Youtube star Aidan Alexander

Events in 2000 and 17-2

Events in US in the birth year of Aidan Alexander

• Wary investors bring stock plunge; beginning of the end of the Internet stock boom (Feb. 25).
• Cuban boy Elián González, 6, at center of international dispute, reunited with his father after federal raid of Miami relatives' home (April 22).
• U.S. presidential election closest in decades; Bush's slim lead in Florida leads to automatic recount in that state (Nov. 7-8). Republicans file federal suit to block manual recount of Florida presidential election ballots sought by Democrats (Nov. 11). Florida Supreme Court rules election hand count may continue (Nov. 21). U.S. Supreme Court orders halt to manual recount of Florida votes (Dec. 9). Supreme Court seals Bush victory by 5-4; rules there can be no further recounting (Dec. 12). See 2000 election chronology.
• See also: 2000 Year in Review and 2000 Month-by-Month

Birthday Aidan Alexander (17-2) in history

• Day 17-2 year 1600: Italian philosopher and Dominican friar Giordano Bruno were burned alive by a Catholic court after being convicted of heresy. He is also known as an alchemist and proponent of the Copernican theory.
• Day 17-2 year 1801: The electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr was broken by the House of Representatives who elected Jefferson president.
• Day 17-2 year 1817: Baltimore became the first U.S. city lit by gas.
• Day 17-2 year 1864: The Confederate submarine Hunley , equipped with an explosive at the end of a protruding spar, rammed and sank the Union's ship Housatonic off the coast of Charleston, S.C.
• Day 17-2 year 1904: Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly premiered in Milan.
• Day 17-2 year 1972: President Richard Nixon left on his trip to China.
• Day 17-2 year 1996: Chess champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM computer, Deep Blue, winning the six-game match.
• Day 17-2 year 2008: Kosovo declared independence from Serbia.