Unix Timestamp: 947289600
Saturday, January 8. 2000, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Several people are killed in clashes with security forces in Southern Sudan, a day before the independence referendum. //english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/01/20111813935854947.html (Al Jazeera)

The Togo national football team is involved in an attack in Angola, and as a result withdraws from the Africa Cup of Nations.

One person is killed and several are injured after gunmen open fire on a bus carrying the Togo national football team to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations in Angola. //news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8449319.stm (BBC) //soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=722453sec=globalcaign=rsssource=soccernetcc=5739 (ESPN) //www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/6953884/Togo-we-cannot-play-after-this-bloodshed.html ("The Daily Telegraph") //www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/08/togo-football-team-ambushed-angola ("The Guardian")

An attempted assassination of Maldivian president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom is thwarted after a Boy Scout grabs the attacker's knife. The Boy Scout is injured, but after a scuffle police arrest the attacker.

Mounir El Motassadeq is sentenced by a court in Hamburg, Germany to 15 years in jail for his role in the planning of the September 11, 2001 attacks. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6242867.stm (BBC)

Russian oil supplies to Poland, Germany, and Ukraine are cut as the Russia-Belarus energy dispute escalates. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6240473.stm (BBC)

Russian oil supplies to Poland, Germany, and Ukraine are cut as the Russia-Belarus energy dispute escalates they are restored 3 days later.

Elizabeth II christens the "RMS Queen Mary 2" cruise liner, the largest passenger ship afloat. The ship sets sail on her maiden voyage four days later.

Air Midwest airplane crashes during take off from Charlotte, North Carolina's international airport, killing all 21 people aboard. The plane, headed to Greer, South Carolina, was not able to maintain altitude after take-off, crashing onto a US Airways plane hangar. In another crash, in Turkey, at least 74 of the 77 people on board died when a plane of the Turkish Airlines company, crashed while attempting an emergency landing at the Diyarbakır airport.

US Airways Express Flight 5481 crashes at Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, killing all 21 people aboard.

The No Child Left Behind Act is signed into law by U.S. President George W. Bush.

Michael Jordan's wife files for divorce.

Noah, a gaur, is born, the first animal of an endangered species to be cloned.

Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the first World Trade Center bombing.

A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital Kinshasa, killing 300.

"Soyuz TM-18": Valeri Polyakov begins his 437.7 day orbit, eventually setting the world record for days spent in orbit.

The Irish government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the Provisional Irish Republican Army and its political arm Sinn Féin.

"The Superhighway Summit" is held at UCLA's Royce Hall. It is the first conference to discuss the growing information superhighway and is presided over by U.S. Vice President Al Gore.

George H. W. Bush is televised falling violently ill at a state dinner in Japan, vomiting into the lap of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and fainting.

Kegworth Air Disaster: A British MidlandBoeing 737 crashes on approach to East Midlands Airport, leaving 47 dead.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes for the first time above 2,000, gaining 8.30 to close at 2,002.25.

ATT agrees to divest itself into 22 subdivisions.

The French tanker "Betelgeuse" explodes at the Gulf Oil terminal at Bantry, Ireland 50 are killed.

Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September.

BritishPrime MinisterHarold Wilson endorses the 'I'm Backing Britain' caign for working an additional half hour each day without pay.ref name=Wilson after-dinner speechJohn Chartres, Wilson Joins 'I Back Britain', "The Times", 9 January 1968, p. 1.

Vietnam War: Operation Cedar Falls starts.

In his first State of the Union Address, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declares a War on Poverty.

George C. Wallace becomes governor of Alabama. In his inaugural speech, he defiantly proclaims segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever!//www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wallace/timeline/index_2.html The American Experience: George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire: Timeline (1952 ndash 1972), "Public Broadcasting Service", 2000Michael J. Klarman. //www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-03/brown.html "Brown v. Board": 90 Years Later, "Humanities: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities", //www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-03/contents.html March/April 2004

Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C..

The locomotive "Flying Scotsman" (British Railways No. 60103) makes its last scheduled run, before going into the hands of Alan Pegler for preservation.

Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the worst Dutch rail disaster.

In France, a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies on independence for Algeria.

Caves of Nerja are discovered in Spain.

Motown Records founded by Berry Gordy, Jr.

Charles De Gaulle is inaugurated as the first president of the French Fifth Republic.

14-year-old Bobby Fischer wins the United States Chess Chionship.

Armed Lumbee Indians confront a handful of Klansmen in Maxton, North Carolina.

The first of Leonard Bernstein's "Young People's Concerts" with the New York Philharmonic is telecast by CBS. The Emmy-winning series (one concert approximately every three months except for the summer) will run for more than fourteen years. It will make Bernstein's name a household word, and the most famous conductor in the U.S.

Operation Auca: Five U.S. missionaries Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming are killed for tresspassing by the Waodani of Ecuador shortly after making contact with them.

West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders.

WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in Northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces.

Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.

The Social Democratic Youth League of Norway is founded.

Woodrow Wilson delivers his Fourteen Points speech.

The African National Congress is founded.

A train collision in the New York Central Railroad's Park Avenue Tunnel kills 17, injures 38, and leads to increased demand for electric trains and led to the banning of Steam locomotives in the state.

President William McKinley of the United States places Alaska under military governance.

SK Rapid Wien is founded.

Herman Hollerith receives a patent for his electric tabulating machine in the United States.

American Indian Wars ndash Battle of Wolf Mountain: Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry in Montana.

African-American men are granted the right to vote in the District of Columbia.

Borax deposits are discovered in large quantities by John Veatch.

Taiping Rebellion: Zeng Guofan is ordered to assist the governor of Hunan in organising a militia force to search for local bandits.

The United States public debt contracts to $0 for the only time in history//www.publicdebt.treas.gov/history/history.htm www.publicdebt.treas.gov

After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society with only one vote against him.

February ndash The Hartford Convention arrives in Washington DC.

War of 1812 ndash Battle of New Orleans: American forces under General Andrew Jackson defeat an invading British force.

An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslandes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.

Cape Colony becomes a Britishcolony.

Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.

George Frideric Handel's opera "Ariodante" is premièred at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.

Salzburgers, Lutherans who were expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg, Austria, in October 1731, set sail for the British Colony of Georgia, in America.

Miles Sindercombe and his group of disaffected Levellers are betrayed in their attempt to assassinate Oliver Cromwell by blowing up the Palace of Whitehall in London and arrested.ref name=british-civil-wars timelines

Michiel de Ruyter marries the widow Anna van Gelder and plans retirement, but months later becomes a vice-commodore in the First Anglo-Dutch War.

The Jesuit educational plan known as the "Ratio Studiorum" is issued.

Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany, in accordance with a law set by his predecessor, Charles VIII.

The present Royal Netherlands Navy is formed by decree of Maximillian of Austria.

Pope Nicholas V publishes "Romanus Pontifex", an encyclical addressed to King Afonso V of Portugal, which sanctions the conquest of non-Christian lands, and the reduction of native non-Christian populations to 'perpetual slavery'.

The forces of Francesco Grimaldi storm the castle of Monaco.

Pope Innocent III succeeds Pope Celestine III as the 176th pope. He immediately lays an interdict on Laon in an attempt to st out independent beliefs there. This will be followed by interdicts against France in 1199 and Normandy in 1203.

Emperor Jin Huidi dies after a 16-year reign in which eight dukes of the imperial family have conducted a civil war (War of the Eight Princes) against each other in a struggle for power. Jin Huaidi, age 23, succeeds his father and becomes third emperor of the Jin Dynasty.