Portal:Current events/February 2000

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February 2000 was the second month of that century leap year. The month, which began on a Tuesday, ended on a Tuesday after 29 days.

Portal:Current events[edit]

This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from February 2000.

February 6, 2000 (Sunday)

Tarja Halonen is elected the first Finnish female president.

February 12, 2000 (Saturday)

Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Tom Landry, Charles M. Schulz, and Oliver die, of unrelated causes.

February 13, 2000 (Sunday)

Final original Peanuts comic strip is published.

February 16, 2000 (Wednesday)

Archbishop Desmond Tutu makes an address at the University of Toronto. (University of Toronto)
UMBC's Poetry Symposium takes place, with the participation of poets Linda Pastan, Michael Harper, Ray Gonzalez, Leo Connellan, Forrest Gander, Derrick Gilbert, Terence Winch, and Michael Fallon. (UMBC)

February 29, 2000 (Tuesday)

This leap day is the last in a turn-of-the-century leap year until February 29, 2400.
Six-year-old Dedrick Owens shoots and kills Kayla Rolland, also six years old, at Theo J. Buell Elementary School in Mount Morris Township, Michigan. Rolland is currently the youngest victim of a school shooting. (CNN)

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