A bit of December 31st…
1744 - English astronomer James Bradley announces discovery of Earth’s nutation motion (wobble)
1904 - 1st New Years Eve celebration held in Times Square NYC
1907 - 1st time the ball drops at Times Square to signal the New Year (pictured)
1911 - Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize, this time in chemistry for her work with radioactivity
1935 - Charles Darrow patents board game Monopoly, goes on to be 1st millionaire game designer
1955 - the General Motors Corporation becomes the 1st US corporation to make over a billion dollars in a year
1967 - Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Caesar’s Palace Fountain, Las Vegas, breaking his pelvis, femur, wrist, hip, and both ankles
1997 - Microsoft buys Hotmail email service for $400 million and relaunches it as MSN Hotmail
2010 - “The Walking Dead” premiers
2020 - WHO grants Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine emergency authorization, paving the way for worldwide distribution
On December 31, 2023 at 01:01AM, some big things happened. Click the date to read more.
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