16 augustus 2000 was een woensdag onder het sterrenbeeld ♌. Het was de 228e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 25 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op zaterdag 16 augustus 2025, 296 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op zondag 16 augustus 2026, in 68 dagen. Je hebt 9.427 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 226.268 uur, of ongeveer 13.576.111 minuten, of ongeveer 814.566.660 seconden.
Date: 17 August 2000
By Geraldine Fabrikant
Geraldine Fabrikant
News Corp says after-tax profit for fourth quarter fell 14 percent; profit before extraordinary items was $184 million compared with $214 million in year-earlier period; revenue in quarter ended June 30 rose 18 percent, to $3.9 billion (S)
Date: 17 August 2000
By Peter Marks
Peter Marks
Design Notebook column on designs of television network skyboxes at Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles; boxes, formerly little more than spartan caves, have undergone radical transformation, from procedural forum to multimedia spectacle; photos (M)
Date: 17 August 2000
By Joyce Purnick
Joyce Purnick
Joyce Purnick Metro Matters column discusses editorial written in Amsterdam News, oldest black weekly in New York City, by editor emeritus Wilbert A Tatum that stated that Al Gore selected Sen Joseph Lieberman as his running mate to attract Jewish money; contends that rehashing of old prejudices by editorial should not be ignored (M)
Date: 16 August 2000
By Richard A. Oppel Jr
Richard Oppel
Ohio college professor Donald E Schulz is charged in Federal lawsuit with leaking secret Justice Department report linking Mexico's powerful Hank family to large-scale drug trafficking and money laundering; suit is filed by Laredo National Bancshares of Texas, which is controlled by family of Mexican billionaire Carlos Hank Gonzalez; report was cited last year in several newspapers at time when Congress was considering bill, now enacted, allowing government to freeze assets of persons labeled significant drug traffickers; report implied that Hank family was protected by Mexico's PRI political machine; Warren Rudman, acting as lawyer for Hank family, complained to Atty Gen Janet Reno about publication and Reno disavowed report (M)
Date: 17 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Genesee Corp, brewer of Genesee beer, decides to negotiate exclusively with its management to sell its Genesee Brewing unit (S)
Date: 16 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Eagle Wireless International Inc acquires ClearWorks.net Inc for about $137.5 million in stock (S)
Date: 16 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Hologic Inc acquires Trex Medical Corp, medical imaging manufacturer, for $55 million (S)
Date: 17 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Dial Corp paid $116.8 million to buy three businesses in second quarter; company bought Procter & Gamble Co's Coast soap business and purchased Zout stain remover from undisclosed seller; purchase prices were not previously disclosed; Dial also completed its acquisition of Revlon Inc's Plusbelle hair-care business in Argentina for $46.5 million (S)
Date: 17 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Mead Corp, biggest maker of school notebooks, will close plants in Michigan and Indiana, eliminating 330 jobs to cut costs (S)
Date: 16 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Courier Corp agrees to buy Dover Publications for $39 million, adding special-interest books to its list of titles as it seeks buyers on the Internet (S)