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What Happened Today in History?

Here is what happened on this day in history.

December 31st….

 

1600 – Charter granted to the East India Company

1775 – Patriots are defeated at Quebec

1862 – U.S.S. Monitor sinks

1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent light

1944 – Hungary declares war on Germany

1961 – Kennedy and Khrushchev exchange holiday greetings

1968 – Soviets test supersonic airliner

1972 – Baseball star Roberto Clemente dies in plane crash

1984 – Subway shooter Bernhard Goetz turns himself in

1985 – Rick Nelson dies in a plane crash

1988 – Chicago Bears beat Philadelphia Eagles in freaky Fog Bowl

1999 – Putin becomes acting president of Russia, following Yeltsin’s resignation

1999 – Canal Handed Over to Panama

2019 – Wuhan government confirms dozens of cases of virus later ID’d as COVID-19

 

For more information on any of these events go here https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

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