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On this day: December 31

POSTED: 3:25 AM Dec 29 2012 UPDATED: 12:00 AM Dec 31 2012

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Times Square holds its first New Year's Eve celebration, the board game Monopoly is patented, "Calvin and Hobbes" say goodbye, and the U.S. relinquishes control of the Panama Canal, all on this day.

OTD December 31 - Guinness brewery — 1 / 43

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1759: Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000-year lease at £45 per annum for an unused four-acre brewery at St. James's Gate in Dublin, Ireland, and starts brewing Guinness.

OTD December 31 - Guinness brewery

OTD December 31 - Ottawa

OTD December 31 - USS Monitor

OTD December 31 - Henri Matisse

OTD December 31 - BF Goodrich

OTD December 31 - Thomas Edison

OTD December 31 - Pirates of Penzance

OTD December 31 - George Marshall

OTD December 31 - Times Square

OTD December 31 - Monopoly patent

OTD December 31 - Anthony Hopkins

OTD December 31 - drunkometer

OTD December 31 - John Denver

OTD December 31 - Ben Kingsley

OTD December 31 - Donna Summer

OTD December 31 - Marshall Plan

OTD December 31 - General Motors

OTD December 31 - Val Kilmer

OTD December 31 - Paul Westerberg

OTD December 31 - Beach Boys

OTD December 31 - Nicholas Sparks

OTD December 31 - Monkees

OTD December 31 - Yippies

OTD December 31 - Ice Bowl

OTD December 31 - Beatles

OTD December 31 - New Year's Rockin' Eve

OTD December 31 - Roberto Clemente

OTD December 31 - AC-DC

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OTD December 31 - The Cars

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OTD December 31 - Bruce Springsteen

OTD December 31 - Rick Allen

OTD December 31 - Ricky Nelson

OTD December 31 - George Allen

OTD December 31 - Barbra Streisand

OTD December 31 - Calvin and Hobbes

OTD December 31 - Gabby Douglas

OTD December 31 - Boris Yeltsin

OTD December 31 - Panama Canal

OTD December 31 - London Eye

OTD December 31 - Taipei 101

OTD December 31 - Donald Westlake

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