Have You Heard, and you certainly should, today (12/31) is New Year’s Eve.
In this country, the biggest New Year’s Eve celebration is at New York’s Times Square but Atlanta has the Peach Drop, Nashville has the Music Note Drop and Brasstown, NC, has the Possum Drop.
In other countries, many people in Turkey wear red underwear on New Year’s Eve, people in Romania wear bear costumes and in the town of Stonehaven, Scotland, people parade through the streets while swinging blazing balls of fire!
240 years ago today, British forces fought back the Patriots to win the Revolutionary War “Battle of Quebec.”
82 years later (12/31/1857), Queen Victoria chose Ottawa to be the Capital of Canada.
The decision was made because of Ottawa’s natural defenses and the fact that it’s roughly midway between Toronto and Montreal.
60 years ago today (12/31/1955), General Motors became the first U.S. company to earn $1 billion dollars in a calendar year.
Singer/songwriter/actor Ricky Nelson and seven others died in a plane crash 30 years ago today in DeKalb, Texas.
The two pilots were the only survivors.
The exact cause of the crash was never determined but the NTSB thinks the plane’s heater caused a fire and that caused the crash as the plane was coming in for a landing.
Nelson was only 45.
John Denver died in a plane crash when he was 53.
If Denver were alive, he’d be 72 today.
Academy Award-winning actor (Gandhi – 1982), and four-time Oscar nominee, Sir Ben Kingsley is alive and he is 72 today.
Novelist Nicholas Sparks is 50 today.
Former Olympic gold medal gymnast Gabby Douglas is 20 today.
Today is also “Champagne Day”!
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