About December 31
December 31, 2025 is the 365th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 48 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
December 31: More About This Day
It is widely known as New Year’s Eve since the following day is New Year’s Day. It is the last day of the year.
What Happened On December 31
- 406 –Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul.
- 1600 –The British East India Company is chartered.
- 1660 –James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.
- 1687 –The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
- 1853 –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, United Kingdom
- 1862 –American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
- 1906 –Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
- 1907 –The first New Year’s Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in New York, New York.
- 1909 –Manhattan Bridge opens.
- 1944 –World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.
- 1951 –The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
- 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.
- 1983 –In Nigeria a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Nigerian Second Republic.
- 1983 –The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2004 –The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 m.
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