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1857 Ottawa was named the capital of Canada by Queen Victoria.

1879 Thomas Edison first publicly demonstrated his electric incandescent light in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

1911 Marie Curie received her second Nobel Prize, this time in Chemistry, for her work with radioactivity.

1997 Microsoft buys Hotmail email service for $400 million and re-launches it as MSN Hotmail.

2009 Both a Blue Moon and lunar eclipse occured on the same day. The next such event to happen on New Year's eve will be in 2028.

2019 The World Health Organization first learned of "viral pneumonia" cases in Wuhan, China; the disease was later determined to be COVID-19, which became a global pandemic the following year.

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