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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_31" title="December 31">December 31</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Sylvester%27s_Day" title="Saint Sylvester's Day">Saint Sylvester's Day</a></b> (Western Christianity)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1857" title="1857">1857</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria" title="Queen Victoria">Queen Victoria</a> announced the choice of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa" title="Ottawa">Ottawa</a></b>, then a small logging town, to be the capital of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Canada" title="Province of Canada">British colony of Canada</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950" title="1950">1950</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War" title="Korean War">Korean War</a>: North Korean troops attacked United Nations forces in the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_and_Second_Battles_of_Wonju" title="First and Second Battles of Wonju">first of two battles</a></b> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonju" title="Wonju">Wonju</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993" title="1993">1993</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Teena" title="Brandon Teena">Brandon Teena</a></b>, an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_man" title="Trans man">trans man</a>, was raped and murdered in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldt,_Nebraska" title="Humboldt, Nebraska">Humboldt, Nebraska</a>; his death led to increased lobbying for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_crime_laws_in_the_United_States" title="Hate crime laws in the United States">hate crime laws in the United States</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998" title="1998">1998</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Exchange_Rate_Mechanism" title="European Exchange Rate Mechanism">European Exchange Rate Mechanism</a></b> froze the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_rate" title="Exchange rate">exchange rates</a> of the legacy currencies in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone" title="Eurozone">eurozone</a>, establishing the value of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro" title="Euro">euro</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006" title="2006">2006</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Somalia_(2006%E2%80%932009)" title="War in Somalia (2006–2009)">War in Somalia</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_Federal_Government_of_Somalia" title="Transitional Federal Government of Somalia">Transitional Federal Government</a> forces <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jilib" title="Battle of Jilib">attacked the last stronghold</a></b> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Courts_Union" title="Islamic Courts Union">Islamic Courts Union</a> in the town of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jilib" title="Jilib">Jilib</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Maymandi" title="Ahmad Maymandi">Ahmad Maymandi</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1032); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksis_Kivi" title="Aleksis Kivi">Aleksis Kivi</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1872); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Wiesenthal" title="Simon Wiesenthal">Simon Wiesenthal</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1908); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._D._Howe" title="C. D. Howe">C. D. Howe</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1960)</p>
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