December 31: New Year's Eve, Eid ul-Adha in Islam (2006), Hogmanay in Scotland.

• 406 - The Vandals, Alans and Suebians crossed the Rhine River to begin an invasion of Gaul.
• 1600 - The British East India Company was founded by a Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I.
• 1963 - The Central African Federation officially collapsed, eventually to become Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
• 1972 - American baseball player Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash en route to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.
• 1999 - Boris Yeltsin (pictured), the first democratically elected President of Russia, resigned and named Vladimir Putin as Acting President.

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December 9: Independence Day in Tanzania (1961)

• 1897 - Stage actress, journalist and leading suffragette Marguerite Durand founded the feminist newspaper La Fronde.
• 1905 - Legislation on the separation of church and state in France was adopted, triggering civil disobedience by French Catholics.
• 1946 - The Doctors' Trial, the trial for crimes committed in Nazi human experimentation during World War II, began in Nuremberg, Germany.
• 1958 - The John Birch Society was founded to fight the perceived threat of communism in the United States.
• 1961 - Tanganyika (flag pictured) gained independence from Britain (Tanganyika would become part of Tanzania three years later).

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December 3:

• 1854 - Miners at Eureka Stockade clashed violently with the police and the military in Ballarat, Victoria in Australia.
• 1904 - The Jovian moon Himalia was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at Lick Observatory in San Jose, California.
• 1937 - Issue 1 of The Dandy, the world's longest running comic, went on sale.
• 1967 - A team led by Christiaan Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa performed the first successful human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky.
• 1999 - The Mars Polar Lander (pictured) reached Mars and disappeared.

[listening to: Planet of the Apes [Hidden Track] - They Might Be Giants ]
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 What QUIZ can I find at Blogthings to night?

You Are Somewhat Mature

You definitely act like an adult sometimes, but a big part of you is still a kid at heart. While your immature side is definitely fun, you're going to have to grow up sooner or later.

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