The Most Memorable December 31 Moments in History

In this video, we're taking a look at some of the most memorable December 31 moments in history. From the end of World War 2 to holiday celebrations, we'll cover it all!

Whether you're a new year's eve enthusiast or you just love a good list, this video is for you! We'll take a look at some of the most memorable December 31 moments in history.

192 Roman Emperor Commodus survives poisoning attempt by his mistress only to be strangled in the bath in assassination plot
1600 British East India Company chartered
1604 Dutch East India Company Admiral Steven van der Haghen's fleet reaches Bantam, Indonesia
1687 1st Huguenots depart France to Cape of Good Hope
1695 A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
1700 Frisia and Groningen adopt Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is 1/12/1701
1744 English astronomer James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's nutation motion or wobble
1775 Battle of Quebec: American Continental Army led by Richard Montgomery is defeated trying to take the British stronghold of Quebec City in the American Revolutionary War, General Montgomery is killed and Benedict Arnold is injured
1776 Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation: Limit is 70 cents a day for carpenters, 42 cents for tailors
1781 Bank of North America, 1st US bank opens
1783 Import of African slaves banned by all of the Northern US states
1805 End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism
1841 Alabama becomes 1st state to license dental surgeons
1857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada
1862 President Abraham Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union
1862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
1879 Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
1897 Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898)
1904 First New Year's Eve celebration held in Times Square, New York City
1907 For 1st time, a ball drops at Times Square to signal the New Year
1910 US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910… 1930 US tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930
1911 Marie Curie receives her second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, for her work with radioactivity
1921 Last San Francisco firehorses retired
1923 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester
1935 Charles Darrow patents the board game Monopoly, goes on to be the 1st millionaire game designer
1938 Dr R N Harger's "drunkometer", 1st breath test, introduced in Indiana
1945 Ratification of United Nations Charter completed
1946 US President Harry Truman officially proclaims end of WW II
1955 The General Motors Corporation becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over $1 billion USD in a year.
1961 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
1961 The Beach Boys play their debut gig under that name
1962 "Match Game" debuts on NBC with host Gene Rayburn
1967 Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump the Caesar's Palace Fountain, Las Vegas, breaking his pelvis, femur, wrist, hip and both ankles
1968 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)
1970 Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to dissolve The Beatles
1970 US Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin
1974 Popular Electronics displays Altair 8800 computer
1976 The Cars played their 1st gig
1977 Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado
1981 CNN Headline News cable TV channel debuts in US
1983 Benjamin Ward appointed 1st African American NY City Police Commissioner by Mayor Ed Koch
1990 Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1997 Microsoft buys Hotmail email service for $400 million and re-launches it as MSN Hotmail
1999 Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting President
1999 Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama
2020 WHO grants the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine emergency authorization, paving the way for worldwide distribution.

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