 | Chinese soldiers salute the Chinese national flag as the first sunlight of the new millennium lights China's eastest post in Fuyuan County, northeast China's Heilongjiang province, on Saturday Jan. 1, 2000. (Xinhua) click to open  |
 | The Great Pyramids of Giza are lit up late Wednesday, Dec. 29, during a rehearsal of the millennium celebration that will take place on New Year's Eve at the Giza plateau. Egypt will welcome the next millennium with a 12 hourlight and sound show that will include a performance by French musician Jean Michel Jarre. click to open |
 | New Year celebration lights are seen in front of a Moscow skyscraper Thursday, Dec. 30, 1999. (AP) click to open |
 | The sunsets for the last time this millennium at Manila's bay Friday Dec. 31, 1999. Thousands are expected to join in tonight's celebration as various parts of the country welcome the new year. click to open |
 | Fireworks explode over Sydney's Harbour Bridge and Opera Houseas the Olympic city welcomes in the year 2000 Saturday. Some one million people crowded the harbor to welcome in the New Year and the beginning of a new millennium. click to open |
 | Holding their child, parents strike a bell to ring in the new millennium at Zojoji Buddhist Temple in Tokyo Saturday, Jan. 1, 2000. Traditionally at Buddhist temples, devotees strike the bell 108 times to clean 108 worldly desires and start a fresh new year. click to open |
 | Spectators look up at a 60-foot Asian dragon as it is guided through New York's Times Square during the millennium celebration Friday, Dec. 31, 1999. Led by the dragon, a parade of puppets representing high flying kites and a tumbling acrobat converged on the square, as more than 1.2 billion people celebrate midnight half a world away. click to open |
 | People gather in front of the Brandenburg Gate during the party to celebrate the beginning of the new millennium in Berlin on Friday evening, December 31, 1999, six hours before midnight. click to open |
 | People cheer as characters "2000" is shown on a TV screen at Times Square in Hong Kong during a countdown to the new Millennium Saturday, Jan. 1, 2000. Large crowds gather throughoutHong Kong as the territory mark the new century with numerous festivities. click to open |
 | Chinese dancer Ya Chih Chuang of the Parsons Dance Company performs during the millennium celebration in New York's Times Square Friday, Dec. 31, 1999. click to open |
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