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.
- 535 –Byzantine General Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Ostrogothic garrison of Syracuse, and ending his consulship for the year.
- 1695 –A window tax is imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax.
- 1775 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.
- 1790 –Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today is published for the first time.
- 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
- 1857 –Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.
- 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.
- 1909 –Manhattan Bridge opens.
- 1946 –President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
- 1955 –The General Motors Corporation becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
- 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 –The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
- 1986 –A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
- 1991 –All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date and the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
- 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 –Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia, resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.
- 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.
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