Today is Monday, December 31, the last day of 2012. There are no days left in the year.
1687 ― First Huguenots depart France to Cape of Good Hope
1762 ― Mozart family moves from Vienna to Salzburg
1879 ― Edison gives first public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
1907 ― G. Mahler conducts the Metropolitan Opera
1910 ― U.S. tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910
1911 ― Marie Curie receives her second Nobel Prize
1945 ― Ratification of U.N. Charter completed
1978 ― Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with the U.S.
1984 ― U.S. leaves UNESCO
1999 ― Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama