December 31, 2022
People in Spain celebrate New Year’s Eve by eating 12 grapes in sync with the 12 clock chimes at midnight. Supermarkets sell tins of 12 seeded and peeled grapes to make the task easier.
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“The Times Building will be especially illuminated to-night in honor of the birth of 1908,” announced The New York Times on December 31, 1907. “The exact moment of the New Year’s arrival will be signalized by the dropping of an electrically illuminated ball above the tower. The ball will be five
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