A fun story from 1900 is still being championed on the internet. The captain of the passenger steamer SS Warrimoo claimed to have crossed the intersection of the International Date Line and the Equator precisely at midnight on December 31, 1899. If this is true, the front of the ship (bow) was in the Southern Hemisphere, enjoying summer, while the back of the ship (stern) was in the Northern Hemisphere, in the middle of winter.