" Willie " Lincoln was born on December 21, 1850, and died on February 20, 1862.

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.

The ascent stage of lunar module Challenger impacted the Moon 15 December 1972 at 06: 50: 20. 8 UT ( 1: 50 AM EST ), at.

The Convention on Offenses and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft (" Tokyo Convention ") is a multilateral convention, done at Tokyo between 20 August and 14 September 1963, coming into force on 4 December 1963, and is applicable to offenses against penal law and to any acts jeopardizing the safety of persons or property on board civilian aircraft while in-flight and engaged in international air navigation.

AZ were undefeated in all 32 of their home matches in European competitions, a sequence which ran from 1977 until 20 December 2007, when they finally lost to Everton of England by a score of 3 – 2.

Seville finally capitulated on 20 December 913.

The observations were continued, and the star was seen to continue its southerly course until March, when it took up a position some 20 ″ more southerly than its December position.

Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986.

Trier was taken on 26 October and Landau fell on 23 November to the Margrave of Baden and Prince Eugene ; with the fall of Trarbach on 20 December, the campaign season for 1704 came to an end.

A bocce player of note is Umberto Granaglia ( May 20, 1931 – December 13, 2008 ), who was awarded the honor of " Player of the Twentieth Century " by the Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules.

After the Taliban government was toppled during Operation Enduring Freedom, Rabbani returned to Kabul and served as a temporary President from November to December 20, 2001, when Hamid Karzai was chosen at the Bonn International Conference on Afghanistan.

In tropical astrology, the Sun is considered to be in the sign Capricorn from December 22 to January 20, and in sidereal astrology, from January 15 to February 15.

He purchased the school of at Newport, Isle of Wight, in December 1836, reopened it as a preparatory school on 20 February 1837, and moved it to Montpelier Road in Brighton in December 1837.

In December 1998 there were 20 days without sun recorded at Yeovilton.

On December 20, 2010, Hester set an NFL record for most touchdowns on a punt or kickoff return with his 14th career return coming against the Minnesota Vikings.

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It was created on December 20, 1917, after a decree issued by Vladimir Lenin, and was subsequently led by aristocrat-turned-communist Felix Dzerzhinsky.

Carl Edward Sagan (; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996 ) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences.

Earlier in 1961, a Television Audience Measurement ( TAM ) showed that 75 % of available viewers ( 15 million ) tuned into Corrie and by 1964 the programme had over 20 million regular viewers, with ratings peaking on 2 December 1964, at 21. 36 million viewers.

The U. S. Army first authorized identification tags in War Department General Order No. 204, dated December 20, 1906, which essentially prescribes the Kennedy identification tag:

Drum carried by John Unger, Company B, 40th Regiment New York Veteran Volunteer Infantry Mozart Regiment, December 20, 1863

On 20 December, Kabila was sworn in for a second term, promising to invest in infrastructure and public services.

On October 16, 2011, the Cowboys wore their road blue jerseys against the New England Patriots for the first time since December 27, 2009, against the Redskins ; the Patriots defeated the Cowboys 20 – 16.

The Cowboys lost their final game at Texas Stadium to the Baltimore Ravens, 33 – 24, on December 20, 2008.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( äl ' fred bern ' härd nōbel ') () ( 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896 ) was a Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer.

* December 15 – Carola of Vasa, queen consort of Saxony ( b. 1833 )

* December 7 – Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and activist, Nobel laureate ( b. 1833 )

* December 3 – Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect ( b. 1833 )

* December 10 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of dynamite and creator of the Nobel Prize ( b. 1833 )

Élie Ducommun ( 19 February 1833, Genf-7 December 1906, Bern ) was a peace activist.

* Victor Emmanuel II of Italy in 1869 married morganatically his principal mistress Rosa Teresa Vercellana Guerrieri ( 3 June 1833 – 26 December 1885 ).

He returned again in December 1833 intending to spend three months of winter there.

In 1869 he married morganatically his principal mistress Rosa Vercellana ( 3 June 1833 – 26 December 1885 ).

It arrived in Paris on 21 December 1833.

Dallas served less than fifteen months — from December 13, 1831, to March 4, 1833 — and declined to be a candidate for reelection.

Additional townships were laid out as follows: Jackson in 1829 ; Liberty and Marion in December 1830 ; Big Lick, Blanchard and Van Buren in 1831 ; Washington, Union, and Eagle in 1832 ; Cass and Portage in 1833 ; Pleasant in 1835 ; Orange in 1836 ; Madison in 1840, and finally Allen in 1850.

In December, 1833, the General Assembly established a new western county, named Yancey, from sections of Burke and Buncombe Counties.

The county was organized December 29, 1836 as a haven for the Mormons, who had been previously driven from Jackson County in November 1833 and had been refugees in adjacent Clay County ever since.

The county was founded on December 31, 1833.

The plat was registered in Pontiac, December 14, 1833, in Oakland County's Associate Judge Bagley's Court.

It was created on December 18, 1833 from land formerly belonging to the Cherokee Indian Nation.

In 1833 the city was named Talonega by the Georgia General Assembly on 21 December 1833.

Ellsworth was laid out on 6 December 1871 by Jonathan H. Cheney ( 1833 – 1920 ) and Almon Brigham Ives ( 1816 – 1887 ) and Oliver Ellsworth, whom the town was named after.

On December 18, 1833, the Crawfordsville Record carried a paid announcement of the opening of Crawfordsville High School.

They embarked on the ship Columbus on September 7, 1833 in Amsterdam, landed November 6, 1833 in New York, and purchased some land in Putnam County in December.

Anderson was incorporated by an act of Legislature, December 19, 1833.