The December 31st is the 365e Jour of the Année (366e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian calendar .

December 30th * December 31st * January 1st

Events

first century BC

  •      -32: End of the Roman Triumvirate

2nd century

5th century

15th century

16th century

18th century

19th century

  • 1805 : End of the revolutionary calendar.

  • 1810 :

    • the tsar Alexandre imposes new customs duties on the French products.
    • the English occupy the Guadeloupe.

  • 1851 : Abolition of the Austrian Constitution.

20th century

  • 1908 : Wilbur Wright beats the record of distance covered with a plane: 124,7 km

  • 1913 : Law on the historic buildings

  • 1958 : In France, introduction of the insurance unemployment (Assedic).

  • 1961 : the Lebanese army makes failure with an coup attempt of force on behalf of the Syrian Popular party, with Beirut.

  • 1964 : The president indonésien Soekarno threat to leave the the United Nations, if the Malaysia is allowed in the organization.

  • 1966 : Washington announces that the bombardments on North Vietnam will cease when Hanoï is declared laid out to discuss conditions of peace seriously.

  • 1968 : Inaugural flight of the Russian copy of the Harmony the Concordski

  • 1970 : A plane Ilioushine 18 of the company Aeroflot crashe with Leningrad and keep silent its 93 passengers and team members.

  • 1972 : The station of Télévision FR3 starts to emit.

  • 1973 : Fidel Castro declares that Cuba remains under the threat of an American military aggression.

  • 1975 : Birth of Benoit Moulin, our nice troglodyte on his fennel bed

  • 1978 :

    • Accident of Andros Patria (Greece) with broad of the Cape Finisterre, 47  000 tons of oil poured at sea.
    • agitation antimonarchist continues in Iran, where more than 200 people would have been killed during one only weekend.

  • 1979 : According to diplomatic sources, the Soviet Union sent 20.000 men in Afghanistan in order to support the government of Kabul against the Moslem rebels.

  • 1980 :

    • Radio Teheran declares that any time in the payment by the the United States of the ransom claimed by the Iran could lead to the setting in judgment - and perhaps with the execution of the 52 American hostages of Teheran.
    • With the Senegal, resignation of Léopold Sédar Senghor. Abdou Diouf becomes full Head of the State. It appoints Habib Thiam Prime Minister.

  • 1983 : With the Nigeria, military Coup d'etat by the general Buhari.

  • 1984 :

    • Following one crushing electoral victory, Rajiv Gandhi becomes chief of the Indian government, succeeding his/her mother Indira Gandhi, assassinated.
    • the the United States leave UNESCO.

  • 1988 : Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr is quoted to appear in the lawsuit of the Colonel Olivier North implied in the business of the Irangate.

  • 1991 :

    • the television channel the Five files for bankruptcy
    • the government of the El Salvador and FMLN signs an agreement leading to a peace treaty after 12 years of war

  • 1999 :

    • Rétrocession of the Panama Canal by the the United States with the Panama
    • the Russian president Boris Eltsine resigns of his station for health reasons.

  • 2000 : Last day of the 2nd millenium.

21e century

  • 2003 : The rebels Hutu S Burundian of the National liberation armies (FNL), last movement in war against the transition government of the Burundi, launch an ultimatum against the president of the Episcopal conference, Mgr Simon Ntamwana, to which they give 30 days to leave the country, after this one showed them “to have carried out” the December 29th the Apostolic nuncio in Burundi, Mgr Michael Courtney.

  • 2004 : A Incendie in a Discothèque of Buenos Aires makes 194 dead and more than 400 wounded.

  • 2005 :

    • After the rejection by the judge of the summary procedures of the administrative court of Paris of the requests of four associations - Greenpeace, the National association of the victims of asbestos (ANDEVA), Ban Asbestos and the Committee anti-asbestos -, which were opposed to the equipment of old the Porte-avions for the building site of Alang, in India where it must be désamianté and dismantled, the Clemenceau, installs without encumbers towards 10:00 of the morning in the port of Toulon, framed by a safety device installed by the police port authority.
    • In Palestine, the Islamic Jihad and several armed factions related to the Fatah, the movement of the president of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, declare, at a few hours of the expiry of the truce of the attacks against Israel, negotiated in March with the Cairo, that they would not inevitably renew it in 2006.

Births

Death

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

See too

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