George Marshall 1880
- 1695 - The window tax was imposed in Britain, which resulted in many windows being bricked up.
- 1857 - Britain's Queen Victoria decided to make Ottawa the capital of Canada.
- 1879 - Thomas Edison gave his first public demonstration of incandescent lighting to an audience in Menlo Park, NJ.
- 1891 - New York's new Immigration Depot was opened at Ellis Island, to provide improved facilities for the massive numbers of arrivals.
- 1929 - Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians played "Auld Lang Syne" as a New Year's Eve song for the first time.
- 1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin resigned. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was designated acting president.
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