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This article covers breaking news and events in May 2000.

Daily events

Monday May 1, 2000

• Hamburg / Germany : Matthias Seidel founds the company transfermarkt.de . The goal is a comprehensive online database on the subject of football .
• Klagenfurt / Austria : The delegates of the party congress of the FPÖ elect Susanne Riess-Passer as the successor of their outgoing party chairman Jörg Haider .
• Washington, DC / United States : The German Horst Köhler becomes Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund .

Thursday May 4, 2000

• London / United Kingdom : In the first direct election of the mayor of Greater London , voters choose Ken Livingstone , who was expelled from the Labor Party a few weeks ago.

Friday May 5, 2000

• Ankara / Turkey : The Grand National Assembly elects the independent constitutional judge Ahmet Necdet Sezer as the new President .

Saturday May 6, 2000

• Berlin / Germany : In the final of the DFB Cup in the Olympiastadion Berlin , Bayern Munich wins 3-0 against the defending champions SV Werder Bremen .

Sunday May 7, 2000

Vladimir Putin on his way to being sworn in as President of Russia

• Moscow / Russia : The new President of Russia Vladimir Putin from the United Russia party , who emerged from a popular election in March , will be appointed to office in the Moscow Kremlin . Putin had been acting incumbent since December 1999 and in March 2000 ran as an independent candidate for the highest political office in Russia.

Tuesday May 9, 2000

The Land Rover brand goes from BMW to Ford

• Solihull / United Kingdom : After splitting off from the BMW Group , the car manufacturer MG Rover is created . Before the split, BMW sold the Land Rover brand to the Ford Motor Company .

Saturday May 13, 2000

• Enschede / Netherlands : Parts of the city are destroyed in an explosion in a fireworks factory.
• Stockholm / Sweden : The duo Olsen Brothers wins the final of the 45th Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson for Denmark in the “ Globenarena ” .
• Vatican City : Pope John Paul II sets off on a trip to the Portuguese village of Fátima to reveal the mystery of the apparition of Mary in 1917 . He also wants to speak to the 92-year-old alleged eyewitness Lúcia dos Santos .

Sunday May 14, 2000

• Düsseldorf / Germany : In the state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia , the SPD lands with 42.8% of the vote, ahead of the CDU with 37% and the FDP with 9.8%. According to Prime Minister Wolfgang Clement , the red-green coalition is to be continued.
• Saint Petersburg / Russia : The Czech Republic becomes ice hockey world champion with a 5-3 win against Slovakia .

Monday May 15, 2000

• Yerevan / Armenia : President Robert Kocharyan appoints Andranik Markarjan of the Republican Party as the new Prime Minister . His predecessor Aram Sarkissjan was in office until the beginning of the month.

Tuesday May 16, 2000

• Ankara / Turkey : The independent judge Ahmet Necdet Sezer is sworn in as the tenth President of the Republic of Turkey .
• Vienna / Austria : In the Ernst Happel Stadium , the Grazer AK wins the ÖFB Cup final against SV Austria Salzburg 6-5 on penalties.

Wednesday May 17, 2000

• Copenhagen / Denmark : Galatasaray SK Istanbul wins the football - UEFA Cup after a 4-1 on penalties in the final against Arsenal FC from London .
• Moscow / Russia : The lower house of the Federal Assembly elects the still provisional ruling in December 1999 by the then President Vladimir Putin without parliamentary election for prime minister nominated Mikhail Kasyanov officially as prime minister.

Friday May 19, 2000

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The end of the dot-com bubble means that the DAX share index has closed below the 7,000 point mark for the first time since mid-January. Since its peak in March, it has fallen by around 13%.
• Suva / Fiji : A coup involving the military against the government begins.

Saturday May 20, 2000

• Charlotte / United States : The film actor and president of the " National Rifle Association of America " (NRA) Charlton Heston thrilled the audience at the 129th meeting of the association when he waved a replica of a long gun over his head and explained that it would be given to him first “From his cold, dead hands”, with which he quotes an NRA slogan that has been in use for 30 years.
• Munich / Germany : FC Bayern Munich celebrates the German Football Championship 2000 after a 3-1 win against Werder Bremen . The team from Bayer 04 Leverkusen , which would have been enough to win the title with a draw, lost 2-0 against SpVgg Unterhaching .
• Taipei / Taiwan : Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party is sworn in as the new president . The ceremony marks a turning point, because all Taiwanese heads of state from May 20, 1948 until today belonged to the National People's Party of China .

Sunday May 21, 2000

Björk Guðmundsdóttir

• Cannes / France : The film Dancer in the Dark by Danish director Lars von Trier with singer Björk Guðmundsdóttir in the lead role is awarded the Palme d'or at the 53rd International Film Festival .
• Geneva / Switzerland : With three match days remaining, FC St. Gallen is prematurely confirmed as the 2000 Swiss football champions due to the tie of runner-up FC Basel at Servette FC Geneva . The St. Gallen team won their last game 2-1 against FC Luzern .

Tuesday May 23, 2000

BNP Paribas, the new major bank in France

• Paris / France : The “ Banque Nationale de Paris ” (BNP) and the “Paribas” bank merge to form BNP Paribas .

Wednesday May 24, 2000

• Saint-Denis / France : Real Madrid beat Valencia CF 3-0 in the UEFA Champions League final . The game takes place in front of around 80,000 spectators in the Stade de France .

Thursday May 25, 2000

• Brussels / Belgium : With the signature of Foreign Minister Tonino Picula , Croatia is accepted into the Partnership for Peace ( German  partnership for peace ) between the military alliance NATO and predominantly non-aligned countries.
• Southern Lebanon : Israel withdraws its military forces from the neighboring country and ends the occupation.

Saturday May 27, 2000

• Innsbruck / Austria : FC Tirol Innsbruck becomes Austrian football champions 2000 .
• Skopje / Macedonia : In the Champions League in women's handball , the players from Hypo Niederösterreich secure the title of European championship champion with a 22:20 win in the final second leg against the Kometal Gjorče Petrov Skopje club .

Wednesday May 31, 2000

• Hamburg / Germany : The 94th German Catholic Day under the motto “Being is the time” begins.

See also

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

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ The team. In: transfermarkt.de . Retrieved April 29, 2017 . 
2. ↑ ballesterer.at : The statistics godparents ( Memento from August 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Continuous ascent to Vice Chancellor. In: derstandard.at . August 26, 2002, accessed October 10, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Horst Koehler. In: imf.org . February 26, 2002. Retrieved April 29, 2017 . 
5. ^ Livingstone Mayor of London. In: rp-online.de . May 5, 2000, Retrieved October 10, 2017 . 
6. ^ Biography of Ahmet Necdet Sezer. In: tccb.gov.tr . Retrieved August 23, 2018 . 
7. ↑ All DFB Cup winners. In: dfb.de . Retrieved October 10, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Transcript of the Inauguration of Vladimir Putin as President of Russia. In: kremlin.ru . May 7, 2004, accessed on March 16, 2018 (English): "Vladimir Putin first took the presidential oath on May 7, 2000" 
9. ^ History & Heritage. In: mg.co.uk . Retrieved November 15, 2016 . 
10. ↑ thw-gronau.de, Technical Relief Organization : Use in the fireworks disaster in Enschede (NL) ( Memento from September 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
11. ^ Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm. In: eurovision.de, ARD . Retrieved May 14, 2017 . 
12. ↑ The Pope makes a pilgrimage to Fatima. In: The world . May 13, 2000, accessed July 13, 2017 . 
13. ^ State elections: North Rhine-Westphalia. In: Wahlen-in-deutschland.de, Valentin Schröder. Retrieved November 1, 2016 . 
14. ↑ 64th Ice Hockey World Championship 2000 in Russia. In: ifosta.de, Jörg Thomas. Retrieved February 22, 2017 . 
15. ^ Imogen Bell (Ed.): Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2003 . Europa Publications , London 2002, ISBN 1-85743-137-5 , pp. 75 .
16. ↑ mynet.com: 2000 Yılında Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Cumhurbaşkanı kimdir? ( Memento from November 16, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) (Turkish)
17. ↑ Grazer AK - SV Austria Salzburg 4: 3. In: weltfussball.de, home: Spiel Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved February 3, 2020 . 
18. ↑ Turkey proud of Galatasaray. In: uefa.com . Retrieved February 20, 2017 . 
19. ↑ Russia's new Prime Minister Mikhail Kassyanov - a technocrat with broad support. In: e-politik.de . May 24, 2000, accessed January 19, 2020 . 
20. ↑ The Dax's thousands of brands. In: Welt Online . June 1, 2007, accessed November 28, 2018 . 
21. ↑ fijitimes.com : Chaudhry relives 2000 coup crisis ( Memento from September 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
22. ^ When the NRA Supported Gun Control. In: time.com . July 31, 2016, accessed July 9, 2018 . 
23. ↑ The “Vizekusen” image is born in Unterhaching. In: wn.de . November 8, 2013, accessed July 9, 2018 . 
24. ^ President Chen's 520 Inaugural Speech. In: gov.tw. May 20, 2000, accessed February 23, 2020 . 
25. ^ Palmarès du festival 2000 et interviews. In: ina.fr . Retrieved May 23, 2017 (French). 
26. ↑ history of FC St. Gallen, 1879. In: fcsg.ch . Retrieved September 25, 2018 . 
27. ↑ La fusion BNP-Paribas. In: liberation.fr . 2000, accessed December 24, 2017 (French). 
28. ↑ Real Madrid back on top. In: uefa.com . Retrieved February 20, 2017 . 
29. ^ Signatures of Partnership for Peace Framework Document. In: nato.int . January 10, 2012, accessed July 29, 2017 . 
30. ↑ Finals. In: eurohandball.com . Retrieved August 14, 2017 . 
31. ^ Message from John Paul II to the Archbishop of Hamburg. In: vatican.va . May 23, 2000. Retrieved July 29, 2017 .