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Print this page On this day 31dec02 1494 � Forces of France's King Charles VIII enter Rome. 1526 � Croat nobility chooses Habsburg rule, Croatia becomes part of Habsburg monarchy. 1600 � Queen Elizabeth I grants a charter to the "company of merchants of London trading to the East Indies" - The East India Company. 1799 � The Dutch East India Company's territories in Indonesia are taken over by the Dutch Administration in Batavia, now Jakarta. 1810 � Russia's Czar Alexander introduces new tariffs aimed at French goods. 1836 � Colonel William Light, first surveyor General of South Australia, selects the site of Adelaide. 1851 � Austrian Constitution is abolished. 1857 � Queen Victoria decides to make Ottawa the capital of Canada. 1879 � US inventor Thomas A Edison gives first demonstration of his electric incandescent light at Menlo Park, New Jersey. 1899 � Mexico's leading composer of classical music, Silvestre Revueltas, is born in Santiago Papasquiaro, in the state of Durango. 1919 � Britain, Japan and United States sign agreement on East Siberia. 1938 � Dr R N Harger's "Drunkometer", the first breath test for car drivers, is officially introduced in Indianapolis. 1946 � End of World War II is proclaimed officially by US President Harry S Truman. 1956 � President Sukarno proclaims state of siege in Sumatra, Indonesia. 1961 � Lebanon's army prevents coup attempt in Beirut by Syrian Popular Party. 1963 � Central African Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. 1964 � Indonesia's President Sukarno threatens to quit United Nations if Malaysia is given seat on Security Council. 1966 � United States says it will halt bombing of North Vietnam when Hanoi assures that it will discuss peace terms seriously. 1968 � UN Security Council censures Israel unanimously for helicopter commando raid on airport at Beirut, Lebanon. 1979 � Ceasefire declared in guerrilla war in Rhodesia. 1987 � Violent protests erupt in Jerusalem's West Bank as Palestinians prepare to observe January 1 anniversary of PLO's main guerrilla group. 1988 � India and Pakistan agree not to attack each others' nuclear facilities. 1992 � Clans allied with Mogadishu's two main warlords shell each other with mortars in the western suburbs as President George Bush visits a US Navy ship offshore. 1993 � The teenage granddaughter of Cuban leader Fidel Castro arrives in the United States for a reunion with her mother, who defected from Cuba the previous week. 1994 � A New Year's Eve assault by Russian forces on Grozny, Chechnya, produces one of the bloodiest days of the war. Both sides claim success. 1995 � US army engineers finish building pontoon bridge across the Sava River, clearing the way for convoys to begin crossing the river from Croatia into Bosnia. 1996 � For the first time in Peru's two-week hostage crisis, Tupac Amaru guerrillas allow journalists inside the Japanese ambassador's residence. 1997 � Hong Kong authorities finish up the slaughter of 1.3 million chickens and other fowl to prevent an outbreak of a deadly strain of bird flu in humans. Michael Kennedy, the son of the late US Senator Robert F. Kennedy, is killed in a skiing accident in Colorado. 1998 � Eleven European nations usher in the New Year and the euro, a single currency to link the continent's economic fortunes and strengthen political unity. 1999 � As the planet begins celebrating the beginning of a new millennium, Russian President Boris Yeltsin stuns the world by announcing his resignation. 2000 � Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak draws what he calls his bottom line in any peace deal with the Palestinians: no transfer of sovereignty over Jerusalem's revered Temple Mount to the Palestinians, and no right of return for Palestinian refugees. privacy � Davies Bros A<:>E<:>R ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Forwarded as information only; everything sent has to stand on its own merits, not on my recommendation. Dissenting ideas are the health of the American system. 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