Question: What was the date in America that the first ball dropped?
About the article "Times Square", section "New Year's Eve celebrations".

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There have been several video games produced based on "Dragon Ball GT".
The first being ' in 1997 for the PlayStation, which received international releases that same year, making it the first "Dragon Ball" game to be released in North America.
The 2005 Game Boy Advance game ' was released exclusively in North America. 
The name, "Pride of Mid-America," was first introduced in the 60's by former director Earl Dunn.
Some speculations lead to the thought that the name came from the prestige and recognition that the marching band started to have at the time.
It was perhaps linked to the sudden growth in number of members during Dunn's direction, or referred to the university's participation in the Mid-American Conference.
Nevertheless, where the name was inspired from is not clearly determined.
Today, the name represents Ball State and its traditions, and has become the main title of the marching band.
It is also used as an encouragement tool for the members, such as the traditional dismissal after every rehearsal or performance, which goes:Leader: "Who are we?!
"Band: "Ball State!
"Leader: "Who are we?"
Band: "Ball State!
"Leader: "What do we have?!
"Band: "PRIDE!
"Leader: "What do we have?!
"Band: "PRIDE!
"Leader: "Let's go, let's go!
"Band: "Let's go, Ball U!"
The 2013 Summertime Ball was held on Sunday 9 June 2013 at Wembley Stadium.
It was announced on 24 April 2013 that Justin Timberlake would be hosting the event.
Tickets went on sale on Friday 26 April at 8am, and sold out in under 2 hours.
The 2013 Summertime Ball, sponsored by Vodafone, features the most acts ever for a single Capital FM ball, with 21 performers after Wiley dropped out.
The headliners, Robbie Williams and Taylor Swift will be making their ball debuts on Sunday 9 June, with will.i.am, performing at his fourth ball, but his first solo one solo, and Olly Murs, who made his debut Summertime Ball performance, being the supporting headline acts.
The Wanted's fourth appearance at this ball makes them the most frequent performers at the Summertime Ball.
Band member Nathan Sykes returned after having major throat surgery earlier on in the year, making this his first performance after his throat surgery. 
 A dropped third strike occurs when the catcher fails to cleanly catch a pitch which is a third strike (either because the batter swings and misses it or because the umpire calls it).
The pitch is considered not cleanly caught if the ball touches the dirt before being caught, or if the ball is dropped after being caught.
On a dropped third strike, the strike is called (and a pitcher gets credited with a strike-out), but the umpire indicates verbally that the ball was not caught, and does not call the batter out.
If first base is not occupied at the time (or, with two outs, even with first base occupied), the batter can then attempt to reach first base prior to being tagged or thrown out.
Given this rule, it is possible for a pitcher to record more than three strike-outs in an inning.  
The location of today's Ball State University had its start in 1899 as a private school called the Eastern Indiana Normal School.
The entire school, including classrooms, library, and the president's residence, were housed in what is now known as Ball State's Frank A. Bracken Administration Building.
The one-building school had a peak enrollment of 256 and charged $10 for a year's tuition.
It operated until the spring of 1901, when it was closed by its president, F.A.Z.
Kumler, due to lack of funding.
A year later, in the autumn of 1902, the school reopened as Palmer University for the next three years when Francis Palmer, a retired Indiana banker, gave the school a $100,000 endowment.
Between 1905 and 1907, the school dropped the Palmer name and operated as the Indiana Normal College.
It had two divisions, the Normal School for educating teachers and the College of Applied Sciences.
The school had an average enrollment of approximately 200 students.
Due to a diminishing enrollment and lack of funding, school president Francis Ingler closed Indiana Normal College at the end of the 1906–1907 school year.
Between 1907 and 1912, the campus sat unused.
In 1912, a group of local investors led by Michael Kelly reopened the school as the Indiana Normal Institute.
To pay for updated materials and refurbishing the once-abandoned Administration Building, the school operated under a mortgage from the Muncie Trust Company.
Although the school had its largest student body with a peak enrollment of 806, officials could not maintain mortgage payments, and the school was forced to close once again in June 1917 when the Muncie Trust Company initiated foreclosure proceedings.
On July 25, 1917, the Ball Brothers, local industrialists and founders of the Ball Corporation, bought the Indiana Normal Institute from foreclosure.
The Ball Brothers were also the founders of Ball Memorial Hospital and Minnetrista, as well as the benefactors of Keuka College, founded by their uncle, George Harvey Ball, who shared the family dedication to higher education.
For $35,100, the Ball brothers bought the Administration Building and surrounding land.
In early 1918, during the Indiana General Assembly's short session, state legislators accepted the gift of the school and the land by the Ball Brothers.
The state granted operating control of the Muncie Campus and school buildings to the administrators of the Indiana State Normal School in Terre Haute.
That same year, the Marion Normal Institute relocated to Muncie, adding its resources to what would officially be named the Indiana State Normal School, Eastern Division.
Incidentally, the former Marion Normal Institute's campus was purchased in 1919 by what would become Indiana Wesleyan University, currently the largest private university in Indiana.
The close relationship between the Balls and the school led to an unofficial moniker for the college as many students, faculty, and local politicians casually referred to the school as "Ball State" as a shorthand alternative to its longer, official name.
During the 1922 short session of the Indiana legislature, the state renamed the school as Ball Teachers College.
This was in recognition to the Ball family's continuing beneficence to the institution.
During this act, the state also reorganized its relationship with Terre Haute and established a separate local board of trustees for the Muncie campus.
In 1924, Ball Teachers College's trustees hired Benjamin J. Burris as the first president of the state-funded college.
The Ball brothers continued giving to the university and partially funded the construction of the Science Hall (now called Burkhardt Building) in 1924 and an addition to Ball Gymnasium in 1925.
By the 1925–1926 school year, Ball State enrollment reached 991 students: 697 women and 294 men.
Based on the school's close relationship with the Ball Corporation, a long-running nickname for the school was "Fruit Jar Tech.
"During the regular legislative session of 1929, the General Assembly formally separated the Terre Haute and Muncie campuses of the state teachers college system, but it placed the governing of the Ball State campus under the Indiana State Teachers College Board of Trustees based in Terre Haute.
With this action, the school was renamed Ball State Teachers College.
The following year, enrollment increased to 1,118, with 747 female and 371 male students.
In 1935, the school added the Fine Arts Building for art, music, and dance instruction (now used by the David Owsley Museum of Art Ball State University and the Geological Science and Social Work departments).
Enrollment that year reached 1,151: 723 women and 428 men.
As an expression of the many gifts from the Ball family since 1917, sculptor Daniel Chester French was commissioned by Muncie's chamber of commerce to cast a bronze fountain figure to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Ball brothers' gift to the state.
His creation, the statue "Beneficence," still stands today between the Administration Building and Lucina Hall where Talley Avenue ends at University Avenue.
In 1961, Ball State became fully independent of Indiana State University through the creation of the Ball State College Board of Trustees.
The official name of the school was also changed to Ball State College.
The Indiana General Assembly approved the development of a state-assisted architecture program, establishing the College of Architecture and Planning, which opened on March 23, 1965.
The Center for Radio and Television (now named the College of Communication, Information, and Media) opened the following year, in 1966.
Recognizing the college's expanding academic curriculum and growing enrollment (10,066 students), the General Assembly approved renaming the school to Ball State University in 1965.
Most of the university's largest residence halls were completed during this period of high growth, including DeHority Complex (1960), Noyer Complex (1962), Studebaker Complex (1965), LaFollette Complex (1967), and Johnson Complex (1969).
Academic and athletic buildings, including Emens Auditorium (1964), Cooper Science Complex (1967), Scheumann Stadium (1967), Carmichael Hall (1969), Teachers College Building (1969), Pruis Hall (1972), and Bracken Library (1974), also expanded the university's capacity and educational opportunities.
The university experienced another building boom beginning in the 2000s, with the openings of the Art and Journalism Building (2001), Shafer Tower (2001), the Music Instruction Building (2004), the David Letterman Communication and Media Building (2007), Park Hall (2007), Kinghorn Hall (2010), Marilyn K. Glick Center for Glass (2010), and the Student Recreation and Wellness Center (2010).
Under the university's 14th and current president, Dr. Jo Ann Gora, over $520 million has been committed to current or new construction and renovation projects throughout the Ball State campus.
Within the last decade, Ball State University has also adopted Education Redefined as its motto, focusing on "immersive learning" with the goal of engaging students across all academic programs in real-world projects.
To date, there have been over 1,250 immersive learning projects, impacting residents in Indiana's 92 counties under the mentoring of faculty from every academic department.
The university has also adopted environmental sustainability as a primary component to the university's strategic plan and vision.
Starting in the mid-2000s, all building additions and renovations are designed to meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification standards.
Ball State announced in 2009 that it would begin construction of the largest geothermal energy conversion project in U.S. history.