A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.
December 31: Day of the Week
December 31, 2024 is the 366th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. The day of the week is Tuesday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is mardi.
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Here’s the December calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Capricorn is the zodiac 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.
December 31: This Day in History
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.
December 31 Historical Event(s)
1687
The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
1879
Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
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.
1965
Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begins a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.
1994
The first Chechen war: Russian army began a New Year’s storm of Grozny
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.
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.
Who were born on December 31?
1585
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, (d. 1645)
1855
Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet (d. 1912)
1857
King Kelly, American baseball player (d. 1894)
1860
Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (d. 1937)
1911
Dal Stivens, Australian novelist (d. 1997)
1949
Ellen Datlow, American editor
1951
Tom Hamilton, American bassist (Aerosmith)
1953
James Remar, American actor
1982
Bryce Avary, The Rocket Summer, American musician
1983
Mariana Renata, French-Indonesian Actress
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