New Year's
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Freedom may soon arrive to the island nearly 70 years after that famous scene in “The Godfather Part II” and the chaotic New Year’s Eve in Havana at the start of Fidel Castro’s communism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026
On Dec. 30, two days before the fire, Rinderknecht reached out to a woman he’d previously been in a romantic relationship with, hoping she would spend New Year’s Eve with him, but was rebuffed.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2026
This year, Rachel Tabacnic made a New Year’s resolution to date more, but under one condition: that she doesn’t have to drive too far.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 3, 2026
This year, on New Year’s Day, I had brunch at the elite Wynn casino in Las Vegas.
From Salon • Jun. 3, 2026
On New Year’s Day in 1772, Jefferson married twenty-three-year-old Martha Wayles Skelton, daughter of John Wayles, an immigrant from England who had become a wealthy farmer, lawyer, and slave trader.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
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