December 31<\/p>\n
1229 \u2013 James I, King of Aragon, enters Palma, Spain, completing the retaking of Majorca island during the Reconquista.<\/p>\n
1744 – English astronomer James Bradley announces discovery of Earth’s nutation motion or wobble in its rotation.<\/p>\n
1775 \u2013 During the Revolutionary War, British forces repulse an attack on Quebec by the Continental Army forces under General Richard Montgomery.<\/p>\n
1796 \u2013 Baltimore, Maryland is incorporated.<\/p>\n
1862 \u2013 President Lincoln signs an act enabling the admission of West Virginia as a state in the Union, partitioning Virginia.<\/p>\n
1878 \u2013 Karl Benz, in Mannheim, Germany, files a patent on his 2 stroke internal combustion engine<\/p>\n
1879 \u2013 Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public in Menlo Park, New Jersey.<\/p>\n
1907 \u2013 The first New Year’s Eve celebration is held in Times Square,\u00a0 Manhattan.<\/p>\n
1946 \u2013 President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.<\/p>\n
1955 \u2013 General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over $1 billion in a year.<\/p>\n
1959 \u2013 AK Church is born somewhere in eastern Oklahoma.<\/p>\n
1983 \u2013 The federal consent decree for divestiture into regional independent operating companies of the AT&T Bell System comes into effect.<\/p>\n
1991 \u2013 All official Soviet institutions are confirmed to have ceased operations in the former Soviet Union<\/p>\n
1992 \u2013 Czechoslovakia is dissolved into the Czech and the Slovak Republics.<\/p>\n
1999 \u2013\u00a0 Under terms of the 1977 Torrijos\u2013Carter Treaty<\/em>, the U.S. cedes control of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone to Panama.<\/p>\n 2000 \u2013 The last day of the 20th Century and 2nd Millennium.<\/p>\n 2010 \u2013\u00a0 A total of 36 tornadoes touch down in Arkansas, Illinois, and Oklahoma, killing 9 people and causing $113 million in damages.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan, China, later classified as SARS COVID-19<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 The World Health Organization issues its first emergency use authorization – EUA – for a COVID-19 vaxx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" December 31 1229 \u2013 James I, King of Aragon, enters Palma, Spain, completing the retaking of Majorca island during the Reconquista. 1744 – English astronomer James Bradley announces discovery of Earth’s nutation motion or wobble in its rotation. 1775 \u2013 During the Revolutionary War, British forces repulse an attack on Quebec by the Continental Army … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63394"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98932,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63394\/revisions\/98932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}