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28 May 2000 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 28 May 2000 was a Sunday.
- ARIA No. 1
- The ARIA No. 1 was “Say My Name” by Destiny's Child.
- 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 28 May is Gemini.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 28 May 2000 fell in the Year of the Dragon.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for May is Emerald.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 28 May 2000 was Waning Crescent.
On this day: 28 May
- 1996 U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas, Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
- 1998 Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.
- 1999 In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
- 2002 The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City.
- 2004 The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
Famous people born on 28 May
- Kylie Minogue, Australian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress (born 1968)
- Carey Mulligan, English actress (born 1985)
- Marco Rubio, American lawyer and politician (born 1971)
- Cameron Boyce, American actor (1999–2019)
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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
Well-known people born in the same decade as you, not on your birthday.
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