What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 2000?

In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 2000 falls in the year of the Earth Rabbit.

What is the birthstone for January?

The birthstone for January is garnet.

What was the moon phase on January 1, 2000?

On January 1, 2000 the moon was a Waning Crescent.

A Saturday

Born on January 1, 2000?

Here's the world on that day. Add a name and a birthplace for the full time capsule: the weather, the sky above your town and what things cost.

📅 Weekday
Saturday
♑ Star sign
Capricorn
🐇 Chinese zodiac
Earth Rabbit
🌘 Moon
Waning Crescent
🎂 Age today
26 years

Famous people born on January 1, 2000

Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya

Russian-born Australian pair skater

Fernando Garibay

American music producer (born 1982)

Ramez Naam

American technologist and writer

Yasmin Altwaijri

epidemiologist

Suhad Bahajri

Saudi Arabian chemist

Iris Nazmy

Egyptian journalist

Nadia Zakhary

Egyptian minister of scientific research

Nuri Abu Sahmain

Libyan politician

Nibal Thawabteh

Palestinian women's rights activist

Tank Man

anonymous man who stood in front of a column of Chinese tanks during the Tiananmen Square protests

Rana Dajani

Jordanian biologist, and academic

Sara Hossain

Senior Advocate at the Supreme Court of Bangladesh

What happened that day

Millennium celebrations are held around the world to celebrate the beginning of the 3rd millennium.
The year 2000 problem, a time formatting and storage bug, takes effect, but is successfully mitigated in many cases.

Also that week

The Philippines executes convicted rapist Alex Bartolome, who became the last prisoner to be executed in the country before its abolition in 2006.
The last naturally conceived Pyrenean ibex is found dead, presumed to have been killed by a falling tree.
In Soria (Spain) a large chunk of ice is reported to have fallen from the sky. Over the following months, a social panic about this phenomenon is unleashed, with reports of a multitude of similar cases of falling ice chunks (incorrectly named as aerolites) all over Spain, attracting great attention from the Spanish media.

What happened that day

🎵 No. 1 song in the US

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🎵 No. 1 song

January 1, 2000 was a Saturday. Someone born on January 1, 2000 is a Capricorn. Someone born on January 1, 2000 is 26 years old today and has lived about 9,805 days. People born in 2000 belong to Generation Z.

Also born on January 1

Famous people who share this birthday, from other years.

Alexander VI
1431 · pope of the Catholic Church – from the Borgia family
Lorenzo de' Medici
1449 · Italian politician, literary man and humanist
Huldrych Zwingli
1484 · Protestant Reformation leader in Switzerland, Swiss Reformed Church founder
Hong Xiuquan
1814 · Chinese revolutionary and leader of Taiping Rebellion
Sándor Petőfi
1823 · Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary
Pierre de Coubertin
1863 · founder of modern Olympic Games, pedagogue and historian
George Washington Carver
1864 · African American botanist and inventor
Satyendra Nath Bose
1894 · Indian Bengali physicist and polymath
Ousmane Sembène
1923 · Senegalese film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author

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Questions about January 1, 2000

What day of the week was January 1, 2000?: January 1, 2000 was a Saturday.
What star sign is someone born on January 1, 2000?: Someone born on January 1, 2000 is a Capricorn.
What is the Chinese zodiac sign for January 1, 2000?: In the Chinese zodiac, January 1, 2000 falls in the year of the Earth Rabbit.
How old is someone born on January 1, 2000?: Someone born on January 1, 2000 is 26 years old today and has lived about 9,805 days.
Which generation is someone born in 2000?: People born in 2000 belong to Generation Z.
What is the birthstone for January?: The birthstone for January is garnet.
What was the moon phase on January 1, 2000?: On January 1, 2000 the moon was a Waning Crescent.

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