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The following events took place on December 31. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 54 events. Showing 31 - 54.

• 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.
• 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.
• 1999

  Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ended after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan.
• 2004

  The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 m.
• 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.

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