October 2000 in History

Events in History

Oct 5 Mass demonstrations in Belgrade culminate in the resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milošević, often called the Bulldozer Revolution

Oct 6 President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Slobodan Milošević resigns
Oct 11 The 100th Space Shuttle mission (STS-92) is flown
Oct 12 American destroyer USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39

Oct 15 Museo de Antioquia re-opens in Medellín, Columbia, featuring works and sculptures donated by Medellín-born artist Fernando Botero

Oct 17 Train crash at Hatfield, north of London, leading to collapse of Railtrack
Oct 25 A team led by Brigitte Senut and Martin Pickford discover Orrorin tugenensis, one of the earliest species on the human family tree that lived about 6 million years ago, in the Tugen Hills, Kenya
Oct 26 Laurent Gbagbo takes over as president of Côte d'Ivoire following a popular uprising against President Robert Guéï. Bret Hart retires.
Oct 31 A chartered Antonov An-26 explodes after takeoff in Northern Angola killing 50
Oct 31 A Singapore Airlines Boeing 747-400 operating as Flight 006 collides with construction equipment upon takeoff in Taipei, Taiwan killing 79 passengers and four crew members
Oct 31 The last Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) machine shut down

Oct 6 Jazz Jennings, American transgender activist, born in South Florida (probable date)

Oct 1 Reginald Kray "Reggie", British gangster, one of the Kray Twins, dies of cancer at 66
Oct 3 John Grant, British politician (b. 1932)
Oct 4 Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist (Nobel 1993- Site-directed mutagenesis), dies at 68
Oct 4 Yu Kuo-hwa, former Premier of Taiwan (b. 1914)
Oct 5 Keith Roberts, English writer (Irish Encounter, Ladies from Hell), dies at 65
Oct 5 Sidney R. Yates, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois), dies at 91
Oct 6 William Putnam Bundy, American attorney and intelligence expert (9th Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs), dies at 83
Oct 9 Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1918)
Oct 10 Bruce F. Vento, American politician (Rep-D-Minnesota, 1977-2000), dies of cancer at 60

Oct 10 Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (1960-65, 1970-77 and 1994-2000) and 1st female head of state, dies of a heart attack at 84

Oct 11 Donald Campbell Dewar, Scottish politician (1st minister of Scotland's first Parliament in almost 300yrs), dies from health complications at 63
Oct 13 Gus Hall, American union organizer and head of the U.S. Communist Party, dies at 90
Oct 15 Konrad Emil Bloch, German-American biochemist, (1964 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work on cholesterol), dies at 88
Oct 16 Mel Carnahan, American politician (b. 1934)
Oct 25 Don Brooks, American session and touring harmonica player (Waylon Jennings; Ken Burns' "The Civil War"), dies of leukemia at 53