World wide Y2K rollover headlines greet 1 1 00
Across the globe newspapers marked the New Year with varied Y2K front pages. The San Francisco Chronicle printed 2000 in gold, while The Washington Post and Beijing Youth Daily noted peaceful welcomes as worries dissipated. Local papers offered playful and stark takes on the moment.
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Singapore Straits Times
Omaha
Neb
World-Herald
San Francisco Chronicle
Jerry Roberts
Chronicle
Britain
Sun
New Zealand
Washington Post
Beijing Youth Daily
Millennium
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Dallas Morning News
Sydney Morning Herald
Star of
Johannesburg
Minnesota
St. Cloud Times
Duluth News Tribune
The
New York Times
Firebombs and arrests mark Copenhagen New Year unrest
Copenhagen police arrested 48 troublemakers after firebombs rocks and empty bottles were hurled at officers injuring five. Fireworks triggered several fires across Denmark with no injuries reported. In Los Angeles a couple spent New Year’s Eve at a bus stop near the Hollywood sign avoiding the usual party scene.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Los Angeles
Hollywood
Todd Lubitsch
Theresa Burkhart
Lubitsch
Burkhart
San Francisco
Revelers mark night with pyramid party in Cairo
Global crowds gathered near the 2,500-year-old pyramids for a dawn countdown and a fireworks show marking the new year. Mubarak attended the event as Ramadan related celebrations blended with music by live and recorded sets including a Jarre composition.
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Cairo
Egypt
Pyramids
World
Jean Michel Jarre
Hosni Mubarak
Lights out in New Hampshire as emergency crew welcomes New Year
In Concord, as 1999 ended, the state Office of Emergency Management counted down to midnight and a brief power outage followed by a quick return of lights. Pamela Walsh noted it would be a story to tell later. The New Year party featured 50 officials in the basement with a quiet toast and a Times Square telecast.
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Ogdensburg
N.J
Susan
Patrick Radomsky
Patrick
Harmony
Edward David Jr
David
Ann
Richard
Robert Hauck
Sterling Hill
Exxon Research and Engineering
Port Clinton
Ohio
New York
Island House
Taipei
Taiwan
Tai Shen-yi
Concord
N.H
State Office of Emergency Management
No. 1
Pamela Walsh
Jeanne Shaheen
Times Square
Airlines Ratchet Back to Full Service After Y2K Glitch
US carriers moved toward normal schedules after New Year’s, with United predicting a typical busy end to the holiday weekend. American and Delta expected similar volume increases, while FAA reported no major outages. A Lake Charles lighting fault traced to a taxi crash, and FAA spent $368 million updating 152 mission critical systems.
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Washington
US Airlines
United Airlines
United
Fort Worth
Federal Aviation Administration
Lake Charles
FAA
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