Immediately is Tuesday, Dec. 31, the 366th and ultimate day of 2024. That is New 12 months’s Eve.
Immediately in historical past:
On Dec. 31, 1879, Thomas Edison first demonstrated his electrical incandescent lights for the general public by illuminating some 100 bulbs in and round his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Additionally on this date:
In 1904, New York’s Occasions Sq. noticed its first New 12 months’s Eve celebration, with an estimated 200,000 individuals in attendance.
In 1985, singer Rick Nelson, 45, and 6 others have been killed when hearth broke out aboard a aircraft that was taking the group to a New 12 months’s Eve efficiency in Dallas.
In 1995, the syndicated cartoon “Calvin and Hobbes,” created by Invoice Watterson, got here to an finish after a 10-year run.
In 1999, Russian President Boris Yeltsin resigned, making Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appearing president.
In 2019, the well being fee within the central Chinese language metropolis of Wuhan introduced that specialists have been investigating an outbreak of respiratory sickness and that many of the victims had visited a seafood market within the metropolis; the assertion mentioned 27 individuals had turn into unwell with a pressure of viral pneumonia, which might finally be often called COVID-19.
In 2022, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, who had turn into the primary pontiff in 600 years to resign as pope, died at age 95.
Immediately’s Birthdays:
Actor Anthony Hopkins is 87.
Rock musician Andy Summers (The Police) is 82.
Actor Ben Kingsley is 81.
Filmmaker Taylor Hackford is 80.
Clothier Diane von Fürstenberg is 78.
Actor Tim Matheson is 77.
Actor Bebe Neuwirth is 66.
Actor Gong Li is 59.
Creator Nicholas Sparks is 59.
Businessman Donald Trump Jr. is 47.
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is 45.
Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Gabby Douglas is 29.
