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December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, [1] New Year's Eve or Old Year's Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day. It is the last day of the year; the following day is January 1, the first day of the following year.
The day before, 31 December, is also marked as International Solidarity Day of Azerbaijanis, marking the double anniversary of that day in 1989 when the local residents took down the Soviet–Iranian border in then-Nakhichevan ASSR to reunite with Iranian Azerbaijanis south of the border, as well as the Istanbul-held first World Congress of ...
Among the Western churches, the feast day is held on the anniversary of Saint Sylvester's death, 31 December, a date that, since the adoption of the Gregorian calendar, has coincided with New Year's Eve. For these Christian denominations, Saint Sylvester's Day liturgically marks the seventh day of Christmastide. [2]
Watch meeting Dec. 31, 1862. : waiting for the hour, worldcat.org “Waiting for the Hour” – William Tolman Carlton’s Emancipation Proclamation painting, thelogcabinsage.com, June 9, 2019; Watch Meeting—Dec. 31st 1862—Waiting for the Hour, American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, City University of New York
United States troops get into a brief gun battle with paramilitary forces of the Warzirstan Scouts of Pakistan, in a remote tribal area along the undefined Afghan/Pakistani border, in Paktia Province, Afghanistan.
Colombia extradites FARC leader Simón Trinidad to the United States to face conspiracy, kidnapping, and drug trafficking charges.; Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovych resigns from his post as Prime Minister.
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December 31, 1933 (Sunday) [ edit ] The Polikarpov I-16 airplane, which was the first fighter aircraft of its kind and would become the most used plane in the Soviet Air Force , was given its first test flight [ 59 ]