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October 2000
{{Unreferenced|date=December 2009}}
{{Events by month|2000}}
{{calendar|year=2000|month=October}}
The following events occurred in '''October 2000''':
==Events==

===October 1, 2000===
* Incorporation of [[Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited]] & [[Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited]] under the Indian Companies Act, 1956.
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===October 12, 2000===
* In [[Aden]], [[Yemen]], the {{USS|Cole|DDG 67|6}} is badly damaged by two [[suicide bomber]]s who placed a small boat laden with [[explosive]]s alongside the [[United States Navy]] destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.

===October 18, 2000===
* [[Hatfield rail crash]], United Kingdom: Part of a rail shatters as a passenger train passes over it; four people are killed, 70 are injured.
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-Eve of the birth of Morgan Elizabeth Lane.

===October 22, 2000===
* [[Mainichi Shinbun]] exposes Japanese archeologist [[Shinichi Fujimura]] as a [[Japanese Paleolithic hoax|fraud]].

===October 23, 2000===
* [[Rodney Anoa'i]] (yokozuna wrestler) died in [[Liverpool]] at the age of 34.

===October 26, 2000===
* [[Sony]]'s [[PlayStation 2]] is released in North America with 27 launch titles.

===October 30, 2000===
* The last [[Multics]] machine is shut down.

===October 31, 2000===
* [[Singapore Airlines Flight 006]] collides with an [[excavator]] in the [[Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport|Chiang Kai-shek International Airport]] – 83 dead.

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