On this day …
December 31, 2014
- In 1600, the British East India Company was chartered.
- In 1796, Baltimore was incorporated as a city.
- In 1857, Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as the capital of Canada.
- In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed an act that admitted West Virginia into the Union.
- In 1879, Thomas Edison demonstrated incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, N.J.
- In 1907, the first New Year’s Eve celebration was held in Times Square (then called Longacre Square), in New York City.
- In 1955, General Motors became the first U.S. corporation to make more than $1 billion in a single year.
- In 1988, Mario Lemieux became the only player in NHL history to score five goals in five different ways in a single game (even strength, shorthanded, power play, penalty shot, empty net).
- In 1999, Boris Yeltsin, the first President of Russia, resigned from office.
- In 2009, both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occurred.
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