Wednesday December 31, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

is the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. The day of the week is .

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is miércoles.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Capricorn is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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: This Day in History

It is widely known as New Year’s Eve since the following day is New Year’s Day. It is the last day of the year.

by the Numbers

  • days since
  • year, months, and days ago
  • months since then
  • is in the st week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • weeks ago
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

The British East India Company is chartered.
Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.
A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England, United Kingdom
Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.
The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.
A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann’s PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.
A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC-10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively.
Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia, resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.

Who were born on ?

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Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (d. 1564)
King Kelly, American baseball player (d. 1894)
Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor (d. 2005)
Taylor Mead, American actor
Jaime Escalante, American teacher (d. 2010)
Don Diamont, American actor
Are Kalvø, Norwegian writer and satirist
Dominik Diamond, Scottish presenter and newspaper columnist
Joey McIntyre, American singer (New Kids on the Block)
Rami Alanko, Finnish ice hockey player

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