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Cost of Living 2000

How Much things cost in 2000
Average Cost of new house $134,150.00
Average Income per year $40,343.00
Average Monthly Rent $675.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.26
Average cost of new car $24,750.00
US Postage Stamp 33 cents
1 LB of Bacon $2.97
Ground Coffee per LB $3.44
Loaf of Bread $1.72
Dozen Eggs 89 cents
Barrel Of Oil Tops $30.00 per barrel



What Events Happened in 2000

• The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing Civil Unions for same-sex couples.
• The Tate Modern opens in London.
• The new Millennium Bridge across the Thames is opens and is closed due to safety fears.
• Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 5 on the ground.
• The UK fuel protests take place, with refineries blockaded, and supply to the country's network of petrol stations halted
• Divers discover the ancient port of Alexandria the home of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony
• 300 gallons of black sludge is released into the Mississippi River causing an environmental disaster
• In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole is badly damaged by two suicide bombers
• Pope John Paul II visits Israel prayed for forgiveness of the sins of those involved in the Holocaust
• California suffers the first of two years of Rolling Blackouts
• The use of mobile phones continues to grow as mobile phones move from the perceived"Yuppie Device" to an essential consumer product.
• President Robert Mugabe pressed on with his plan to remove Zimbabwe's farms from white ownership.
• Mexican voters vote for Vicente Fox as president
• A fire at the Childers Palace Backpackers Hostel in the town of Childers, in Queensland, Australia leaves 15 backpackers dead
• The UK is hit by one of the worst snow storms in the last 50 years bringing public transport to a halt
• The Lifespan in US is now 77.5 years
• Mad Cow Disease causes alarm in Europe due to it's growth
• America Online and Time Warner Combine
• The Summer Olympics are held in Sydney Australia
• A cable car taking skiers up to a glacier in Austria catches fire in a mountain tunnel killing 156
• Hillary Clinton is elected to the US Senate
• Control of the Panama Canal joining the Pacific and Atlantic oceans is handed over to Panama after 75 years of US control
• An earthquake measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale strikes the western island of Sumatra, Indonesia
• Tiger Woods becomes the youngest player to win a Grand Slam in Golf
• Ken Livingstone is elected as London's first elected mayor
• U.S. presidential election, 2000 Republican challenger George W. Bush defeats Democrat Vice President Al Gore, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.

Popular Culture 2000

• The popular show Big Brother is broadcast on German private channel RTLH and captures worldwide media interest
  
• The Latest Harry Potter Book Is Published "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire"

Popular Films

• How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
  
• Cast Away
  
• Mission: Impossible II
  
• Gladiator
  
• What Women Want
  
• The Perfect Storm
  
• Meet the Parents
  
• X-Men
  
• Scary Movie
  
• What Lies Beneath
  
• Gladiator
  
• Erin Brockovich
  
• Billy Elliot
  

Popular Musicians

• Lenny Kravitz
  
• Blink-182
  
• U2
  
• All Saints
  
• N Sync
  
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
  
• Madonna
  
• Faith Hill
  
• Dandy Warhols
  
• Oasis
  
• Bon Jovi
  
• Robbie Williams
  
• Kylie Minogue
  
• Ronan Keating
  
• Santana
  
• Manic Street Preachers
  
• Britney Spears
  
• Robbie Williams
  
• Craig David
  
• The Eurythmics
  
• R.E.M.
  
• Pink
  
• Coldplay

Technology 2000

• The Concerns over Y2K passes without the serious, widespread computer failures and malfunctions that had been predicted
• Microsoft releases Windows 2000.
• AOL and Time Warner Merge
• The Dot Com Bubble Bursts and thousands of DotComs go bust
• One American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts prepare for 4 month stay on the international space station,
• The Worlds largest Ferris Wheel or Observation Wheel ( The London Eye ) is opened
• According to NASA the hole in the Ozone layer over Antarctica has increased by .62 sq miles to 17 square miles in just 12 months
• Mars Odyssey is launched
• The NASDAQ peaks at 5132.52 just before the dot com bubble bursts.
• It is agreed by European Airbus Consortium to go ahead with plans to build the worlds largest passenger plane the Airbus A3xx , it will accommodate up to 656 passengers.
• A destructive computer virus ILOVEYOU spread by e-mail shuts down computers world wide
• First Draft of Human Genome handed over to society