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