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The World Health Organization issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine.

2020

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The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan. This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2019

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Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-story building collapses in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.

2018

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A fire breaks out at the Downtown Address Hotel in Downtown Dubai, United Arab Emirates, located near the Burj Khalifa, two hours before the fireworks display is due to commence. Sixteen injuries were reported; one had a heart attack, another suffered a major injury, and fourteen others with minor injuries.

2015

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A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.

2014

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NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.

2011

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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 of 36 tornadoes touched down, resulting in the deaths of nine people and $113 million in damages.

2010

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Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur.

2009

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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).

2004

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Rwanda adopts a new national flag and anthem.

2001

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The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.

1999

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The U.S. 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.

1999

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Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ends after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan.

1999

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The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.

1998

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The final comic of Calvin and Hobbes is published.

1995

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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

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The First Chechen War: The Russian Ground Forces begin a New Year's storming of Grozny.

1994

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Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.

1992

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All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date, five days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.

1991

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The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.

1983

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Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.

1983

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In Nigeria, a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.

1983

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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.

1981

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The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.

1968

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MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750 crashes near Port Hedland, Western Australia, killing all 26 people on board.

1968

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Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begin a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.

1965

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The Central African Federation officially collapses, subsequently becoming Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.

1963

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RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.

1961

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The Romanian Television network begins its first broadcast in Bucharest.

1956

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General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.

1955

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Cold War: The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Western Europe.

1951

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President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.

1946

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World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major Wehrmacht offensive on the Western Front, begins.

1944

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USS Essex, first aircraft carrier of a 24-ship class, is commissioned.

1942

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World War II: The Royal Navy defeats the Kriegsmarine at the Battle of the Barents Sea. This leads to the resignation of Grand Admiral Erich Raeder a month later.

1942

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The first ever ball drop in Times Square.

1907

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Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.

1906

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Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

1879

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Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, files for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine. He was granted the patent in 1879.

1878

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American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee between the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General Braxton Bragg and the Union Army of the Cumberland under General William S. Rosecrans.

1862

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American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an enabling act that would admit West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.

1862

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Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of the Province of Canada.

1857

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A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England.

1853

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The Philippines skipped this date in order to align the country with the rest of Asia, as the trading interest switched to China, Dutch East Indies and neighboring territories after Mexico gained independence from Spain on 27 September 1821. In the islands, Monday, 30 December 1844 was immediately followed by Wednesday, 1 January 1845.

1844

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Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.

1831

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The incorporation of Baltimore as a city.

1796

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Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.

1790

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American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces under General Guy Carleton repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery in a snowstorm.

1775

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Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000-year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.

1759

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Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.

1757

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The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.

1687

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The expedition of John Narborough leaves Corral Bay, having surveyed the coast and lost four hostages to the Spanish.

1670

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James, Duke of York is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.

1660

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The British East India Company is chartered.

1600

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The First Battle of Cannanore commences, seeing the first use of the naval line of battle.[citation needed]

1501

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James I the Conqueror, King of Aragon, enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma de Mallorca, Spain), thus consummating the Christian reconquest of the island of Mallorca.

1229

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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.[citation needed]

1225

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Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV is forced to abdicate in favor of his son, Henry V, in Ingelheim.

1105

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Battle of Englefield: The Vikings clash with ealdorman Æthelwulf of Berkshire. The invaders are driven back to Reading (East Anglia); many Danes are killed.

870

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Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year.

535

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Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul.

406

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On this day

The World Health Organization issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine.

2020

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The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan. This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.

2019

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Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-story building collapses in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.

2018

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A fire breaks out at the Downtown Address Hotel in Downtown Dubai, United Arab Emirates, located near the Burj Khalifa, two hours before the fireworks display is due to commence. Sixteen injuries were reported; one had a heart attack, another suffered a major injury, and fourteen others with minor injuries.

2015

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A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.

2014

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NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.

2011

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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 of 36 tornadoes touched down, resulting in the deaths of nine people and $113 million in damages.

2010

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Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur.

2009

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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).

2004

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Rwanda adopts a new national flag and anthem.

2001

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The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.

1999

view article

The U.S. 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.

1999

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Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ends after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan.

1999

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The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.

1998

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The final comic of Calvin and Hobbes is published.

1995

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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

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The First Chechen War: The Russian Ground Forces begin a New Year's storming of Grozny.

1994

view article

Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.

1992

view article

All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date, five days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.

1991

view article

The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.

1983

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Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.

1983

view article

In Nigeria, a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.

1983

view article

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.

1981

view article

The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.

1968

view article

MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750 crashes near Port Hedland, Western Australia, killing all 26 people on board.

1968

view article

Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begin a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.

1965

view article

The Central African Federation officially collapses, subsequently becoming Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.

1963

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RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.

1961

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The Romanian Television network begins its first broadcast in Bucharest.

1956

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General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.

1955

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Cold War: The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Western Europe.

1951

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President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.

1946

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World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major Wehrmacht offensive on the Western Front, begins.

1944

view article

USS Essex, first aircraft carrier of a 24-ship class, is commissioned.

1942

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World War II: The Royal Navy defeats the Kriegsmarine at the Battle of the Barents Sea. This leads to the resignation of Grand Admiral Erich Raeder a month later.

1942

view article

The first ever ball drop in Times Square.

1907

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Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.

1906

view article

Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

1879

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Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, files for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine. He was granted the patent in 1879.

1878

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American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee between the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General Braxton Bragg and the Union Army of the Cumberland under General William S. Rosecrans.

1862

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American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an enabling act that would admit West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.

1862

view article

Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of the Province of Canada.

1857

view article

A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England.

1853

view article

The Philippines skipped this date in order to align the country with the rest of Asia, as the trading interest switched to China, Dutch East Indies and neighboring territories after Mexico gained independence from Spain on 27 September 1821. In the islands, Monday, 30 December 1844 was immediately followed by Wednesday, 1 January 1845.

1844

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Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.

1831

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The incorporation of Baltimore as a city.

1796

view article

Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.

1790

view article

American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces under General Guy Carleton repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery in a snowstorm.

1775

view article

Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000-year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.

1759

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Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.

1757

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The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.

1687

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The expedition of John Narborough leaves Corral Bay, having surveyed the coast and lost four hostages to the Spanish.

1670

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James, Duke of York is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.

1660

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The British East India Company is chartered.

1600

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The First Battle of Cannanore commences, seeing the first use of the naval line of battle.[citation needed]

1501

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James I the Conqueror, King of Aragon, enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma de Mallorca, Spain), thus consummating the Christian reconquest of the island of Mallorca.

1229

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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.[citation needed]

1225

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Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV is forced to abdicate in favor of his son, Henry V, in Ingelheim.

1105

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Battle of Englefield: The Vikings clash with ealdorman Æthelwulf of Berkshire. The invaders are driven back to Reading (East Anglia); many Danes are killed.

870

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Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year.

535

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Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul.

406

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On this day

The World Health Organization issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine.

The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan. This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-story building collapses in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.

A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.

NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.

Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur.

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).

Rwanda adopts a new national flag and anthem.

The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.

The U.S. 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.

Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ends after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan.

The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.

The final comic of Calvin and Hobbes is published.

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.

The First Chechen War: The Russian Ground Forces begin a New Year's storming of Grozny.

Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.

All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date, five days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.

The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.

Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.

In Nigeria, a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.

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.

The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.

MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750 crashes near Port Hedland, Western Australia, killing all 26 people on board.

Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begin a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.

The Central African Federation officially collapses, subsequently becoming Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.

RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.

The Romanian Television network begins its first broadcast in Bucharest.

General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.

Cold War: The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Western Europe.

President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.

World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major Wehrmacht offensive on the Western Front, begins.

USS Essex, first aircraft carrier of a 24-ship class, is commissioned.

World War II: The Royal Navy defeats the Kriegsmarine at the Battle of the Barents Sea. This leads to the resignation of Grand Admiral Erich Raeder a month later.

The first ever ball drop in Times Square.

Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.

Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, files for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine. He was granted the patent in 1879.

American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee between the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General Braxton Bragg and the Union Army of the Cumberland under General William S. Rosecrans.

American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an enabling act that would admit West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.

Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of the Province of Canada.

A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England.

Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.

The incorporation of Baltimore as a city.

Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.

American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces under General Guy Carleton repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery in a snowstorm.

Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000-year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.

Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.

The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.

The expedition of John Narborough leaves Corral Bay, having surveyed the coast and lost four hostages to the Spanish.

James, Duke of York is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.

The British East India Company is chartered.

The First Battle of Cannanore commences, seeing the first use of the naval line of battle.[citation needed]

James I the Conqueror, King of Aragon, enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma de Mallorca, Spain), thus consummating the Christian reconquest of the island of Mallorca.

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.[citation needed]

Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV is forced to abdicate in favor of his son, Henry V, in Ingelheim.

Battle of Englefield: The Vikings clash with ealdorman Æthelwulf of Berkshire. The invaders are driven back to Reading (East Anglia); many Danes are killed.

Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year.

Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul.