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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_31

#Events

1790 – Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper

of which issues have survived till today,

is published for the first time.

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1831 – Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.

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1878 – Karl Benz,

working in Mannheim, Germany,

filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine,

and he was granted the patent in 1879.

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1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting

to the public for the first time,

in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

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1907 – The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square

(then known as Longacre Square)

in Manhattan. NYC.

New Year's Eve ball tested ahead of Times Square celebration

https://youtu.be/5Wp1IJdqO5E

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The GM Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan.

1955 – General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation

to make over US$1 billion in a year.

@GMBPress

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1961 – RTÉ,

Ireland's state broadcaster,

launches its first national television service.

https://www.rte.ie/

#HappyBirthDay @rte

https://www.youtube.com/user/rte/playlists

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1968 – The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144,

the first civilian supersonic transport.

The Tupolev Tu-144

is a retired jet airliner and commercial supersonic transport aircraft (SST).

The design was a product of the Tupolev design bureau,

headed by Alexei Tupolev,

of the Soviet Union and manufactured

by the Voronezh Aircraft Production Association in Voronezh, Russia.

It conducted 55 passenger service flights,

at an average service altitude of 16,000 metres (52,000 ft)

and cruised at a speed of around 2,000 kilometres per hour (1,200 mph) (Mach 1.6).

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1983 – The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.

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1992 – Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved

in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce,

resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.

…

Czech Republic

Moravian-Silesian Beskids

Temperate deciduous forest in Křivoklátsko Protected Landscape Area

Bohemian Forest foothills and Kašperk castle,

southern Bohemia

Beskids mountains in eastern Moravia

European eagle-owl, a protected predator

Fire salamander, a common amphibian in humid forests

Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), a protected animal

Wallenstein Palace, seat of the Senate

Straka Academy, seat of the Government

Seat of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic in Brno.

Czech Army soldiers during an exercise

The Historic Centre of Prague is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1992.

Medieval castles such as Karlštejn are frequent tourist attractions.

Folk music band from southern Bohemia wearing folk costumes

Prague

Brno

Ostrava

Olomouc

Saint Wenceslas Cathedral in Olomouc

Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter (1896)

by Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha

Bohemian glass pitcher,

circa 1880

Traditional rural log house in Open-air museum Vysočina

Royal Summer Palace in Prague

considered the purest Renaissance architecture outside Italy

St. Nicholas' Church in Prague,

an exemplar of the Bohemian Baroque

Smetana Hall in Prague,

one of the main venues in the annual Prague Spring Festival

The National Theatre

the Estates Theatre

Svíčková:

marinated sirloin steak

with root vegetable

and cream gravy, dumplings, and cranberries

Vepřo-knedlo-zelo:

roast pork, sauerkraut and dumplings

Sweet roll (koláč) with poppy seed or a fruit preserve (povidla)

Czech Republic

….

Slovakia

Panorama of the High Tatras

Gerlachovský štít (2,655 metres or 8,711 feet),

the highest peak in Slovakia

Skalnaté pleso Observatory (1,751 metres or 5,745 feet)

Slovak Paradise National Park

Domica Cave

Belá River

Štrbské pleso natural lake

is a popular tourist destination in the High Tatras

Popradské pleso

Veľké Hincovo

is the biggest and deepest mountain lake

in the Slovak High Tatras

Summer in Spišské Podhradie

Winter in Banská Štiavnica;

the town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Rupicapra rupicapra tatrica in the Tatra Mountains

Grassalkovich Palace

in Bratislava

is the seat of the President of Slovakia

Episcopal Summer Palace,

the seat of the government of Slovakia

Slovak Air Force MiG-29 NATO upgrade

Bratislava,

capital and largest city of Slovakia

Bojnice Castle

The centre of Bardejov

– a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Cable cars at Jasná in the Tatra Mountains

The Old Town in Bratislava

Bratislava

Košice

Žilina

The Basilica of St. Giles in Bardejov

St. Elisabeth Cathedral

in Košice

is Slovakia's largest church

This wooden church in Bodružal

is an example of Rusyn folk architecture

and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art

in Medzilaborce.

Andy Warhol's parents were immigrants from Slovakia.

The new Slovak National Theatre building

in Bratislava

Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra site in Bratislava

State Theatre Košice

Slovakia

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1998 – The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.

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2004 – The official opening of Taipei 101,

the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world,

standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 ft).

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2009 – Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur.*

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2011 – NASA succeeds in putting

the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites

in orbit around the Moon.

Parting Moon Shots from NASA's GRAIL mission

Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)

https://youtu.be/PODCa9sA34A

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2018 – Starting date of Valletta as European Capital of Culture

#FelizAniversário

#FelizCumpleaños

#HappyBirthday

#JoyeuxAnniversaire

#BuonCompleanno

#Nacimientos

1741 – Gottfried August Bürger, German poet and academic (d. 1794)

1805 – Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author (d. 1876)

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Alexander Smith

1829/30, likely 31 December 1829

– 5 January 1867

Scottish poet and critic

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/42301/42301-h/42301-h.htm

POEMS

BY

ALEXANDER SMITH

...

A LIFE-DRAMA.

As a wild maiden, with love-drinking eyes,

Sees in sweet dreams a beaming Youth of Glory,

And wakes to weep, and ever after, sighs

For that bright vision till her hair is hoary;

Ev'n so, alas! is my life's-passion story.

For Poesy my heart and pulses beat,

For Poesy my blood runs red and fleet,

As Aaron's serpent the Egyptians' swallow'd,

One passion eats the rest. My soul is follow'd

By strong ambition to out-roll a lay,

Whose melody will haunt the world for aye,

Charming it onward on its golden way.

[Tears the paper and paces the room with disordered steps.

Oh, that my heart were quiet as a grave

Asleep in moonlight!

For, as a torrid sunset boils with gold

Up to the zenith, fierce within my soul

A passion burns from basement to the cope.

Poesy! Poesy! I'd give to thee,

As passionately, my rich-laden years,

My bubble pleasures, and my awful joys,

As Hero gave her trembling sighs to find

Delicious death on wet Leander's lip.

Bare, bald, and tawdry, as a fingered moth,

Is my poor life, but with one smile thou canst

Clothe me with kingdoms. Wilt thou smile on me?

Wilt bid me die for thee? O fair and cold!

As well may some wild maiden waste her love

Upon the calm front of a marble Jove.

I cannot draw regard of thy great eyes.

I love thee, Poesy! Thou art a rock,

I, a weak wave, would break on thee and die.

There is a deadlier pang than that which beads

With chilly death-drops the o'er-tortured brow,

When one has a big heart and feeble hands,—

A heart to hew his name out upon time

As on a rock, then in immortalness

To stand on time as on a pedestal;

When hearts beat to this tune, and hands are weak,

We find our aspirations quenched in tears,

The tears of impotence, and self-contempt

That loathsome weed, up-springing in the heart,

Like nightshade 'mong the ruins of a shrine;

I am so cursed, and wear within my soul

A pang as fierce as Dives' drowsed with wine,

Lipping his leman in luxurious dreams;

Waked by a fiend in hell!——

'T is not for me, ye Heavens! 't is not for me

To fling a Poem, like a comet, out,

Far-splendouring the sleepy realms of night.

I cannot give men glimpses so divine,

As when, upon a racking night, the wind

Draws the pale curtains of the vapoury clouds,

And shows those wonderful, mysterious voids,

Throbbing with stars like pulses.—Naught for me

But to creep quietly into my grave;

Or calm and tame the swelling of my heart

With this foul lie, painted as sweet as truth.

That "great and small, weakness and strength, are naught,

That each thing being equal in its sphere,

The May-night glow-worm with its emerald lamp,

Is worthy as the mighty moon that drowns

Continents in her white and silent light."

This—this were easy to believe, were I

The planet that doth nightly wash the earth's

Fair sides with moonlight; not the shining worm.

But as I am—beaten, and foiled, and shamed,

The arrow of my soul which I have shot

To bring down Fame, dissolved like shaft of mist—

This painted falsehood, this most damned lie,

Freezes me like a fiendish human face,

With all its features gathered in a sneer.

Oh, let me rend this breathing tent of flesh;

Uncoop the soul—fool, fool, 't were still the same,

'T is the deep soul that's touch'd, it bears the wound;

And memory doth stick in 't like a knife,

Keeping it wide for ever.

I am fain

To feed upon the beauty of the moon!

[Opens the casement.

Sorrowful moon! seeming so drowned in woe,

A queen, whom some grand battle-day has left

Unkingdomed and a widow, while the stars,

Thy handmaidens, are standing back in awe,

Gazing in silence on thy mighty grief!

All men have loved thee for thy beauty, moon!

Adam has turned from Eve's fair face to thine,

And drunk thy beauty with his serene eyes.

Anthony once, when seated with his queen,

Worth all the East, a moment gazed at thee:

She struck him on the cheek with jealous hand,

And chiding said,—"Now, by my Egypt's gods,

That pale and squeamish beauty of the night

Has had thine eyes too long; thine eyes are mine!

Alack! there's sorrow in my Anthony's face!

Dost think of Rome? I'll make thee, with a kiss,

Richer than Cæsar! Come, I'll crown thy lips."

How tenderly the moon doth fill the night!

Not like the passion that doth fill my soul;

It burns within me like an Indian sun.

A star is trembling on the horizon's verge,

That star shall grow and broaden on the night,

Until it hangs divine and beautiful

In the proud zenith—

Might I so broaden on the skies of fame!

O Fame! Fame! Fame! next grandest word to God!

I seek the look of Fame! Poor fool—so tries

Some lonely wanderer 'mong the desert sands

By shouts to gain the notice of the Sphynx,

Staring right on with calm eternal eye

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Self-portrait at Montorsoli, (1892),

by

Giovanni Boldini

31 December 1842 – 11 July 1931

Italian painter

Florence, Uffizi Gallery, Vasari Corridor

A Lute Player and a Listener, oil on canvas, 1875

Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi in a Top Hat, 1886

National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome

Canale a Venezia con gondole, 1910-1914

Art collections of Fondazione Cariplo

La marchesa Luisa Casati con penne di pavone

(Portrait of the Marquise), 1914

Portrait of Princess Marthe Bibesco, oil on canvas, 1911

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,

Portrait of a Dandy

Lady Pianist, oil on canvas

by Giovanni Boldini

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1855 – Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1912)

1860 – Joseph S. Cullinan, American businessman, co-founded Texaco (d. 1937)

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Self-Portrait

in a Striped T-shirt 1906,

Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark

by

Henri Matisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse

31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954

French painter and sculptor

The Young Sailor II, 1906,

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

The Dance (first version), 1909,

The Museum of Modern Art, New York City

The Dance, 1910,

Hermitage Museum,

St. Petersburg, Russia

Portrait of the Artist's Wife, 1913,

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg

Les poissons rouges

(Interior with a Goldfish Bowl),

Musée National d'Art Moderne,

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

by Henri Matisse

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1877 – Lawrence Beesley, English journalist and author (d. 1967)

1878 – Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman, founded Elizabeth Arden, Inc. (d. 1966)

1878 – Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan-Argentinian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1937)

1881 – Max Pechstein, German painter and academic (d. 1955)

1884 – Mihály Fekete, Hungarian actor, screenwriter, and film director (d. 1960)

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Silvestre Revueltas

Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez

December 31, 1899 – October 5, 1940

Mexican composer of classical music, a violinist and a conductor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvestre_Revueltas#Music

La Noche de los Mayas de Silvestre Revueltas

Orquesta de París, dirección Kristjan Järvi

teatro Du Chatelet París, Francia

27 de octubre del 2009

La Noche de los Mayas

"Noche de Encantamiento"

| La Orquesta de París HD

https://youtu.be/YuQoYY5Cv8o

"Sensemayá" by Silvestre Revueltas

the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra,Hobart Earle conducts

in the Odessa Opera House, July 2012, Ukraine.

Silvestre Revueltas - Sensemayá

https://youtu.be/M_GFka-M-EM

Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater

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1905 – Jule Styne, English-American composer (d. 1994)

1910 – Carl Dudley, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1973)

1915 – Sam Ragan, American journalist, author, and poet (d. 1996)

1922 – Halina Czerny-Stefańska, Polish pianist and educator (d. 2001)

1923 – Giannis Dalianidis, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2010)

1924 – Taylor Mead, American actor and poet (d. 2013)

1925 – Irina Korschunow, German author and screenwriter (d. 2013)

1925 – Sri Lal Sukla, Indian author (d. 2011)

1925 – Daphne Oram, British composer and electronic musician (d. 2003)

1928 – Siné, French cartoonist (d. 2016)*

1928 – Veijo Meri, Finnish author and translator (d. 2015)

1931 – Bob Shaw, Northern Irish journalist and author (d. 1996)

1932 – Felix Rexhausen, German journalist and author (d. 1992)

1933 – Edward Bunker, American author, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2005)

1934 – Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan, Indian author, poet, and scholar (d. 2017)

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Avram Hershko

born 31 December 1937

Hungarian-Israeli biochemist and physician

2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.

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1937 – Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor, director, and composer*

1937 – Tess Jaray, Austrian-English painter and educator

1944 – Taylor Hackford, American director, producer, and screenwriter

1945 – Connie Willis, American author

1947 – Tim Matheson, American actor, director, and producer

1949 – Ellen Datlow, American anthologist and author

1949 – Susan Shwartz, American author

1956 – Steve Rude, American author and illustrator

1959 – Baron Waqa, Nauruan composer and politician, 14th President of Nauru

1965 – Julie Doucet, Canadian cartoonist and author

1968 – Junot Diaz, Dominican-born American novelist, short story writer, and essayist

1977 – Donald Trump, Jr., American businessman and son of billionaire Donald Trump

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Matt Cross

Matthew "Matt" Capiccioni

born December 31, 1980

American wrestler

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#Obituario RecordarANuestrosMuertos

EsDarlesVidaEternaEnNuestrosCorazones.

EnPazDescanse:

1384 – John Wycliffe, English philosopher, theologian, and translator (b. 1331)

1799 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and author (b. 1723)

1872 – Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author and playwright (b. 1834)

1877 – Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1819)

1909 – Spencer Trask, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1844)

1936 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1864)

1949 – Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı, Turkish philosopher, poet, and politician (b. 1869)

1949 – Raimond Valgre, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1913)

1950 – Charles Koechlin, French composer and educator (b. 1867)

1953 – Albert Plesman, Dutch businessman, founded KLM (b. 1889)

1972 – Henry Gerber, German-American activist, founded the Society for Human Rights (b. 1892)

1978 – Basil Wolverton, American illustrator (b. 1909)

1980 – Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher and theorist (b. 1911)*

1980 – Raoul Walsh, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1887)

1983 – Sevim Burak, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1931)

1988 – Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and critic (b. 1907)

1990 – Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (b. 1891)

1993 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian anthropologist and politician, 1st President of Georgia (b. 1939)

1997 – Floyd Cramer, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1933)

2000 – José Greco, Italian-American dancer and choreographer (b. 1918)*

2004 – Gérard Debreu, French economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)

2005 – Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor and educator (b. 1932)

2005 – Phillip Whitehead, English screenwriter, producer, and politician (b. 1937)

2006 – Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1922)

2007 – Michael Goldberg, American painter and educator (b. 1924)

2007 – Bill Idelson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919)

2007 – Ettore Sottsass, Austrian-Italian architect and designer (b. 1917)

2008 – Donald E. Westlake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1933)

2009 – Cahal Daly, Irish cardinal and philosopher (b. 1917)

2010 – Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)

2012 – Peter Ebert, English director and producer (b. 1918)

2012 – Jovette Marchessault, Canadian author and playwright (b. 1938)

2012 – Günter Rössler, German photographer and journalist (b. 1926)*

2013 – Roberto Ciotti, Italian guitarist and composer (b. 1953)

2013 – Irina Korschunow, German author and screenwriter (b. 1925)

2014 – Abdullah Hussain, Malaysian author (b. 1920)

2014 – Norm Phelps, American author and activist (b. 1939)

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#observances

New Year's Eve (International observance), and its related observances:

First Night (United States)

Last Day of the Year or Bisperás ng Bagong Taón, special holiday between Rizal Day and New Year's Day (Philippines)

Novy God Eve (Russia)

Ōmisoka (Japan)

The first day of Hogmanay or "Auld Year's Night" (Scotland)

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