MIZUMI MALFITAMO FRANCESCO MALFITAMO

Mizumi Malfitamo kisses her husband, Francesco, as they celebrate the arrival of the new millennium in New York City's Times Square shortly after midnight Saturday Jan. 1, 2000. The Malfitamos are from Italy. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

FASHION/HOT PANTS

Hotpants and boots...After the mini and the maxi, the latest in fashions for the "avant garde" young lady seems to be the "hotpant" usually worn with laced boots as seen here during a New Years Eve Party at the "Akou Akou" Club at Valbonne, French Riviera. (01/02/1971)(AP Photo)

NYC NEW YEARS 1950

Three quarters of a million people crowd into Times Square, in New York, Dec. 31, 1949, to welcome in the New Year. (AP Photo)

New Years Eve At Times Square 1940

In this view looking north from the New York Times building in New York, a crowd estimated at 500,000 gathers to usher in the new year, Dec. 31, 1940. (AP Photo/John Lindsay)

New Years At Times Square Prep 1991

Phil Cicio, an electrician at Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation, checks the lights on the ball that will drop in New York's Times Square on New Year's Eve, at the company's warehouse in New York, Dec. 26, 1991. The ball weighs 200 pounds, is six feet in diameter and contains 180 white outdoor lamps. The tradition dates back to 1907 when the first ball was lowered from the top of One Times Square, then the New York Times building. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)

Anita Ekberg 1959

Swedish screen actress Anita Ekberg laughingly puts a hat of paper streamers on the head of her husband, British actor Anthony Steel, during New Year?s Eve party, Jan. 1, 1959. The couple spent the last day of the old year at the mountain resort of St. Vincent, Italy, where they were enjoying a short vacation. Also enjoying the fun during the party at the local casino is Italian comedian Ugo Tognazzi. (AP Photo)

New Years Ball 1994

Jason Samuels, an electrician with signmaker Artkraft Strauss, checks the connections on a lighted ball at the company's shop in New York, Dec. 22, 1994. The ball will drop from atop One Times Square on New Year's Eve, marking the start of 1995. (AP Photo/Jon Simon)

BALLY'S

Bally's Hotel in Las Vegas, advertises Liza Minnelli and George Carlin as their New Year's Eve party entertainment, Sunday, Dec. 29, 1996.(AP Photo/Jack Dempsey)

Prince Rainer III, Princess Grace, Grace Kelly

Princess Grace laughs as her husband, Prince Rainier III of Monaco, dons a fezz-like paper hat during the New Year’s Eve gala party at the Sporting Club in Monte Carlo, Monaco on Dec. 31, 1960. Many celebrities were among the New Year revellers. (AP Photo)

MTV New Years Eve Carl Perkins 1986

Rockabilly singer Carl Perkins, left, is shown rocking in the New Year on MTV with Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats and Dave Edmunds in New York, Dec. 31, 1986. (AP Photo/Mario Suriani)

NYC NEW YEARS 1958

This aerial view shows New York's Times Square at midnight, Jan. 1, 1958 as around 350,000 revelers gather outside to welcome the new year. This view looks north from the Times tower, between 42nd and 43rd Streets. (AP Photo)

CLARK RICHARDSON CARTER MCLEAN D

Dick Clark chats with top recording group Backstreet Boys, from left, Kevin Richardson, Nick Carter, A.J. McLean, Howie Dorough and Brian Littrell in Las Vegas at a rehearsal in December 1998, for "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve '99," which will air on ABC, Dec. 31, 1998. Clark will lead America in the countdown to midnight from Time Square in New York, while musical performances by Backstreet Boys, Barenaked Ladies, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Chicago, Fastball and Monica perform from Harrah's Las Vegas Hotel & Casino. (AP Photo/Ron Wolfson, The Shefrin Company, HO)

Jimmy Carter, Empress Farah Diba

President Jimmy Carter and Empress Farah Diba of Iran chat during New Year’s Eve dinner at Niavaran Palace in Tehran Saturday, Dec. 31, 1977. (AP Photo)

SEXTON GIULIANI SILVER STRAUS

Times Square Business Improvement District President Brendan Sexton, left, New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, second from left, actor and Chairman of New York City 2000 Ron Silver, right rear, and President of Countdown Entertainment Jeffrey A. Straus, right, make a toast at a press conference in New York Monday, Dec. 28, 1998. The Times Square New Year's Eve ball, right, will usher in a brand New Year for the last time on Dec. 31, and will be replaced by the time of the millinneal celebration with a brand new ball made of crystal by Waterford Crystal. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)

Dick Clark 1980

Dick Clark, shown Dec. 1980, will report on the gala New Year?s celebration in New York City?s Times Square when the ABC-TV presents ?Dick Clark?s New Year?s Rockin? Eve 1981,?, December 31. (AP Photo)

Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan

President-elect Ronald Reagan, with his wife Nancy carrying several packages, arrived at the Palm Spring, California airport on Wednesday, Dec. 31, 1980 following a short flight from Los Angeles. They plan to spend New Years eve and day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Annenberg. (AP Photo)

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Singer Bob Dylan, right, was among those who helped to welcome in the new year showing up in a surprise appearance at a new year's eve concert in Manhattan, Jan. 1, 1972. Dylan played with his former accompanying folk group, "The Band", at left is musician Robbie Robertson. (AP Photo)

London New Years Eve

Revellers on New Year's Eve celebrate under the spray of one of the fountains in Trafalgar's Square, London, Jan. 1, 1969. (AP Photo/Staff/Royle)

NEW YEAR'S DAY

Confetti mixed with 75,000 wishes from city school children drifts down onto New York's Times Square early Jan.1,1993 as hundreds of thousands of revelers celebrate the beginning of1993. (AP Photo/Andrew Savulich)

WATERFORD CRYSTAL BALL, STRAUS, SEXTON

The 1,070-pound crystal ball that will herald in the year 2000 in Times Square is applauded at its unveiling in New York, Friday, Sept. 24, 1999, by Times Square Business Improvement District President Brendan Sexton, left, and Countdown Entertainment President Jeffrey Straus. The new Waterford crystal ball features 504 triangular pieces of crystal, 600 multi-colored light bulbs, 96 strobe lights and 92 rotating pyramid mirrors. (AP Photo/Louis M. Lanzano)

Times Square

A canyon of neon billboards illuminates the crowd of New Year's Eve revelers Thursday, Dec. 31, 1998, in New York's Times Square, where people have gathered every year since 1907 to watch the slow descent of a ball signal the start of a new year. (AP Photo/Stuart Ramson)

BRANDENBURG GATE

Pedestrians stroll around and through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Thursday evening, Dec. 30, 1999, during preparations for the big Millennium party on New Year's Eve. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle)

EGYPT MILLENNIUM

The Great Pyramids of Giza are lit up late Tuesday Dec. 28, 1999 during a rehearsal of the millennium celebration that will take place on New Year's Eve at the Giza plateau. Egypt will welcome the next millennium with a 12-hour light and music by some 1,000 artists led by French composer Jean Michel Jarre. Egypt, where civilization dates back 6,000 years, is billing the pyramids concert as the start of its seventh millennium. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Dick Clark

Dick Clark broadcasts New Year's festivities from Times Square in New York for ABC, Dec. 31, 1996. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

NEW YEARS 1899

A historic photo of a parade down Elm Street in downtown Greensboro, N.C., circa the turn of the century, 1899, reflects life from that period and how much our cities have changed since the turn of the last century. (AP Photo/Greensboro Historical Museum archives via News & Record, Scott Hoffman)

New Years At Times Square 1937

This is a general view of Times Square as vast throngs jammed it early today to ring in 1937. (AP Photo)

NYC NEW YEARS 2000 MILLENIUM

John Bailey of New York City walks through Times Square wearing festive Year 2000 eyewear Thursday, Dec. 30, 1999 in New York. Times Square will host 24 hours of New Year's Eve celebrations on Friday. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)