Simon Wiesenthal 1908
- 1879 - Thomas Edison gave his first public demonstration of incandescent lighting to an audience in Menlo Park, NJ.
- 1929 - Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians played "Auld Lang Syne" as a New Year's Eve song for the first time.
- 1946 - U.S. President Truman officially proclaimed the end of hostilities in World War II.
- 1955 - General Motors became the first U.S. corporation to earn more than one billion dollars in a single year.
- 1979 - At year end oil prices were 88% higher than at the start of 1979.
- 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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