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| 2000 |
| | | The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials | |
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| 2000 |
| | | A White House ceremony celebrates a full draft of the human genome completed by two rival projects | |
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| 2000 |
| | | Israel completes the withdrawal of its troops from southern Lebanon | |
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| 2000 |
| | | The republic of Ireland is the fastest growing economy in the EU, with a GDP growth of more than 10% | |
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| 2000 |
| | | A Concorde supersonic airliner crashes after take-off from Paris, killing all 109 on board | |
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| 2000 |
| | | In the election for president of Yugoslavia, the incumbent Slobodan Milosevic is defeated by Vojislav Kostunica | |
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| 2000 |
| | | The Burmese junta again places Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest, a restraint that has continued - with one break - till the present time | |
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| 2000 |
| | | Mao Zedong inspires German artist Anselm Kiefer's Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom | |
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| 2000 |
| | | A visit by Ariel Sharon to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem sparks off a new intifada | |
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| 2000 |
| | | Suicide bombers kill 17 crew members of the destroyer USS Cole in Aden harbour | |
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| 2000 |
| | | Hafiz al-Assad dies and is succeeded by his son Bashar as president of Syria | |
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| 2000 |
| | | Angry crowds drive Slobodan Milosevic from power after he denies defeat in the Serbian election | |
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| 2000 |
| | | Alerto Fujimori resigns after a corruption scandal during his third term as president of Peru | |
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| 2000 |
| | | Aboriginal sprinter Cathy Freeman lights the cauldron to launch the Sydney Olympic Games | |
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| 2000 |
| | | Vicente Fox wins the presidential election in Mexico (the first time that an opposition politician has done so since 1911) | |
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| 2000 |
| | | The US Supreme Court gives victory to Republican George W. Bush rather than Democrat Al Gore after electoral irregularities in Florida | |
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| 2000 |
| | | The Netherlands becomes the first country to legalize euthanasia, allowing doctors to end the life of a patient suffering 'unbearably' from a terminal condition | |
|  | ‘The right to choose a merciful death'
Wellcome Library, London
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| 2000 |
| | | At the turn of the century, it is calculated that 36 million people worldwide are infected with the HIV virus | |
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Wellcome Photo Library
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| 2001 |
| | | Wikipedia, the 'Free Encyclopedia', is put online by Jimmy Wales as an empty shell which members of the public are invited to fill with content | |
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| 2001 |
| | | The Scottish Court in the Netherlands convicts a Libyan, Al-Megrahi, of responsibility for the Pan-Am Lockerbie bomb | |
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| 2001 |
| | | An earthquake kills about 20,000 people in the region of Bhuj in the Indian state of Gujarat | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Ariel Sharon is elected prime minister of Israel on the platform of taking a tough line with the PLO | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Kosovo, with its majority Albanian population, formally declares independence from Serbia | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Sylvio Berlusconi returns as Italy's prime minister with the electoral success of his right-wing House of Liberties coalition | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Crown Prince Dipendra kills nine members of his own royal family at the court of Nepal | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Tony Blair leads Britain's Labour party in a second successive election victory, with a majority only marginally reduced from 179 to 167 | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Laurent Kabila, the president of the Congo, is assassinated in a failed coup attempt | |
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| 2001 |
| | | The former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic is handed over to the war crimes tribunal in the Hague | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, is fatally wounded in an attack by two suicide bombers | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Four hijacked planes are used in a massive September 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington | |
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| 2001 |
| | | Anthrax attacks, in the form of letters carrying the bacteria posted to journalists and politicians, begin in the USA | |
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