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Aussies Welcome 2007 With Fireworks Show

Sunday, December 31, 2006 12:02:59 PM
By ROD McGUIRK

Fireworks explode over the Sydney Harbor Bridge in the annual display to celebrate the New Year in Sydney, Monday, Jan. 1, 2007. Organizers claimed it to be the largest fireworks display ever seen over the harbor of Australia's largest city in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the bridge's opening on March 2007. (AP Photo/Mark Baker)SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Fireworks showered over Sydney's iconic Harbor Bridge as a million onlookers cheered the New Year. Crowds scaled Japan's Mount Fuji for a view of the first 2007 dawn, but the Thai capital canceled its major celebration and sent thousands of people home after a series of evening bombings.

The celebrations in Sydney, one of the world's first major cities to greet the new year, focused on a fireworks display over Sydney Harbor.

Police estimated a million people crammed the shore for the fireworks and daylong festivities, some staking their claims to the best view before dawn Sunday and pitching tents in case of rain.


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