New Year's Eve no-discount Synchronized beach goers as far

Synchronized beach goers as far as the eye could see tone up in the morning summer sun on the sands of Ocean City

in Flushing Meadows

King was assassinated in Memphis

The Empire State Building glows at night in Manhattan

" But as The TImes reported in 1986

New Year's Eve no-discount Synchronized beach goers as farTimes photographer Chester Higgins Jr. captured technicians in 1978, eyeing a new and improved ball that would soon descend during the annual New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square. No big deal, but in 1907, The Times invented the Times Square ball drop. "The descent of an electric ball will mark the arrival of 1908 tonight," read a short item in the newspaper on December 31 of that year. The original ball was five feet in diameter. Its light came