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Template:Linked-title is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Here a calendar year refers to the order in which the months are displayed, January to December. The first day of the medieval Julian year was usually a day other than January 1. This day was adopted as the first day of the Julian year by some European countries between 1522 and 1579 (that is, before the creation of the Gregorian calendar in 1582). See beginning of the year. The British Empire (including its American colonies) did not adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1752. This change can lead to dating confusion between Old Style and New Style dates. The Gregorian calendar as promulgated in 1582 did not specify that January 1 was to be either New Year's Day or the first day of its numbered year. Although England began its numbered year on March 25 (Lady Day) between the thirteenth century and 1752, January 1 was called New Year's Day, which was a holiday when gifts were exchanged. 364 days (365 in leap years) remain in the year after this day.

Events

• 45 BC - The Julian calendar first takes effect.
• 404 - The last known gladiator competition in Rome takes place.
• 630 - Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that will capture it bloodlessly.
• 990 - Kievan Rus' adopts the Julian calendar.
• 1259 - Michael VIII Palaeologus is proclaimed co-emperor of the Empire of Nicaea with his ward John IV Lascaris.
• 1438 - Albert II of Habsburg is crowned King of Hungary.
• 1515 - King Francis I of France succeeds to the French throne.
• 1600 - Scotland begins using the Julian calendar.
• 1651 - Charles II is crowned King of Scotland.
• 1660 - Samuel Pepys starts his diary.
• 1673 - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston.
• 1700 - Russia begins using the Julian calendar.
• 1707 - John V is crowned King of Portugal.
• 1739 - Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
• 1772 - The first traveller's cheques, which can be used in 90 European cities, go on sale in London for the first time.
• 1788 - First edition of The Times of London, previously The Daily Universal Register, is published.
• 1797 - Albany replaces New York City as the capital of New York.
• 1800 - The Dutch East India Company ceases to exist.
• 1801 - The legislative union of Kingdom of Great Britain and Kingdom of Ireland is completed to form the United Kingdom.
• 1801 - The first known asteroid, 1 Ceres, is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
• 1803 - Emperor Gia Long orders all bronze wares of the Tay Son dynasty to be collected and melted into nine cannons for the Royal Citadel in Hue, Vietnam
• 1804 - French rule ends in Haiti. Haiti becomes the first black republic and first country independent in the West Indies.
• 1806 - The French Republican Calendar is abolished.
• 1808 - The importation of slaves into the United States is banned.
• 1818 - Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus is published.
• 1833 - Britain claims sovereignty over the Falkland Islands.
• 1845 - The Cobble Hill Tunnel, in Brooklyn, was finished.
• 1861 - Porfirio Diaz conquers Mexico City.
• 1863 - American Civil War: The Emancipation Proclamation takes effect in Confederate territory, though Abraham Lincoln had no jurisdiction there to enforce it.
• 1863 - The first claim under the Homestead Act is made by Daniel Freeman for a farm in Nebraska.
• 1876 - The Reichsbank opens in Berlin.
• 1877 - Queen Victoria of Britain is proclaimed Empress of India.
• 1880 - Ferdinand de Lesseps begins French construction of the Panama Canal.
• 1887 - Queen Victoria is proclaimed empress of India in Delhi.
• 1890 - The first Tournament of Roses is held in Pasadena, California.
• 1890 - First use of soccer goal nets in England.
• 1890 - Eritrea consolidates into a colony by the Italian government.
• 1892 - Ellis Island opens to begin accepting immigrants to the United States.
• 1893 - Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar.
• 1894 - The Manchester Ship Canal, England, is officially opened to traffic.
• 1898 - New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and The Bronx, are joined on January 25 by Staten Island to create the modern city of five boroughs.
• 1899 - Spanish rule ends in Cuba.
• 1901 - Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
• 1901 - The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
• 1901 - The first official Mummers Parade is held.
• 1902 - The first Rose Bowl game is played in Pasadena, California, with the University of Michigan beating Stanford University by a score of 49-0.
• 1906 - British India officially adopts the Indian Standard Time
• 1908 - For the first time, a ball is dropped in New York City's Times Square to signify the start of the New Year at midnight.
• 1909 - Drilling began on the Lakeview Gusher.
• 1910 - Captain David Beatty was promoted to Rear Admiral, and became the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy, except for Royal family members, since Horatio Nelson.
• 1911 - Northern Territory is separated from South Australia and transferred to Commonwealth control.
• 1912 - The Republic of China is established.
• 1916 - German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea.
• 1925 - The American astronomer Edwin Hubble announces the discovery of galaxies outside the Milky Way.
• 1927 - Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar: December 18, 1926 (Julian), is immediately followed by January 1, 1927 (Gregorian).
• 1934 - Alcatraz Island becomes a U.S. federal prison.
• 1934 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring".
• 1935 - Bucknell University wins the first Orange Bowl 26-0 over the University of Miami.
• 1937 - The first Cotton Bowl game is played in Dallas, Texas. TCU defeats Marquette University 16-6.
• 1939 - The first Vienna New Year's Concert is held.
• 1939 - William Hewlett and David Packard found Hewlett-Packard.
• 1942 - The Declaration by the United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations.
• 1946 - The first civil flight from Heathrow Airport occurs.
• 1947 - The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after the World War II, merge to form the Bizone, that later became the Federal Republic of Germany.
• 1948 - British railways are nationalised to form British Rail.
• 1948 - After partition, India declines to pay the agreed share of Rs.550 million in cash balances to Pakistan.
• 1948 - The Constitution of Italy comes into force.
• 1949 - The British Nationality Act 1948 comes into force.
• 1949 - UN Cease-fire orders to operate in Kashmir from one minute before midnight. War between India and Pakistan stops accordingly.
• 1950 - The state of Ajaigarh acceded to the Government of India.
• 1956 - The Republic of the Sudan achieves independence from the Egyptian Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
• 1958 - The European Community is established.
• 1959 - Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin.
• 1959 - Fulgencio Batista, president of Cuba, is overthrown by Fidel Castro's forces during the Cuban Revolution.
• 1960 - The Republic of Cameroon achieves independence from France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
• 1962 - Western Samoa achieves independence from New Zealand; its name is changed to the Independent State of Western Samoa.
• 1962 - Decca Records turn down the Beatles
• 1964 - The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is divided into the independent republics of Zambia and Malawi, and the British-controlled Rhodesia.
• 1965 - The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan was founded in Kabul.
• 1966 - A twelve day New York City transit strike begins.
• 1966 - After a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumes power as president of the Central African Republic.
• 1970 - Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Miles, and Billy Cox are recorded live at the Fillmore East. The resulting album, Band of Gypsys, is the last Hendrix album to be released before his death.
• 1971 - Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
• 1973 - The Kingdom of Denmark, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Republic of Ireland are admitted into the European Community.
• 1978 - Air India Flight 855 Boeing 747 explodes and crashes into the sea off the coast of Bombay, killing 213.
• 1979 - Formal diplomatic relations are established between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America.
• 1981 - The Republic of Greece is admitted into the European Community.
• 1981 - The Republic of Palau achieves self-government though it is not independent from the United States.
• 1982 - Peruvian Javier Pérez de Cuéllar becomes the first Latin American to hold the title of Secretary-General of the United Nations.
• 1983 - The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet.
• 1984 - AT&T is broken up into twenty-two independent units.
• 1984 - The Sultanate of Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
• 1985 - The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
• 1985 - The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone.
• 1986 - Aruba becomes independent of Curaçao, though it remains in free association with the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
• 1986 - The Kingdom of Spain and the Portuguese Republic are admitted into the European Community.
• 1988 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America comes into existence, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
• 1990 - David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
• 1991 - Republican John Engler assumes as governor of Michigan.
• 1993 - Dissolution of Czechoslovakia: Czechoslovakia is divided into the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic.
• 1993 - A single market within the European Community is introduced.
• 1994 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican State of Chiapas.
• 1994 - The North American Free Trade Agreement comes into effect.
• 1994 - The European Economic Area comes into effect.
• 1994 - The International Tropical Timber Agreement comes into effect.
• 1995 - The World Trade Organization comes into effect.
• 1995 - The Kingdom of Sweden and the republics of Austria and Finland are admitted into the European Union.
• 1995 - The Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe becomes the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
• 1995 - The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
• 1996 - Curaçao gains limited self-government, though it remains within free association with the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
• 1997 - The Republic of Zaïre officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Zaïre.
• 1997 - Ghanaian diplomat Kofi Annan assumes as Secretary General of the United Nations.
• 1998 - The European Central Bank is established.
• 1999 - The Euro currency is introduced.
• 2000 - As the world celebrates, no major crisis arises from the dreaded Y2K computer 'millennium bug'.
• 2002 - Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender in twelve of the European Union's member states.
• 2002 - Taiwan officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Chinese Taipei.
• 2002 - The Open Skies mutual surveillance treaty, initially signed in 1992, officially enters into force.
• 2003 - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva assumes as the President of Brazil.
• 2006 - Sydney, Australia swelters in 45C heat, a record for the city.

Births

• 711 BC - Jimmu, emperor of Japan (d. 585 BC) [according to legend]
• 766 - Ali ar-Rida, Shia Imam (d. 818)
• 1431 - Pope Alexander VI (d. 1503)
• 1449 - Lorenzo de Medici, Italian statesman (d. 1492)
• 1467 - Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1548)
• 1484 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant leader (d. 1531)
• 1511 - The first Henry, Duke of Cornwall (d. 1511)
• 1516 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1551)
• 1557 - Stephen Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania (d. 1606)
• 1600 - Friedrich Spanheim, Dutch theologian (d. 1649)
• 1614 - John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (d. 1672)
• 1618 - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish painter (d. 1682)
• 1638 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (d. 1685)
• 1648 - Elkanah Settle, English writer (d. 1724)
• 1655 - Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728)
• 1684 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (d. 1748)
• 1704 - Soame Jenyns, English writer (d. 1787)
• 1711 - Franz Freiherr von der Trenck, Austrian soldier (d. 1749)
• 1714 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1780)
• 1735 - Paul Revere, American patriot (d. 1818)
• 1745 - Anthony Wayne, American general and statesman (d. 1796)
• 1750 - Frederick Muhlenberg, 1st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1801)
• 1752 - Betsy Ross, American seamstress (d. 1836)
• 1767 - Maria Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish novelist (d. 1849)
• 1774 - André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist (d. 1860)
• 1779 - William Clowes, English printer (d. 1847)
• 1823 - Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and revolutionary (d. 1849)
• 1833 - Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (d. 1902)
• 1848 - John Goff, Irish lawyer (d. 1924)
• 1854 - Sir James George Frazer, Scottish anthropologist (d. 1941)
• 1860 - George Washington Carver, American educator (d. 1943)
• 1863 - Pierre de Coubertin, French Olympic Games initiator(d. 1937)
• 1864 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (d. 1946)
• 1868 - Snitz Edwards, American actor (d. 1937)
• 1873 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (d. 1952)
• 1874 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (d. 1927)
• 1874 - Frank Knox, American Secretary of the Navy (d. 1944)
• 1876 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (d. 1933)
• 1878 - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (d. 1929)
• 1879 - E. M. Forster, English novelist (d. 1970)
• 1881 - Vajiravudh, King of Thailand (d. 1925)
• 1883 - Gabrielle Chanel, French Designer (d. 1971)
• 1887 - Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral (d. 1945)
• 1890 - Anton Melik, Slovenian geographer (d. 1966)
• 1892 - Artur Rodziński, Croatian conductor (d. 1958)
• 1894 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian mathematician (d. 1974)
• 1895 - J. Edgar Hoover, American FBI director (d. 1972)
• 1900 - Xavier Cugat, Spanish musician (d. 1990)
• 1900 - Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (d. 1986)
• 1902 - Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (d. 1977)
• 1904 - Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (d. 1982)
• 1904 - Ethan Allen, American baseball player (d. 1993)
• 1905 - Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (d. 1985)
• 1906 - Giovanni D'Anzi, Italian songwriter (d. 1974)
• 1909 - Dana Andrews, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1909 - Barry M. Goldwater, American politician (d. 1998)
• 1911 - Hank Greenberg, American baseball player (d. 1986)
• 1912 - Kim Philby, British spy (d. 1988)
• 1917 - Jule Gregory Charney, American meteorologist (d. 1981)
• 1917 - Albert Mol, Dutch actor (d. 2004)
• 1918 - Patrick Anthony Porteous, Scottish Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
• 1919 - J. D. Salinger, American novelist
• 1920 - Virgilio Savona, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra)
• 1921 - Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi, Palestinian-born philosopher (d. 1986)
• 1922 - Rocky Graziano, American boxer (d. 1990)
• 1922 - Ernest Hollings, American politician
• 1925 - Stymie Beard, American actor (d. 1981)
• 1927 - Vernon L. Smith, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner
• 1927 - Doak Walker, American football star (d. 1998)
• 1928 - Ernest Tidyman, American writer (d. 1984)
• 1930 - Hossain Mohammad Ershad, President of Bangladesh
• 1933 - Frederick Lowy, Canadian medical educator
• 1933 - Joe Orton, English writer (d. 1967)
• 1937 - Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, Polish author (d. 1995)
• 1938 - Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder (d. 2005)
• 1940 - Frank Langella American actor
• 1942 - Martin Frost, American politician
• 1942 - Country Joe McDonald, American musician (Country Joe and the Fish)
• 1942 - Gennadi Sarafanov, Soviet cosmonaut (d. 2005)
• 1943 - Don Novello, American actor
• 1943 - Jimmy Hart, Wrestling manager
• 1944 - Zafarullah Khan Jamali former Prime Minister of Pakistan
• 1945 - Jacky Ickx, Belgian race car driver
• 1946 - Rivelino, Brazilian football player
• 1947 - Jon Corzine, American politician
• 1947 - Paula Tsui, Hong Kong singer
• 1948 - Pavel Grachev, Russian general
• 1951 - Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet
• 1951 - Nana Patekar, Indian Film and Stage Actor
• 1953 - Greg Carmichael, British guitarist
• 1954 - Robert Menendez, American politician
• 1956 - Mark R. Hughes, American enterpeneur (d. 2000)
• 1957 - Luis Guzmán, Puerto Rican actor
• 1958 - Grandmaster Flash, Barbados-born musician
• 1959 - Azali Assoumani, Comorese president
• 1960 - Adelaide Ferreira, Portuguese singer
• 1961 - Mark Wingett, British actor
• 1964 - Dedee Pfeiffer, American actress
• 1966 - Anna Burke, Australian politician
• 1966 - Embeth Davidtz, American actress
• 1967 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (d. 2000)
• 1967 - John Digweed, English DJ
• 1968 - Davor Šuker, Croatian footballer
• 1969 - Verne Troyer, American actor
• 1970 - Gabriel Jarret, American actor
• 1970 - Kimberly Page, American actress
• 1971 - Paul Luscher, singer/songwriter
• 1971 - Bobby Holik, Czech hockey player
• 1972 - Neve McIntosh, Scottish actress
• 1972 - Lilian Thuram, French footballer
• 1975 - Joe Cannon, American soccer player
• 1975 - Sonali Bendre, Indian Model and Film Actress
• 1975 - Robert Westerholt, Dutch guitarist (Within Temptation)
• 1976 - Caleb Wyatt, American motocross rider
• 1977 - Hasan Salihamidžić, Bosnian footballer
• 1977 - Saukrates, Canadian rapper.
• 1978 - Nina Bott, German actress
• 1978 - Jared Fogle, American personality
• 1978 - Phillip Mulryne, Northern Irish footballer
• 1978 - Paramahamsa Sri Nithyananda, Indian spiritual guru
• 1979 - Brody Dalle, Australian singer (The Distillers)
• 1979 - Koichi Domoto, Japanese artist
• 1980 - Elin Nordegren, Swedish model
• 1980 - Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer
• 1981 - Zsolt Baumgartner, Hungarian race car driver
• 1981 - Abdulkadir Kocak, Turkish boxer
• 1981 - Eden Riegel, American actress
• 1982 - David Nalbandian, Argentinian tennis player
• 1983 - Calum Davenport, English footballer
• 1984 - Michael Witt, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1984 - Jose Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer
• 1985 - Steven Davis, Irish footballer
• 1985 - Don Paysan, Canadian professional wrestler
• 1992 - Martin Leung, Canadian trombone player

Deaths

• 379 - Saint Basil of Caesarea (b. 330)
• 404 - Saint Telemachus
• 874 - Hasan al-Askari, eleventh Shia Imam (b. 846)
• 898 - Odo, Count of Paris (b. 860)
• 1204 - King Haakon III of Norway
• 1387 - King Charles II of Navarre (b. 1332)
• 1515 - King Louis XII of France (b. 1462)
• 1554 - Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish conquistador (bc. 1500)
• 1559 - Christian III of Denmark and Norway (b. 1503)
• 1560 - Joachim Du Bellay, French poet (bc. 1522)
• 1617 - Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter (b. 1558)
• 1679 - Jan Steen, Dutch painter
• 1697 - Filippo Baldinucci, Florentine biographer/ historian (b. 1624)
• 1716 - William Wycherley, English dramatist (bc. 1640)
• 1730 - Samuel Sewall, English-born judge (b. 1652)
• 1742 - Peregrine Bertie, 2nd Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven, English statesman (b. 1686)
• 1748 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
• 1759 - Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie, French adventurer (b. 1705)
• 1766 - James Francis Edward Stuart, "The Old Pretender" (b. 1688)
• 1782 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer (b. 1735)
• 1789 - Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, English politician (b. 1716)
• 1793 - Francesco Guardi, Venetian painter (b. 1712)
• 1796 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, French mathematician (b. 1735)
• 1800 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist (b. 1716)
• 1817 - Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (b. 1743)
• 1862 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist (b. 1801)
• 1869 - Martin W. Bates, U.S. Senator from Delaware (b. 1786)
• 1892 - Roswell B. Mason, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1805)
• 1894 - Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (b. 1857)
• 1912 - Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian phsyicist (b. 1866)
• 1919 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (b. 1881)
• 1921 - Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1856)
• 1931 - Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (b. 1851)
• 1933 - Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist (b. 1876)
• 1944 - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (b. 1862)
• 1953 - Hank Williams, American singer (b. 1923)
• 1958 - Edward Weston, American photographer (b. 1886)
• 1960 - Margaret Sullavan, American actress (b. 1911)
• 1964 - Bechara El Khoury, President of Lebanon (b. 1890)
• 1971 - Saint Amphilochios, Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Saint (b. 1894)
• 1972 - Maurice Chevalier, French actor and singer (b. 1888)
• 1981 - Beulah Bondi, American actress (b. 1888)
• 1982 - Victor Buono, American actor (b. 1938)
• 1984 - Alexis Korner, British blues musician (b. 1928)
• 1985 - Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
• 1986 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
• 1992 - Grace Hopper, American computer pioneer (b. 1906)
• 1994 - Lord Arthur Espie Porritt, Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1900)
• 1994 - Cesar Romero, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1995 - Fred West, British serial killer (suicide) (b. 1941)
• 1995 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
• 1996 - Arleigh Burke, American admiral (b. 1901)
• 1997 - Townes Van Zandt, American musician (b. 1944)
• 1998 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (b. 1905)
• 2000 - Colin Vaughan, Australian-born political journalist
• 2001 - Ray Walston, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2002 - Julia Phillips, American film producer (b. 1944)
• 2003 - Joe Foss, American politician and fighter pilot (b. 1915)
• 2005 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician (b. 1924)
• 2005 - Hugh John Frederick Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, British newspaperman (b. 1931)
• 2005 - Bob Matsui, American politician (b. 1941)
• 2005 - Eugene J. Martin, American painter, artist (b. 1938)
• 2006 - Harry Magdoff, American magazine editor (b. 1913)
• 2006 - Bryan Harvey, American musician (b. 1956)

Holidays and observances

By Observance

• Many countries around the world using Gregorian Calendar - New Year's Day; often celebrated at 0:01 with fireworks.
• Last day of Kwanzaa
• Public Domain Day in many countries. This is the day on which copyrights expire and works are put into the public domain.

By Faith

• The seventh day of Christmas (and eighth night of same) in Western Christianity.
• Roman Catholicism - Feast of the Circumcision (Old calendar).
• Roman Catholicism - Holy Day of Obligation in many countries. Final Day of Octave of Christmas, Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (New calendar).
• Roman Catholicism - National Migration Week begins (varying official support by the office of U.S. President, not strictly religious)

By Country

• Cuba Liberation Day.
• Haiti Independence Day.
• Scotland: First day of New Year public Holiday (the second being January 2). Most shops and businesses closed on this day.
• Slovakia: Establishment of Slovak Republic.
• Sudan Independence Day.
• Taiwan Founding of Republic of China Day.

By City

• New Year’s Day Parade in London, United Kingdom.
• Vienna New Year's Concert
• Pasadena, California - The Tournament of Roses parade and, traditionally, the Rose Bowl football championship.

Day of the week

The day of the week of New Year determines the days of the week of 1 March of the previous year through 28 February of the new year, without distinguishing common years and leap years. It is the day before "Doomsday" of the previous year.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• NY Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

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