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Events
406 – Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul.
535 – Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year.
1225 – The Lý dynasty of Vietnam ends after 216 years by the enthronement of the boy emperor Trần Thái Tông, husband of the last Lý monarch, Lý Chiêu Hoàng, starting the Trần dynasty.
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.
1501 – The First Battle of Cannanore commences.
1600 – The British East India Company is chartered. At one point the largest corporation in the world, the company accounted for half the world's trade during the mid-1700s and early 1800s.
1660 – James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.
1687 – The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
1696 – A window tax is imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax.
1757 – Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia..
1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum, and founds his famous brewery at St. James’s Gate in Dublin.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.
1781 – The first U.S. bank opens - the Bank of North America.
1790 – Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.
1796 – Baltimore is incorporated as a city.
1831 – Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
1857 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.
1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle at Parker Cross Roads, Tennessee, occurs.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
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.
1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
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| Longacre Square in 1904 |
1906 – Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
1909 – Manhattan Bridge opens.
1923 – The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.
1944 – World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.
1944 – World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major German offensive on the Western Front begins.
1946 – President Harry S. Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.
1951 – The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
1955 – General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
1960 – The farthing coin ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.
1961 – RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.
1963 – The Central African Federation officially collapses, subsequently becoming Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
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.
1967 – The Youth International Party, popularly known as the "Yippies", is founded.
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.
1983 – The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
1983 – In Nigeria a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.
1986 – A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
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 an 8–6 win over the New Jersey Devils.
1988 – First Winter Ascent of Lhotse (8,516m) by Krzysztof Wielicki (solo).
1991 – All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date and the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
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.
1992: President George H.W. Bush visited Somalia, where he saw firsthand the famine racking the east African nation, and praised U.S. troops who were providing relief there.
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.
1994 – The First Chechen War: Russian army began a New Year's storming of Grozny.
1998 – The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.
1999 – First President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.
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.
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).
2009 – Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur.
2010 – Tornadoes touch down in midwestern and southern United States, including Washington County, Arkansas; Greater St. Louis, Sunset Hills, Missouri, Illinois, and Oklahoma, with a few tornadoes in the early hours. A total 36 tornadoes touched down, resulting in the deaths of nine people and $113 million in damages.
2011 – NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.
2014 – A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.
The seventh of the Twelve Days of Christmas
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.
1994 – The First Chechen War: Russian army began a New Year's storming of Grozny.
1998 – The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.
1999 – First President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.
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.
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).
2009 – Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur.
2010 – Tornadoes touch down in midwestern and southern United States, including Washington County, Arkansas; Greater St. Louis, Sunset Hills, Missouri, Illinois, and Oklahoma, with a few tornadoes in the early hours. A total 36 tornadoes touched down, resulting in the deaths of nine people and $113 million in damages.
2011 – NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.
2014 – A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
The seventh of the Twelve Days of Christmas
Silvester, Pope of Rome, confessor. Double.
Commemoration of the Octaves of Christmas, of St. Thomas of Canterbury, of St. Stephen, of St. John, and of the Innocents.
Commemoration of the Octaves of Christmas, of St. Thomas of Canterbury, of St. Stephen, of St. John, and of the Innocents.
Contemporary Western
Pope Sylvester I
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Holy Ten Virgin-martyrs of Nicomedia (c. 286 - 305)
Martyr Olympiodora, by fire
Martyr Busiris, martyred by women with knitting needles
Martyr Nemi (Nemo), by the sword
Saint Gaudentius
Hieromartyr Zoticus the Priest, of Constantinople, Guardian of Orphans (c. 340)
Saint Anysius, Bishop of Thessaloniki (c. 407)
Venerable Melania the Younger, Nun of Rome (439)
Venerable Gelasius, Monk (Abba), of Palestine
Venerable Gaius
Saint George the Wonderworker, "the stabbed"
Venerable Sabiana, Abbess of Samtskhe (11th century)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Columba of Sens (273)
Martyrs of Catania:
Stephen, Pontian, Attalus, Fabian, Cornelius, Sextus, Flos, Quintian,
Minervinus and Simplician, early martyrs in Catania in Sicily
Martyrs Donata, Paulina, Rustica, Nominanda, Serotina, Hilaria and Companions
Hieromartyrs Sabinian and Potentian (c. 303)
Saint Silvester I, Pope of Rome (335)
Saint Barbatian, Priest and Confessor, at Ravenna (5th century)
Saint Peter of Subiaco (1003)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Blessed Theophylactus of Ohrid, Archbishop of Ochrid (c. 1126)
Venerable Cyriacus of Bisericani monastery, Romania (1660)
Venerable Cyriacus of Tazlu, Romania (1660)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Michael, Priest (1937)
Martyr Peter (1938)
New Hiero-Confessor Dositheus (Vasich), Metropolitan of Zagreb (1945)
Other commemorations
Holy Ten Virgin-martyrs of Nicomedia (c. 286 - 305)
Martyr Olympiodora, by fire
Martyr Busiris, martyred by women with knitting needles
Martyr Nemi (Nemo), by the sword
Saint Gaudentius
Hieromartyr Zoticus the Priest, of Constantinople, Guardian of Orphans (c. 340)
Saint Anysius, Bishop of Thessaloniki (c. 407)
Venerable Melania the Younger, Nun of Rome (439)
Venerable Gelasius, Monk (Abba), of Palestine
Venerable Gaius
Saint George the Wonderworker, "the stabbed"
Venerable Sabiana, Abbess of Samtskhe (11th century)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Columba of Sens (273)
Martyrs of Catania:
Stephen, Pontian, Attalus, Fabian, Cornelius, Sextus, Flos, Quintian,
Minervinus and Simplician, early martyrs in Catania in Sicily
Martyrs Donata, Paulina, Rustica, Nominanda, Serotina, Hilaria and Companions
Hieromartyrs Sabinian and Potentian (c. 303)
Saint Silvester I, Pope of Rome (335)
Saint Barbatian, Priest and Confessor, at Ravenna (5th century)
Saint Peter of Subiaco (1003)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Blessed Theophylactus of Ohrid, Archbishop of Ochrid (c. 1126)
Venerable Cyriacus of Bisericani monastery, Romania (1660)
Venerable Cyriacus of Tazlu, Romania (1660)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Michael, Priest (1937)
Martyr Peter (1938)
New Hiero-Confessor Dositheus (Vasich), Metropolitan of Zagreb (1945)
Other commemorations
Repose of Blessed Metropolitan Peter (Mogila) of Kiev, Defender of the
Orthodox faithful against subjugation to the Roman Papacy ('Unia') (1646)
Orthodox faithful against subjugation to the Roman Papacy ('Unia') (1646)
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