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Notable anniversaries in history for today: December 31
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Victoria Draves; American platform/springboard diver (Olympics-gold-1948).
- 80th: 1944 - 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah, USA.
- 80th: 1944 - Japanese army evacuates harbor city Akyab.
- 80th: 1944 - Adolf Hitler launches Operation Nordwind, the second surprise offensive at the southern flank of the Allied line in Germany.
- 70th: 1954 - Peter Van Anrooy, conductor/composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie), dies at age 75.
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Denis Hickey; cricket player (fast bowler for Victoria, South Africa and Glamorgan).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Klari MacAskill in Budapest, Hungary; kayaker (Olympics-5th-1992, 1996).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Liz Masakayan in Quezon City, Philippines; WPVA volleyball (Best of Beach-third-1994).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Winston Benjamin; cricket player (West Indies righty quick 1987-95).
- 60th: 1964 - Donald Campbell of the United Kingdom sets world water speed record (276.33 mph).
- 50th: 1974 - 41st Sugar Bowl: Nebraska 13 beats Florida 10.
- 50th: 1974 - Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs record US$3.75 million five-year New York Yankees contract.
- 50th: 1974 - US President Gerald Ford issues Executive Order 11825 legalizing private ownership of gold.
- 50th: 1974 - Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac music group.
- 50th: 1974 - Zora Arkus-Duntov, Chief Engineer of Corvette, officially resigns from Chevrolet, replaced by David McLellan.
- 40th: 1984 - New York City subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in New Hampshire.
- 40th: 1984 - Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th Prime Minister, succeeding his mom, Indira.
- 40th: 1984 - Test Cricket debut of Mohammad Azharuddin, versus England at Calcutta, India.
- 40th: 1984 - US leaves UNESCO.
- 30th: 1994 - The Walt Disney Company signs a preliminary agreement to commit up to US$34 million to renovate and lease the New Amsterdam Theater in New York.
- 30th: 1994 - Anti-Apartheid Group of Netherlands (AABN) disbands.
- 30th: 1994 - The work of the Treuhand Organization is finished and the organization is terminated. The Treuhand oversaw the privatization of property in German Democratic Republic. The organization had privatized 14,500 businesses.
- 30th: 1994 - BAM "Bob" Schreiner, airline owner (S Aviation Group), dies at age 79.
- 30th: 1994 - Leo Fuchs, Polish/US Yiddish actor (Story of Ruth), dies at age 83.
- 30th: 1994 - Thomas J Watson Junior, CEO (IBM), dies of a stroke at age 79.
- 30th: 1994 - Woodrow "Woody" Strode, American rugby player/black cowboy actor (Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante, Oil), dies.
- 30th: 1994 - This day is skipped by the Phoenix Islands to switch from the UTC-11 time zone to UTC+13, and by the Line Islands to switch from UTC-10 to UTC+14. The latter becomes the earliest time zone in the world, one full day ahead of Hawaii.
- 30th: 1994 - The Discovery Channel cable TV channel debuts in Canada.
- 30th: 1994 - The Showcase cable TV channel debuts in Canada.
- 25th: 1999 - Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, replaced by Vladimir Putin.
- 25th: 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.
- 25th: 1999 - Millennium celebrations begin worldwide (although technically the third millennium starts in 2001 not 2000). Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom opens the Millennium Dome at Greenwich, London.
- 25th: 1999 - US turns over complete administration of the Panama Canal to the Panamanian Government as stipulated in the Torrijos-Carter Treaty of 1977 free of liens and debts, in good operation and with a $1 billion investment program in place designed to ensure continued first class service to the maritime world. At the transfer, more than 97 percent of the Canal's 9,000 workers are Panamanian.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Gerard Debreu, French-born economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921).
- 20th: 2004 - Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 1,670 feet (509 metres), officially opens.
- 20th: 2004 - Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich resigns.
- 10th: 2014 - Death of Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington (born 1915).
- 5th: 2019 - The People's Republic of China informs the World Health Organization of an outbreak of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, the ninth most populous Chinese city.
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