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* 2000 – In Enschede, the Netherlands, a fireworks factory explodes, killing 22 people, wounding 950, and resulting in approximately € 450 million in damage.
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* 1940 – Bill Musselman, American basketball coach ( d. 2000 )
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Mainly Galileo Galilei ( 1564 – 1642 ) but also Marin Mersenne ( 1588 – 1648 ), independently, discovered the complete laws of vibrating strings ( completing what Pythagoras and Pythagoreans had started 2000 years earlier ).
* 1892 – Kin Narita, Japanese identical twin who lived to be 107 ( d. 2000 )
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* 1934 – John Beck, New Zealand cricketer ( d. 2000 )
* 1936 – W. D. Hamilton, English biologist ( d. 2000 )
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2000 and Enschede
* 26 January-Suspect of fireworks explosion in Enschede in May 2000 arrested
On 13 May 2000, a fireworks storage in Enschede exploded, destroying the entire neighborhood of Roombeek and killing 23 people, including 4 firemen.
The Enschede fireworks disaster was a catastrophic fireworks explosion occurring at the SE Fireworks depot on 13 May 2000, in the eastern Dutch city of Enschede.
In May 2000, a small fire led to two massive explosions at the SE Fireworks Depot in Enschede, Holland, leaving 23 people dead, 947 people injured, and an estimated 2, 000 homes damaged or destroyed.
On 13 May, 2000 in Enschede, SE Fireworks exploded 120 meters from Freeling's house, killing 23, wounding 947, and destroying 400 homes including Freeling's.
In 2000 a fire works depot exploded in the neighbourhood of Enschede.
2000 and Netherlands
* Sinnott, Roger W. and Perryman, Michael A. C. ( 1997 ) Millennium Star Atlas, Epoch 2000. 0, Sky Publishing Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U. S. A., and European Space Agency ( ESA ), ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
* Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands: Moviezone Award ( won by Lukas Moodysson ) ( 2000 )
* 2000 in the Netherlands
Between June 2000 and April 2005, each island of the Netherlands Antilles had a new referendum on its future status.
IMF provided $ 61 million in 2000, and the Netherlands continued its support with $ 40 million ( 2004 )
Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway all allow 25. 25 m trucks ( the Netherlands from 2000, Denmark from 2008, and Norway from 2008 on selected routes ).
COP 6 took place between November 13 and November 25, 2000, in The Hague, Netherlands.
Its membership reached 19 in 2000: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
It was declared ready for operations on January 1, 2000, and deployed to the Horn of Africa in November 2000 to form the core of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea ( UNMEE ) under the command of Royal Netherlands Marine Corps Major General Patrick Cammaert.
2000 – Quest expanded further into application management by acquiring Foglight, a monitoring product ; and continued the global expansion with new offices in France and the Netherlands.
Some exports ( primarily lobsters ) are made to the Netherlands Antilles and Puerto Rico ; fisheries exports totaled US $ 245, 000 in 2000.
Originally signed in 1998 by Canada, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States, Australia and New Zealand joined 1999, followed by Finland, Greece, Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Spain in 2000.
Exports of The Netherlands, were 70. 1 % of GDP in 2000 and 69. 2 % in 2009.
On 29 May 2000, 2, 000 square metres were granted by the Netherlands to Belgium ( a piece of land in Zelzate along the Ghent-Terneuzen Canal ).
The stadium has been host to many European Cup matches, and was one of the Dutch venues for the Euro 2000 competition jointly organised by the Netherlands and Belgium.
From 1995 to 2000, he taught Globalization Studies at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in the United States.
The Prince was seen cheering on the Netherlands ' national football team during their hosting year, at Euro 2000, always wearing an orange vest.
In 2000, he was sentenced in the Netherlands to 11 years imprisonment because he was found guilty of trafficking 474 kilos of cocaine.
In 2000 the city was elected best bicycle city of the Netherlands.
Slingenberg Boekproducties, Hoogeveen, Netherlands 2000.
* June 10 to July 2-The Netherlands and Belgium co-host the 2000 UEFA European Football Championship.
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