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Friday, February 24, 2012

Historical Events on New Year’s Eve


After posting a similar article for Christmas Day, we decided to delve into the history of New Year’s Eve. In the following list, we have compiled prominent events from the past that transpired in the fleeting hours of each mentioned year. If you like this article, you might want to check out our other New Year’s feature-article here.
The British East India Trading Company is chartered (1600)
East India Company

Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time (1879)
Thomas Edison
US President Harry S. Truman officially declares the end of the Second World War (1946)
Harry Truman Announces end of WW II
The first New Year’s Eve celebration is held in Longacre Square (now known as Times Square) in New York City (1904)
1904 New Years Eve at Times Square
Opening of Manhattan Bridge (1909)
Manhattan Bridge
The Central African Federation (Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland) dissolves, splitting into Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia (1963)
Federal Governor General's Departure from the CAF
Dissolution of Czechoslovakia results in the creation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia (1992)
Czechoslovakia in 1969
The ERM (European Exchange Rate Mechanism) freezes the values of the legacy currency in the Eurozone, establishing the euro currency as the sole legal tender of the European Union (1998)
Euro
Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first President, hands in his resignation, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President (1999)
Yeltsin (Right) and Putin(2nd From Left)
Official opening of Taiwan’s Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper of its time (2004)
Taipei 101 - Taipei, Taiwan
 via Wikipedia

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