The 2000 Summer Olympic Games opened in Sydney, Australia.
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The drama TV show 'L.A. Law' premiered on NBC.
A sea swimmer in his mid-twenties was bitten and killed by a shark near Newcomb Hollow Beach, Massachusetts, US.
Parts of Central and Eastern Europe were catastrophically flooded as they were struck by Storm Boris.
Aboard the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin discovered the Galapagos Islands.
The Invasion of the Cape Colony came to an end. The Dutch Cape Colony surrendered to the British after three months of battling.
