- 2000 in the United States
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Events from the year2000 in theUnited States .
=Political incumbents=*President -
Bill Clinton
*Vice President -Al Gore
*Senate Majority Leader -Trent Lott
*Secretary of State -Madeleine Albright
*Secretary of Defense -William Cohen
*Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives -Dennis Hastert Events
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January 12 -Elián González affair : Attorney GeneralJanet Reno rules that a child rescued by Coastguards must be returned to his father inCuba .cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=650–652]
*January 31 -Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes in thePacific Ocean , killing all 88 people on board.
*June 7 -United States Microsoft antitrust case : A Court orders the break up of theMicrosoft corporation because of its monopoly in the computer software market.
*June 28 - Elián González affair: Elián González seized by theImmigration and Naturalization Service and returned to Cuba.
*October 12 - USS "Cole" is attacked by terrorists in a suicide bombing while docked inYemen , killing 17 sailors.
*November 7
**United States presidential election, 2000 : Republican candidate Texas GovernorGeorge W. Bush defeats Democratic Vice PresidentAl Gore in the closest election in history, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes inFlorida .
**Hillary Rodham Clinton , wife of PresidentBill Clinton wins the Senate election in New York.
*December 13 - "Bush v. Gore ": TheU.S. Supreme Court stops theFlorida presidential recount, effectively giving the state, and the Presidency, toGeorge W. Bush .
*December 31 - President Clinton signs theRome Statute of the International Criminal Court .Deaths
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January 15 -Fran Ryan , actress (born1916 )
*January 26 -Don Ralke , music arranger (born1920 )
*February 4 -Phil Tonken , radio and television announcer (born1919 )
*February 7 -Big Pun , rapper (born1971 )
*February 8 -Derrick Thomas , football player (born1967 )
*February 9 -Beau Jack , boxer (born1921 )
*February 10 -Jim Varney , actor noted for his character,Ernest P. Worrell . (born1949 )
*February 12 - Jalacy "Screamin' Jay" Hawkins, musician (born1929 )
*February 12 -Tom Landry , football coach (born1924 )
*February 12 -Charles M. Schulz , comic strip artist ("Peanuts ") (born1922 )
*February 29 -Dennis Danell , musician (Social Distortion ) (born1961 )
*April 5 -Lee Petty , race car driver (born1914 )
*April 10 -Larry Linville , actor (born1939 )
*April 25 -David Merrick , stage producer (born1911 )
*May 12 -Adam Petty , race car driver (born1980 )
*May 20 -Edward Bernds , director (born1905 )
*May 21 -Mark R. Hughes , entrepreneur and founder ofHerbalife (born1956 )
*May 31 -John Coolidge , son of PresidentCalvin Coolidge (born1906 )
*June 18 -Nancy Marchand , actress who starred inThe Sopranos (born1928 )
*June 21 -Alan Hovhaness , composer (born1911 )
*July 1 -Walter Matthau , actor (born1920 )
*July 7 -James C. Quayle , newspaper publisher (born1921 )
*July 14 -Meredith MacRae , actress (born1944 )
*July 27 -Gordon Solie , wrestling commentator (born1929 )
*August 9 -Bob Lido , musician (born1914 )
*August 12 -Loretta Young , actress (born1913 )
*August 12 - Dave Edwards, musician (born1941 )
*August 25 -Carl Barks , cartoonist (born1901 )
*September 2 -Elvera Sanchez , dancer (born1905 )
*September 6 -Breanna Lynn Bartlett-Stewart , notable stillborn baby girl (born 2000)
*September 17 -Nicole Reinhart , cyclist (born1976 )
*September 26 -Carl Sigman , songwriter (born1909 )
*October 22 -Rodney Anoa'i , wrestler known as Yokozuna (born1966 )
*October 30 - Steve Allen, comedian, composer, talk show host, and author (born1921 )
*November 6 -L. Sprague de Camp , writer (born1907 )References
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