January 2000 - Definition and Overview

2000 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December

Events:

• January 1- Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world. Y2K passes without the serious, widespread computer failures and malfunctions that had been predicted.
• January 1- Unification of Szeged's universities, called University of Szeged.
• January 5-January 8 - The 2000 al-Qaida Summit
• January 10 - America On-line announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.
• January 11 - The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man.
• January 14 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.
• January 16 - In Sacramento, California a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the state capitol building killing the driver.
• January 31 - Dr Harold Shipman in sentenced to life in prison for murder of at least 15 of his patients out of 365 suspected victims.

• Sweden disestablishes the Church of Sweden as the official state religion.