At A Glance
10 April 2000 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 10 April 2000 was a Monday.
- ARIA No. 1
- The ARIA No. 1 was “Bye Bye Bye” by *NSYNC.
- Top Film of 2000
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2000 was Mission: Impossible 2.
- Best-Selling Vehicle of 2000
- Australia's top-selling new vehicle in 2000 was the Holden Commodore.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 10 April is Aries.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 10 April 2000 fell in the Year of the Dragon.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for April is Diamond.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 10 April 2000 was Waxing Crescent.
On this day: 10 April
- 1972 Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
- 1991 A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola, the first to be documented by satellites.
- 1998 The Good Friday Agreement is signed in Northern Ireland.
- 2009 President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces the abrogation of the constitution and assumes all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
- 2016 An earthquake of 6.6 magnitude strikes 39 km west-southwest of Ashkasham, impacting India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Srinagar and Pakistan.
Famous people born on 10 April
- Charlie Hunnam, English actor (born 1980)
- Daisy Ridley, English actress (born 1992)
- Haley Joel Osment, American actor (born 1988)
- Mandy Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1984)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2000 in Australia
A selection from Wikipedia's '2000 in Australia'. Not a complete list.
- 1 January – Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic releases Care Australia worker Branko Jeken from imprisonment in Serbia.
- 5 February – The Woodridge state by-election and Bundamba state by-election are held in Queensland. Labor MP Mike Kaiser wins the seat of Woodridge.
- 20 March – Queensland Premier Peter Beattie announces that State Cabinet has approved a $30 million deal to exclude trawling from 35 percent of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and reduce the fish catch from the reef by 15 percent.
Life in Australia in 2000
Prime Minister
John Howard
Monarch
Queen Elizabeth II
Petrol (per litre)
$0.85
Loaf of Bread
$2.00
Average House
$165,000
Weekly Wage
$820.00
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Famous Faces Born in the 2000s
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