Timeline Sunday 31 December 2000

Events on Sunday 31 December 2000 8

• 1982 – 2000 Peak Syndication At his peak, his daily cartoons appeared in over 500 publications worldwide, a reach unmatched by any other editorial cartoonist. His horizontal format, inspired by cinema, allowed dynamic action scenes that transformed the art form.
• 1990 – 2000 Acting and Friendship with Dupieux Met future filmmaker and musician Quentin Dupieux as a teenager. Began his career as an actor, appearing in Dupieux's experimental medium-length film Nonfilm (2002) and later in his feature Steak (2007).
• 1998 – 2000 State Enterprise Reform Closed down tens of thousands of inefficient state-owned enterprises, costing millions of workers their jobs. The painful reforms helped transform China's economy from a bloated state-run system into a more competitive, market-oriented powerhouse.
• 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 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.