History for December 31 - On-This-Day.com:
Henri Matisse 1869, George Marshall 1880, Simon Wiesenthal 1908
Anthony Hopkins 1937, John Denver 1943, Donna Summer 1948
1695 - The window tax was imposed in Britain, which resulted in many windows being bricked up.
1857 - Britain's Queen Victoria decided to make Ottawa the capital of Canada.
1929 - Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians played "Auld Lang Syne" as a New Year's Eve song for the first time.
1947 - Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were married.
1961 - In the U.S., the Marshall Plan expired after distributing more than $12 billion in foreign aid.
1967 - The Green Bay Packers won the National Football League championship game by defeating the Dallas Cowboys 21-17. The game is known as the Ice Bowl since it was played in a wind chill of 40 degrees below zero. (NFL)
1997 - Michael Kennedy, 39-year-old son of the late U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was killed in a skiing accident on Aspen Mountain in Colorado.
1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin resigned. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was designated acting president.
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