He lost in the finals of the 2000 and 2001 US Open to Marat Safin and Lleyton Hewitt, respectively, leading many to speculate that Sampras would never capture another major title.

Mila Kunis received the 2011 Fun, Fearless Female of the Year honor, a title that had been previously awarded to Anna Faris ( 2010 ), Ali Larter ( 2009 ), Katherine Heigl ( 2008 ), Eva Mendes ( 2007 ), Beyoncé ( 2006 ), Ashlee Simpson ( 2005 ), Alicia Silverstone ( 2004 ), Sandra Bullock ( 2003 ), Britney Spears ( 2002 ), Debra Messing ( 2001 ), Jennifer Love Hewitt ( 2000 ), Shania Twain ( 1999 ) and Ashley Judd ( 1998 )

The Rocky Horror Show had a longer revival on Broadway from October 2000 to January 2002 at the Circle in the Square Theatre and featured Tom Hewitt ( later Terrance Mann ) as Frank N. Furter, Alice Ripley as Janet, Raúl Esparza ( later Sebastian Bach ) as Riff Raff, Joan Jett as Columbia / Usherette ( later Ana Gasteyer ), Lea DeLaria ( later Jason Wooten ) as Eddie / Doctor Scott, and Daphne Rubin-Vega as Magenta.

* Winning for Women by Harriet Harman and Deborah Mattinson, foreword by Patricia Hewitt, 2000, Fabian Society, ISBN 0-7163-0596-8

He won his first Grand Slam title at the 2000 U. S. Open after defeating Pete Sampras, and won the 2005 Australian Open, defeating Australian Lleyton Hewitt in the final.

Hewitt won the Royal Television Society Award in 2001 for his coverage of the Oldham riots and also won the Broadcast Award for " England's Shame ", an investigation into football hooliganism at Euro 2000.

Lleyton Hewitt's sister, Jaslyn Hewitt, was his girlfriend for five years from 2000 to 2005.

After playing at St. John Fisher College, Hewitt coached the Siena College men's college basketball team for three years, from 1998 to 2000.

Hewitt was head coach of the Georgia Tech men's college basketball team from 2000 to 2011.

In 2000, Hewitt began growing through larger mergers and acquisitions.

Paul Hewitt would take his place at Georgia Tech in 2000.

During the Late Bronze Age circa 2000 BC, they created an empire, the Hittite New Kingdom, which reached its height in the 14th century BC, controlling much of Asia Minor.

Refugee returns accelerated since 1999, reached a peak in 2000, but then slightly decreased in 2001 and 2002.

Economic growth reached 3. 1 % during 2000 and inflation was 9. 0 % although unemployment has yet to significantly improve.

Participation is compulsory and reached 99. 87 % of the population in 2000.

Montreal singer Nancy Martinez's 1986 single " For Tonight " would become the first Canadian freestyle single to reach the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, while the Montreal girl group 11: 30 reached the Canadian chart with " Ole Ole " in 2000.

In 2000, the number of tourists to Guadeloupe reached 623, 000, a decrease from 693, 000 tourists in 1998.

In July 2000, Honduras reached its decision point under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative ( HIPC ), qualifying the country for interim multilateral debt relief.

This emerging bipolarity represents a major break from the fragmented, multi-party political landscape of the postwar era, although it appears to have reached a plateau, since efforts via referendums to further curtail the influence of small parties were defeated in 1999, 2000, and 2009.

This process was boosted in late 2000 when Nicaragua reached the decision point under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries ( HIPC ) debt relief initiative.

Internet use also has soared in China from about 60, 000 Internet users in 1995 to 22. 5 million users in 2000 ; by 2005 the number had reached 103 million.

In September 2009 Western Australia's dams reached 50 % overall capacity for the first time since 2000.

Its export earnings reached U. S .$ 239 million in 2000.

Exports of peanut products reached U. S .$ 79 million in 2000 and represented 11 % of total export earnings.

FDI inflow grew more than 600 % from 2000 and cumulatively reached an all-time high of, $ 17. 3 billion USD in 2006, or around $ 18, 000 per capita by the end of 2006.

Participation is compulsory and reached 99. 87 % of the population in 2000.

This Bronze Age civilization thrived between 3000 to 2000 BC, and reached its peak in the period 2000 to 1580 BC.

Meanwhile, the gradual liberalization of political life in Morocco during the 1990s belatedly reached Western Sahara around 2000.

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.

They had reached the Football League as Conference champions in 2000.

In India travels in the sixteenth century there were also used carracks, large merchant ships with a high edge and three masts with square sails, that reached 2000 tons.

Retrieving for example byte 2000 from a DATAPAK meant issuing successive hardware commands to either step from the current read position one address place at time until position 2000 was reached or in the worst case resetting the read position to zero and then issuing a step-forward command 2000 times.

Since accurate base maps are necessary for any planning program, the first step taken by the planning division to implement the long-range state plan has been to prepare two series of base maps -- one at a scale of 1 inch to a mile, and the second a series of 26 sheets at a scale of 1 inch to 2000 feet, covering the entire state.

The eradication of extreme poverty and hunger was the first Millennium Development Goal, as set by 179 United Nations Member States in 2000.

* 1915 – Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Sri Lankan politician and the world's first female head of government ( d. 2000 )

On Amiga 1000 ( and first Amiga 500 and Amiga 2000 model ), the power LED had no relation to the filter's status, a wire needed to be manually soldered between pins on the sound chip to disable the filter.

William Prentice disagrees with both, noting that archeological evidence suggests that the Achaeans instead migrated from " southern Asia Minor to Greece, probably settling first in lower Thessaly " probably prior to 2000 BC.

Roma have won Serie A three times, first in 1941 – 42 then in 1982 – 83 and again in 2000 – 01, as well as winning nine Coppa Italia titles and two Supercoppa Italiana titles.

The first president of ARIN was Kim Hubbard, from 1997 until 2000.

Clinton's November 2000 visit to Vietnam was the first by a U. S. President since the end of the Vietnam War.

The 2001 census was the first census in Botswana to comply with the SADC 2000 Census Project, the guidelines of which unify the demographic statistics in southern Africa.

At the end of July 2000, the government-owned Botswana Television ( BTV ) was launched, which is Botswana's first national television station.

After showing its first growth since the communist era in 2000, Bulgaria ’ s industrial sector has grown slowly but steadily in the early 2000s ( decade ).

Adoption was slow at first ; in 2000 the National Federation of the Blind said there were only 3 of these in the USA, one owned by the NFB itself and the other two by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.

The main Breakfast presenters have also appeared on the channel since it was first launched as a simulcast programme in 2000, with the current presenters being Bill Turnbull, Susanna Reid ( Mondays to Wednesdays ), Louise Minchin and Charlie Stayt ( Thursdays, Ftidays and weekends ).

The first edition of The Beano was dated 30 July 1938, and the 3000th issue was published in January 2000.

The first issue's cover could be found on the back of issue 2000.

In 2000, Charles wrote his first autobiography about his experiences growing up in Liverpool, titled No Irish, No Niggers.

However, in order to regard 2000 as the first year of the 21st century according to the astronomical year numbering, the astronomical year 0 has to correspond to the Gregorian year 1 BC.

In February 1997, with the legal right to the Coldcut name back, they released a double pack single " Atomic Moog 2000 " / " Boot the System ", the first Coldcut release on Ninja Tune.

Perhaps not surprisingly given the injury to Walker and the trading of two of the team's most popular players, the Rockies finished third in the National League in attendance in 2000, marking the first time in club history that it did not lead the league in attendance.

2000 also marked the first of five consecutive All-Star Game appearances for Helton.

Earlier censuses were taken in 1872 ( the first ), 1900, 1920, 1941, 1950, 1960, 1970, 1980, 1991, 2000 and 2010.

The 1982 Chinese Census was much more thorough and well-conducted than the first two, and similar censuses have been conducted decennially in 1990, 2000, and 2010.

During the 1990s, the first peak was measured with increasing sensitivity and by 2000 the BOOMERanG experiment reported that the highest power fluctuations occur at scales of approximately one degree.

Gullit was replaced by Gianluca Vialli, who led the team to victory in the League Cup Final and the Cup Winners ' Cup Final in 1998, the FA Cup in 2000 and their first appearance in the UEFA Champions League.

The first solid state electronic calculator was created in the 1960s, building on the extensive history of tools such as the abacus, developed around 2000 BC ; and the mechanical calculator, developed in the 17th century.