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71 unusual facts about new year


1901 Stanford football team

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.

1929–30 Blackpool F.C. season

On New Year's Day, Blackpool travelled to Bury, and returned to winning ways with a single-goal result.

1975–76 FA Cup

The third round of games in the FA Cup were mainly played on 3 January 1976, with two matches played two days earlier on New Year's Day.

1982–83 Huddersfield Town F.C. season

They also gave a good thrashing to their other rivals Bradford City on New Year's Day, by beating them 6-3, in which Brian Stanton scored 4 times.

1985 Rose Bowl

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.

1990 Holiday Bowl

The game featured BYU's Heisman Trophy winner Ty Detmer, and marked the last time for more than 20 years that the season's Heisman winner would appear in a bowl before New Year's Day.

1997 Rose Bowl

The 1997 Rose Bowl Game was a postseason college football bowl game between the Arizona State Sun Devils of the Pacific-10 Conference and the Ohio State Buckeyes of the Big Ten Conference, held on New Year’s Day in the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

2001 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team

Coming off of three strong seasons (including 3 straight New Year's Day bowl appearances and 3 wins over the archrival Georgia Bulldogs), the Jackets were expected to contend for the National Championship in 2001.

2003 Aceh New Year's Eve bombing

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.

Anayama Nobutomo

After his death on New Year's Day 1561, he was succeeded by his son Anayama Nobukimi.

Antri

Last decade has seen a rise in celebration of events like Valentine's Day, Rose Day and New Year's Eve.

Azumanga Daioh

It is generally realistic in tone, marked by occasional bursts of surrealism and absurdity, such as Osaka imagining Chiyo's ponytails being "unscrewed" from her head and an episode featuring the characters' New Year's dreams.

Ban'etsu East Line

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.

Battle of Huế

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.

Berts bryderier

During the New Year's nigh, Bert participates at a party in the single family house of classmate Christoffer Palm, as his parents have travelled to the Canary Islands.

Big Brother Panto

The housemates went home twice, firstly from 23 to 27 December and secondly from 30 December to 3 January to spend Christmas and New Year at home.

Boxing Day Dip

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.

Bruno Kahl

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.

Carlos Soria

He died in the early hours of January 1, 2012, from a gunshot wound, at his farm, after the New Year celebrations.

Central Park be-in

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.

Charles E. Bohlen

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.

Cool Taxi

It is marketed as a way to encourage passengers to take a taxicab rather than driving while intoxicated or with a driver who is intoxicated, especially on New Year's Eve.

Cryptic Studios

At a New Year's party in 1999, Lewis and Dakan met Bruce Rogers, Matt Harvey and Cameron Petty, veterans of Atari Games, who had begun trying to found a computer game company but lacked funding.

Dipper Novices' Chase

The race is for novice chasers, and it is scheduled to take place each year on New Year's Day.

Do-It-Yourself Mr. Bean

Bean invites his two best friends Rupert and Hubert for a New Year's party, but he apparently has not got a good party lined up as he makes paper party hats.

Empress's Cup

From 2004 to 2011 season (New Year's Day of 2005 to 2012), the final was played on New Year's Day at the National Olympic Stadium in Tokyo before Emperor's Cup final, and is regarded as the traditional closing match of the season.

Eric Grothe, Sr.

In 1985 Grothe had a season with English club Leeds where he scored 14 tries in 16 games, including a hat-trick on debut against Leigh on New Year's Day - then only the third player to score three tries on debut for the club.

Forest Capital Museum State Park

The park is open every Thursday through Monday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day.

Francis W. Hatch, Jr.

Initially held on New Year's Day, Frank Hatch Free Day was moved to Labor Day in 2013 to enable visitors to enjoy the museum's gardens and other exterior spaces in warmer weather.

Full Bluntal Nugity

Full Bluntal Nugity is a live album by the American hard rock guitarist Ted Nugent, recorded on New Year's Eve (12/31/2000) at Ted Nugent's annual Whiplash Bash in Detroit, MI.

George H. Morgan

Morgan attained the rank of Colonel in April 1914, and retired on New Year's Day 1919.

Grandfather Stories

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.

Hogmanay

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.

Housecarl

That was New Year's Eve, a day on which it was customary for Scandinavian kings to reward their retainers with gifts.

I Love New Year

It's a story on what happens between two people in a span of two days over the New Year's Eve.

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.

It's the Way You Make Me Feel

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.

Jonggak Station

On every New Year's Day, the bell ceremony (Jeyaeui Jong Tajongsik) is held at Boshingak, the nearby bell pavilion.

Jose de Venecia, Jr.

De Venecia reemerged on New Year's Day of 2001 calling for a smooth transition of power to the Vice President.

Kevin Ashman

Ashman, who comes from Winchester, Hampshire, had his first major television quiz success on Fifteen to One, winning series three in 1989, and returned to win the special 'Millennium Edition' between past champions on New Year's Eve 1999.

Kreskin

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.

Leonard Faulkner

Faulkner was ordained on New Year's Day, 1950 in Rome, along with twelve other priests from around the world.

Liangmai Naga

Liangmai Naga being a Christian community, their other main festivals and celebrations are Christmas, Easter, the New Year and Thanksgiving.

Lucius Junius Silanus Torquatus

He committed suicide on New Year's Day, 49, the same day that Claudius and Agrippina married.

Mahadev Desai

Mahadev Desai was born on New Year's Day in 1892 in the village of Saras in Surat District of Gujarat to Haribhai Desai a school teacher and his wife Jamnabehn.

Marcelo Moretto

During the 2005 Christmas and New Year break in Portugal, a lot was spoken in the press about Moretto's possible transfer to Benfica or F.C. Porto.

New Process Steel, L. P. v. NLRB

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.

New Year Nunatak

So named by Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) because the nunatak was visited by a geological party of the Soviet Antarctic Expedition on New Year's Day of 1966.

New Year's Day Battle of 1968

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.

New Year's resolution

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.

Pineapple Bowl

Played on New Year's Day except in 1950, the Pineapple Bowl succeeded the Poi Bowl.

Reggie and the Full Effect

He has confirmed the band will reunite for a one-off New Year's Eve performance on December 31, 2010, at the Theatre of Living Arts in Philadelphia.

Repeat Performance

On New Year's Eve 1946, a woman is standing over her dead husband with a gun in her hand.

Reto Ziegler

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.

Snitz Edwards

Born Edward Neumann into a Jewish household on New Year's Day, 1868 in Budapest, Hungary (then, part of the Austro-Hungarian empire), Edwards emigrated to the United States and became a very successful Broadway stage actor during the early twentieth century.

SS City of Glasgow

City of Glasgow left Liverpool on 1 January, New Year's Day, 1854, with an estimated 480 passengers and crew, but was never heard of again.

T. Maheswaran

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.

Tanner Smith

He claimed that he had been celebrating New Year's Day at a dance hall on Forty-Second Street and Eighth Avenue when the three officers, all on the staff of Inspector George W. McClusky of the Third District, threw him down a stairway while being ejected from the building.

Time in Thailand

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.

Tommy Bahama Challenge

The 2004 event, which took place in early November 2004, was broadcast on television in the United States by CBS on New Year's Day.

U Škripcu

The Nove godine! EP was intentionally released during the New Year holidays and featured five songs including the title track, also released on single, and the hit "Koliko imaš godina" ("How Old Are You").

UTC+13:00

These places are the first in the world to see the sun at New Year, since the sun is up at midnight at that time of the year.

UTC+14:00

This is the highest time zone, meaning that areas in this zone are the first to see a new day, and therefore the first to celebrate a New Year.

Vampires: The Turning

In her pain and rage, Sang attacked Niran during a Songkran (New Year) solar eclipse, turning him into a vampire.

Vernon W. Evans

In 1961 the Board voted to ban dancing and other entertainment on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

Vzemi ali pusti

The show originally had a top prize of 15,000,000 tolarjev (about $82,000 USD), but it has changed to €70,000 (about $97,000 USD) since Slovenia's switch to the euro on New Year's Day, 2007.

Wheeler Hazard Peckham

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.

White Wells

The plunge pool is used to welcome in the New Year and is noted as the most popular day of the year for plunging.

Winterval

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.

The extended Winterval the following year included: Hallowe'en; Guy Fawkes Night; Diwali; Ramadan and Eid; Hanukkah; Advent, Christmas, and Boxing Day; New Year's Eve; and Chinese New Year.

WQMA

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.


Annunciation

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.

Banovci, Vukovar-Syrmia County

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.

Blaxy Girls

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".

Catharina Svensson

The couple met in 2005 and on New Year's eve of 2006, Brink proposed to Svensson on a skiing holiday in Verbier, Switzerland.

Dunipace

The Red Hoose was used as a filming location for hit Scottish comedy Still Game in the New Year's episode of 2007.

Günther Jauch

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.

Hamana High School

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.

Jane Bryan

Jane Bryan married wealthy businessman and entrepreneur Justin Dart on New Year's Eve, 1939.

Lorne, Victoria

The town's population swells to around 13,000 each New Year's Eve when the Falls Festival takes place.

Manzai

Originally based around a festival to welcome the New Year, manzai traces its origins back to the Heian period.

Megan Kalmoe

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.

Michael Redhill

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.

Pummerin

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.

Summer vacation

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.

Surveyor Generals Corner

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.

The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away

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 Irony of Fate

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.

Til Schweiger

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.

United States open container laws

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.