Editing 2000

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==Events==
*February 27 - Colombian Army general Crispiniano Quiñones Quiñones is assassinated in La Vega, Colombia by members of [[FARC]].
*February 29 - 6-year old [[Dedrick Owens]] shoots and kills his classmate Kayla Rolland, making him to be the youngest school shooter.
*March 17 - A church in Kanungu, Uganda belonging to the [[Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God]] erupts in flames, killing 530 of the Movement's followers in a fire that was believed to have been deliberately set by the Movement's leaders, [[Credonia Mwerinde]] and [[Joseph Kibweteere]]. Ugandan authorities find similar mass murder sites all over Uganda during a weeklong investigation, with over 900 of the Movement's followers being killed overall. Mwerinde and Kibweteere's bodies were not found, and authorities believed that they survived the mass murder and fled into hiding. 
*April 18 - 10 year old Candace Newmaker dies of suffocation after a attachment therapy went wrong. [[Connell Watkins|the]] [[Julie Ponder|preparators]] [[Brita St. Clair|were]] [[Jack McDaniel|charged]] [[Jeane Newmaker|the year later]]
*April 22 - [[Paul Kagame]] is sworn in as President of Rwanda following the resignation of his predecessor Pasteur Bizimungu.
*May 17 - [[Foday Sankoh]] is indicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone for [[war crimes]] and [[crimes against humanity]] committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
*June 30 - [[David Copeland]] is sentenced to six consecutive life terms in prison for his role in the 1999 London nail bombings.
*July 17 - [[Bashar al-Assad]] is sworn in as President of Syria after the death of his father, [[Hafez al-Assad]].
*July 19 - [[Andrew Hall]] kills his 12 year old daughter, Emma, and tries to kill his wife, Karen, and son, James.
*September 28 - Beginning of the [[Second Intifada]].
*September 30 - The [[FDLR|Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda]] is founded.
*October 7 - [[Slobodan Milošević]] resigns from the presidency of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
*October 7 - [[Hezbollah]] launches a raid against Israeli military personnel stationed on the Lebanon-Golan Heights border. Three soldiers were kidnapped and later killed.
*October 12 - [[Bombing of the USS Cole|The USS ''Cole'' is bombed]] by [[Al-Qaeda]] while refueling in Yemen's Aden harbor.
*November 22 - [[Alberto Fujimori]] flees to Japan to avoid being prosecuted for corruption and human rights violations; he is impeached ''in absentia'' by the Peruvian Congress.
*December 6 - [[Chan Man-lok]] and [[Leung Shing-cho|his]] [[Leung Wai-lun|accomplices]] are given life in prison for the murder of Fan Man-yee.
*December 14 - [[Toni Lawrence]] is released from prison.

==Births==

=== Villains births ===
*February 18 - [[Amy Inita Joyner Francis's Murderers|Zion Snow]]
*March 3 - [[Chet Goldstein]]
*May 2 - [[Vladislav Roslyakov]]
*May 20 - [[Anderson Lee Aldrich]]
*June 9 - [[Lamar Cruz]]
*June 16 - [[Tay-K]]
*June 29 - [[Paul Bryant Sr.]] (also known as GeminiOfficial)
*September 20 - [[Robert Crimo]]
*September 21 - [[Devon Erikson]]
*October 12 - [[Dimitrios Pagourtzis]]
*Unknown - [[Timothy Crump]]
*Unknown - [[Viktoria Kuznetsova]]
*Unknown - [[Cassandra Bjorge]]
*Unknown - [[Amy Inita Joyner Francis's Murderers|Trinity Carr]]
*Unknown - [[Amy Inita Joyner Francis's Murderers|Chakeira Wright]]

=== Victims births ===
* Janruary 1 - Kieth Absalon
*February 3 - Brittney Lupoe
*February 22 - Zoe Galasso 
* February 25 - Daniel Benoit
* March 8 - Amy Joyner-Francis
*March 20 - Emma Walker
*March 24 - Nicholas Dworet 
*March 26 - Shaylee Chuckulnaski
*March 31 - Gia Soriano  
*April 8 - Casey Marquez
*April 17 - Paige Doherty 
*April 23 - Phoenix Sinclair
*May 12 - Braxton Hebert
* May 26 - Kian delos Santos
*May 26 - Nubia Barahona
*June 7 - Francisco Fernandez
*June 22 - Aniah Blanchard
*June 28 - Zaevion Dobson
*July 24 - Ame Deal
*July 27 - Alaina Housley
*August 4 - Joaquin Oliver
*September 30 - Astuna Basterra
*October 5 - Amara Schaffhausen
*October 16 - Samantha and Tessara Crespi
*October 19 - Rebecca Ann Sedwick
* October 27 - Daunte Wright
* November 30 - Mary Yates
*November 30 - Jonathan James
*December 2 - Ashlynn Conner

==Deaths==
===Villain deaths===
*March 1 - [[Odell Barnes, Jr.]]
*March 13 - [[Ayhan Kartal]]
*March 15 - [[Timothy Gribble]] & [[Darrell Keith Rich]]
*March 16 - [[Herta Bothe]]
*April 2 - [[Tommaso Buscetta]]
*April 19 - [[Robert Glen Coe]]
*April 29 - [[Phạm Văn Đồng]]
*May 2 - [[Christina Marie Riggs]]
*June 10 - [[Hafez al-Assad]]
*August - [[Augustin Bizimana]]
*September 19 - [[Pastor Milciades Coronel]]
*September 26 - [[Aleksandras Lileikis]]

===Victim deaths===
*February 25 - Victoria Climbié
*February 27 - Crispiniano Quiñones Quiñones
*February 29 - John Price
*February 29 - Kayla Rolland
*March 17 - Ricky Kinchen
*April 18 - Candace Newmaker
*July 19 - Emma Hall
*August 3 - Iriana DeJesus