The February 29, 2000 was a Tuesday under the star sign of ♓. It was the 59 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 Saturday, February 28, 2026, 112 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, February 28, 2027, in 252 days. You have lived for 9,608 days, or about 230,601 hours, or about 13,836,104 minutes, or about 830,166,240 seconds.
Date: 29 February 2000
By Deborah Sontag
Deborah Sontag
Stormy debate erupts in Israel after newspaper Haaretz reports late pop diva Ofra Haza, popular among Israeli elite and working class as well as internationally, had died of complications from AIDS; centers on whether paper crudely violated her privacy and journalistic ethics, or whether it had done public service by refusing to treat AIDS as illness whose name cannot be spoken (M)
Date: 29 February 2000
By Marjorie Connelly
Marjorie Connelly
New York Times/CBS News Poll finds battle for Republican presidential nomination remains tight in New York State and that most voters might still change their minds; finds 46 percent of voters support Gov George W Bush and 36 percent Sen John McCain, with Alan Keyes preferred by 3 percent; 15 percent remains undecided (S)
Date: 29 February 2000
By Marjorie Connelly
Marjorie Connelly
New York Times/CBS News Poll finds that half of all adults in New York State disagree with verdict acquitting four New York City police officers in shooting death of Amadou Diallo (M)
Date: 01 March 2000
By Michael R. Gordon
Michael Gordon
Radio Liberty reporter Andrei Babitsky returns to Moscow over month after he disappeared in Chechnya, and says he and others had been beaten in Russian camp (M)
Date: 01 March 2000
By Patrick E. Tyler
Patrick Tyler
Russian military, which been trying to retake southern Chechnya region from separatists, guides journalists and European officials through Chernokozovo prison in effort to refute allegations of brutality and torture that former inmates have made to human rights organizations; map; photo (M)
Date: 29 February 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sonic Foundry Inc plans to buy STV Communications Inc for $66 million in stock (S)
Date: 29 February 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
NetIQ Corp acquires rival Mission Critical Software Inc for $1.3 billion in stock (S)
Date: 01 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Jupiter Communications Inc acquires Net Market Makers and Internet Research Group for $20 million in cash and $30.6 million in stock; Jupiter does not say how much it is paying for each acquisition (S)
Date: 01 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
SDL Inc acquires Veritech Microwave Inc for $590 million in stock (S)
Date: 01 March 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Bracknell Corp agrees to buy Sunbelt Integrated Trade Services Inc for at least $127 million (S)