About the day » Thursday June 1, 2000Calender converter

• Birgit Jose de Vries, Hilversum,Hilversum,Noord-Holland,Nederland († 2000)
• Mirna Everline Buitenhuis († 2018)
• Madison Noelle Jonkman

• Antje Bakker (92), Amsterdam, Gemeente Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Agnes Maria Pardoel (79), Loosdrecht
• Albert Jacob Wijker (64), Spijkenisse, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Aagtje de Ruyter (68), Oosterend (Texel)
• Anna Catharina van der Stoop (83), Haarlem
• Adriane Catharina van den Reek (65), Eindhoven, Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
• Albertus Bronkhorst (83), Arnhem
• Anna Postma (88), -
• Cornelia ter Haar (92), Losser
• Antonius Hendrikus van den Bos (74), West Maas en Waal

• 1990 » Carlota Ciganda, Spanish golfer
• 1990 » Kennie Chopart, Danish footballer
• 1990 » Martin Pembleton, English footballer
• 1990 » Miller Bolaños, Ecuadoran footballer
• 1991 » Tyrone Roberts, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 » Sam Anas, American ice hockey player
• 1994 » Kagayaki Taishi, Japanese sumo wrestler
• 1996 » Edvinas Gertmonas, Lithuanian footballer
• 1996 » Tom Holland, English actor
• 1999 » Dmitri Aliev, Russian figure skater

• 1996 » Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, Indian politician, 6th President of India (b. 1913)
• 1999 » Christopher Cockerell, English engineer, invented the hovercraft (b. 1910)
• 2000 » Tito Puente, American drummer, composer, and producer (b. 1923)
• 2001 » Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (b. 1920)
• 2001 » notable victims of the Nepalese royal massacre
• 2002 » Hansie Cronje, South African cricketer (b. 1969)
• 2004 » William Manchester, American historian and author (b. 1922)
• 2005 » George Mikan, American basketball player and coach (b. 1924)
• 2005 » Hilda Crosby Standish, American physician (b. 1902)
• 2006 » Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)

• 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.
• March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
• August 21 » Tiger Woods, American professional golfer, wins the 82nd PGA Championship and becomes the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year.
• October 17 » The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
• October 26 » The Sony PlayStation 2 is launched in North American markets with 27 launch titles.
• November 17 » A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
• December 12 » The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.

The temperature on June 1, 2000 was between 10.4 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.