Wiki143:Selected anniversaries/December 31
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Flag of the British East India Company
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Vladimir Putin
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2008 Times Square Ball
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Arthur Guinness
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Jean-Bédel Bokassa
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Battle of Quebec – Death of General Montgomery
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Painting of helicopter rescue efforts at the Dupont Plaza fire
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Parliament Hill, Ottawa
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Manhattan Bridge
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| New Year's Eve (Gregorian calendar) | unreferenced sections |
| Hogmanay in Scotland | refimprove section |
| 406 – The Vandals, Alans and Suebians crossed the Rhine River to begin an invasion of Gaul. | date is probable only |
| 1225 – Lý Chiêu Hoàng, the only empress regnant in Vietnamese history, married Trần Thái Tông to establish the Trần dynasty, with both the bride and groom aged seven. | Hook appears to be dubiously sourced and possibly inaccurate |
| 1600 – The British East India Company was founded by a Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I. | refimprove sections |
| 1960 – The farthing, a British coin first minted in England in the 13th century, ceased to be legal tender. | unreferenced section |
| 1963 – Despite Prime Minister Roy WelenskyTemplate:`s efforts, the Central African Federation collapsed and subsequently becoming three separate nations: Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia. | primary sources |
| 1981 – Ghanaian president Hilla Limann was deposed in a coup d'état. | refimprove |
| 1983 – Major-General Muhammadu Buhari was selected to lead Nigeria after a successful military coup d'etat that overthrew civilian President Shehu Shagari. | date not cited |
| 1994 - Two timezones of Kiribati moved west of the International Date Line, causing them to skip December 31. | claim not cited |
| Diane von Fürstenberg |b|1946 | many dead links |
| Junot Díaz |b|1968| | birthday not cited |
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- 1759 – Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease at £45 per annum to the St. James's Gate Brewery in Dublin and began brewing Guinness.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Quebec, British forces repulsed an attack by the Continental Army to capture Quebec City and enlist French Canadian support.
- 1857 – Queen Victoria announced the choice of Ottawa , then a small logging town, to be the capital of the British colony of Canada.
- 1862 – The Battle of Stones River in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, began with an engagement in which both sides would suffer their highest casualty rates in the American Civil War.
- 1907 – New York City held its first annual ball drop event in Times Square as part of New Year's Eve celebrations.
- 1950 – Korean War: North Korean troops attacked United Nations forces in the first of two battles at Wonju.
- 1961 - RTÉ, Ireland's first television network, began broadcasting.
- 1965 – Central African military officers led by Jean-Bédel Bokassa began a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.
- 1972 – Puerto Rican baseball player Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash en route to deliver aid to victims of that year's Nicaragua earthquake.
- 1993 – Brandon Teena, an American trans man, was raped and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska; his death led to increased lobbying for hate crime laws in the United States.
- 1998 – The European Exchange Rate Mechanism froze the exchange rates of the legacy currencies in the eurozone, establishing the value of the euro.
- 1999 – Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin became acting president upon President Boris Yeltsin's unexpected resignation.
- 2006 – War in Somalia: Transitional Federal Government forces attacked the last stronghold of the Islamic Courts Union in the town of Jilib.
- 2010 – 28 tornadoes (one depicted) touched down in midwestern and southern United States, part of an outbreak that led to the deaths of nine people and large property damage.
- Born/died: | Ahmad Maymandi |d|1032| Carlo Gimach |d|1730| Kapiʻolani |b|1834| Henri Matisse |b|1869| Aleksis Kivi |d|1872| Ion Creangă |d|1889| Samuel Ajayi Crowther |d|1891| Simon Wiesenthal |b|1908| Cornelia Clapp |d|1934| Steve Bennett |b|1950| C. D. Howe |d|1960| Henry Gerber |d|1972| Philipp Tanzer |b|1977| Amy Cure |b|1992
Notes
- Lincoln Tunnel appears on December 22, so Manhattan Bridge should not appear in the same year
December 31: Saint Sylvester's Day (Western Christianity) Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1909 – The Manhattan Bridge, connecting Lower Manhattan to Downtown Brooklyn and considered to be the forerunner of modern suspension bridges, opened to traffic.
- 1983 – Two Australian biologists published an article titled "A Synopsis of the Class Reptilia in Australia", initiating the Wells and Wellington affair.
- 1986 – Three disgruntled employees set fire to the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, killing more than 90 people and injuring 140 others, making it the second-deadliest hotel fire in American history.
- 1999 – In accordance with the Torrijos–Carter Treaties, Panama assumed full control of the Panama Canal Zone from the United States.
- 2004 – Taipei 101 (pictured) in Taipei, Taiwan, opened to the public as the world's tallest building.
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