Today is Wednesday, December 31, the 366th day of 2008. There are no days left in the year.
1762 _ Mozart family moves from Vienna to Salzburg
1805 _ End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism
1861 _ 22,990 mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam in 1861, world record
1879 _ Edison gives first public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
1911 - Marie Curie receives her second Nobel Prize
1930 _ U.S. tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930
1945 _ Ratification of U.N. Charter completed
1946 _ President Truman officially proclaims end of WWII
1984 _ U.S. leaves UNESCO
1991 _ USSR, last day of existence