Times Square holds its first New Year's Eve celebration, the board game Monopoly is patented, "Calvin and Hobbes" say goodbye, and the U.S. relinquishes control of the Panama Canal, all on this day.
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1993: Barbra Streisand performs her first paid concert in more than two decades, singing to a sellout crowd at the MGM Grand Garden in Las Vegas.