Posted May 3, 2019

What was happening when T95 turned 21?

POP CULTURE:

Y2K DEFINITELY did not happen.
Sony releases the Playstation 2, which went on to become the best selling gaming console in history, selling over 155 million units worldwide. Part of its success relied on the system’s backwards compatibility, allowing users to play games on the console from the previous model. The Playstation 2 was sold and manufactured around the world until January of 2013 when it was discontinued prior to the release of the Playstation 4, making it one of the longest sold systems.

The popular online community DeviantART is launched during August of 2000 by creators by Scott Jarkoff, Matt Stephens, and Angelo Sotira. The site, created to help users share and discuss their own artwork and the creations of others. Typically, the art featured on the site is non-traditional, and they showcase a variety of styles including photography, Flash animation, digital art, and much more. Over the years the website grew and boasts over 65 million visitors per month, over 38 million registered users, and over 160,000 uploads per day.
The first crew to live on the International Space Station (ISS) arrives in space during November. The mission, called Expedition 1, was the first long-term stay totaling 136 days. Three astronauts including Bill Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko, and Sergei Krikalev made up the crew of Expedition 1, and they stayed on the ISS for several months before being replaced by the crew of Expedition 2. Since the arrival of the first crew the International Space Station has been continuously occupied by astronauts from around the world.

Microsoft releases Windows 2000…. then immediately regrets it.
The Worlds largest Ferris Wheel or Observation Wheel ( The London Eye ) is opened
A destructive computer virus ILOVEYOU spread by e-mail shuts down computers world wide
The Latest Harry Potter Book Is Published “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire”

SPORTS:

The Summer Olympics are held in Sydney, Australia.
- The XXVII Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia began during September of 2000.
- A total of 10,651 athletes from 199 different countries participated in 300 events at the Millennium Olympic Games.
- These were the first games to feature events in taekwondo and the triathlon, and the first to allow female athletes to compete in the modern pentathlon and weightlifting.
- The XXVII Olympiad ended in October and the United States took home the most medals with 93 in total, ahead of Russia with 89, and China and Australia in third and fourth with 58 each.
Grand Prix Formula One returns to US after nine years to Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Tiger Woods becomes the youngest player to win a Grand Slam in Golf
Super Bowl XXXIV – St. Louis Rams win 23–16 (and a yard) over the Tennessee Titans.

The Florida State Seminoles won 49-29 over the Virginia Tech Hokies to win the college football national championship
Major League Baseball dissolves the National and American Leagues as separate legal entities, although retaining them as competitive entities. From this point forward, the leagues’ functions are consolidated in the office of the Commissioner of Baseball.
World Series – New York Yankees win 4 games to 1 over the New York Mets. The Series MVP is Derek Jeter of the Yankees
Los Angeles Lakers win their first NBA title in twelve years, defeating the Indiana Pacers 4 games to 2.
Michigan State wins 89–76 over Florida for the NCAA Men’s National Championship
Evander Holyfield defeats John Ruiz by decision in 12 rounds to regain the WBA’s world Heavyweight title, becoming the first boxer to win the world Heavyweight title four times.
New Jersey Devils win 4 games to 2 over the Dallas Stars for the Stanley Cup

MUSIC NEWS/ENTERTAINMENT:

Prince rings in the year 2000, by performing “1999” in what he vows is the song’s finale.
Sharon Osbourne quits as manager of Smashing Pumpkins after only three months. In a brash press release she announces she had to resign “for medical reasons: Billy Corgan was making me sick.”
Singer Whitney Houston is caught with 15.2 grams of marijuana in her bag at a Hawaii airport. She boards her flight to San Francisco before police can arrive to arrest her.
Spencer Goodman is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas, for the 1991 kidnap and murder of the wife of ZZ Top manager Bill Hamin 1991. Ham is present at the execution.
311 holds their first 3–11 Day concert at Tower Records in the French Quarter of New Orleans.
Blink-182 end their European tour early after guitarist/vocalist Tom DeLonge and drummer Travis Barker succumb to strep throat.
After violating a prior probation agreement by getting drunk, Ol’ Dirty Bastard is ordered to undergo a 90-day diagnostic evaluation at the California Institute For Men in Chino, California.
Ted Nugent angers Hispanic groups in Texas after onstage remarks he makes during a concert at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, in which he says that those who did not speak English should get out of America. He is banned from the venue as a result
Metallica files a lawsuit against the peer-to-peer service Napster, as well as Yale University, University of Southern California and Indiana University for copyright infringement. Yale and Indiana are later dropped from the suit when they block access to Napster on campus computers.
Dickey Betts is kicked out of The Allman Brothers Band and replaced with Warren Haynes.
Prince announces that he has changed his name back to Prince now that his publishing contract with Warner/Chappell has expired. He had been known as an unpronounceable symbol, since 1993.
50 Cent is shot nine times in Queens. After spending time in hospital he returns to recording and performing.
Eddie Van Halen begins treatment for prevention of tongue cancer at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas
Nine people are crushed to death during Pearl Jam’s set at the Roskilde Festival, in Roskilde, Denmark.
A U.S. district judge orders the Napster to halt the trading of copyrighted music among its users, essentially ordering it shut down. A stay on the injunction is granted two days later, allowing the site to continue operating for the time being.
Outside the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, Rage Against the Machine performs a free concert protesting the two-party system. In a chaotic scene after the performance, police forcibly disperse the crowd and several arrests are made

Rage Against the Machine’s Tim Commerford is arrested for climbing on the set at MTV’s Video Music Awards after his band lost the award for “Best Rock Video” to Limp Bizkit. The director of Rage’s “Sleep Now in the Fire” video, Michael Moore, suggests Commerford was probably “just bored” by the show.

Pearl Jam releases twenty-five live albums, each taken from a different show on their European tour, as the initial part of the Pearl Jam Official Bootlegs series.
Radiohead Release their fourth studio album, “Kid A”.
Zack de la Rocha leaves Rage Against the Machine saying that the band’s decision making process has completely failed.
Napster and BMG Music announce a partnership that would change the website into a subscription-based service offering legal downloads.
Tripp Eisen formerly of Dope replaces Koichi Fukuda in Static-X.
The Smashing Pumpkins played what was to be their final concert at the Metro Club in Chicago. The band would reunite in 2005.

BOX OFFICE:

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Cast Away
Mission: Impossible II
Gladiator
What Women Want
The Perfect Storm

Meet the Parents
X-Men
Scary Movie
What Lies Beneath
Gladiator
Erin Brockovich
Billy Elliot

TELEVISION:

51 million viewers watch the first season finale of the reality show “Survivor.” The naked man, Richard Hatch won the cash prize, as well as a brand new Pontiac Aztek.

David Letterman undergoes quintuple heart bypass surgery in New York-Presbyterian Hospital, following an angiogram that revealed that one of his arteries was constricted seriously
Rick Rockwell marries stranger Darva Conger watched by 22 million viewers on the Fox reality show Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? While he and Darva are honeymooning, it becomes apparent that Rockwell—who is sometimes a comedian—had a restraining order against a former girlfriend, and he was not really a multi-millionaire. As a result, Fox cancels a rerun scheduled the next week, and does not broadcast any new installments. In addition the couple end their relationship soon after the show’s taping.
Boy Meets World ends its seven season run with its series finale on ABC.

16.8 million American viewers watched the 2-hour final episode of Beverly Hills, 90210 on FOX
The WB broadcasts the third season finale of Dawson’s Creek, entitled “True Love”. The episode features the first male gay kiss on U.S. primetime television, which has been called “a milestone in the timeline of gay representation in pop culture”
The first season of CBS’s long-running reality competition of Big Brother, based on the Dutch series of the same name, premieres its first episode. Eddie McGee would go on to win it, however, the series was panned with criticism, and the show would later be revamped in the next season.
Kathie Lee Gifford made her final appearance as co-host on Live!, after 17 years (eleven and a half years for national syndication). Regis Philbin will continue to serve the sole host until Kelly Ripa introduced as new co-host the following year.
NEW SHOWS: Malcolm in the Middle; Survivor; Even Stevens; Big Brother; Crossing Over with John Edward; BattleBots; Dora the Explorer; Clifford the Big Red Dog; Jackass; Yes, Dear; Gilmore Girls; MTV Cribs; Trading Spaces; Curb Your Enthusiasm; Boston Public; Aqua Teen Hunger Force; Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
CANCELLED or SERIES FINALES: Superman: The Animated Series; The New Batman/Superman Adventures; Animorphs; Tenacious D; The Journey of Allen Strange; Cowby; Party of Five; Boy Meets World; Martial Law; Sports Night; Beverly Hills, 90210; Donny & Marie; The Dating Game; The Others; Are You Afraid of the Dark?; Kids Say the Darndest Things; Freaks and Geeks; All That; Keenan and Kel; Dilbert; The Bugs Bunny Show; Double Dare 2000; Sailor Moon; The Roseanne Show; Suddenly Susan

HISTORICAL EVENTS:

Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashes just after takeoff from Paris killing all 109 aboard and 5 on the ground.
Founder of Microsoft Bill Gates leaves his position as CEO.
Divers discover the ancient port of Alexandria the home of Cleopatra and Mark Anthony
300 gallons of black sludge is released into the Mississippi River causing an environmental disaster
In Aden, Yemen, the USS Cole is badly damaged by two suicide bombers
In December of 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court rules to end the vote recount in Florida in the Bush v. Gore case, giving the presidency to George W. Bush after a prolonged legal battle following the election.
- The results in Florida were so close that it triggered an automatic machine count of votes under Florida law, the results tightened the race showing that less than 600 votes separated the two candidates.
- Gore pursued the option to have a manual recount in 4 counties.
- They were not able to complete the manual recount in the days required by the law which led to a legal battle between Gore and the state of Florida which eventually made it to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- The court ruled that the methods in the recount violated the 14th amendment and also ruled to end the recount.