Events 201 - 231 of 231
- 1995 "Having Our Say" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 308 performances
- 1995 "Heiress" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 340 performances
- 1995 "Paul Roebson" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 14 performances
- 1995 "Racing Demon" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 48 performances
- 1995 "Tempest" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 71 performances
- 1995 Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip after 10 years, believing he had achieved all he could in the medium
- 1995 Matthew Elliott scores separate cricket century same day for Victoria
- 1997 Intel cuts price of Pentium II-233 MHz from $401 to $268
- 1997 Marv Levy, retires as coach of Buffalo Bills
- 1997 Microsoft buys Hotmail email service for $400 million and re-launches it as MSN Hotmail
- 1997 More Swedes died than were born in 1997, 1st time since 1809
- 1997 Orlando Hernandez, half-brother of pitcher Livan, defects from Cuba
- 1997 South African & US surgeons separate Zambian Siamese twins joined at the head
- 1998 US movie box office hits record $6.24 billion for year
- 1998 Exchange rates between the euro and legacy currencies in the Eurozone become fixed.
- 1999 Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama
Event of Interest
1999 Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as acting President
Boris Yeltsin
- 2004 Official opening of Taipei 101, then the tallest skyscraper in the world, at a height of 509 metres (1,670 feet)
- 2006 The final contest at the old Lansdowne Road Stadium in Dublin is a rugby match with Leinster beating Ulster 20-12 in a Celtic League game
- 2007 Bocaue Fire. Seven people injured when a fire razed several fireworks stores in the Municipality of Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines.
- 2007 The Massive Big Dig construction project in Boston, Massachusetts ends.
- 2010 Post-apocalyptic zombie TV series "The Walking Dead" premieres, starring Andrew Lincoln and Jon Bernthal on AMC
- 2014 36 die and 47 are wounded during a stampede of New Year revellers on Shanghai's Bund riverfront
Election of Interest
2014 Beji Caid Essebsi is sworn in as Tunisia's 1st ever freely elected President
Beji Caid Essebsi
- 2015 US law enforcement kills 1,134 in 2015, young black men 9x more likely to be victims
Event of Interest
2016 Chris Ofili is appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours for services to art
Chris Ofili
