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Top Song(s)
• Madonna - Music
• U2 - Beautiful Day
• Eminem - Stan
• N Sync - Bye, Bye, Bye
• Santana - Maria Maria
Top Film(s)
• Memento
• In the Mood for Love
• Gladiator
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Snatch
Best Selling Book(s)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
• Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
• A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
• The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
• The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon
Famous Deaths
• January 11 - Ivan Combe, American inventor of personal care products (Clearasil)
• February 4 - Carl Albert, American politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• February 26 - George L. Street III, American Navy Submariner and Medal of Honor recipient
• April 6 - Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian statesman, 1st President of Tunisia (1957-87)
• May 14 - Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan
• May 17 - Donald Coggan, 101st Archbishop of Canterbury (1974-80)
• June 10 - Hafez al-Assad, General and President of Syria (1971-2000)
• July 12 - Charles Merritt, Canadian Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross during World War II
• August 13 - Antony Duff, British WWII submarine commander, diplomat, intelligence officer
• September 28 - Pierre Trudeau, 15th Canadian Prime Minister (Liberal: 1968-79, 1980-84)
Medical/Science/Technology
• Bastille Day solar storm: A powerful solar flare causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth.
• Expedition 1 to the International Space Station begins.
• A population of the Siamese crocodile, previously believed extinct in the wild since 1992, is located.
• Year 2000 problem proves to be of little global significance.
• After originating in the Philippines, the ILOVEYOU computer virus spreads quickly throughout the world.
• Cave of the Crystals discovered at the Naica Mine in Mexico.
• Douglas Hanahan and Robert Weinberg publish "The Hallmarks of Cancer".
• Doctor Harold Shipman is found guilty of killing 15 of his elderly patients by lethal injections of diamorphine.
• First fossil of Orrorin, an early species of Homininae, discovered in the Tugen Hills of Kenya.
• Omer Reingold, Salil Vadhan and Avi Wigderson introduce the zig-zag product.
Political
• January 4 – Alan Greenspan is nominated for a fourth term as U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman.
• March 7 – Texas Governor George W. Bush and U.S. Vice President Al Gore emerge victorious in the Republican and Democratic caucuses.
• March 21 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the government lacks authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug.
• April 3 – Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
• April 25 – The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples.
• June 7 – A Court orders the breakup of the Microsoft corporation because of its monopoly in the computer software market.
• August 14–17 – The Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominates U.S. Vice President Al Gore for president.
• November 7 - Republican candidate Texas Governor George W. Bush defeats Democratic Vice President Al Gore.
• November 16 – Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting U.S. president to visit Vietnam.
• December 31 – President Bill Clinton signs the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
National
• January 10 – America Online announces an agreement to purchase Time Warner for $162 billion.
• February 13 – The final original Peanuts comic strip is published, following the death of its creator, Charles Schulz.
• March 9 – The FBI arrests art forgery suspect Ely Sakhai in New York City.
• May 3 – In San Antonio, Texas, computer pioneer Datapoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
• May 24 – Five people are shot and killed during a robbery at a Wendy's in Queens, New York.
• August 8 – The Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.
• September 8 – The United Nations Millennium Declaration is made in New York City.
• October 23 – Madeleine Albright holds talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il.
• November 12 – The United States recognizes the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
• December 28 – U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
Worldwide
• January 30 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the Ivory Coast into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169 people.
• February 21 – UNESCO holds the inaugural celebration of International Mother Language Day.
• March 26 – 2000 Russian presidential election: Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia.
• May 4 – The 7.6 Central Sulawesi earthquake affects Banggai, Indonesia, leaving 46 dead and 264 injured.
• June 10–July 2 – Belgium and the Netherlands jointly host the UEFA Euro 2000 football tournament, which is won by France.
• July 10 – In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline.
• August 14 – Tsar Nicholas II and his family are canonized by the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.
• September 15–October 1 – The 2000 Summer Olympics, held in Sydney, Australia, is the first Olympic Games of the 2000s.
• October 17 – A Great North Eastern Railway Express Train is derailed, killing four people and injuring many others.
• December 24 – The Christmas Eve bombings in several churches in Indonesia kill 18 people.