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Events in 2000 and 17-2

Events in the world in the birth year of Sofia Barbosa

• Austria at center of European dispute after conservative People's Party forms coalition with the far-right Freedom Party, headed by xenophobe Jörg Haider (Feb. 3).
• Reformists win control of Iranian parliament for first time since 1979 Islamic revolution (Feb. 26).
• Governing of Northern Ireland passes back and forth between Britain and nascent Northern Irish parliament; major dispute over IRA's refusal to disarm (Feb-May).
• Former Indonesian president Suharto under house arrest, charged with corruption and abuse of power (May 29).
• Presidents of North and South Korea sign peace accord, and at least symbolically, end a half-century of antagonism (June 13).
• Vicente Fox Quesada elected president of Mexico, ending 71 years of one-party rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) (July 2).
• Concorde crash kills 113 near Paris (July 25).
• Palestinians and Israelis clash, spurred by visit of right-wing Israeli leader Ariel Sharon to a joint Jewish/Muslim holy site; "Al Aksa intifada" continues unabated (Sept. 30 et seq.).
• Nationwide uprising overthrows Yugoslavian president Milosevic (Oct. 5); Vojislav Kostunica sworn in as president (Oct. 7).
• U.S. sailors on Navy destroyer Cole die in Yemen terrorist explosion (Oct. 12).
• Mad cow disease alarms Europe (Nov. 30 et seq.).
• See also: 2000 Year in Review and 2000 Month-by-Month

Birthday Sofia Barbosa (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.