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1954 – Joseph B. Keenan, American lawyer and politician (b. 1888) 1958 – Tris Speaker , American baseball player and manager (b. 1888) 1963 – Sarit Thanarat , Thai field marshal and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1908)
Month December depicted in Hans Bol's and Adriaen Collart's Emblematica Evangelica.. December contains the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the day with the fewest daylight hours, and the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, the day with the most daylight hours (excluding polar regions in both cases, which consistently have none or 24 hours, respectively, near the solstice).
1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall.Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
Gathering of the residents of Kampung Tugu in the Rabo-Rabo tradition [6]. In North Jakarta, Indonesians of Portuguese descent live mainly in Kampung Tugu.After Christmas Mass, Christians in Kampung Tugu will visit the cemetery next to their local church and start the rabo-rabo tradition.
1948 – Heitarō Kimura, Japanese general (b. 1888) 1948 – Iwane Matsui, Japanese general (b. 1878) 1948 – Kenji Doihara, Japanese general (b. 1883) 1948 – Kōki Hirota, Japanese diplomat and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878) 1950 – Vincenzo Tommasini, Italian composer (b. 1878)
1608 – William Davison, secretary to Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. c. 1541) 1610 – Catherine Vasa, Swedish princess (b. 1539) 1701 – Sir Hugh Paterson, Baronet of Bannockburn (b. 1659) 1807 – John Newton, English soldier and minister (b. 1725) 1824 – James Parkinson, English physician and paleontologist (b. 1755)
2006 – Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935) [203] 2006 – Raymond P. Shafer , American attorney and politician, 39th Governor of Pennsylvania (b. 1917) [ 204 ] 2006 – Alan Shugart , American engineer and businessman, co-founded Seagate Technology (b. 1930) [ 205 ]
December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.It is known by a collection of names including: Saint Sylvester's Day, [1] New Year's Eve or Old Year's Day/Night, as the following day is New Year's Day.