1964 Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph)

1966 Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 and stays there for 7 weeks

1966 Pirate Radio 390 (Radio Invicata) off England, resumes transmitting

1968 First supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)

1970 Congress authorizes the Eisenhower dollar coin

1970 Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to dissolve the Beatles

1974 Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin

1976 TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run

1977 Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa

1977 Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado

1978 Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with the US

1979 Winterland Rock Concert Hall in San Francisco closes after 556 concerts

1980 A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18

1981 Lt Rawlings stages coup in Ghana

1982 TV soap "The Doctors" ends 19 year run

1983 Brunei gains complete independence from Britain

1984 NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH

1984 Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM succeeds his mom, Indira

1985 King Hussein of Jordan and President Assid hold talks

1986 Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97

1989 The last part of the railway on Prince Edward Island, operated by CN Rail, is abandoned.

1990 Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds

1990 The Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting

1991 Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83

1992 Target date for Europe's single market

1999 Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama

1891 A new immigration depot is opens on Ellis Island, New York

1923 The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC

1991 The civil war in El Salvador ends

1937 The birth of Anthony Hopkins, British actor

1943 The birth of Ben Kingsley, British actor

2005 Another second was added, 23:59:60, called a leap second,to end the year 205.The last time this occured was on June 30, 1998.

2006 At least eleven bombs go off in Bangkok hours before the new year.

2006 The U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 3,000.

2006 According to the Met Office, England experienced its warmest year since records began in 1659 with an average temperature of 10.82°C.

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