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Revision as of 02:27, 31 March 2008
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.
- 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 earthquake victims in Nicaragua.
- 1999 – Boris Yeltsin, the first democratically elected President of Russia, resigned and named Vladimir Putin as Acting President.
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