October 2000
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This is a timeline for events in October, 2000.
- October 1, 2 - Nine Palestinian citizens of Israel are killed by Israeli security forces after a violant demonstration of solidarity with Palestinian non-citizens under military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza. Anti-Israel rioting by arab citizens and Anti-Arab rioting by Jews in Israel result in four more Palestinian and one Jew deaths in the days to follow.
- October 5 - President Slobodan Milošević leaves office after widespread demonstrations throughout Serbia and the withdrawal of Russian support.
- October 11 - 250 million US gallons (950,000 m³) of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky. Considered a greater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
- October 12 - In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole is badly damaged by two suicide bombers who placed a small boat laden with explosives along-side the United States Navy destroyer, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
- October 17 - Hatfield rail crash, United Kingdom: Part of a rail shatters as a passenger train passes over it; four people are killed, 70 are injured.
- October 22 – Mainichi Shinbun exposes Japanese archeologist Shinichi Fujimura as a fraud.
- October 31 - Singapore Airlines Flight 006 collides with construction equipment in the Chiang Kai Shek International Airport - 83 dead.
- October 31 - The last Multics machine is shut down.
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