A little reason to celebrate
New Year's Eve
Fun · Seasonal · December 31
New Year's Eve is the last night of the year, marked with countdowns, toasts, noisemakers and staying up late to greet the new year.
National days on December 31, 2026
Also on December 31
On this day
- 1796: The incorporation of Baltimore as a city. Baltimore
- 1879: Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Thomas Edison
- 1951: Cold War: The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Western Europe. Cold War
- 1983: The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government. AT&T Corporation
- 2011: NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon. NASA
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