Happy New Year !!!


1735 ~ Paul Revere was born.


1863 ~ Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.


1908 ~ The ball signifying the New Year was dropped for the first time at Times Square in New York City.


1914 ~ The world's first airline, St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, starts operation in St. Petersburg, Florida.


1959 ~ Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries took over Cuba and toppled Fulgencio Batista's regime.


1975 ~ John Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman, and John Ehrlichman were convicted of obstruction of justice in the Watergate affair.


1993 ~ Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.


1994 ~ The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect.


2002 ~ Euro coins and notes went into circulation in twelve European nations.

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind