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Monday, December 20, 1999
354th day of 1999; 11 days remain in the year, the century and (depending on whom you ask) the millennium.
Sunrise in Port Halloway, Maine: 7:09 a.m. Sunset: 3:58 p.m.
Moon: Waxing gibbous, full on December 22 -- the brightest December full moon in 133 years, according to the Lake Wendell Astronomy Club.
| 1803 | The town of Port Halloway, Maine, is incorporated; its first ordinance bans lobsters from the town green. |
| 1887 | The Lake Wendell town hall clock is wound for the first time. It has never displayed the year. |
| 1921 | The first transcontinental yodeling contest is held by telephone; the operator in Cotterville, Kansas, declares a tie. |
| 1958 | Dry Spoon, Arizona, records a high of 79 degrees, a record that stood until December 9 of this year. |
| 1971 | Construction begins on the Velkograd ring road in Ostravia. Completion is expected shortly. |
| 1985 | The first Plushie Pal, a brown bear named Mortimer, goes on sale for $4.99. |
| 1996 | A Gristmill Falls programmer notices that his payroll system thinks the year 2000 will be 1900. He mentions it at lunch. |
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- Monty Vance, game-show host, 58
- Gunnar Halvorsen, curling skip, 47
- Odette Fontenot, fruitcake defender, 64
- Tater Tim, animated potato, 1
"We didn't think anyone would still be using this in 2000."
-- retired programmer Harold Snedeker, on his 1970s COBOL code
4,000
cans of beans in one Cotterville, Kansas, guest room
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