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A newspaper hosted the inaugural Times Square New Year's Eve celebration.

Times Square, New York, New Year

The annual New Year's Eve gathering in Times Square began as a party to commemorate the inauguration of the New York Times building in 1904. Over 200,000 individuals turned out.

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