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Wednesday, 31 December 2025

2007

Bocaue Fire: Seven people are injured when a fire results in the explosions of several fireworks stores in the municipality of Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines.

2004

The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of {{convert|509|m|ft}}.

1999

Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia, resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.

The United States Government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties.

Five hijackers, who had been holding 155 hostages on an Indian Airlines plane, leave the plane with two Islamic clerics that they had demanded be freed.

1998

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

1994

This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC-11 to UTC+13 and UTC-10 to UTC+14, respectively.

1992

Czechoslovakia is dissolved, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

1991

All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date and the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.

1986

A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.

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