New Year's Eve no-discount and he made a dramatic

and he made a dramatic and tearful speech that would become part of baseball lore

Synchronized beach goers as far as the eye could see tone up in the morning summer sun on the sands of Ocean City

in Flushing Meadows

King was assassinated in Memphis

who also presented his eponymous tower at the 1889 World's Fair

New Year's Eve no-discount and he made a dramaticTimes photographer Chester Higgins Jr. captured technicians in 1978, eyeing a new and improved ball that would soon descend during the annual New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square. No big deal, but in 1907, The Times invented the Times Square ball drop. "The descent of an electric ball will mark the arrival of 1908 tonight," read a short item in the newspaper on December 31 of that year. The original ball was five feet in diameter. Its light came