What happened in September 2000?

8th- Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.

12th- The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.

18th- A Federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.

21st- Tiger Woods wins golf's PGA Championship to become the first golfer since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year. He ties the to-par record for the PGA (-18) with Bob May, and wins in a playoff

23rd- A Gulf Air Airbus A320 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.

23rd - Nicaragua becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty. This essentially deprecated the Buenos Aires Convention treaty, because as of this date, all members of the BA Convention were also signatories to Berne.

24th- Argon fluorohydride, the first Argon compound ever known, is discovered at the University of Helsinki by Finnish scientists.

27th- 540-metre (1,772 ft)-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.