At A Glance
7 November 2000 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 7 November 2000 was a Tuesday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Come On Over Baby (All I Want Is You)” by Christina Aguilera.
- 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 7 November is Scorpio.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 7 November 2000 fell in the Year of the Dragon.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for November is Topaz.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 7 November 2000 was Waxing Gibbous.
On this day: 7 November
- 1994 WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, launches the world's first internet radio broadcast.
- 1996 NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
- 2000 The controversial US presidential election is later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case, electing George W. Bush as the 43rd President of the United States.
- 2000 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
- 2004 Iraq War: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day state of emergency as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
Famous people born on November 7
- Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1867–1934)
- Gervonta Davis, American boxer (born 1994)
- Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician, founded the Red Army (1879–1940)
- Joni Mitchell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1943)
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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
Well-known people born in the same decade as you, not on your birthday.
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