Timeline June 2000

Events in June 2000 10

• 1917 – 2000 David Tomlinson (1917-2000) Died 24 June 2000, aged 83 David Tomlinson was an English actor remembered for three Disney films: as the reforming father George Banks in Mary Poppins, and in Bedknobs and Broomsticks and The Love Bug. A skilled light comedian, he had a long stage and screen career in Britain before Hollywood. He largely retired after the 1970s.
• 1922 – 2000 Vittorio Gassman (1922-2000) Died 29 June 2000, aged 77 Vittorio Gassman was a leading Italian actor of stage and screen, a commanding classical performer who also starred in "commedia all'italiana" films such as Il Sorpasso and Big Deal on Madonna Street. He worked with directors including Dino Risi and Robert Altman. Italians knew him simply as "il Mattatore".
• 1930 – 2000 Hafez al-Assad (1930-2000) Died 10 June 2000, aged 69 Hafez al-Assad ruled Syria for nearly thirty years after seizing power in a 1970 coup, building a police state around his Baath party and Alawite loyalists. He crushed a Muslim Brotherhood revolt at Hama in 1982 with tens of thousands of deaths. He was succeeded by his son Bashar.
• 2000 French Open 2000 Men: Gustavo Kuerten · Women: Mary Pierce
• 2000 Wins U.S. Open by 15 strokes at Pebble Beach Most dominant major performance in modern history Woods won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach by a record 15 strokes, the largest margin of victory in any major championship in modern history. He was the only player to finish under par, an exhibition of dominance widely considered the greatest single performance in golf history.
• 2000 The London Millennium Bridge opens and closes A pedestrian bridge is shut after an alarming sway The Millennium Bridge, a steel footbridge linking St Paul's Cathedral with Tate Modern across the Thames, opened on 10 June 2000. Crowds set it swaying sideways as pedestrians unconsciously matched their steps to its motion, and it closed two days later. After dampers were fitted it reopened in 2002, by then nicknamed the "wobbly bridge".
• 2000 Tiger Woods wins the US Open by fifteen strokes A record-breaking victory at Pebble Beach At Pebble Beach in June 2000 Tiger Woods won the US Open by fifteen shots, the largest margin of victory in any golf major. He went on to take the Open Championship and the US PGA that year, and by holding all four major titles at once in 2001 completed the "Tiger Slam". The 2000 season is often called the finest in the sport's history.
• 2000 Announcement of a draft human genome Rival teams present a working sequence at the White House On 26 June 2000 President Bill Clinton, joined by satellite by Prime Minister Tony Blair, announced that the publicly funded Human Genome Project and the private company Celera had each produced a working draft of the human genetic code. The competing sequences were published in February 2001. The project was declared essentially complete in 2003.
• 2000 The Vatican reveals the Third Secret of Fatima The Church discloses a long-withheld 1917 prophecy On 26 June 2000 the Vatican published the text of the so-called Third Secret of Fatima, a vision reported by shepherd children in Portugal in 1917 and kept sealed since 1960. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger read its vision of a "bishop dressed in white" being struck down as foreshadowing the 1981 attempt on Pope John Paul II's life. Some commentators disputed the interpretation.
• 2000 Pearl Jam Roskilde Festival tragedy Nine fans killed Nine fans die in a crowd crush during their set in Denmark.