Timeline July 2000

Events in July 2000 15

• 1915 – 2000 John Tukey (1915-2000) Died 26 July 2000, aged 85 The American mathematician John Tukey developed the fast Fourier transform algorithm with James Cooley and pioneered exploratory data analysis, introducing the box plot and the stem-and-leaf display. He coined the word "bit" and is generally credited with coining "software". He advised the United States government on matters from polling to nuclear-test detection.
• 1920 – 2000 Walter Matthau (1920-2000) Died 1 July 2000, aged 79 Walter Matthau was an American actor known for his hangdog face and gravelly delivery, often paired with Jack Lemmon in films such as The Odd Couple and Grumpy Old Men. He won an Academy Award for The Fortune Cookie in 1966. His career ran from Broadway to Hitchcock to broad comedy.
• 1921 – 2000 Harold Nicholas (1921-2000) American dancer, one of the Nicholas Brothers, famous for acrobatic tap routines.
• 2000 Wimbledon 2000 Men: Pete Sampras · Women: Venus Williams Venus Williams' first Wimbledon title.
• 2000 Wins The Open Championship, completes career Grand Slam Youngest player to complete the career Slam Woods won The Open Championship at St Andrews by eight strokes, becoming, at 24, the youngest golfer to complete the career Grand Slam of all four major championships. The victory cemented his place among the greatest players ever to compete in the sport.
• 2000 – present Øresund Bridge Link to Sweden A combined railway and motorway bridge connecting Copenhagen to Malmö, Sweden.
• 2000 France win UEFA Euro 2000 A golden goal beats Italy in the Rotterdam final France defeated Italy 2-1 in the final of the European Football Championship on 2 July at De Kuip in Rotterdam, with Sylvain Wiltord equalising in stoppage time and David Trezeguet scoring the golden goal in extra time. The tournament, co-hosted by Belgium and the Netherlands, is often rated among the best ever. France now held the World and European titles at once.
• 2000 UEFA Euro 2000 title France wins the European Championship, Zidane named Player of the Tournament Zidane inspired France to victory at Euro 2000, defeating Italy 2-1 in the final in Rotterdam via a golden goal from David Trezeguet. He scored a memorable extra-time golden-goal penalty against Portugal in the semifinal and was named Player of the Tournament. The triumph made France the first team since West Germany in 1974 to hold both the World Cup and European Championship simultaneously.
• 2000 Vicente Fox wins the Mexican presidency An election ends 71 years of one-party rule On 2 July 2000 Vicente Fox of the National Action Party won Mexico's presidential election, ending 71 consecutive years in power for the Institutional Revolutionary Party. It was the first time since 1929 that an opposition candidate had taken the presidency. Fox was inaugurated that December.
• 2000 Harold Nicholas dies in New York Harold Nicholas dies aged 79.
• 2000 The Camp David Summit on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Clinton hosts Barak and Arafat but no deal is reached From 11 to 25 July 2000 President Bill Clinton hosted Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at Camp David in a bid for a final peace settlement. The talks collapsed over Jerusalem, refugees and borders, with each side blaming the other. The failure preceded the outbreak of the Second Intifada that autumn.
• 2000 – present Erling Haaland The Terminator The modern goalscoring phenomenon who broke the Premier League single-season scoring record.
• 2000 Crash of Air France Concorde Flight 4590 A supersonic airliner catches fire on take-off near Paris On 25 July 2000 an Air France Concorde bound for New York ran over metal debris on the runway at Charles de Gaulle Airport, bursting a tyre whose fragments ruptured a fuel tank. The aircraft caught fire and crashed into a hotel at Gonesse, killing all 109 aboard and four on the ground. It was the only fatal Concorde accident, and the type was retired in 2003.
• 2000 A court orders Napster to block copyrighted music A recording-industry lawsuit targets music file sharing In late July 2000 a United States federal judge granted the recording industry a preliminary injunction against Napster, the peer-to-peer service that let users trade MP3 files freely. The order was briefly stayed on appeal, but the courts ultimately upheld it and Napster shut down its network in 2001. The case shaped a decade of legal conflict over digital music.
• 2000 X-Men Superhero era begins — $296m worldwide Directed by Bryan Singer, starring Hugh Jackman. The first major X-Men film launched the Marvel superhero franchise era.