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The following lists events that happened during 2000 in the United States .
Incumbents
Federal government
State governments
Demographics
Map of United States population in 2000 US Census , showing the population of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and the 10 biggest cities.
Events
January
February
March
April
May
May 1 – President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access will no longer be restricted to the U.S. military.[ 9]
May 3 – In San Antonio , Texas , computer pioneer Datapoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
May 13 – Millennium Force opens at Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio , as the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster
May 16 – The Federal Reserve raises its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point to 6.5 percent, the first increase of more than a quarter point since February 1995.[ 10]
May 19 – Walt Disney Pictures ' 39th feature film, Dinosaur
May 24 – Five people are shot and killed during a robbery at a Wendy's in Queens, New York .
May 28 – The comic strip Bringing Up Father
May – Northern Lights Local Exchange Point, a free Internet exchange point , is founded in Minneapolis.[ 11]
June
July
August
September
October
October 12: USS Cole bombing
November
December
December 13: Contention over the presidential election ends with George W. Bush elected president. December 8 – U.S. presidential election, 2000 : The Supreme Court of Florida orders a statewide manual recount of the votes in the presidential election. The next day the U.S. Supreme Court places a stay on this order.[ 21]
December 12 – U.S. presidential election, 2000 : Bush v. Gore U.S. Supreme Court overturns the ruling by the Florida Supreme Court , ending the recount and effectively giving the state, and the Presidency, to Texas Governor George W. Bush .[ 5] Al Gore concedes the election and suspends the activities of his recount committee.[ 23]
December 13 – The Texas Seven escape from their prison unit in Kenedy, Texas , and start a crime spree.
December 14–15 – Wichita massacre : At the culmination of a week-long crime spree, including a shooting causing terminal injury, brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr break randomly into a house in Wichita, Kansas , subjecting the five occupants to brutal rape, torture and, eventually, murder by shooting; only one of the victims survives. The brothers are caught the next day and in due course given death sentences.[ 24]
December 15 – Walt Disney Pictures ' 40th feature film, The Emperor's New Groove Renaissance -era releases, it is later praised as one of their best films of the post-Renaissance era.
December 16
December 24 – The Texas Seven rob a sports store in Irving, Texas ; police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot dead.
December 26 – Wakefield Massacre : Michael McDermott kills seven coworkers at Edgewater Technology in Wakefield, Massachusetts .
December 28 – U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
December 31 – President Bill Clinton signs the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court .[ 5]
Ongoing
Births
January
Ice Spice Noah Cyrus Marcus Scribner Renee Rapp January 1 – Ice Spice, rapper
January 4 – Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, actress
January 7
January 8 – Noah Cyrus , actress
January 9
January 10 – Reneé Rapp , actress and singer
January 11 – Shareef O'Neal , basketball player
January 20 – Katie Meyer, soccer player (d. 2022)
January 26 – Piper Mackenzie Harris , actress and model
January 28 – Julia Lester, singer and actress
February
Yara Shahidi February 1 – Paris Smith, American actress and singer
February 5 – Jordan Nagai, actor
February 14 – Catie Turner, singer
February 10 – Yara Shahidi , actress
February 21 – Lauren Godwin, TikToker
February 25
March
Jacob Bertrand Taylor Heise Sha'Carri Richardson Chris Richards March 5 – Gabby Barrett , singer-songwriter
March 6 – Jacob Bertrand , actor
March 10 – Norah Flatley, artistic gymnast[ 28]
March 14 – ChriseanRock, internet personality and rapper
March 17 – Taylor Heise, hockey player
March 21 – Jace Norman , actor[ 29]
March 25
March 27 – Halle Bailey , musician and actress
March 28
March 30
April
David Hogg Riley Gaines Chloe Kim April 6 – CJ Adams, actor
April 7 – Big Scarr, rapper (died 2022)[ 30]
April 9 – Jackie Evancho , singer[ 31]
April 10 – Surf Mesa , electronic musician
April 11
April 12 – David Hogg , gun-control activist
April 21 – Riley Gaines, swimmer
April 23 – Chloe Kim , snowboarder[ 33]
May
May 1 – 9lokkNine, rapper
May 7 – Maxwell Perry Cotton, actor
May 18 – Carlie Hanson, musician
May 23 – Jaxson Hayes , basketball player
May 27 – Jade Carey , artistic gymnast
May 30 – Jared S. Gilmore , actor[ 34]
May 31 – Gable Steveson, wrestler
June
Willow Shields Charlotte Lawrence Odessa A'zion June 1 – Willow Shields , actress
June 2 – Andy Lopez , student (d. 2013 )
June 5 – Jack Neely, baseball player
June 8
June 9
June 13
Hotboii, rapper
Daniella Perkins, actress and internet personality
June 14 – Bobby Witt Jr. , baseball player
June 16 – Tay-K , rapper and convicted murderer
June 17 – Odessa A'zion, actress
June 22 – Maliq Johnson, actor
July
Meg Donnelly July 1 – Dave Blunts, rapper
July 7 – Chloe Csengery, actress
July 8
Sophie Nyweide, actress (d. 2025)
Benjamin Stockham, actor
July 14 – Maia Reficco, actress and singer
July 16 – Jonathan Morgan Heit , actor
July 24 – Ame Deal, murder victim (d. 2011 )
July 25
Preston Bailey, actor
Mason Cook, actor
Meg Donnelly , actress
July 28
August
Sophia Wilson Lil Pump August 1 – Lil Loaded, rapper (d. 2021)
August 3
Landry Bender, actress
Ron Suno, rapper and youtuber
August 10 – Sophia Wilson, Soccer player
August 12 – Prince Achileas-Andreas of Greece and Denmark , son of Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece
August 13 – Piper Reese, journalist
August 15 – Umi Garrett, classical pianist
August 17 – Lil Pump , rapper
August 20 – Fátima Ptacek , actress and model[ 36]
August 20 – Nor Sarah Adi, Malaysian pole vaulter
August 24 – Griffin Gluck , actor
August 25 – Nick Mira , record producer
August 27 – Oluwatoyin Salau , activist and murder victim (d. 2020 )
August 28 – Marissa Bode, actress
August 29 – Adam Nash, notable child
September
Laine Hardy September 3 – Ashley Boettcher , actress
September 5 – Josiah-Jordan James, basketball player
September 12 – Laine Hardy , singer
September 22 – Tallan Latz, guitar player
September 28 – Frankie Jonas , actor
October
Addison Rae Adin Ross Sophie Thatcher Baby Keem October 2 – Quadeca, rapper and youtuber
October 6
October 9 – Harrison Burton , stock car racer
October 10 – Aedin Mincks, actor
October 11
October 13 – Lydia Night , musician
October 18 – Sophie Thatcher , actress
October 20 – Alana Smith, skateboarder
October 22 – Baby Keem , rapper
October 25 – Vincent Zhou , figure skater
October 26 – Ellery Sprayberry , actress
October 27 – Jaclyn Corin , activist
October 31 – Willow Smith , actress, singer, and the daughter of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith
November
Jade Pettyjohn 24kGoldn Baby Ariel Jenna Nighswonger
December
Alix Earle Samuel Sevian December 9 – Jaren Lewison, actor[ 39]
December 12
December 16
Alix Earle, social media influencer
Lance Lim, actor
December 22 – Joshua Bassett , actor and singer
December 24 – Ethan Bortnick, singer, composer, songwriter, actor, and musician
December 26 – Samuel Sevian , American-Armenian chess grandmaster[ 41]
December 27 – Kyren Lacy, football player (d. 2025)[ 42]
Full date unknown
Brigid Harrington, actress, singer, dancer and voice artist
Marla Olmstead, artist
Deaths
January
January 1 – Larry Bearnarth, baseball player, heart attack (b. 1940 )[ 43]
January 6 – Don Martin , cartoonist (b. 1931 )
January 10 – Sam Jaffe , film producer (b. 1901 )
January 11 – Bob Lemon , baseball player and manager (b. 1920 )
January 12 – Bobby Phills , basketball player (b. 1969 )
January 15 – Fran Ryan , actress (b. 1916 )
January 18
January 19
January 25 – Herta Freitag, Austrian-born American mathematician (b. 1908)
January 26
Don Budge , tennis player (b. 1915)Don Ralke, music arranger (b. 1920 )
February
February 2 – Magda Foy, child actress (b. 1905 )
February 4 – Phil Tonken, radio and television announcer (b. 1919 )
February 7
February 8 – Derrick Thomas , American football player (b. 1967 )
February 9
February 10
February 11 – James D. Van Velzor, politician (b. 1922)
February 12
February 16 – Marceline Day , actress (b.1908 )
February 29 – Dennis Danell, musician (b. 1961 )
March
April
May
May 1 – Steve Reeves , professional bodybuilder and actor (b. 1922 )
May 7 – Douglas Fairbanks Jr. , actor, producer, and naval officer (b. 1909 )
May 8 – Henry Nicols, HIV/AIDS activist (b. 1973 )
May 9 – Arthur Davis , animator (b. 1905 )
May 10 – Craig Stevens , actor (b. 1918 )[ 53]
May 12 – Adam Petty , race car driver (b. 1980 )
May 20 – Edward Bernds, director (b. 1905 )
May 21 – Mark R. Hughes , businessman (b. 1956 )
May 31
June
July
August
September
September 2 – Jean Speegle Howard , actress (b. 1927)
September 3
R. H. Harris, American gospel singer (b. 1916)
Elvera Sanchez , dancer (b. 1905 )Walt Stanchfield, American animator (b. 1919)
September 4 – David Brown, American bass guitarist (Santana ) (b. 1950)
September 5 – George Musso , American football player (Chicago Bears ) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame (b. 1910).
September 14 – Beah Richards , actress, writer, and activist (b.1920 )
September 17 – Nicole Reinhart, cyclist (b. 1976 )
September 19 – Ann Doran , actress (b. 1911 )
September 26
October
October 3
October 4 – George Huntston Williams, theologian (b. 1914)
October 6 – Richard Farnsworth , actor and stuntman (b. 1920 )
October 16
October 18
October 21 – Frankie Crocker , disc jockey (b. 1937 )
October 23 – Rodney Anoa'i , wrestler, died in Liverpool , United Kingdom (b. 1966 )
October 28 – Anthony Lee , actor (b. 1961 )
October 30 – Steve Allen , comedian, composer, talk show host, and author (b. 1921 )
November
November 1 – Richard K. Webel, American landscape architect (b. 1900 )
November 5 – Jimmie Davis , American musician and politician (b. 1899 )
November 6 – L. Sprague de Camp , writer (b. 1907 )
November 14 – Robert Trout , American journalist (b. 1908 )
November 16
November 25 – Hugh Alexander, American baseball player and scout (b. 1917 )
November 28
Robert Bentley, American animator (b. 1907)
Henry B. Gonzalez , American politician (b. 1916)
December
December 2 – Gail Fisher , actress (b. 1935 )[ 55]
December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks , African American poet (b. 1917 )[ 56]
December 10 – Marie Windsor , actress (b. 1919 )[ 57]
December 12 – George Montgomery , actor (b. 1916 )[ 58]
December 19 – John Lindsay , politician, lawyer and broadcaster (b. 1921 )
December 23
December 24
Nick Massi , bass singer and bass guitarist for The Four Seasons (b. 1927)Laurence Chisholm Young, mathematician (b. 1905).
December 25
December 26 – Jason Robards , actor (b. 1922).
December 27- Walter Keane , plagiarist (b. 1915).
December 28 – Robert Williams, baseball player (b. 1917).
December 29 – Adele Stimmel Chase, artist (b. 1917)
December 30 – Julius J. Epstein , screenwriter (b. 1909)
See also
2000 in American soccer
2000 in American television
List of American films of 2000
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