At A Glance

10 April 2000 at a glance

Day of the week
10 April 2000 was a Monday.
UK Number One
The UK Number One single was “Fill Me In” by Craig David.
Top Film of 2000
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2000 was Mission: Impossible 2.
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)

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Events of 2000 in the United Kingdom

A selection from Wikipedia's '2000 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

  • 4 May – London mayoral election: Ken Livingstone, standing as an independent, becomes the first directly elected Mayor of London defeating Steve Norris, the Conservative Party candidate in second place; and Frank Dobson, the Labour Party candidate in third place.
  • 12 May – The Tate Modern art museum is opened to the public in London.
  • 10 June – The much-anticipated Millennium Bridge across the Thames in London opens to the public, but has to close after it starts swaying.
More events of 2000 →Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Life in 2000

Prime Minister

Tony Blair

Monarch

Elizabeth II

Pint of Beer

£1.80

Loaf of Bread

72p

Average House

£89,597

Weekly Wage

£458.00

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