Today is Friday, December 31, the last day of 2010. There are no days left in the year.
1600 ― British East India Company chartered
1762 ― Mozart family moves from Vienna to Salzburg
1861 ― 22,990 mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam in 1861, world record
1879 ― Edison gives first public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
1907 ― For the first time a ball drops at Times Square to signal the new year
1911 ― Marie Curie receives her second Nobel Prize
1945 ― Ratification of U.N. Charter completed
1946 ― President Truman officially proclaims end of WWII
1961 ― Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
1991 ― USSR, last day of existence