Our Past: First fire company formed in 1835
Published 9:11 am, Sunday, December 31, 2017
This day in history:
1989 – The Montreal Protocol comes into force, stopping the use of chemicals contributing to ozone depletion.
1990 – David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City’s first black mayor.
1994 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation initiates twelve days of armed conflict in the Mexican state of Chiapas.
1995 – The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves.
2002 – Euro currency becomes legal tender in twelve of the European Union’s member states.
2007 – Adam Air Flight 574 disappears over Sulawesi Strait, Indonesia with 102 people on board.
2009 – Sixty-six people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
2011 – A bomb explodes as Coptic Christians in Alexandria, Egypt, leave a New Year service, killing 23 people.
2013 – At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
2017 – An attack on a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, during New Year’s celebrations, kills at least 39 people and injures more than 60 others.
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