The 2000 Summer Olympic Games opened in Sydney, Australia.
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The Invasion of the Cape Colony came to an end. The Dutch Cape Colony surrendered to the British after three months of battling.
Aboard the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin discovered the Galapagos Islands.
The psychological crime thriller movie 'Se7en,' starring Morgan Freeman, premiered in New York.
A sea swimmer in his mid-twenties was bitten and killed by a shark near Newcomb Hollow Beach, Massachusetts, US.
Michael Stewart, a victim of police brutality, was beaten and arrested in New York.