Timeline November 2000

Events in November 2000 6

• 1922 – 2000 Emil Zatopek (1922-2000) Died 22 November 2000, aged 78 The Czech distance runner Emil Zatopek won three gold medals at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, taking the 5,000 metres, the 10,000 metres and, at his first attempt at the distance, the marathon. Known for his agonised style, he set eighteen world records. He was demoted to labouring work after backing the 1968 Prague Spring.
• 2000 First resident crew reaches the International Space Station Expedition 1 begins a continuous human presence in orbit Expedition 1, with commander Bill Shepherd and cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, launched from Baikonur on 31 October 2000 and docked with the International Space Station on 2 November. Their arrival began an unbroken human presence aboard the station that still continues. The crew stayed for over four months.
• 2000 Pentium 4 — the GHz race and its limits Intel introduces the Pentium 4 in November 2000 — designed to achieve extremely high clock speeds through a very deep pipeline (20 stages, later 31). The Pentium 4 reaches 3.8GHz but at enormous power cost: top models consume 115 watts and require active cooling. The 'GHz race' hits a physical wall — faster clocks generate exponentially more heat. AMD's Athlon processor, based on a more efficient architecture, outperforms the Pentium 4 at lower clock speeds. Intel's NetBurst architecture is an engineering dead-end that costs the company years of competitive leadership.
• 2000 US Election 2000 Bush vs Gore — 36-day recount The US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore ended in a 36-day recount in Florida. The Supreme Court halted the recount, handing victory to Bush by 537 votes.
• 2000 Kaprun funicular fire A blaze in an Alpine tunnel kills 155 skiers On 11 November 2000 fire broke out in a funicular train carrying skiers up through a tunnel toward the Kitzsteinhorn glacier at Kaprun, Austria. Trapped in the confined tunnel, 155 people died of smoke and fumes; only twelve escaped. A long trial of railway staff and officials ended in acquittals, to the fury of victims' families.
• 2000 Alberto Fujimori is removed as president of Peru The leader flees to Japan amid a corruption scandal In November 2000 President Alberto Fujimori of Peru, undermined by videotapes showing his intelligence chief Vladimiro Montesinos bribing politicians, travelled to Japan and sent his resignation by fax. Congress refused it and instead voted him out, declaring the office vacant. Fujimori stayed abroad until his 2007 extradition and later conviction for abuses and corruption.