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December 31: Saint Sylvester's Day (Western Christianity)

Parliament Hill, Ottawa

1857 – Queen Victoria announced the choice of Ottawa (pictured), then a small logging town, to be the capital of the British colony of Canada.
1950 – Korean War: North Korean troops attacked United Nations forces in the first of two battles at Wonju.
1993 – Brandon Teena, an American trans man, was raped and murdered in Humboldt, Nebraska; his death led to increased lobbying for hate crime laws in the United States.
1998 – The European Exchange Rate Mechanism froze the exchange rates of the legacy currencies in the eurozone, establishing the value of the euro.
2006 – War in Somalia: Transitional Federal Government forces attacked the last stronghold of the Islamic Courts Union in the town of Jilib.

Ahmad Maymandi (d. 1032)
Aleksis Kivi (d. 1872)
Simon Wiesenthal (b. 1908)
C. D. Howe (d. 1960)

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