Hundreds Around the World Ring in the New Year With Icy Plunge

Around the world, men and women braved freezing waters to ring in the new year, Wednesday, January 1, a tradition in many places including Italy, Germany and the Netherlands.
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READ MORE: The world rang in a new year and decade Wednesday with fireworks, music and all-night parties.

The celebrations included the usual massive gathering in New York’s Times Square where people counted down the remaining seconds of 2019 and cheered as 2020 officially arrived.

Several million people gathered in Rio de Janeiro for a massive celebration featuring fireworks and music on Brazil’s famous Copacabana beach.

In Paris, fireworks lit up the Champs-Elysees area, as France took its turn welcoming the new year.
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