The December 31, 2000 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 365 day of the year. President of the United States was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
If you were born on this day, you are 25 years old. Your last birthday was on the Wednesday, December 31, 2025, 177 days ago. Your next birthday is on Thursday, December 31, 2026, in 187 days. You have lived for 9,308 days, or about 223,392 hours, or about 13,403,530 minutes, or about 804,211,800 seconds.
Date: 01 January 2001
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
CNN's switch to talk programs from highly produced network-style programs is seen as step in right direction in view of mounting competition from Fox News Channel and MSNBC; photo (M)
Date: 31 December 2000
By Tom Callahan
Tom Callahan
Iona College is trying to gain national accreditation for its mass communications program; photo (M)
Date: 01 January 2001
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Saudi Arabia and its partners in six-member Gulf Cooperation Council call for oil output cuts at OPEC's next meeting on Jan 17 in order to raise prices (M)
Date: 31 December 2000
Letter from Paul Herbert says Margaret Talbot's Dec 10 essay on criticizing Katherine Harris's appearance failed to note that women aligned with Republican Party are seen by journalists as fair game for ridicule
Date: 31 December 2000
INTERNATIONAL 3-13 Resistance Grows To Mideast Peace Plan As Israelis and Palestinians examine how the broad outlines of President Clinton's unwritten peace proposal might actually look on the ground, widespread opposition is emerging in both communities. 1
Date: 01 January 2001
INTERNATIONAL A2-6 U.S. Signs Treaty Creating World Court for Atrocities The United States signed a treaty establishing a permanent international criminal tribunal, after President Clinton overrode objections from the Pentagon and defied Republicans in the Senate. Mr. Clinton's decision is not binding without Senate approval, but it is an endorsement of the treaty's goals. A1 Kahane's Son Killed in Ambush Binyamin Kahane, left, a radical right-wing settler and son of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, was killed along with his wife in an ambush in the West Bank. Soft-spoken and introverted, Binyamin Kahane seemed an unlikely heir to the virulently anti-Arab legacy of his fiercely outspoken father. Hours after the attack Israeli soldiers killed a senior Palestinian health official, Dr. Thabet Thabet. The killings, which did not appear to be related, highlighted the fragility of this tense moment, when a time-bound American peace proposal is under active consideration and a surge of retaliatory violence could cloud the already troubled deliberations. A1
Date: 01 January 2001
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Date: 31 December 2000
Rachel Anne Croyle and Henry David Schwartz were married on Friday by a clerk at the Municipal Building in New York. Today, they will have a family ceremony in the Skylight Ballroom of the Puck Building in New York led by Robin Brooks-Rigolosi, a minister of the Universal Life Church, who played a role in bringing the couple together. Mrs. Schwartz, 30, was until last week a student teacher at Public School 3 in Greenwich Village. She graduated cum laude from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and returned to school to receive a master's degree in elementary education from New York University this month. Before that, she was a television news producer for CBS Newspath, a CBS affiliate news service in New York. She is a daughter of Diane Croyle and Dr. Larry Croyle of Pittsburgh. Her mother is a teacher at the Northmont Child Development Center and her father is a retired administrator of psychological services for the North Allegheny School District, both in Pittsburgh.
Date: 31 December 2000
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