Den 21 augusti 2000 var en måndag under stjärntecknet ♌. Det var 233 e dagen i året. Förenta staternas president var William J. (Bill) Clinton.
Om du föddes den här dagen är du 25 år gammal. Din sista födelsedag var den torsdag 21 augusti 2025, 300 dagar sedan. Din nästa födelsedag är den fredag 21 augusti 2026, om 64 dagar. Du har bott i 9 431 dagar, eller cirka 226 355 timmar, eller cirka 13 581 316 minuter, eller cirka 814 878 960 sekunder.
Date: 22 August 2000
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Daily News will begin distributing free evening newspaper aimed at commuters starting Sept 12; executives say new paper will be called Daily News Express (S)
Date: 21 August 2000
By Geraldine Fabrikant
Geraldine Fabrikant
Geraldine Fabrikant column on lagging price of Fox Entertainment Group shares, which have risen only 20 percent since November 1998, when News Corp spun off 20 percent of the unit; graph (M)
Date: 21 August 2000
By Jim Rutenberg
Jim Rutenberg
Warner Brothers, producers of Bull, TNT's new series about Wall Street, appends a disclaimer to a episode in which a reporter for Financial Times is depicted engaging in unethical conduct; this satisfies Financial Times, which gave permission for use of its image in the series so long as it was not denigrated thereby; photo (M)
Date: 22 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Thermo Terra Tech agrees to sell its Lancaster Laboratories unit to Goldner Hawn Johnson & Morrison Inc for about $72 million cash (S)
Date: 22 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Washington Mutual Inc agrees to buy Bank United Corp for about $1.49 billion in stock to sell more financial services in Texas (S)
Date: 22 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Heartland Advisors, which has 27 percent stake in Donnelly Corp, urges company to consider sale of company or other action to increase its stock price (S)
Date: 22 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Boeing Co wins approval from Defense Department to buy Hughes Electronics Corp's satellite-making business; $3.75 billion transaction will make Boeing world's largest maker of commercial satellites; regulators at FTC and European Commission are reviewing purchase to ensure that Boeing does not use acquisition to push customers to its own launching vehicles (S)
Date: 22 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Tim Raines, who had over 2,500 hits and over 800 stolen bases during 21-year career in majors, says that he is disappointed with US Olympic baseball officials for leaving him off squad (S)
Date: 22 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
Boston Scientific Corp settles Securities and Exchange Commission case over accounting problems at its Japanese unit; SEC found Japanese unit recorded thousands of false sales totaling more than $75 million in 1997 and 1998 (S)
Date: 22 August 2000
By Bloomberg News
Bloomberg News
First Union Corp agrees to buy Tribus Companies for undisclosed price to offer more insurance products to businesses in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania (S)