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What happend on 31. December in History
In our data base we found 333 events happened on 31. December:
• 192: Commodus, Roman emperor (b. 161) [category: Deaths]
• 335: Pope Sylvester I [category: Deaths]
• 406: Vandals, Alans and Suebians] cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul. [category: Events]
• 535: Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year. [category: Events]
• 695: Muhammad bin Qasim, Syrian general (d. 715) [category: Births]
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• 1164: Ottokar III of Styria (b. 1124) [category: Deaths]
• 1194: Leopold V, Duke of Austria (b. 1157) [category: Deaths]
• 1225: The Lý Dynasty of Vietnam ends after 216 years by the enthronement of the boy emperor Tran Thai Tong, husband of the last Ly monarch, Ly Chieu Hoang, starting the Trần Dynasty. [category: Events]
• 1229: James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma, Spain) thus consummating the Christian reconquest of the island of Majorca. [category: Events]
• 1297: Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1249) [category: Deaths]
• 1302: Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1238) [category: Deaths]
• 1378: Pope Callixtus III (d. 1458) [category: Births]
• 1384: John Wycliffe, English theologian and translator (b. circa 1328) [category: Deaths]
• 1424: Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, English military leader (b. 1377) [category: Deaths]
• 1460: Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician (b. 1400) [category: Deaths]
• 1491: Jacques Cartier, French explorer (d. 1557) [category: Births]
• 1501: The First Battle of Cannanore commences. [category: Events]
• 1510: Bianca Maria Sforza, Italian wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1472) [category: Deaths]
• 1514: Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (d. 1564) [category: Births]
• 1535: William Skeffington, English politician (b. 1465) [category: Deaths]
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• 1552: Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611) [category: Births]
• 1568: Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1493) [category: Deaths]
• 1572: Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan, (d. 1617) [category: Births]
• 1575: Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (b. 1502) [category: Deaths]
• 1583: Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (b. 1524) [category: Deaths]
• 1585: Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish military leader, 24th Governor of the Duchy of Milan (d. 1645) [category: Births]
• 1600: The British East India Company is chartered. [category: Events]
• 1610: Ludolph van Ceulen, German-Dutch mathematician (b. 1540) [category: Deaths]
• 1650: Dorgon, Chinese emperor (b. 1612) [category: Deaths]
• 1655: Janusz Radziwiłł, Polish–Lithuanian noble and magnate (b. 1612) [category: Deaths]
• 1660: James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France. [category: Events]
• 1668: Herman Boerhaave, Dutch physician (d. 1738) [category: Births]
• 1673: Oliver St John, English politician and judge (b. 1598) [category: Deaths]
• 1679: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608) [category: Deaths]
• 1687: The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope. [category: Events]
• 1691: Dudley North, English economist (b. 1641) [category: Deaths]
• 1691: Robert Boyle, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1627) [category: Deaths]
• 1695: A window tax is imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax. [category: Events]
• 1704: Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, German organist (d. 1761) [category: Births]
• 1705: Catherine of Braganza (b. 1638) [category: Deaths]
• 1719: John Flamsteed, English astronomer (b. 1646) [category: Deaths]
• 1720: Charles Edward Stuart, Italian husband of Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern (d. 1788) [category: Births]
• 1738: Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general, 3rd Governor-General of India (d. 1805) [category: Births]
• 1741: Gottfried August Bürger, German poet d.(1794) [category: Births]
• 1741: Princess Isabella of Parma (d. 1763) [category: Births]
• 1742: Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1661) [category: Deaths]
• 1759: Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness. [category: Events]
• 1763: Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (d. 1806) [category: Births]
• 1775: American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery. [category: Events]
• 1776: Johann Spurzheim, German physician (d. 1832) [category: Births]
• 1790: Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today is published for the first time. [category: Events]
• 1799: Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and author (b. 1723) [category: Deaths]
• 1805: Marie d'Agoult, French author (d. 1876) [category: Births]
• 1815: George Meade, American general (d. 1872) [category: Births]
• 1830: Alexander Smith, Scottish poet (d. 1867) [category: Births]
• 1830: Isma'il Pasha, Egyptian politician (d. 1895) [category: Births]
• 1831: Gramercy Park is deeded to New York, New York. [category: Events]
• 1851: Henry Carter Adams, American economist (d. 1921) [category: Births]
• 1853: A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England, United Kingdom [category: Events]
• 1855: Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet (d. 1912) [category: Births]
• 1857: King Kelly, American baseball player (d. 1894) [category: Births]
• 1857: Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada. [category: Events]
• 1860: Joseph S. Cullinan, American businessman, co-founded Texaco (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1862: American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two. [category: Events]
• 1862: American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. [category: Events]
• 1864: Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1869: Henri Matisse, French painter (d. 1954) [category: Births]
• 1872: Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author (b. 1834) [category: Deaths]
• 1876: Catherine Labouré, French saint (b. 1806) [category: Deaths]
• 1877: Lawrence Beesley, English journalist and author (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1877: Gustave Courbet, French painter (b. 1819) [category: Deaths]
• 1878: Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1878: Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan-Argentinian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1878: Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879. [category: Events]
• 1879: Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey. [category: Events]
• 1880: Fred Beebe, American baseball player (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1880: George Marshall, American general and politician, 50th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959) [category: Births]
• 1881: Max Pechstein, German painter (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1882: Martin O'Meara, Irish-Australian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1935) [category: Births]
• 1884: Bobby Byrne, American baseball player (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1885: Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1888: Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (b. 1808) [category: Deaths]
• 1889: Ion Creangă, Romanian author and educator (b.1837) [category: Deaths]
• 1890: Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican soldier (b. 1826) [category: Deaths]
• 1891: Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Nigerian bishop (b. 1809) [category: Deaths]
• 1894: Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician (b. 1856) [category: Deaths]
• 1899: Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer, conductor, and violinist (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1901: Júlia Báthory, Hungarian designer(d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1901: Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek activist (d. 1954) [category: Births]
• 1902: Lionel Daunais, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1904: Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1905: Jule Styne, English-American composer (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1906: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906. [category: Events]
• 1907: The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in New York, New York. [category: Events]
• 1908: Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1909: Jonah Jones, American trumpet player (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1909: Spencer Trask, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1844) [category: Deaths]
• 1909: Manhattan Bridge opens. [category: Events]
• 1910: Carl Dudley, American director and producer (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1910: Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1910: John Moisant, American pilot (b. 1868) [category: Deaths]
• 1911: Dal Stivens, Australian author (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1912: John Frost, Indian-English general (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1915: Sam Ragan, American journalist, author, and poet (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1917: Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1918: Virginia Davis, American actress (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1919: Tommy Byrne, American baseball player (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1920: Rex Allen, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1921: Boies Penrose, American lawyer and politician (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1923: The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC. [category: Events]
• 1924: Taylor Mead, American actor [category: Births]
• 1926: Billy Snedden, Australian politician (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1928: Siné, French cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1929: Mies Bouwman, Dutch television host [category: Births]
• 1930: Jaime Escalante, Bolivian-American educator (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1930: Odetta, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1931: Bob Shaw, Irish author (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1933: Edward Bunker, American author, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1934: Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan, Indian scholar [category: Births]
• 1934: Noel Tyl, American astrologer [category: Births]
• 1936: Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: Anthony Hopkins, Welsh-American actor and composer [category: Births]
• 1937: Avram Hershko, Israeli biologist, Nobel Prize laureate [category: Births]
• 1937: Barry Hughes, Welsh footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1938: Rosalind Cash, American actress and singer (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1940: Mani Neumeier, German drummer and singer (Guru Guru) [category: Births]
• 1941: Alex Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1941: Sarah Miles, English actress [category: Births]
• 1941: Sean S. Cunningham, American director, screenwriter, and producer [category: Births]
• 1942: Andy Summers, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Police and Zoot Money's Big Roll Band) [category: Births]
• 1943: Ben Kingsley, English actor [category: Births]
• 1943: John Denver, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The John Denver Band and Chad Mitchell Trio) (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1943: Pete Quaife, English bass player (The Kinks) (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1944: Neil Ross, English-American voice actor [category: Births]
• 1944: Taylor Hackford, American director and producer [category: Births]
• 1944: World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany. [category: Events]
• 1944: World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major German offensive on the Western Front begins. [category: Events]
• 1945: Barbara Carrera, Nicaraguan actress and model [category: Births]
• 1945: Connie Willis, American author [category: Births]
• 1945: Diane von Fürstenberg, Belgian-American fashion designer [category: Births]
• 1946: Pius Ncube, Zimbabwean archbishop [category: Births]
• 1946: President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II. [category: Events]
• 1947: Burton Cummings, Canadian keyboard player and songwriter (The Guess Who) [category: Births]
• 1947: Rita Lee, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actress (Os Mutantes) [category: Births]
• 1947: Tim Matheson, American actor [category: Births]
• 1948: Donna Summer, American singer-songwriter (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1948: Joe Dallesandro American actor [category: Births]
• 1948: René Robert, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1948: Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1949: Ellen Datlow, American anthologist and editor [category: Births]
• 1949: Seub Nakhasathien, Thai environmentalist (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1949: Susan Shwartz, American author [category: Births]
• 1951: Tom Hamilton, American bass player and songwriter (Aerosmith) [category: Births]
• 1951: The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe. [category: Events]
• 1952: Vaughan Jones, New Zealand mathematician [category: Births]
• 1953: James Remar, American actor [category: Births]
• 1953: Jane Badler, American actress [category: Births]
• 1953: Michael Hedges, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1953: Albert Plesman, Dutch businessman, founded KLM (b. 1889) [category: Deaths]
• 1954: Alex Salmond, Scottish politician, 4th First Minister of Scotland [category: Births]
• 1954: Hermann Tilke, German race car driver and engineer [category: Births]
• 1955: General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year. [category: Events]
• 1956: Steve Rude, American writer and illustrator [category: Births]
• 1958: Bebe Neuwirth, American actress [category: Births]
• 1959: Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1959: Baron Waqa, Nauruan politician [category: Births]
• 1959: Liveris Andritsos, Greek basketball player [category: Births]
• 1959: Paul Westerberg, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Replacements) [category: Births]
• 1959: Phill Kline, American politician [category: Births]
• 1959: Ron Bennington, American radio host [category: Births]
• 1959: Val Kilmer, American actor [category: Births]
• 1960: John Allen Muhammad, American murderer (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1960: Steve Bruce, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1960: The farthing coin ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom. [category: Events]
• 1961: Nina Li, Chinese actress [category: Births]
• 1961: Rick Aguilera, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1961: RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service. [category: Events]
• 1962: Don Diamont, American actor [category: Births]
• 1962: Heather McCartney, American-English potter [category: Births]
• 1962: Tyrone Corbin, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1963: Konishiki Yasokichi, American sumo wrestler [category: Births]
• 1963: Scott Ian, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Anthrax, Stormtroopers of Death, The Damned Things, and Damnocracy) [category: Births]
• 1963: The Central African Federation officially collapses and splits into Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia. [category: Events]
• 1964: Michael McDonald, American comedian, actor, and director [category: Births]
• 1964: Bobby Byrne, American baseball player (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson, English field marshal (b. 1881) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician, 8th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Gong Li, Chinese actress [category: Births]
• 1965: Julie Doucet, Canadian cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1965: Nicholas Sparks, American author [category: Births]
• 1965: Tony Dorigo, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1965: Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begins a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko. [category: Events]
• 1966: Lisa Joyner, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1967: The Youth International Party, popularly known as the "Yippies", is founded. [category: Events]
• 1968: Gerry Dee, Canadian comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Luciano Szafir, Brazilian actor [category: Births]
• 1969: Are Kalvø, Norwegian author [category: Births]
• 1969: Dominik Diamond, Scottish television and radio host [category: Births]
• 1969: Lance Reddick, American actor [category: Births]
• 1969: George Lewis, American clarinet player (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Bryon Russell, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1970: Carlos Morales Quintana, Spanish husband of Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark [category: Births]
• 1970: Danny McNamara, English singer-songwriter (Embrace) [category: Births]
• 1970: Jorge Alberto da Costa Silva, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1970: Sven Kretschmer, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: Brent Barry, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1971: Esteban Loaiza, Mexican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1971: Marin Sais, American actress (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Pete Duel American actor (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Joey McIntyre, American singer-songwriter and actor (New Kids on the Block) [category: Births]
• 1972: Henry Gerber, German-American activist, founded the Society for Human Rights (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Crystal Knight, American porn actress and model [category: Births]
• 1973: Malcolm Middleton, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Arab Strap) [category: Births]
• 1973: Shandon Anderson, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Mario Aerts, Belgian cyclist [category: Births]
• 1974: Ryan Sakoda, Japanese-American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1974: Tony Kanaan, Brazilian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1975: Rami Alanko, Finnish ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1975: Rob Penders, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Sander Schutgens, Dutch runner [category: Births]
• 1975: Toni Kuivasto, Finnish footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Craig Reucassel, Australian comedian [category: Births]
• 1976: Luis Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1977: Donald Trump, Jr., American businessman [category: Births]
• 1977: PSY, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and dancer [category: Births]
• 1977: Wardy Alfaro, Costa Rican footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Elaine Cassidy, Irish actress [category: Births]
• 1979: Paul O'Neill, English race car driver [category: Births]
• 1980: Carsten Schlangen, German runner [category: Births]
• 1980: Jesse Carlson, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1980: M-Dogg 20, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1980: Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1980: Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Raoul Walsh, American director (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Jason Campbell, American football player [category: Births]
• 1981: Matthew Pavlich, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings. [category: Events]
• 1982: Craig Gordon, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Julio DePaula, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Luke Schenscher, Australian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1982: The Rocket Summer, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer [category: Births]
• 1983: Mariana Renata, French-Indonesian actress [category: Births]
• 1983: In Nigeria a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic. [category: Events]
• 1983: The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government. [category: Events]
• 1984: Brittany Beede, American wrestler and model [category: Births]
• 1984: Paul Rodriguez, American skateboarder and actor [category: Births]
• 1984: Édgar Lugo, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Jan Smit, Dutch singer [category: Births]
• 1985: Jonathan Horton, American gymnast [category: Births]
• 1985: Ricky Nelson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Bronson Pelletier, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1986: Raj Narain, Indian politician (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140. [category: Events]
• 1987: Danny Holla, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Javaris Crittenton, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1987: Émilie Le Pennec, French gymnast [category: Births]
• 1987: Jerry Turner, American journalist (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and critic (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: First Winter Ascent of Lhotse (8,516m) by Krzysztof Wielicki (solo). [category: Events]
• 1988: Pittsburgh Penguins' Mario Lemieux becomes the only National Hockey League player to score goals in five different ways: even strength, shorthanded, power play, penalty shot, and empty net, during a 8-6 win over the New Jersey Devils. [category: Events]
• 1990: Patrick Chan, Canadian figure skater [category: Births]
• 1990: George Allen, American football coach (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Vasily Lazarev, Soviet astronaut (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Bojana Jovanovski, Serbian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1991: Camila Giorgi, Italian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1991: All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date and the Soviet Union is officially dissolved. [category: Events]
• 1992: Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. [category: Events]
• 1993: Brandon Teena, American murder victim (b. 1972) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian politician, 1st President of Georgia (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Leigh Bowery, Australian-English singer and actor (b. 1961) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Woody Strode, American actor and decathlete (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: The First Chechen War: Russian army began a New Year's storm of Grozny [category: Events]
• 1994: This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively. [category: Events]
• 1995: Gabby Douglas, American gymnast [category: Births]
• 1997: Billie Dove, American actress (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Floyd Cramer, American pianist (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, American son of Robert F. Kennedy (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency. [category: Events]
• 1999: Elliot Richardson, American lawyer and politician, 69th United States Attorney General (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: First President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor. [category: Events]
• 1999: Five hijackers, who had been holding 155 hostages on an Indian Airlines plane, leave the plane with two Islamic clerics that they had demanded be freed. [category: Events]
• 1999: The United States Government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties. [category: Events]
• 2000: Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, American-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1966) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: José Greco, Italian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Eileen Heckart, American actress (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Kevin MacMichael, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Cutting Crew) (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Arthur R. von Hippel German-American physicist (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Gérard Debreu, French economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 ft). [category: Events]
• 2005: Lakshmi Tatma, Indian deformed girl [category: Births]
• 2005: Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Phillip Whitehead, English politician (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: George Sisler, Jr., American businessman (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Bill Idelson, American actor, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Ettore Sottsass, Austrian-Italian architect and designer (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Kathryn Ish, American actress (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Markku Peltola, Finnish actor and singer (b. 1956) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Michael Goldberg, American painter (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Milton L. Klein, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Tommy Dickson, Irish footballer (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Tony Elliott, American football player (b. 1959) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Donald E. Westlake, American author (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Cahal Daly, Irish cardinal and philosopher(b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Justin Keating, Irish journalist and politician (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: At least six people are killed by a gunman at a shopping centre in Espoo, near Helsinki. [category: Events]
• 2009: Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur. [category: Events]
• 2010: Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Raymond Impanis, Belgian cyclist (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the moon. [category: Events]
• 2011: United States President Barack Obama signs the National Defense Authorization Act into law. [category: Events]
• 2012: Alasdair Liddell, English businessman (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Annapurna Maharana, Indian activist (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Béla Csécsei, Hungarian educator and politician (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Günter Rössler, German photographer and journalist (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: James B. Reuter, American-Filipino priest and journalist (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jean-Henri Roger, French director, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Konstantin Kobets, Russian general (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Larry Bowie, American football player (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Peter Ebert, German director (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Susana Dalmás, Uruguayan politician (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Tarak Mekki, Tunisian businessman and politician (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• _: International Solidarity Day (Azerbaijan) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Last Day of the Year or Bisperás ng Bagong Taón, special holiday between Rizal Day and New Year's Day (Philippines) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: New Year's Eve (International observances), and its related observances: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Pope Sylvester I (Catholic Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The first day of Hogmanay or "Auld Year’s Night" (Scotland) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: The seventh day of Christmas (Western Christianity) [category: Holidays and observances]