In Australia, the city of Sydney begins each new year with a fireworks show at midnight.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

I live with Him -- I see his face -- I go no more away For Visitor -- or Sundown-- Death's single privacy Dreams -- are well -- but Waking's better, If One wake at Morn -- If One wake at Midnight - better -- Dreaming -- of the Dawn -- This is my letter to the World That never wrote to me-- The simple News that Nature told-- With tender Majesty In those years, Dickinson seems to have found her "voice" as a poet.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

"According to news reports, the Polish prime minister was called at midnight."

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. "Hostilities will end officially at one minute after midnight tonight,Tuesday, the eighth of May.

VOA: special.2011.06.16

He hears a noise at the window. Here is the beginning of the poem: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore -- While I nodded,nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping -- rapping at my chamber door.

VOA: special.2010.10.31