2000 in Austria
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Events from the year 2000 in Austria.
Incumbents
[edit]- President: Thomas Klestil
- Chancellor: Viktor Klima (until 4 February), Wolfgang Schüssel (starting 4 February)
Governors
[edit]- Burgenland: Hans Niessl
- Carinthia: Jörg Haider
- Lower Austria: Erwin Pröll
- Salzburg: Franz Schausberger
- Styria: Waltraud Klasnic
- Tyrol: Wendelin Weingartner
- Upper Austria: Josef Pühringer
- Vienna: Michael Häupl
- Vorarlberg: Herbert Sausgruber
Events
[edit]- February 5 - Jörg Haider's far right Freedom Party of Austria enters into coalition government to international condemnation.[1]
- October 3 - The Freedom Party becomes the second largest party following the parliamentary election.[1]
- November 11 - Kaprun disaster: A cable car fire in an alpine tunnel kills 155 skiers and snowboarders.[2]
Deaths
[edit]- January 19 - Hedy Lamarr, actress (b. 1914)
- May 11 - Paula Wessely, actress (b. 1907)
- November 20 - Josef Schaupper, alpine skier who was killed in the Kaprun disaster (b. 1963)
- November 28 - Liane Haid, actress (b. 1895)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 649–650. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ "Flashback: Kaprun ski train fire". BBC News. 19 February 2004. Archived from the original on 22 January 2009. Retrieved 14 April 2009.
