The June 8, 2000 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♊. It was the 159 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 Monday, June 8, 2026, 11 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, June 8, 2027, in 353 days. You have lived for 9,507 days, or about 228,191 hours, or about 13,691,509 minutes, or about 821,490,540 seconds.
Date: 09 June 2000
By James Barron With Enid Nemy
James With
Peter Jennings, ABC news anchor, complains that television news has a hard time covering a story like Microsoft antitrust case because cameras are not allowed in courtroom and Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson rarely makes public remarks...Eleanor Lambert, fashion doyenne, is honored at luncheon...Wealthy New Yorkers are planning trips to Russia in which cost is no object (M)
Date: 09 June 2000
By Sarah Boxer
Sarah Boxer
Sarah Boxer reviews James Nachtwey's photographs of the living and the dead, chronicling atrocities around world; photos; show is at International Center of Photography (M)
Date: 08 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hanover Compressor Co will acquire compressor leasing unit of Stewart & Stevenson Services Inc for $60 million (S)
Date: 08 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Sunglass Hut International Inc acquires Watch World International Inc for $30 million in cash, stock and debt (S)
Date: 08 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
PNC Financial Services Group Inc will buy from FleetBoston Financial Corp rights to service $5.2 billion in home mortgages, with rights to collect payments on 53,000 mortgages on behalf of such companies as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (S)
Date: 09 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Southern Co, largest electricity producer in the United States, to buy four power plants from Potomac Electric Power Co, for $2.65 billion in cash; plants, three in Maryland and one in Virginia, can produce 5,154 megawatts of electricity (S)
Date: 09 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Peco Energy, owner of Philadelphia's electric utility, buys four closely held power-industry contractors for $95 million in stock and cash. companies, Dashiell Corp, Dacon Corp, Michigan Trenching Service and VSI Group, employ 1,300 people and are expected to have combined revenue of $125 million this year (S)
Date: 08 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Qualcomm Inc signs agreement with China United Telecommunications Corp, China's biggest mobile-phone maker, to provide chipsets, software and technical support (S)
Date: 09 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
National City Corp, Ohio, says it sold $2 billion in student loans as part of move to protect earnings from rising interest rates; says sale will result in second-quarter pretax gain of $75 million; declines to identify buyers (S)
Date: 08 June 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Deutsche Telekom chief executive Ron Sommer defends company's failed $95 billion bid to acquire Telecom Italia in 1999; says he still sees logic in acquisition; lost out to Olivetti; photo (S)