Talk:December 31

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December 31: New Year's Eve; Hogmanay in Scotland 1775 – American Revolutionary War: At the Battle of Quebec, British forces repulsed an attack by the Continental Army to capture Quebec City and enlist French Canadian support. 1857 – Queen Victoria (pictured) selected Ottawa as the capital of the British colony of Canada. 1960 – The farthing, a British coin first minted in England in the 13th century, ceased to be legal tender. 1963 – The Central African Federation officially collapsed, eventually to become Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia. 1972 – American baseball player Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash en route to deliver aid to victims of the Nicaragua earthquake. 1999 – Boris Yeltsin, the first democratically elected President of Russia, resigned and named Vladimir Putin as Acting President. More events: December 30 – December 31 – January 1 Archive – By email – More anniversaries... It is now 16:33, June 11, 2008 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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Afaik, the Soviet Union dissolved on Dec 26, right? If noone objects, I will delete this here. --Zenogantner 09:36 Dec 27, 2002 (UTC)

By all means please do. That is embarrassing. --mav

Done. Weekend starts NOW! --Zenogantner

[edit] see also

why does this article say, See also: November 30 - January 31? What is so important about linking December 31 with the last day of the most recent and the next month? Kingturtle 08:41, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)

It is part of the template (which I had no part in making). I guess it is for navigation... --mav

Who created the template? Are they still around wikipedia? I'd like to know the reasoning. As I see it tonight, I think those two dates should be removed, because they are confusing. Kingturtle 09:03, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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Moved birth from article:

• 1980 - Fernando Courmanian, football player, economist and sport businessman

Unverifiable; only Googlits are for this Wikipedia article. Lupo 12:16, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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"1988 - Mario Lemieux of the Pittsburgh Penguins becomes the first player in National Hockey League history to score one goal of each type in a single hockey game: a even-strength goal, a power-play goal, a short-handed goal, a penalty shot, and an empty-net goal. "

I thought for sure that was someone else, like Bobby Orr, or Hull, not Mario? Maybe some one can confirm it for me? !! Marcus1060 19:05, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

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"1857 - Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario, as the capital of Canada."

Canada would not exist until 1867 nor would Ontario. The event should refer to the Province of Canada, modern southern Ontario and Quebec, and Canada West rather than Ontario.

GreatWhiteNortherner (talk) 02:43, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] questions...

can someone please rephrase the following events? they make no sense to me:

• 1992 - In the last of the great ITV franchise renewals, Thames Television, Television South West and Television South cease broadcasting, replaced by Carlton Television, Westcountry Television and Meridian Television respectively.
• 1999 - Five hijackers, who had been holding 155 hostages on an Indian Airlines plane, leave the plane with two Islamic clerics that they had demanded be freed.

thanks, Kingturtle 03:17, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

Does anybody know why, when there is an error with the time, computers show the date as being "4:00 P.M. Wednesday, December 31, 1969"?

[edit] Gregorian Questions

The beginning information on this page is wrong. December 31 is the 365th day, 366th in leap years. Also, it is rather ridiculous to say there are negative days until the end of the year. I posted here instead of making the edit because I'm not quite sure where the error comes from, and don't want to make a change if it messes up a template or something. --ShadowWatch (talk) 02:48, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

it seems that it comes from the script that works out the numbers. --Alphamone (talk) 09:49, 2 January 2008 (UTC)