December 2000

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[edit] Events

• December 1 - President Vicente Fox took office.
• December 1 - Miss World pageant held in London's Millennium Dome. Priyanka Chopra doesn't win the title. Instead a Michigan man ran onstage and threw off her crown, announcing himself, "Queen of the world".
• 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 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.