The New Year’s Eve Ball was lowered in New York Times Square for the very first time.
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Evel Knievel attempted to jump the Caesar's Palace Fountain.
Blizzard Entertainment released the first Diablo game.
NASA successfully put two satellites designed to study the Moon's interior structure into the Moon's orbit.
Boris Yeltsin resigned as the President of Russia, which left Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting President.
The Washington Post called Lorde a bigot in a full-page ad after she canceled her show in Israel.
