31 December

10 weird and wonderful things which happened on 31 December:

1. Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart), also known as the ‘Young Pretender’, was born on this date in 1720, in Rome. With his followers he landed in Scotland in 1745, capturing Edinburgh and setting up court at the Palace of Holyrood. His decision to march on London led to his defeat at Culloden.
2. In 1997, Michael Kennedy, 39, son of Bobby, died in a Skiing accident in Aspen. He was skiing down a slope passing a football to a companion and skied into a tree.
3. The chimes of Big Ben were broadcast by the BBC for the first time in 1923.
4. In 1907, a ball dropped at Times Square to signal the new year for the first time.
5. The farthing ceased to be legal tender in Britain at midnight on this date in 1960.
6. In 1973, the 3 day week began in Britain. It led to the downfall of Prime Minister Edward Heath and his government.
7. In 1990, Patrick Harward-Duffy, 36, from Glasgow, was arrested for cutting through the Christmas Tree in London's Trafalgar Square, with a chainsaw. He was protesting against the legal system of Norway, the country which donates the tree each year to the British people to commemorate their liberation by the British from Nazi rule.
8. On this date in 1999, thieves climbed onto the roof of the Ashmolean Museum to steal Cezanne’s landscape painting View of Auvers-sur-Oise. valued at £3 million, during the millennium celebration Fireworks.
9. The official opening of Taipei 101, occurred on this date in 2004. It's the current tallest skyscraper in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 feet).
10. In 1985, more than 54,500 people played A Bicycle Built for Two on Kazoos in Rochester, New York. They got listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for 'The Most Kazoo-ers'.

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