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December 31

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on December 31. From 1900 until now. December 31 is under the sign of Capricorn. Famous birthdays on this day include Anthony Hopkins (1937), Val Kilmer (1959) and Donna Summer (1948). Several movies were released around December 31 over the years, such as Chhoti Si Baat in 1975 directed by Basu Chatterjee and Little Caesar in 1930 directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
But much more happened on December 31 over the years: find out below

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2018 A bomb explosion outside a busy shopping mall in the city of Cotabato, Philippines, kills 2 people and injures 34 others. (CNN)
2017 A large number of fireworks accidentally go off in a barge at a New Year's Day show in Terrigal, NSW, Australia, causing thousands to be evacuated from the beach by police and the two people on the barge to suffer minor injuries. (BBC)
2016 Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017): December 2016 Baghdad bombings: A pair of bomb blasts targeting a market in central Baghdad kills at least 27 people and injures over 50. (AP), (The Telegraph)
2015 Belgian house raids result in the arrest of six people concerning a New Year's Eve celebrations' plot in Brussels, the nation's capital. (Reuters)
2014 Terrorism in Yemen: A suicide bombing in Ibb, Yemen, kills at least 26 people. (Reuters)
2013 Islamist militants are suspected in an attack on a gas pipeline in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. There were no injuries Reuters
2012 The first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol ends.{{cite journal
2011 2011 Syrian uprising: An Arab League observer witnesses snipers in the Syrian city of Deraa and calls for their immediate removal. (Al Jazeera)
2010 A pre-dawn bomb explodes outside a closed night club in Athens there are no injuries. (Press Association via Google News)
2009 A High Court in Malaysia rules that the country's Christians have a constitutional right to use the word ''Allah'' in reference to God, declaring the government's ban on the use of ''Allah'' by non-Muslims as unconstitutional. (''BBC News'')
2008 U.S. crude oil price rises 14 percent on the final trading day of 2008, with February futures settling up US$5.57 to $44.60 per barrel.
2007 The massive Big Dig construction project in Boston, Massachusetts ends.
2006 The U.S. soldier death toll in Iraq reaches 3,000.
2005 25-year-old Scottish human rights worker Kate Burton and her parents are freed unharmed in the Gaza Strip by the Palestinian gunmen who kidnapped them two days earlier. (ABC Australia)
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).
2003 In Taiwan, President Chen Shui-bian signs a law that allows referendums to be held. The People's Republic of China condemns this.
2002 The first trial of a member of the Russian military for human rights violations in Chechnya concludes controversially, with Col. Yuri Budanov found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a psychiatric hospital for further evaluation and treatment. Budanov was charged with murder and abduction after being accused of raping and strangling Heda Kungayeva, an 18 year old Chechen girl whom Budanov contends was a rebel sniper.
2000 James Tuozzolo, trumpet player with the Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra, collapses of a heart attack on stage just after performing a solo and dies in hospital.
1999 Five hijackers, who had been holding 155 hostages on an Indian Airlines Flight 814 aeroplane, leave the aircraft with two Islamic clerics that they had demanded be freed.
1998 US movie box office hits record $6.24 billion for year
1997 Intel cuts price of Pentium II-233 MHz from $401 to $268
1996 The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway is merged with the Burlington Northern Railroad to form the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, making it one of the largest railroad mergers in U.S. history.
1995 Danny Gans on Broadway closes at Neil Simon, New York City
1994 1st snowless December in Baltimore Maryland
1993 Barbra Striesand does her 1st live public concert in 20 years
1992 WCBS TV news anchor Carol Martin weds Joe Terry
1991 CPN, Communist Party of the Netherlands, last day of existance
1990 United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace.
1989 Me & My Girl closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 1420 performances
1986 Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97
1984 US leaves UNESCO.
1983 Brunei gains complete independence from Britain
1982 TV soap Doctors ends 19 year run
1981 CNN Headline News debuts.
1980 Senegal President Leopold Senghor resigns.
1979 Winterland Rock Concert Hall in San Francisco closes after 556 concerts.
1978 Magic Show closes at Cort Theater in New York City after 1859 performances.
1977 Bubbling Brown Sugar closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 766 performances
1976 The Cars played their 1st gig
1975 42nd Sugar Bowl: Alabama 13 beats Pennsylvania State 6.
1974 New York Yankees sign Jim Catfish Hunter to 5 yrs for record $3.75 million
1973 40th Sugar Bowl: Notre Dame 24 beats Alabama 23.
1972 Leap second day; also in 1973-79, 1987
1971 KAID TV channel 4 in Boise, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin
1969 The date you are commonly given when a computer's time is set to 0 in seconds. Start of the Unix Epoch.
1968 1st test flight of Tupolev TU 144
1967 Henry, Sweet Henry closes at Palace Theater NYC after 80 performances
1966 Pirate Radio 390 (Radio Invicata) off England, resumes transmitting
1965 Jean-Bedel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begins a coup d'etat against the government of President David Dacko.
1964 Indonesia proclaims expelled from the UN
1963 Dear Abby show premieres on CBS radio (runs 11 years)
1962 Match Game debuts on NBC with host Gene Rayburn
1961 lrma La Douce closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 527 performances
1960 The farthing coin ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.
1958 Cubans Dictator Batista flees
1957 Disneyland in Anaheim, California, welcomes its 10-millionth guest.
1956 Bob Barker makes his TV debut as host of the game show ''Truth or Consequences''.
1955 Vamp closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 60 performances
1953 Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough President
1951 The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $13.3 billion USD in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
1950 Jockeys W Shoemaker and Joe Culmone set record of 388 wins in a year
1948 Dutch police actions up Java gone on strike
1946 French troops leave Lebanon.
1945 Ratification of United Nations Charter completed.
1944 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah, USA.
1942 60 U-boats sunk this month (330,000 ton)
1941 Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young
1940 37 U-boats sunk this month (213,000 ton)
1939 25 U-boats sunk this month (81,000 ton)
1938 The 8th International Conference of American States issues the Declaration of Lima, that the American countries agree to stand united against any threat.
1935 Charles Darrow patents Monopoly
1934 Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport
1931 The Huang He floods kill between 850,000 and 4,000,000 people (the deadliest historic natural disaster).
1930 Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages
1929 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini illius magistri
1927 Ponsford scores 336 against SA, giving him 1146 for month
1925 14th congress of CPSU decides to accelerate industry.
1924 Hubble announces existence of distant galaxies
1923 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester
1921 Last San Francisco firehorses retired
1918 Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as Chicago White Sox manager.
1917 Dutch Social-democratic trade union NVV counts 159,450 members.
1916 Oxycodone, a narcotic painkiller closely related to codeine is first synthesized in Germany.
1914 Colonel Jacob Ruppert and Captain Huston purchase New York Yankees for $460,000.
1911 Marie Curie receives her second Nobel Prize.
1910 US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910
1909 Manhattan Bridge opens.
1907 G Mahler conducts the Metropolitan Opera
1904 The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Longacre Square (later known as Times Square) in New York City, New York.
1902 Boers and British army sign peace treaty.
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