January 2000

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Events

• January 1- Millennium celebrations take place throughout the world. Y2K passes without the serious, widespread computer failures and malfunctions that had been predicted.
• January 1- Unification of Szeged's universities, called University of Szeged.
• January 5-January 8 - The 2000 al-Qaeda Summit
• January 10 - America On-line announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion. This is the largest-ever corporate merger.
• January 11 - The trawler Solway Harvester sinks off the Isle of Man.
• January 14 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats up to 25 years for the 1993
• January 14 - Sport Club Corinthians Paulista from Brazil became the first FIFA Club World Championship winner.
• January 16 - In Sacramento, California a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the state capitol building killing the driver.
• January 19- Three students died and 54 were injured in a dormitory fire at Seton Hall University. Two students were charged with murder and arson for allegedly setting the fire.
• January 30 - The Super Bowl XXXIV took place at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia. The half time adverts featured seventeen dot-com companies (most memorably pets.com) that each paid over $2 million for a 30-second spot.
• January 31 - Dr Harold Shipman is sentenced to life in prison for murder of at least 15 of his patients out of 365 suspected victims.

• Sweden disestablishes the Church of Sweden as the official state religion.

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