After the November 2000 G8 protest in Montreal, at which many protesters were beaten, trampled, and arrested in what was intended to be a festive protest, the tactic of dividing protests into " green " ( permitted ), " yellow " ( not officially permitted but with little confrontation and low risk of arrest ), and " red " ( involving direct confrontation ) zones was introduced.

In January 2009, scientists from the Centre of Food Technology and Research of Aragon, in Zaragoza, northern Spain announced the cloning of the Pyrenean ibex, a form of wild mountain goat, which was officially declared extinct in 2000.

A North American ( Region 1 ) release of the Video Collection DVD was announced on several occasions during 2000 – 2001, but it did not occur ; the reason for which has never been officially stated.

On October 26, 2000, Brooks officially announced his retirement from recording and performing.

Led by Geelong's greatest coach ( officially named at Geelong's Team of the Century 2000 ) Reg Hickey, Geelong won two consecutive premiership flags of 1951 and 1952.

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

Kesgrave parish council officially adopted the title of a town in January 2000.

As of 2012, there were officially 103 species and subspecies of lemur, 39 of which were described by zoologists between 2000 and 2008.

Allen officially resigned from his position on the Microsoft board in November 2000 but was asked to consult as a senior strategy advisor to the company's executives.

The term is used most by the United States, though the US State Department officially quit using the term in 2000.

In October 2000, Milosevic was ousted from power and the US officially reopened it's embassy in the Serbia and Montenegro.

In October 2000, Slobodan Milosevic, the Serbian president who played a leading role in the instigating the Yugoslav Wars, was ousted from power and the US officially reopened it's embassy in the Serbia and Montenegro.

In 2000, Sonic Team officially became Sonic Team Ltd.

The document, an ethical framework for a sustainable world, was developed over several years after the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and launched officially in 2000.

First, the older 38 mm balls were officially replaced by 40 mm balls in 2000.

In late 2000, Massoud officially brought together this new alliance in a meeting in Northern Afghanistan among other things to discuss " a Loya Jirga, or a traditional council of elders, to settle political turmoil in Afghanistan ".

On 30 June 2000, Muslim nations that are members of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference ( now the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ) officially resolved to support the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam, an alternative document that says people have " freedom and right to a dignified life in accordance with the Islamic Shari ’ ah ", without any discrimination on grounds of " race, colour, language, sex, religious belief, political affiliation, social status or other considerations ".

The CTW name was officially changed to Sesame Workshop on New Years Day 2000 to reflect the company's reach into new media and capitalize on the worldwide recognition provided by the Sesame Street name ( although Sesame Street continued to use the CTW name until April 2000 ).

China does not recognise officially the ethnonym Hmong and instead, clusters that group with an official and wider group: the Miao ( 8, 940, 116 in 2000 ).

In China, the Evenki form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, with a population of 30, 505, as per 2000 Census.

In 2000, Apple Inc. ( which had merged with NeXT ) officially dropped EOF as a standalone product, meaning that developers would be unable to use it to create desktop applications for the forthcoming Mac OS X.

In 2000 the conjoined towns officially attained city status.

In December 2000, the then head of the government of Bangladesh officially visited Germany.

The unitary authority was formed from the unification of Brighton, the major part of the city with around 155, 000 people of the 256, 000 total population, with the nearby town of Hove in 1997, officially granted city status by Queen Elizabeth II as part of the millennium celebrations in 2000.

Finally, however, after popular unrest Laurent Gbagbo became president and was sworn in on 26 October 2000.

Croatia became a World Trade Organization ( WTO ) member in 2000 and started the Accession of Croatia to the European Union in 2003.

Over decades, the size of daily strips became smaller and smaller, until by the year 2000, four standard daily strips could fit in an area once occupied by a single daily strip.

Until about 2000, users of Unix desktops regarded CDE as the de facto standard, but at that time, other desktop environments such as GNOME and K Desktop Environment 2 were quickly becoming mature, and became almost universal on the Linux platform, which already had a larger user base than most commercial Unixes in total.

Since 2000, with a struggling Gateway was taken over by eMachines, this left only Dell as Compaq's major competitor, however Dell became the number one supplier of PCs in 2001.

James became prime minister, serving until the February 2000 elections, when the Dominica United Workers Party ( DUWP ) was defeated by the Dominica Labour Party ( DLP ), led by Rosie Douglas.

The point became a giant asterisk ( a la Roger Maris ) following the 2000 presidential elections and the controversy over vote-counting.

The project became more formalized with the creation of a website in 1993, and followed up by a series of books starting in 2000, authored by Wendy Northcutt.

On January 21, 2000, during demonstrations in Quito by indigenous groups, the military and police refused to enforce public order, beginning what became known as the 2000 Ecuadorean coup d ' état.

She continued to enjoy steady success during the 1990s and 2000s ; her 2000 album A Day Without Rain sold 15 million copies, and became the top selling new age album of the 2000s in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

By 2000, when web publishing of stories became more popular than zine publishing, thousands of media fanzines had been published ; over 500 of them were k / s zines.

When he retired from Virginia in 1994, he became Distinguished Research Professor at the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University until 2000.

In 2000 Guinea became embroiled in the instability which had long blighted the rest of West Africa as rebels crossed the borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone and it seemed for a time that the country was headed for civil war.

In 2000, the first commercial GPRS services were launched and the first GPRS compatible handsets became available for sale.

However, in 2000, HTML also became an international standard ( ISO / IEC 15445: 2000 ).

In 2000, all full-time company employees became town employees.

Starting with the arrival of humans around 2000 years ago, nearly all of the island's megafauna became extinct, including:

None of the early movies hint at the social activism that would become the hallmark of Keller's later life, although a Disney version produced in 2000 states in the credits that she became an activist for social equality.

She became first lady after her husband defeated Democrat Al Gore in the 2000 election.

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 April 2000, MINIX became free / open source software under a permissive free software license, but by this time other operating systems had surpassed its capabilities, and it remained primarily an operating system for students and hobbyists.

In April 2000 TeliaSonera entered the market with its own network under the brand of Moldcell and thus became the second carrier in the country.

In March 2000, he became Chief Scientist at ThoughtWorks, a systems integration and consulting company.