Timeline Saturday 1 January 2000

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• 2000 2000: Michael Schumacher Ferrari Schumacher delivered Ferrari's first Drivers' Championship in 21 years, ending the team's longest-ever title drought and becoming an Italian national hero.
• 2000 Dot-com bubble bursts NASDAQ loses 78% of its value The dot-com bubble burst in 2000-2001 as the NASDAQ Composite fell from its peak of 5,048 in March 2000 to 1,114 by October 2002, wiping out $5 trillion in market value.
• 2000 – 2022 Later Career and Animal Advocacy Moved to a ranch in Malibu, California, and became a passionate animal rights advocate. Continued selective modelling work while raising her son Jonah.
• 2000 – 2020 Later French Novels Continued writing novels in French including Ignorance (2000) and The Festival of Insignificance (2015), while fiercely guarding his privacy.
• 2000 Opening of the Millennium Dome Britain marks the new millennium on the Greenwich peninsula The Millennium Dome opened to the public in Greenwich, London, on 1 January 2000 after a New Year's Eve gala attended by the Queen and Prime Minister Tony Blair. Its year-long exhibition drew far fewer visitors than projected and it became a byword for costly public spending. The structure reopened as the O2 Arena in 2007.
• 2000 Screen Debut in Psycho Drama Made his screen acting debut in the short film Psycho Drama.
• 2000 Tony Award for Dame Edna: The Royal Tour Won the Tony Award for his Broadway show Dame Edna: The Royal Tour, marking a high point in his conquest of American audiences.
• 2000 – 2019 Wayne Shorter Quartet Led his own acclaimed quartet featuring pianist Danilo Pérez, bassist John Patitucci and drummer Brian Blade, entering a celebrated late phase of his career.
• 2000 Year 2000 problem passes without major failure A feared computer date bug causes only scattered glitches Governments and companies had spent an estimated hundreds of billions of dollars since the mid-1990s rewriting software that stored calendar years as two digits. As clocks rolled into 1 January 2000, only minor and localised faults were reported around the world. Debate continues over whether the smooth transition vindicated the remediation effort or showed the danger had been overstated.