* Bunny Austin ( 1906 – 2000 ), British tennis player

Rethinking the Angolan Crisis and the Portuguese Revolution, 1974 – 1976, Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, 26 / 2, 2000, pp. 22 – 44

** Atlas III was a US launch vehicle ( 2000 – 2005 )

The Turkic-Mongolic-Tungusic and Korean-Japanese-Ainu groupings were also posited by Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ) who, however, treated them as independent members of a larger family, which he termed Eurasiatic.

* Joseph Greenberg ( 2000 – 2002 ).

Alfred Elton van Vogt ( April 26, 1912 – January 26, 2000 ) was a Canadian-born science fiction author regarded as one of the most popular and complex science fiction writers of the mid-twentieth century: the " Golden Age " of the genre.

* 1926 – Gil Kane, Latvian cartoonist ( d. 2000 )

* 1928 – Hugh Hood, Canadian author ( d. 2000 )

* 1937 – Baden Powell de Aquino, Brazilian guitarist ( d. 2000 )

* 1938 – Paul Bartel, American actor ( d. 2000 )

* 1940 – Bill Musselman, American basketball coach ( d. 2000 )

* 2000 – Piper Reese, American video blogger

* 1941 – Doris Coley, American singer ( The Shirelles ) ( d. 2000 )

* 2000 – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish jurist ( b. 1924 )

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 )

* 1916 – Anne Hébert, Canadian author and poet ( d. 2000 )

* 1925 – Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer ( d. 2000 )

* 1934 – John Beck, New Zealand cricketer ( d. 2000 )

* 1936 – W. D. Hamilton, English biologist ( d. 2000 )

* 1958 – Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter ( 10, 000 Maniacs ) ( d. 2000 )

* 1903 – Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician ( d. 2000 )

* Friedensreich Hundertwasser ( 1928 – 2000 ): artist and architect

Five teams have collected three sacrifice flies in an inning: the Chicago White Sox ( fifth inning, July 1, 1962 against the Cleveland Indians ); the New York Yankees twice ( fourth inning, June 29, 2000 against the Detroit Tigers and third inning, August 19, 2000 against the Anaheim Angels ); the New York Mets ( second inning, June 24, 2005 against the Yankees ); and the Houston Astros ( seventh inning, June 26, 2005 against the Texas Rangers ).

* On February 2, 2000, Philippe Binant, technical manager of Digital Cinema Project at Gaumont in France, realized the first digital cinema projection in Europe with the Texas Instruments mark V prototype projector.

In 2000, Walt Disney, Texas Instruments and Technicolor with the cooperation of several U. S. and international exhibitors, began to deploy prototype Digital Cinema systems in commercial theatres.

* 2000 – The " Texas 7 " escape from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot and killed.

He received the 1972 Turing Award for fundamental contributions to developing programming languages, and was the Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin from 1984 until 2000.

On September 6, 2000, the NFL's 32nd franchise was officially christened the Houston Texans before thousands at a downtown rally on Texas Avenue.

The twins graduated from high school in 2000 and attended Yale University and the University of Texas at Austin, respectively, in 2004.

Bush became the First Lady of Texas when her husband was elected as the Governor of Texas and served as first lady of that state from January 17, 1995, to December 21, 2000.

In December 2000, her husband resigned as Governor of Texas to prepare for his inauguration as President of the United States in January 2001.

* 2000 – A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.

In 2000 the Welch Foundation created the Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research to recognize the work of young researchers in Texas.

In 2000 TOFOG performed shows in London, Los Angeles and the now famous run of shows at Stubbs in Austin, Texas which became a live DVD that was released in 2001 called Texas.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was released on DVD in October 1998 in the United States, and in May 2000 in the United Kingdom.

A Habitation Clause issue arose during the 2000 presidential election contested by George W. Bush ( alongside running-mate Dick Cheney ) and Al Gore ( alongside Joe Lieberman ), because it was alleged that Bush and Cheney were both inhabitants of Texas and that the Texas electors therefore violated the Twelfth Amendment in casting their ballots for both.

For example, at the start of the 2000 election cycle Dick Cheney was a resident of Texas ; Cheney quickly changed his residency back to Wyoming, where he had previously served as a U. S. Representative, when Texas governor and Republican presidential nominee George W. Bush asked Cheney to be his vice presidential candidate.

* March 27 – The Phillips explosion of 2000 kills 1 and injures 71 in Pasadena, Texas.

For instance, while Gerard O ' Neill built his first mass driver in 1976 – 77 with a $ 2000 budget, a short test model firing a projectile at 40 m / s and 33 g, his next model was an order of magnitude greater acceleration after a comparable increase in funding, and, a few years later, the University of Texas estimated that a mass driver firing a 10 kilogram projectile at 6000 m / s would cost $ 47 million.

* Grzega, Joachim: “ On the Description of National Varieties: Examples from ( German and Austrian ) German and ( English and American ) English .” In: Linguistik Online 7 ( 2000 ).

Of the population in the canton, 146, 421 or about 26. 7 % were born in Aargau and lived there in 2000.

Cyprus recognized Bosnia and Herzegovina ’ s independence on 7 February 2000, both countries established diplomatic relations on the same date.

As of the 2000 census, there were 7, 951 people residing in Battery Park City.

* 2000: 7, 951

11. 0 % were of Irish, 7. 2 % English, 6. 9 % Italian, 5. 5 % West Indian and 5. 3 % German ancestry according to Census 2000.

Neil Finn released two solo studio albums, Try Whistling This ( 1998 ) and One Nil ( 2001 ), as well as two live albums, Sessions at West 54th ( 2000 ) and 7 Worlds Collide ( 2001 ).

: 24. 7 deaths / 1, 000 live births ( 2000 est.

7 Journal of Law and Medicine 301 ( 2000 ).

The peace accord successfully completed the peace process begun on February 7, 2000 in Paris.

The peace accord successfully completed the peace process begun on 7 February 2000 in Paris.

In 2000, mining accounted for 2 % of GDP, which grew by 7. 8 %.

Inflation fell from an annual rate of 96. 1 % in 2000 to an annual rate of 22. 4 % in 2001 ; although final figures are not yet available, it is expected to drop below 7 % for 2003.

The balance of payments in 2000 was negative US $ 44. 7 million ; by 2003 it had improved to negative US $ 16. 4 million.

As of the census of 2000, there are 7, 676 people in the city, organized into 2, 487 households and 2 families.

A 2007 study looked at the introduction of Fox News into local U. S. markets between 1996 and 2000, and found that in the 2000 presidential election " Republicans gained 0. 4 to 0. 7 percentage points in the towns that broadcast Fox News ".

In 2000, there were 45, 882 households out of which 29. 0 % had children under the age of 18 living with them, 44. 9 % were married couples living together, 7. 9 % had a female householder with no husband present, and 43. 8 % were non-families.

Tourism accounted for 7 percent of GDP in Guadeloupe in 2000.

Under the original estimates ( from 2000 ) this cost would have been € 7. 7 billion, of which only € 2. 6 billion was to be borne by taxpayers and the rest by private investors.

With the collapse of their supposed allies, the SLA, and the rapid advance of Hezbollah forces, they withdrew suddenly on May 24, 2000 six weeks before the announced July 7 date.

On October 7, 2000, three Israeli soldiers – Adi Avitan, Staff Sgt.