At A Glance
28 September 2000 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 28 September 2000 was a Thursday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Music” by Madonna.
- Top Film of 2000
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2000 was Mission: Impossible 2.
- Bestselling Novel of 2000
- “The Brethren” by John Grisham was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 2000.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “Survivor” (CBS) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 2000–01 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 28 September is Libra.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 28 September 2000 fell in the Year of the Dragon.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for September is Sapphire.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 28 September 2000 was New Moon.
On this day: 28 September
- 1995 Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup.
- 1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
- 2000 Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
- 2006 Typhoon Xangsane passes over Manila after impacting parts of Southern Luzon and Eastern Visayas, becoming the strongest to affect the Philippine capital in 11 years.
- 2008 Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit by the RatSat mission.
Famous people born on September 28
- Naomi Watts, English-Australian actress and producer (born 1968)
- Hilary Duff, American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1987)
- Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (1907–1931)
- Ranbir Kapoor, Indian actor and director (born 1982)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2000 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '2000 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- January 14 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 11,722.98 (at the peak of the Dot-com bubble).
- March 26 – The 72nd Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Sam Mendes' American Beauty wins five awards out of eight nominations, including Best Picture and Director. The telecast of the event garners over 46.5 million viewers.
- May 19 – Walt Disney Pictures' 39th feature film, Dinosaur, is released.
Life in the US in 2000
President
Bill Clinton
Gas (per gallon)
$1.51
Loaf of Bread
$1.07
Average House
$165,300
Weekly Wage
$564
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Famous Faces Born in the 2000s
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