Panama - December 31
Learning Around the World
Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Today is New Year’s Eve, Champagne Day, Hogmanay, Make Up Your Mind Day, No Interruptions Day, and Leap Second Time Adjustment Day.
Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Panama
AMERICAN REVOLUTION HISTORY ON THIS DATE
1775 - British forces under General Guy Carleton repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery in a snowstorm in the Battle of Quebec.
ON THIS DATE
- 1907 - The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square.
- 1946 - President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
- 1951 - The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Western Europe.
- 1857 - Queen Victoria makes the logging town of Ottawa the capital of Canada.
- 1862 - President Abraham Lincoln signed an act admitting West Virginia to the Union.
- 1999 - First President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.
- 1999 - The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal to Panama.
BIRTHDAYS
- 1491 - French explorer Jacques Cartier
- 1869 - French artist Henri Matisse
- 1880 - Politician and General George Marshall
- 1930 - Singer-songwriter Odetta
- 1937 - Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins
- 1943 - Singer-songwriter John Denver
- 1948 - Singer Donna Summer
Van Halen - Panama - LISTEN- Odetta - Hit or Miss - LISTEN
- John Denver - Take Me Home Country Roads - LISTEN
- Donna Summer - Last Dance - LISTEN
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Bush Presidency - Invasion of Panama (2:51) - VIEW and DO
- Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Teaching with Primary Sources - Connecting the Atlantic and Pacific: Building the Panama Canal - READ and DO
- Grades 7-12 - American Experience - Panama Canal - READ and VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Age of Nature - Building the Panama Canal (1:58) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Panama Canal: Prized Possession (57:23) - VIEW
- Grades 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Dictator's Playbook - Manuel Noriega (54:11) - VIEW
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Cheshire County Historical Society
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Seacoast Science Center in Odiorne Point State Park
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Squam Lakes Natural Science Center
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Strawbery Banke Museum
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Tiger Takes On
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