, 2017 .
- ^ Presidency of the Council of the European Union. In: cvce.eu . July 28, 2016, accessed January 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Historical calendar. In: derstandard.at . July 2, 2015, accessed July 16, 2017 .
- ^ The Overthrow of the Ruling Party. In: kenyon.edu, Kenyon College. Retrieved January 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Trezeguet shoots France to the title. In: uefa.com . December 8, 2013, accessed April 18, 2017 .
- ↑ The child as the bearer of their own rights. In: liga-kind.de . 2001, accessed July 11, 2019 .
- ^ Draws Archive - Ladies' Singles 2000. In: wimbledon.com . Retrieved February 18, 2017 .
- ^ Draws Archive - Gentlemen's Singles 2000. In: wimbledon.com . Accessed February 17, 2017 .
- ^ The Rule of Law Offensive party in profile. In: sueddeutsche.de . May 10, 2010, accessed January 17, 2017 .
- ↑ Deadly Nigerian pipeline disasters. In: reuters.com . May 15, 2008, accessed November 26, 2017 .
- ↑ 2000 Okinawa Summit. In: g8.utoronto.ca, University of Toronto . Retrieved April 3, 2017 .
- ^ Hugo Dobson: Japan and the G7 / 8 . Ed .: Sheffield Center for Japanese Studies. Routledge , Abingdon-on-Thames 2012, ISBN 0-415-32188-3 , pp. 2076 .
- ^ G8 Communiqué Okinawa 2000. In: g8.utoronto.ca, University of Toronto . Retrieved April 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Clear the way for trial. In: nordkurier.de . February 14, 2017. Retrieved May 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Air accident 25 Jul 2000. In: aviation-safety.net . Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
- ↑ nupedia.com : Newest Articles ( Memento of November 10, 2000 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ Traces of death, dead traces. In: Der Spiegel . July 23, 2001. Retrieved September 16, 2016 .
- ↑ SEK arrests suspected bombers from Düsseldorf. In: spiegel.de . February 1, 2017, accessed February 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Partial Solar Eclipse 2000 Jul 31. In: nasa.gov . Retrieved February 23, 2017 .
- ↑ Youngest mayor. In: ksta.de . January 23, 2007, accessed on September 16, 2018 : "On July 31, 2000, Katzav [...] was elected"
