31 December

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31st December is the 365t (366t in lowp years) an last day o the year in the Gregorian calendar.

Events

1909: Manhattan Brig

1999: Panama Canal zone

2004: Taipei 101 (at the stairt o 2008)

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.