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December 31: New Year's Eve, Eid ul-Adha in Islam (2006), Hogmanay in Scotland.  Recent days: December 30 – December 29 – December 28
 * 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.