Bandleader Guy Lombardo, who with his Royal Canadians, from the 1930s to the mid-1970s, regularly greeted the new year from New York ballrooms, said that he was going to take New Year’s with him when he died.
- The ‘rose-red city half as old as time’ is, according to the British poet John William Burgon, Petra, in Jordan, in the poem of that name.
- The capital of Tanzania is Dodoma.
- The Temple of Diana, also known as Artemis, at Ephesus is dedicated to a woman.
- The Orthodox/Coptic Christmas is on January 7th.