December 2000

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Events

• December 1

- President Vicente Fox took office.

• December 1 - Miss World pageant held in London's Millennium Dome. Priyanka Chopra wins the title.
• December 13 - Bush v. Gore: The U.S. Supreme Court stops the Florida presidential recount, effectively giving the state, and the Presidency, to George W. Bush, although some sources claimed Gore had won, by many overvotes, rejected by computer, showing votes for Gore plus write-in "Gore".
• December 13 - The Texas 7 escape from their prison unit in Kenedy, Texas and start a crime spree.
• December 14 - The Texas 7 rob a Radio Shack in Pearland, Texas. They would use in their ensuing heist the police scanners they stole there.
• December 15 - Reactor 3 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down due to Western political pressure.
• December 23 - Florida now- Largest lowrider bike club, Enchanted Dreamz is founded.
• December 24 - The Texas 7 rob a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot dead.
• December 28 - U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
• December 30 - Rizal Day Bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines, within a span of a few hours killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.