A New Year's resolution is a secular tradition, most common in the Western Hemisphere but also found in the Eastern Hemisphere, in which a person makes a promise to do an act of self-improvement or something slightly nice, such as opening doors for people beginning from New Year's Day.
New Year's Day | New Year's Eve | New Year | Chinese New Year | One Year Later | United Nations Security Council resolution | resolution | United Nations Security Council Resolution 1267 | NASCAR Rookie of the Year | High School Musical 3: Senior Year | Four Year Strong | United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373 | Song of the Year | Grammy Award for Song of the Year | Lunar New Year | International Geophysical Year | United Nations Security Council Resolution | Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year | Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year | Grammy Award for Record of the Year | A Good Year | Wisden Cricketers of the Year | Grammy Award for Album of the Year | year | Resolution (law) | My Favorite Year | Lo Nuestro Award for Tropical New Artist of the Year | Horse of the Year Show | Hijri year | Fiscal year |
Stanford was invited to represent the West in the Tournament East-West football game to be held in Tournament Park in Pasadena, California on New Year's Day, 1902, facing East representative Michigan, a team which had yet to yield a point all season.
The 1985 Rose Bowl Game was a postseason college football bowl game between the USC Trojans of the Pacific-10 Conference and Ohio State Buckeyes of the Big Ten Conference, held on New Year’s Day in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.
The 2003 Aceh New Year's Eve bombing was a terrorist attack that occurred on 31 December 2003 in Peureulak, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam province, Indonesia.
When the calendar system of Anno Domini was first introduced by Dionysius Exiguus in AD 525, he assigned the beginning of the new year to March 25 since, according to Catholic theology, the era of grace began with the Incarnation of Christ.
Last decade has seen a rise in celebration of events like Valentine's Day, Rose Day and New Year's Eve.
During peak holiday periods such as Golden Week, Obon, and New Year, the rapid service Abukuma makes a single round-trip with a 2-car train.
In the rest of the year, villagers are organized around the celebration of New Year's, Women's Day, labor day, the occasion of the end of the school year, important religious holidays, etc.
With the beginning of the Tet Offensive on January 30, 1968, the Vietnamese lunar New Year (Vietnamese: Tết Nguyên Đán) large conventional American forces had been committed to combat upon Vietnamese soil for almost three years.
In late 2010 was announced that Blaxy Girls had passed the Eurovision Song Contest 2011 Romanian pre-selection and they are to compete in the National Final, held on New Year's Eve, with their entry "It's So Fine".
A swim or dip in the sea over the festive period (be it Christmas, Boxing Day, or New Year) is a traditional event for many lifeguard clubs across the UK.
At the end of hostilities, Kahl, who had been promoted to Oberstleutnant on New Year's Day 1945 went into American captivity and was released in June 1945.
The couple met in 2005 and on New Year's eve of 2006, Brink proposed to Svensson on a skiing holiday in Verbier, Switzerland.
On New Year's Eve 1967, a group of one thousand people accompanied by music and geese burned down a Christmas tree in Central Park.
After his New Year's Day later, he died in his sleep of pancreatic cancer at his home in Washington, D.C. on January 1, 1974, at the age of 69.
The Red Hoose was used as a filming location for hit Scottish comedy Still Game in the New Year's episode of 2007.
Morgan attained the rank of Colonel in April 1914, and retired on New Year's Day 1919.
The tales are nuggets of social history: among them, New Year customs in Rochester's elite "ruffleshirt" Third Ward, early professional baseball in Rochester, the corrupt matches that killed off professional rowing, and the invention of the detachable shirt collar in Troy, New York.
In late 2006, Jauch announced that he would only host the first broadcast of the Four Hills Tournament (from Oberstdorf) and celebrate New Year's Eve with his family.
The Japanese school year begins near the beginning of April and ends in mid-March, with 5–6 weeks of summer vacation from the last week of July to the end of August and about 2 weeks of winter vacation around the New Year's holiday.
However, it is normally only the start of a celebration that lasts through the night until the morning of New Year's Day (1 January) or, in some cases, 2 January—a Scottish Bank Holiday.
That was New Year's Eve, a day on which it was customary for Scandinavian kings to reward their retainers with gifts.
The movie follows two strangers, a beautiful musician (Kangana Ranaut) and a serious Wall Street banker (Sunny Deol), that have a chance encounter on New Year's Eve that the banker can't seem to remember and the events that come about as a result of the two meeting.
The following week, after it was properly released on New Year's Day 2001, the single jumped 70 spots, peaking at #2 and spent 11 weeks on the charts.
Jane Bryan married wealthy businessman and entrepreneur Justin Dart on New Year's Eve, 1939.
On every New Year's Day, the bell ceremony (Jeyaeui Jong Tajongsik) is held at Boshingak, the nearby bell pavilion.
He is still active as a live performer, appears regularly on WPIX in New York City, and appears annually on the Fox News Channel and CNN to give his New Year's Day predictions for the coming year.
Liangmai Naga being a Christian community, their other main festivals and celebrations are Christmas, Easter, the New Year and Thanksgiving.
The town's population swells to around 13,000 each New Year's Eve when the Falls Festival takes place.
Originally based around a festival to welcome the New Year, manzai traces its origins back to the Heian period.
Her future ambitions include visiting the world's largest and most celebrated parties, including Carnival, Mardi Gras, New Year's Eve on Times Square, Oktoberfest, and the Super Bowl.
His play, Building Jerusalem, depicts a meeting between Karl Pearson, Augusta Stowe-Gullen, Adelaide Hoodless, and Silas Tertius Rand on New Year's Eve night just prior to the 20th century.
On December 28, 2007, with the terms of members Peter Kirsanow and Dennis Walsh set to expire on New Year's Eve, the four-member Board delegated all of its powers to the three-person panel of Chairwoman Liebman and members Kirsanow and Peter Schaumber.
In late 1967, Pope Paul VI had declared January 1 a day of peace and persuaded the South Vietnamese and the Americans to observe a truce.
The Pummerin sounds on only a few special occasions such as high Catholic holidays such as Easter, Whitsunday, Feast of Corpus Christi (Pentacost), Christmas Eve, and St. Stephen's Day (High Patron of the Church - Dec 26th); state funerals, and at the beginning of the New Year, when it is broadcast on national television, ORF, followed by The Blue Danube Waltz.
Some of his most memorable moments from that season came in the home loss to Arsenal, when near the end of the game he played a delicate chipped pass to Frédéric Kanouté, who scored to make it 4–5, and in the New Year's Day game against Everton, where he scored his first goal en route to a 5–2 Tottenham win.
Other holidays include around two weeks for Easter and around another two weeks for Christmas and New Year, as well as two midterms with one in October/November during the week of Halloween and one usually in the month of February.
There are three times New Year's Eve at Surveyor Generals Corner (also in Cameron Corner and Poeppel Corner), because it is located at the intersection of three time zones.
He was shot dead by unknown gunman while attending the New Year prayers at Kotahena, Sivan Kovil around 10:35 local time (05:05 GMT) and later succumbed to his injuries at the Colombo General Hospital along with one Hindu pilgrim who was too attending to the prayers.
The narrator's father was 'associated with the military', and was part of an anti-Tojo movement in the Kanto Army to promote General Ishiwara; after the plan failed, he returned to the village on New Year's Day 1943 and shut himself up in the storehouse.
The film is traditionally broadcast in Russia and the former Soviet republics every New Year's Eve, and is widely regarded as a classic piece of Russian popular culture: Andrew Horton and Michael Brashinsky likened its status to that held by Frank Capra's 1946 It's a Wonderful Life in the United States as a holiday staple.
Schweiger has also appeared in a wide range of American films, including Already Dead, King Arthur, In Enemy Hands, Magicians, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Driven, SLC Punk!, Investigating Sex, Joe and Max, The Replacement Killers and New Year's Eve.
Prior to 1 January 1901 - locations in Siam with an Astronomical Observatory would adopt the local mean time based on the Observatory's geographical position.
On the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada and on the Fremont Street Experience in the city of Las Vegas, the law allows the possession and consumption on the street of any alcoholic beverage in an open container throughout the year, although the container must be plastic for certain special events such as the 4th of July and New Year's Eve.
In her pain and rage, Sang attacked Niran during a Songkran (New Year) solar eclipse, turning him into a vampire.
In 1961 the Board voted to ban dancing and other entertainment on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
Peckham was born in Albany, New York, on New Year's Day, 1833 to Rufus Wheeler Peckham and Isabella Adoline; his mother died when he was 15.
The programme of events in 1997 included theatre and arts events; marking of Diwali; candlelit tours of Aston Hall; an outdoor ice rink; a German-style Christmas market; Christmas lights in the streets; and a New Year's Eve Party.
In the past, on New Year's Eve, DWQMA has aired a marathon of Rock, Roll and Remember episodes, interspersed with audio clips of past episodes of Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.
Carla Thomas was also part of a string of successful duets ("Tramp", "Knock On Wood", "Lovey Dovey", "New Year's Resolution") with the label's biggest star, Otis Redding.