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- 1903
- The Manhattan Bridge in New York City open to traffic.
- 1908
- Penticton, British Columbia is incorporated as a district municipality.
- 1937
- In the Philippines, Carcar's rotunda is inaugurated.
- 1963
- The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland officially collapses, leading to the establishment of Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
- 1983
- A coup d'état ends the Second Nigerian Republic.
- 1992
- The Czech and Slovak Federative Republic is peacefully dissolved, leading to the establishment of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic the next day .
- 2010
- The Zhanjiang-Xuwen Expressway opens to traffic in Guangdong, China.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on December 31, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on December 31 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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