The January 20, 2000 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 19 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 26 years old. Your last birthday was on the Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 155 days ago. Your next birthday is on Wednesday, January 20, 2027, in 209 days. You have lived for 9,652 days, or about 231,653 hours, or about 13,899,182 minutes, or about 833,950,920 seconds.
Date: 21 January 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
News Corporation wins right to establish Bulgaria's first nationwide private television station and to broadcast in country for 15 years, giving company foothold in Balkan region; News Corp says it will invest initial $15 million in Bulgaria (S)
Date: 20 January 2000
By Glenn Collins
Glenn Collins
A M Rosenthal, who departed The New York Times last November after 55 years as reporter, foreign correspondent, editor and columnist, will be writing weekly column for The Daily News starting next month (S)
Date: 21 January 2000
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
New York Times and ABC News agree to share news coverage in several fields, with information to be delivered on television and over Internet; arrangement, announced jointly by Arthur Sulzberger Jr, publisher of The Times, and David Westin, president of ABC News, will include creation of daily 15-minute video report on politics to be delivered on each organization's World Wide Web site; program, entitled Political Points, will begin Jan 17 with coverage of Iowa presidential caucuses; deal calls for The Times to participate in producing reports for ABC's 20/20 news magazine and morning program, Good Morning America; Bill Keller, managing editor of The Times, says deal is essentially limited to this political season (M)
Date: 20 January 2000
By Bill Carter
Bill Carter
Alfred I duPont-Columbia University Awards for broadcast journalism are announced; Bill Moyers and his production company Public Affairs Television receive top award for program on South Africa (M)
Date: 20 January 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Article discusses how series of executive and ownership changes at The Daily News and elsewhere in publishing and printing empire of Mortimer B Zuckerman and Fred Drasner have served to raise questions concerning partnership of Zuckerman and Drasner; photo (M)
Date: 21 January 2000
By Celestine Bohlen
Celestine Bohlen
After four months of war in north Caucasus, serious doubts have been raised about Russian military's official death count--by media, by experts, by soldiers' families and by Russian soldiers themselves, who have taken to yelling out higher death tolls to reporters visiting sites of recent battles (M)
Date: 21 January 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
VitriSeal Inc agrees to buy Thermoflow Corp and Liquitek Corp for combined $86.4 million in stock (S)
Date: 21 January 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Concord Communications Inc acquires FirstSense Software Inc for $101 million in stock (S)
Date: 21 January 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Swedish Match AB offers to buy 64 percent stake in General Cigar Holdings Inc for $170 million (S)
Date: 21 January 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dexter Corp offers $49 a share for 28.5 percent of Life Technologies Inc it does not already own; it is latest attempt to buy out a stake in the company held by its rival, International Specialty Products Inc; offer values Life Technology at $1.24 billion (S)