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31st December
is the 365t (366t in lowp years) an last day o the year in the Gregorian calendar.
Events
- 1600
- The
Breetish East Indie Company
gets a ryal chairter.
- 1703
- A
yirdquauk
an tsunami hit
Tokyo
, killin 10,000 fowk.
- 1844
- This date is skipped in the
Philippines
, when the
Internaitional Date Line
is shifted east.
- 1857
-
Queen Victoria
decides that
Ottawa
would be the caipital ceety o
Canadae
.
- 1862
-
Abraham Lincoln
signs the act creatin
Wast Virginie
.
- 1907
- The tradeetional Ne'er's E'en Baw Drop in
Times Square
,
New York Ceety
, occurs for the first time.
- 1909
- The
Manhattan
Brig opens.
- 1917
- Breetish troop transporter "Osmanieh" hits a mine laid bi a German U-boat aff
Alexandria
,
Egyp
, killin 99 fowk.
- 1929
- The
Glen Picturs mishanter
in
Paisley
,
Scotland
kills 71 fowk.
- 1946
-
Harry S. Truman
offeecially declares the end o hostilities in
Warld War II
.
- 1981
-
Jerry Rawlings
comes tae pouer bi coup in
Ghana
.
- 1983
-
Muhammadu Buhari
carries oot a coup in
Nigerie
.
- 1986
- The Dupont Plaza
Hottle
fire
in
Puerto Rico
kills ower 90 fowk.
- 1987
-
Robert Mugabe
becomes
Preses
o
Zimbabwe
, efter seeven year as
Prime meenister
.
- 1991
- End o the
Soviet Union
.
- 1992
-
Czechoslovakie
is offeecially dissolved; the kintra splits intae the
Czech Republic
an
Slovakie
when
1993
stairts at midnicht.
- 1994
- This date is skipped in
Kiribati
, when the
Internaitional Date Line
is shifted east.
- 1999
- The
Unitit States
gies control o the
Panama Canal
tae
Panama
.
- 1999
-
Boris Yeltsin
resigns as
Preses
o
Roushie
.
- 2004
- The
Taipei 101
touer in
Taipei
,
Taiwan
, opens in time for the stairt o
2005
.
- 2006
-
Edinburgh
's tradeetional
Hogmanay
celebrations are cancelled acause o hivy rain an wind.
- 2014
- The first same-sex
mairiages
in
Scotland
tak place.
- 2014
-
Beji Caid Essebsi
becomes
Preses
o
Tunisie
.
- 2014
- A stampede at a Ne'er event in
Shanghai
kills 36 fowk.
- 2015
- A major
fire
breaks oot at the Downton Address Hottle in
Dubai
.
- 2016
- Scots
tennis
player
Andy Murray
gains a knichthuid in the Ne'er's Honours Leet, alang wi Olympic athlete
Mo Farah
.
- 2016
- Bomb attacks in
Baghdad
kill at least 28 fowk.
- 2017
- A bus crash in Migaa,
Kenyae
, kills at least 36 fowk.
- 2018
- A ten-storey biggin collapses in
Magnitogorsk
,
Chelyabinsk Oblast
,
Roushie
, killin 39 fowk.
- 2019
-
Iraqi
militiamen an protesters breach the entrance o the
Unitit States
Embassy in
Baghdad
, efter a US militar operation tairgetin Iraqi militia twa days earlier.
- 2019
-
COVID-19 pandemic
: The
Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
reports the ootbrak o a mysterious virus circulatin in
Wuhan
tae the
Warld Heal Organization
; it is nou kent as
COVID-19
.
- 2020
-
Brexit
: The
Unitit Kinrick
's transition period ends an it exits
European Union
rules.
Births
- 1378
-
Pape Callixtus III
(d.
1458
)
- 1491
-
Jacques Cartier
, French splorer (d.
1557
)
- 1720
-
Chairles Edwart Stuart
, Jacobite pretender (d.
1788
)
- 1804
-
John Scouler
, Scots naituralist (d.
1871
)
- 1869
-
Henri Matisse
, French penter (d.
1954
)
- 1880
-
George Marshall
, 50t
Unitit States Secretar o State
(d.
1959
)
- 1908
-
Simon Wiesenthal
, Austrick Holocaust survivor (d.
2005
)
- 1935
- King
Salman o Saudi Arabie
- 1937
- Sir
Anthony Hopkins
, Welsh actor
- 1941
- Sir
Alex Ferguson
, Scots fitbaa manager
- 1943
- Sir
Ben Kingsley
, Inglis actor
- 1943
-
John Denver
, American sangster (d.
1997
)
- 1948
-
Sandy Jardine
, Scots fitbawer (d.
2014
)
- 1948
-
Donna Summer
, American sangster (d.
2012
)
- 1954
-
Alex Salmond
, Scots politeecian, 4t
First Meenister o Scotland
- 1959
-
Val Kilmer
, American actor
- 1965
-
Gong Li
, Cheenese actress
- 1977
-
PSY
, Sooth Korean sangster an rapper
- 1977
-
Donald Trump Jr.
, American businessman
- 1980
-
Richie McCaw
, New Zealand rugby player
- 1982
-
Craig Gordon
, Scots fitbaa goalkeeper
- 1995
-
Gabby Douglas
, American airtistic gymnast
Daiths
- 192
-
Commodus
, Roman Emperor (b.
161
)
- 335
-
Pape Sylvester
- 1868
-
James David Forbes
, Scots pheesicist an glaciologist (b.
1809
)
- 1877
-
Gustave Courbet
, French penter (b.
1819
)
- 1880
-
John Stenhouse
, Scots chemist (b.
1809
)
- 1936
-
Miguel de Unamuno
, Spaingie writer an philosopher (b.
1864
)
- 1950
-
Karl Renner
,
Preses
o
Austrick
(b.
1870
)
- 1980
-
Marshall McLuhan
, Canadian professor an philosopher (b.
1911
)
- 1985
-
Ricky Nelson
, American sangster (b.
1940
)
- 1993
-
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
,
Preses
o
Georgie
(b.
1939
)
- 2013
-
James Avery
, American actor (b.
1945
)
- 2015
-
Natalie Cole
, American sangster (b.
1950
)
Halidays