The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet. Date: May 3, 2000 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 3 📅 Events on this day in 2000 📅 On This Day (Today)
President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military. Date: May 2, 2000 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 2 📅 Events on this day in 2000 📅 On This Day (Today)
Canonization of Faustina Kowalska in the presence of 200,000 people and the first Divine Mercy Sunday celebrated worldwide. Date: April 30, 2000 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 30 📅 Events on this day in 2000 📅 On This Day (Today)
Air Philippines Flight 541 crashes in Samal, Davao del Norte, killing all 131 people on board. Date: April 19, 2000 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 19 📅 Events on this day in 2000 📅 On This Day (Today)
United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. Date: April 3, 2000 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 3 📅 Events on this day in 2000 📅 On This Day (Today)
A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills one person and injures 71 others. Date: March 27, 2000 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 27 📅 Events on this day in 2000 📅 On This Day (Today)
Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel. Date: March 21, 2000 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 21 📅 Events on this day in 2000 📅 On This Day (Today)
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English. Date: March 20, 2000 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 20 📅 Events on this day in 2000 📅 On This Day (Today)
Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead. Date: March 17, 2000 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅…
The Dot-com bubble peaks with the NASDAQ Composite stock market index reaching 5,048.62. Date: March 10, 2000 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 10 📅 Events on this day in 2000 📅 On This Day (Today)