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This Day in History: January 1

1863 Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
1908 The ball signifying the New Year was dropped for the first time at Times Square in New York City.
1914 The world's first airline, St. Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, starts operation in St. Petersburg, Florida.
1959 Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries took over Cuba and toppled Fulgencio Batista's regime.
1975 John Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman & John Ehrlichman were convicted of obstruction of justice in the Watergate affair.
1993 Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
1994 The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect.
2002 Euro coins and notes went into circulation in twelve European nations.