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Sunday, December 31, 2006

EVENTS 12.31

by @ 1:00 am. Date Category: Events

1st Humans appeared (10:30 p.m.)
Martin Luther excommunicated
Calvin & Hobbes last comic strip (1995)
Monopoly patented (1935)
Inspector General premiered
1st Transatlantic voice broadcast
Three Men In a Boat debuted
East India Company chartered (1600)
Czech-Slovak split at midnight (1992)
Ellis Island opened
Monkees’ I’m a Believer reached No. 1 (1966)
Government of Ghana overthrown (1981)
Paul McCartney knighted (1996)
Trafalgar Square’s giant Christmas tree attacked by Norwegian man with a chainsaw (1990)
Esso Oil announced it was divesting in South Africa (1986)
Frank Sinatra debuted solo at NYC’s Paramount Theatre
Panama will take over the Panama Canal (1999)
MBE awarded to Eric Bristow, darts’ world champion (1988)
1st Huguenot emigrants to South Africa left France with grapevines (1687)
Michigan J. Frog debuted in Warner Bros. cartoon (1955)
Little Match Girl froze to death (Hans Christian Anderson)
Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance premiered on Broadway (1879)
France turned down a non-aggression pact from Germany (1922)
Hudepohl-Schoenling Brewing opened (Ohio; 1985)
Carver Brewing opened (Colorado; 1988)
Blackstone Brewery opened (Tennessee; 1994)
Longshore Brewing opened (New York; 1996)
Arizona Roadhouse opened (Arizona; 1997)
Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease for the St. James Gate property in Dublin (Ireland; 1759)
The “drunkometer,” the 1st breathalyzer debuted (1938)
Scheidt Brewing closed (Pennsylvania; 1974)
Blitz-Weinhard in Portland, Oregon closed (1999)
Lone Star Brewing in Texas closed (1999)
Celis Brewery in Austin, Texas closed (2000)
Pliocene Period ended, Quatenary (Pleistocene and Holocene) Period began; humans 1st appeared at 10:30 p.m. (Sagan calendar)

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