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This article is about the year 2000. For other uses of 2000, see 2000 (number) or 2000 (breakdancing move). 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. Popular culture also holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium. By strict interpretation of the Gregorian Calendar, however, this distinction falls to the year 2001. This is due to the fact that the first century began with the year 1, and there does not exist a year zero. The first century ...

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In 1925, Walter Gifford, then president of AT&T, established Bell Telephone Laboratories Inc as a separate entity which took over work previously conducted by the research division of Western Electric's engineering department. Half of Bell Labs was owned by Western Electric, the other half being owned by AT&T. Discoveries and inventions at Bell Labs include: 1925: Facsimile (fax) transmission first demonstrated publicly 1927: Long-distance television transmission, of images of Herbert Hoover, from Washing ...

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Sweden has one of the world's highest life expectancies. As of approximately 12 August 2004, the total population of Sweden for the first time exceeded 9,000,000, according to Statistics Sweden. The country's population includes some 17,000 indigenous Samis. Some 50,000 of the ethnic Finns of Sweden also constitute an indigenous minority, although many more of the Sweden Finns descend from 20th century immigrants. Sweden has been transformed from a nation of emigration ending after World War I to a nation of immigration from Wo ...

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1980 - January. January 1–April 1 - National steel strike in the United Kingdom. January 1 - Changes to the Swedish Act of Succession creates Victoria of Sweden, Crown Princess over her younger brother. January 4 - American president Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. January 5 - Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer. January 7 - President Jimmy Carter authorizes legislation giv ...

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1984 - January. January 1 - Brunei becomes a fully independent state. January 1 - AT&T is broken up into 24 independent units. January 5 - Richard Stallman starts developing GNU. January 7 - Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). January 9 - Clara Peller is featured in the "Where's the Beef?" commercial campaign for Wendy's for the first time. January 10 - The United States and the Va ...

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1933 - January. January 3 - Japanese troops occupy Shanghai January 5 - Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins in San Francisco Bay. January 15 - Political violence has caused almost 100 deaths in Spain January 17 - US Congress votes favorable for Philippines independence, against the view of president Hoover January 30 - Edouard Daladier forms a government in France January 30 - Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by Reich President Paul von Hindenburg. January 30 - The first airing of episode 1 of 2,956 episodes of the radio program ...

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1946 - January. January 2 - Unable to resume his rule over Albania after World War II, King Zog abdicated but retained his claim to the throne. January 4 - Theodore Schurch becomes the last person to be executed for offences committed under the Treachery Act of 1940 January 7 - Allied recognize Austrian republic with 1937 borders - the country is divided into four occupation zones January 10 - First meeting of the United Nations January 10 - Project Diana bounces Radar wa ...

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Stockholm is governed through the municipalities and the Stockholm County. The latter is mainly responsible for healthcare, public transport, including the Stockholm Metro, and some cultural institutions. Stockholm Municipality is further subdivided geographically into 18 district councils or boroughs, which carry responsibility for primary school, social, leisure and cultural services within their respective areas. T ...

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Supernatural phenomena are still being dismissed by the academic community. Influenced by recent breaktroughs leading to an explanation of some mysteries, they have come to the conclusion that science will explain all eventually.

Scientists, who would not dare to trespass in fields outside their speciality for fear of being torn apart by fellow academics, feel free to make all sorts of pronouncements in the media on subjects in the domain of parapsychological research, of which they have no knowledge whatsoever. Like in all other areas of science, parapsychology has narrowed down its research to specialist sectors, hardly anyone daring to voice an opinion on general issues.

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1966 - January. January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. January 2 - Strike of public transportation workers in New York City - ends January 13 January 3 - First Acid Test at the Fillmore, San Francisco January 4 - Military coup in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso). January 4 - Prime ministers of India and Pakistan meet in Moscow January 5 - Fire due to a gas leak in Feyzin oil refi ...

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Main article: Culture of Hungary Hungarian culture is diverse and varied. The music of Hungary consists mainly of traditional Hungarian folk music and music by prominent Romantic and Baroque composers such as Franz Liszt, Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály (although the latter mainly composed music with traditional elements). Hungarian traditional music tends to have a strong dactylic rhythm, just as the language is invariably stressed ...

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Swedish authors of worldwide recognition include Carolus Linnaeus, Emanuel Swedenborg, August Strindberg, Selma Lagerlöf, Vilhelm Moberg, Harry Martinson and Astrid Lindgren. Many well-known inventions and discoveries, historical and modern, were made by Swedes. Some notable figures are Alfred Nobel, Anders Celsius, Baltzar von Platen, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Jöns Jakob Berzelius, John Ericsson, ...

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2000 - January. January 1 - Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world. Y2K passes without the serious, widespread computer failures and malfunctions that had been predicted. January 5-January 8 - The 2000 al-Qaeda Summit was a meeting of several high-level al-Qaeda members including two 9/11 American Airlines Flight 77 hijackers. It was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. January 6 - The last remaining Pyrenean Ibex is found dead. January 10 - America On-line announces a ...

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2000 - January. January 2 - Patrick O'Brian, English writer (b. 1914) January 15 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916) January 19; Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934) Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (b. 1913) 2000 - February. February 9 - Beau Jack, American boxer (b. 1921) February 10 - Jim Varney, Actor (b. 1949) February 11 - Roger Vadim, French film director (b. 1928) Feb ...

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