About the day » Tuesday May 23, 2000Calender converter

• Merel Dunnewind († 2001)

• Christine CURD (82), Hendersonville, Sumner, Tennessee, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia (Corrie) Arends (83), Diemen, Noord-Holland, Nederland The Netherlands
• Cornelia Martina Maria (Corrie) Mossink (79), Eindhoven
• Chester Arthur Stewart (70)
• Bertha Gerdina Dokter (71), Netherlands
• Arend Jacobus Wakkee (82), Rotterdam
• Bruce A. Meehan (60)
• C.M.M. (Corrie) MOSSINK (79), Eindhoven (NL/NB)
• Annie Kranenburg (82), Sliedrecht, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Bill George Keen (70), Choctaw, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Verenigde Staten

• 1997 » Coy Craft, American footballer
• 1997 » Joe Gomez, English footballer
• 1997 » Pedro Chirivella, Spanish footballer
• 1998 » Luca De La Torre, American footballer
• 1998 » Ross Cunningham, Scottish footballer
• 1998 » Sérgio Sette Câmara, Brazilian race car driver
• 1998 » Salwa Eid Naser, Bahraini track and field sprinter
• 1998 » Steve Lacy, American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer
• 2000 » Felipe Drugovich, Brazilian race car driver
• 2000 » Jaxson Hayes, American basketball player

• 1992 » Giovanni Falcone, Italian lawyer and judge (b. 1939)
• 1992 » Kostas Davourlis, Greek footballer (b. 1948)
• 1994 » Olav Hauge, Norwegian poet (b. 1908)
• 1996 » Kronid Lyubarsky, Russian journalist and activist (b. 1934)
• 1998 » Telford Taylor, American general and lawyer (b. 1908)
• 1999 » Owen Hart, Canadian-American wrestler (b. 1965)
• 2002 » Sam Snead, American golfer and journalist (b. 1912)
• 2006 » Kazimierz Górski, Polish footballer and manager (b. 1921)
• 2006 » Lloyd Bentsen, American colonel and politician, 69th United States Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1921)
• 2008 » Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, Spanish mountaineer (b. 1967)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 15.9 million citizens.
• January 31 » Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
• May 17 » Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
• June 13 » Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Ağca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
• August 12 » The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.
• September 14 » Microsoft releases Windows ME.
• October 31 » Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.

The temperature on May 23, 2000 was between 6.8 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.