On This Day - December 31, A Shot Of History

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1857 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_AhCLvUjgk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1vDUUZnhc8

1999 – First President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXiQpEzZhPQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0DcoFfY6rw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-z9wfueMAw

2009 – Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-9v6C9HoxU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DFdq3WsrYI

1907 – The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in New York, New York.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH7WpcAZ2yw

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