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

The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen was awarded in the year 2000 to the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for his special personal contribution to cooperation with the states of Europe, for the preservation of peace, freedom, democracy and human rights in Europe, and for his support of the enlargement of the European Union.

* 2000 – The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.

In 2000 the United States Department of Justice noted, " In an Alford plea the defendant agrees to plead guilty because he or she

* 2000 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping " an oppressive thumb " on its competitors.

Some time late in 2000, Haznawi traveled to the United Arab Emirates, where he purchased traveler's cheques presumed to have been paid for by Mustafa al-Hawsawi.

In 2000 KPMG reported in its survey of offshore jurisdictions for the United Kingdom government that over 41 % of the world's offshore companies were formed in the British Virgin Islands.

The Governments of Botswana and the United States entered into an agreement in July 2000 to establish an International Law Enforcement Academy ( ILEA ) in Gaborone.

Magnetic ( compass ) north and geographic ( true ) north are only exactly the same for a small number of places – for example, as of 2000 in the United States only those places on a line running from Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico .< ref > But the public may not be as informed, and think there is something mysterious about a compass " changing " across an area as large as the Triangle, which it naturally will.

In New Zealand, the New Zealand Blood Service ( NZBS ) in 2000 introduced measures to preclude permanently donors who had resided in the United Kingdom ( including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands ) for a total of six months or more between January 1980 and December 1996.

However, as Putnam notes in Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community ( 2000 ), social capital has been falling in the United States.

Tramlink ( originally and sometimes still called Croydon Tramlink ) is a tramway system in south London in the United Kingdom which began operation in May 2000.

The 1888 novel Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy depicts a fictional planned economy in a United States c. the year 2000 which has become a socialist utopia.

To assist the new government, since February 2000 the United Nations has had the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( now called MONUSCO ), which currently has a strength of over 16, 000 peacekeepers in the country.

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.

In December 2000, US President Bill Clinton awarded Engelbart the National Medal of Technology, the United States ' highest technology award.

In 2000 the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) found that " the role of population dynamics in a local setting may vary from decisive to negligible ," and that deforestation can result from " a combination of population pressure and stagnating economic, social and technological conditions.

* 2000 – The Supreme Court of the United States stays the sixth Florida recount.

Its capabilities and political implications were investigated by a committee of the European Parliament during 2000 and 2001 with a report published in 2001, and by author James Bamford in his books on the National Security Agency of the United States.

In 2000 the United States Congress designated the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor to recognize the national significance of the canal system as the most successful and influential human-built waterway and one of the most important works of civil engineering and construction in North America.

Additionally, we assess against Crain a damage award of $ 2000 in favor of the appellee United States.

Defending holders Manchester United did not enter the 1999 – 2000 FA Cup, as they were already in the inaugural Club World Championship, with the club stating that entering both tournaments would overload their fixture schedule and make it more difficult to defend their Champions League and Premiership titles.

By 2000, only Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.

The 2010 U. S. Census counted 1, 044, 209 Guatemalans in the United States, up from 372, 487 in 2000.

Guatemala was certified to receive export trade benefits under the United States ' Caribbean Basin Trade and Partnership Act ( CBTPA ) in October 2000, and enjoys access to U. S. Generalized System of Preferences ( GSP ) benefits.

On May 2, 2000, SA was disabled by President of the United States Bill Clinton ; in late 2001 the entity managing the GPS confirmed that they did not intend to enable selective availability ever again.

The 2010 U. S. Census counted 633, 401 Hondurans in the United States, up from 217, 569 in 2000.

Chinese families therefore sent their children to universities in Singapore, Australia, Britain or the United States – by 2000, for example, 60, 000 Malaysians held degrees from Australian universities.

In 2000, the film was ranked 29th on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 comedy movies in American cinema and it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

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It was honored with the President's Award in 2000 by All American Rose Selections, Inc., which is presented to one public garden in the United States each year for superior rose maintenance and display: “ For contributing to the public interest in rose growing through its efforts in maintaining an outstanding public rose garden .”

Nearly 14 million immigrants entered the United States from 2000 to 2010.

An analysis of census data found that nearly eight million immigrants entered the United States from 2000 to 2005, more than in any other five-year period in the nation's history ; 3. 7 million of them entered illegally.

The European Commission was due to provide a final draft for the positive list by the end of 2000 ; however, this failed because of a veto from Germany and a few other Member States.

Baker-Berry Library is the main library at Dartmouth, comprising Baker Memorial Library ( opened 1928 ) and Berry Library ( opened 2000 ).

* Will Eisner Library ( 2000 – present )

* Will Eisner Library ( some properties licensed 2000 to present )

( Manic D Press, 2000 ISBN 978-0-916397-65-4 )- A first-person account of an individual's life within the Goth Subculture ( book has Library of Congress listing under " Goth Subculture ").

The majority of his works are held by the German State Library, and about 25 % of those are in advanced stages of decay ( American Libraries 2000 ).

Blume received the Library of Congress Living Legends award in the " Writers and Artists " category in April 2000 for her significant contributions to America's cultural heritage.

* Foobar 2000: Music Library / Audio Player

* On May 23, 2000 as part of the Bicentennial Local Legacies project, Renee Moore, founder of Solomon Northup Day, was honored along with other Americans at a reception in the Library of Congress's ( LOC ) Great Hall in Washington DC.

She received the Library of Congress Living Legends award in the " Writers and Artists " category in April 2000 for her significant contributions to America's cultural heritage.

* Royston, Angela ( 2000 ) Life cycle of an oak tree, Heinemann first library, Oxford: Heinemann Library, ISBN 0-431-08391-6

by O ' Sullivan, Orlaith ( The British Library & Oak Knoll Press in association with The Scriptorium: Center for Christian Antiquities London & New Castle, Delaware 2000 ), pp. 89 – 102.

* Agee, James, " Comedy's Greatest Era " from Life ( September 5, 1949 ), reprinted in Agee on Film ( 1958 ) McDowell, Obolensky, ( 2000 ) Modern Library

In 2000, The Life of Emile Zola was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".

Tennessee Williams, Plays 1937 – 1955 ( Library of America, 2000 ) ISBN 978-1-883011-86-4.

Tennessee Williams, Plays 1957 – 1980 ( Library of America, 2000 ) ISBN 978-1-883011-87-1.

* Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College ; Hanover, New Hampshire ( 2000 )

In 2000 the American Library Association listed The Long Walk as one of the 100 best books for teenage readers published between 1966 and 2000.

In 2000, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant film " and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

The film was selected to be preserved by the Library of Congress in the National Film Registry in 2000.

In 2000, The Land Beyond the Sunset was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being " culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant ".