2000

• ‘NSYNC - “Bye Bye Bye”
• 3 Doors Down - “Kryptonite”
• Backstreet Boys - “Shape of My Heart”
• Backstreet Boys - “Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely
• Blink 182 - “All the Small Things”
• Bon Jovi - “It’s My Life”
• Britney Spears - “Oops!... I Did It Again”
• Destiny’s Child -“Independent Woman”
• Eminem - “The Real Slim Shady”
• Lonestar - “Amazed”
• Macy Gray - “I Try”
• Madonna - “Music”
• Matchbox Twenty - “Bent”
• Santana - “Maria, Maria”
• The Corrs - “Breathless” 
• U2 - “Beautiful Day”

• Mission: Impossible II
• Gladiator
• Cast Away
• What Women Want
• Dinosaur
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• Meet the Parents
• The Perfect Storm
• X-Men

• Survivor
• Big Brother
• Gilmore Girls
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
• Malcolm in the Middle
• MasterChef USA
• Jackass
• Sailor Moon
• Dora the Explorer
• Clifford the Big Red Dog
• Caillou

• Party of Five
• Chicago Hope
• Beverly Hills, 90210
• The Dating Game

• Season: Borneo
• Winner: Richard Hatch
• Runner-up: Kelly
• At final tribal council, Susan famously compared Richard to a snake and Kelly to a rat

• Jackie Evancho - singer, won 2nd place in America's Got Talent", best-selling debut artist of 2010; performed at inauguration of Donald Trump 
• Nicholas Hamilton - actor, in "It", "Dark Tower"
• Auli'i Cravalho - American actress and singer, lead character in "Moana"
• Mackenzie Foy - movie actress, played Bella Swan in "Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 2"
• Willow Smith - daughter of Will Smith & Jada Pinkett Smith; pop singer, "Whip My Hair"
• Baby Ariel - Musical.ly star
• Hayes Grier - Instagram star, gained fame as Viner
• Noah Cyrus - TV actress, younger sister of Miley Cyrus
• Laurie Hernandez - American gymnast, won gold medal with US team at 2016 Olympics
• Griffin Gluck - actor, in "Just Go With It"

• Pierre Trudeau - 15th Canadian Prime Minister
• Walter Matthau - American actor (1950s-70s)
• Charles M. Schulz - American cartoonist, "Peanuts"
• Steve Allen - first host of The Tonight Show, first late night television talk show (1954)

• website DeviantART launched
• Sony releases Playstation 2 in Japan
• first International Space Station crew arrives
• Microsoft releases Windows 2000
• world's largest ferris wheel London Eye opens

• bokeh
• crunk
• geocaching
• google
• K-pop
• Molly
• speed dating
• sudoku
• TiVo

Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 5 on the ground.

Sept 16-Oct 1: it was the second time the Summer Olympics were held in Australia. Triathalon and taekwondo were new additions to the program. Women also took part in weightlifting and the modern pentathlon for the very first time. Birgit Fischer earned two gold medals in kayaking to become the first woman in any sport to win medals 20 years apart. 

With his victory at the 129th British Open in July 2000, he became the youngest golfer (24 years old) to complete a career Grand Slam—that is win all four major tournaments at least once during a career.

In the U.S. presidential election, 2000 Republican challenger George W. Bush defeats Democrat Vice President Al Gore, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida. It came down to 537 votes that decided the race.

L.A. had its first professional champions since 1988 – thanks to Shaq, Kobe, Phil and the rest of the Lakers. The Lakers won thanks to Shaquille O’Neal, their mountain of a center, who was named Most Valuable Player during the 1999-2000 season. They also won thanks to Kobe Bryant, their highlight-film-every-night guard, who skipped college and went straight to the Lakers’ starting lineup when he joined the league before the 1996-97 season.

The young castaway, whose American odyssey became a metaphor for the changing relationship between the United States and Communist Cuba, returns to his homeland with his father after a highly politicized international custody battle lasting more than seven months.

Slipping through security in a small boat, terrorists carry out a suicide explosives attack on the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 sailors. The Cole was en route to the Persian Gulf to enforce a U.N. trade embargo against Iraq.

Feb 13: The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles M. Schulz.

March 4 – The PlayStation 2 is released in Japan. Several months later, it becomes the best-selling game console of all time. Even with the release of its successor, the PlayStation 2 remained popular well into the seventh generation. Sony finally announced that the PlayStation 2 had been discontinued after 13 years of production – one of the longest runs for a video game console. 

July 2 – France defeats Italy 2-1 after extra time in the final of the European Championships (which is held every 4 years), becoming the first team to win the World Cup and European Championships consecutively.