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 | Fireworks lights up Berlin's Brandenburg Gate during festivities in the German capital to mark the new millennium, January 1. More than a million revellers were expected to celebrate the year 2000 in Berlin's historic district. click to open  |  | A view of the pyramids with fireworks during French musician Jean Michel Jarre's performance of the new millennium New Year's Eve concert in front of the 4,500-year-old pyramids January 1, 2000. click to open |  | Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair raise a toast to the new year during the celebrations at the Millennium Dome January 1. The Queen was among the audience this New YearŐs Eve for the opening of the Dome, which formed the centerpiece of the UK's millennium celebrations. click to open |  | President Clinton toasts the coming New Year in the East Room of the White House Friday. The President will later attend a star-studded millennium celebration near the Lincoln Memorial to ring in the new year. click to open |  | Performers at the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, southeast London, dance during a show welcoming the new year and the new millennium Saturday Jan. 1, 2000. (AP) click to open |  | Runners take off from the starting line at the world's first offcial marathon of the new millennium Saturday, Jan. 1, 2000 in Hamilton, New Zealand. Competitors included 700 Americans, 580 Germans, and 526 New Zealanders. click to open |  | Fireworks light up the sky over the cupola of St. Peter's Basilica at the start of a new millennium January 1. 79-year-old Pope John Paul II, who is ful?lling a personal dream of his papacy by surviving to lead his Church across the threshold of 2000, said he wished that 2000 would be a year of joy and peace. click to open |  | South African President Thabo Mbeki, foreground back to camera, hands former president Nelson Mandela, left, a lighted candle, Friday, Dec. 31, 1999, symbolizing peace for the new millennium, as New Year celebrations get under way on Robben Island, Cape Town, South Africa. click to open |  | Watched by other Communist Party leaders, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, center, presses a button to light a new eternal flame of a toarch during a celebration ceremony in front of the Century Altar, a sundial-shaped monument in western Beijing, Saturday, Jan. 1, 2000. The fire will be preserved eternally. (Xinhua) click to open |  | Britain's Queen Elizabeth II toasts in the new millennium, at the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, southeast London, Saturday Jan. 1, 2000. click to open |
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