MONDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2007

Today is Monday, December 31, the 365th day of 2007. There is no day left in the year.

335 _ St. Silvester I ends his reign as Catholic pope

406 _ 80,000 Vandels attack the Rhine at Mainz

1492 _ 100,000 Jews expelled from Sicily

1600 _ British East India Company chartered

1756 _ Russia joins the Alliance of Versailles

1890 _ Ellis Island opens as a U.S. immigration depot

1911 _ Marie Curie receives her second Nobel Prize

1924 _ Edwin Hubble announces existence of distant galactic systems

1945 _ Ratification of the U.N. Charter completed

1946 _ President Truman officially proclaims the end of WWII

1970 _ President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines

1977 _ Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with Vietnam

1978 _ Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with the U.S.

1981 _ CNN Headline News debuts

1983 _ Brunei gains complete independence from Britain

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

1991 _ The USSR, last day of existence