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2000 (MM) was a leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. 2000 was also the first century leap year since 1600.

2000 was designated as:

• International Year for the Culture of Peace.
• World Mathematical Year.

The year 2000 was the target of Y2K concerns, fearing computers could not shift from 2-digit "99" to "2000"; however, many companies had already converted their software, even obtaining Y2K certification, and relatively few problems occurred.

Popular culture also holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the third millennium. In the Gregorian Calendar, however, this distinction falls to the year 2001, because the first century began with year AD 1 (there was no year zero), and the thousand years spanned to years 1 – 1000 inclusive; the next millennium then being from 1001 – 2000 (see more at: millennium).

January

• January 1 – The world enters Y2K without serious, widespread computer failures, despite fears to the contrary.
• January 3–10 – Israel and Syria hold inconclusive peace talks.
• January 4 – Alan Greenspan is nominated for a fourth term as U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman.
• January 5–8 – The 2000 al-Qaeda Summit of several high-level al-Qaeda members (including 2 9/11 American Airlines hijackers) is held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• January 10 – America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion (the largest-ever corporate merger).
• January 11 – The armed wing of the Islamic Salvation Front concludes its negotiations with the government for an amnesty and disbands in Algeria (see Algerian Civil War#GIA destroyed, GSPC discontinues)
• January 11 – The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man.
• January 12 – 9/11 hijackers Mohammed Atta and Ziad Jahrah read their wills in the Martyrdom Video.
• January 14 – A United Nations tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of over 100 Bosnian Muslims in a Bosnian village.
• January 14 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of the Dot-com bubble).
• January 16 – In Sacramento, California, a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the State Capitol building, killing the driver.
• January 18 – The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth.
• January 24 – God's Army, a Karen militia group led by twins Johnny and Luther Htoo, takes 700 hostages at a Thai hospital near the Burmese border.
• January 26 – The rap-metal band Rage Against the Machine plays in front of Wall Street, prompting an early closing of trading due to the crowds.
• January 30 – Super Bowl XXXIV: The St. Louis Rams win the NFL Championship for the first time since 1951, defeating the Tennessee Titans 23-16.
• January 30 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the coast of Côte d'Ivoire into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.
• January 31 – Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crashes off the California coast into the Pacific Ocean, killing 88.
• January 31 – Dr. Harold Shipman is found guilty of murdering 15 patients between 1995 and 1998 and sentenced to life imprisonment.