30 april 2000 was een zondag onder het sterrenbeeld ♉. Het was de 120e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 26 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op donderdag 30 april 2026, 42 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op vrijdag 30 april 2027, in 322 dagen. Je hebt 9.538 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 228.923 uur, of ongeveer 13.735.392 minuten, of ongeveer 824.123.520 seconden.
Date: 01 May 2000
By Felicity Barringer
Felicity Barringer
Princeton Research Associates survey for Web content distributor ScreamingMedia.com finds 89 percent of respondents have never paid for news or data on Internet and 83 percent are not willing to pay; few news organizations have been able to sustain pure subscription model on Web (S)
Date: 01 May 2000
By Edmund L. Andrews
Edmund Andrews
Alexander Niemetz, anchor of nightly television news program, is at center of renewed debate over German television journalists taking part in paid corporate promotions; ZDF television network suspended him in dispute over his ties to public relations agency, but later accepted his claim that he never took money from agency or let it influence program; rebuked him for taking other side jobs; photo (M)
Date: 01 May 2000
By Marc Lacey
Marc Lacey
Pres Clinton hosts annual White House correspondents' dinner in Washington; spoofs himself as lame duck leader in videotaped skit and otherwise pokes fun at himself; lampoons Congressional critics; photo (M)
Date: 01 May 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Phoenix Consortium, British group that seeks to buy Rover Cars from BMW AG, says BMW has provided it for first time with Rover's financial accounts; Abbey National PLC denies it finances Phoenix bid (M)
Date: 01 May 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will break off alliance with Alitalia because of uncertainty about future of Milan's Malpensa airport and delays in Italy's sale of its flagship airline; will seek alternative alliances (S)
Date: 01 May 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dallas Stars defeat San Jose Sharks, 1-0, to take 2-0 lead in their four-of-seven-game National Hockey League playoff series (S)
Date: 30 April 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
UN Security Council delegation winds up visit to Kosovo, with reactions somewhat muted by complexities of situation on ground; photo of members on tour of ethnically divided Mitrovica (M)
Date: 30 April 2000
INTERNATIONAL 3-12 South Asia Called Major Terrorism Hub The State Department has for the first time identified South Asia as a major hub of international terrorism, accusing Pakistan, a traditional American ally, and especially Afghanistan of providing support to international terrorist groups. 1
Date: 01 May 2000
INTERNATIONAL A3-13 Iran to Start Trial Of Jews Accused of Spying Thirteen Jews will go on trial today in Iran in the feared Revolutionary Court. The Jews are accused of spying for Israel, in a case that has been caught up in the swirl of Iran's internal political battles and could undo its tentative overtures to the West. But for most Iranians the case is a sideshow in a larger drama that has intensified between reformers and hard-liners. A12 Nuclear Arms Control Debate American proposals to change a key arms control agreement have revived some of the more important, if arcane, debates over nuclear strategy that not long ago seemed consigned to the dustbin of the cold war. One is widely viewed as raising the risk of accidental nuclear war. A8
Date: 01 May 2000
By Sam Howe Verhovek
Sam Verhovek
Idea of breaking up Microsoft Corp, advocated by Justice Department and 17 of 19 states in antitrust lawsuit, is absorbed by residents in company's hometown of Seattle without much fuss or panic even though about 40 percent of shares are held by people in Puget Sound region and even though stock is down nearly 45 percent from late in 1999; photo (M)