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* 16 Dec 1979: Waterloo and Argyle ( later renamed Yau Ma Tei and Mong Kok respectively ) stations opened, also as part of Kwun Tong Line.
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Williams and Kilburn applied for British patents on Dec. 11, 1946 and Oct. 2, 1947, followed by US patent applications on Dec. 10, 1947 () and May 16, 1949 ().
His credits for Marvel Comics include an adaptation of The Iliad in Marvel Classics Comics # 26 ( 1977 ), and two superhero tales, The Spectacular Spider-Man # 16 ( March 1978 ), and The Incredible Hulk # 230 ( Dec. 1978 ).
GOES-11 had a partial failure 6 Dec 2011, was decommissioned on 16 Dec 2011 and was boosted into a graveyard orbit.
George W. Kingsbury, for whom ( with his brother ), the county of Kingsbury, South Dakota, is named, was born in Lee on Dec 16, 1837.
According to the United States Navy “ the 36-day ( Iwo Jima ) assault resulted in more than 26, 000 American casualties, including 6, 800 dead .” To put that into context, the 82-day Battle of Okinawa lasted from early April until mid-June 1945 and U. S. ( 5 Army and 2 Marine Corps Divisions ) casualties were over 62, 000 of whom over 12, 000 were killed or missing, while the Battle of the Bulge lasted 40 days ( 16 Dec 44 – 25 Jan 45 ) with almost 90, 000 U. S. casualties of ; 19, 000 killed, 47, 500 wounded, and 23, 000 captured or missing.
On December 16, Daily Variety reported that the pope had seen the film, and on Dec. 17, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan reported that John Paul II had said: " It is as it was ," sourcing McEveety, who said he heard it from Dziwisz.
She was one of 4 Mayflower passengers who died between Dec. 4 / 14, 6 / 16, 7 / 17, 8 / 18, 1620, including Edward Thomson, Jasper More ( age 7 years ), James Chilton and also William Butten, who was the first to die on November 16.
Gen. Devers pressed on with his advocacy for the T26, going over McNair's head to Gen. George Marshall, and on 16 Dec 1943, Marshall overruled McNair and authorized the production of 250 T26E1 tanks.
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* 1979 – The roof of the uncompleted Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois collapses, killing 5 workers and injuring 16.
: Section 16 ( 1 )( a ) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 ( c. 2 ) provided that it was an offence to, amongst other things, assault any person duly engaged in the performance of any duty or the exercise of any power imposed or conferred on him by or under any enactment relating to an assigned matter, or any person acting in his aid.
Technical details of Sony's digital audio disc were presented during the 62nd AES Convention, held on March 13 – 16, 1979, in Brussels.
Following shooting between 16 September and 12 November 1978, a two-hour-long rough cut of the film was put together for its first private showing in January 1979.
Pittsburgh then narrowly defeated the Indianapolis Colts, 20 – 16, to advance to their first Super Bowl since the 1979 season.
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti ( Arabic: ; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006 ) was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003.
The Wizard of Speed and Time is a 1989 low-budget feature film written, directed, and starring animator Mike Jittlov, as well as a 1979 16 mm short film, also by Jittlov.
Exhausted by touring, Poly Styrene left the band in mid 1979, though she is seen performing with the band in the 1980 film, D. O. A .. She released a solo album, Translucence, before joining the Hare Krishna movement ( as did Logic, who left the band aged 16 in 1977 to form a new group called Essential Logic ).
** Indianapolis 500: In what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history, 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0. 16 seconds, the closest finish to that date, after Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps.
A 1979 study from the University of Waikato found that " Temperatures derived from an < sup > 18 </ sup > O /< sup > 16 </ sup > O profile through a stalagmite found in a New Zealand cave ( 40. 67 ° S, 172. 43 ° E ) suggested the Medieval Warm Period to have occurred between AD 1050 and 1400 and to have been 0. 75 ° C warmer than the Current Warm Period.
On 16 October 1979, a tsunami, caused by an undersea landslide hit the western coast of Nice and 23 people died.
When Bavasi let Ryan leave after a 16 – 14 record in the 1979 season, Bavasi remarked he only needed to replace Ryan with two 8 – 7 pitchers, adding, " I think my plumber could do that.
On June 16, 1986, Katz made two of the most controversial and highly criticized personnel moves in franchise history, trading Moses Malone to Washington and the first overall pick in the 1986 NBA Draft ( which had been obtained from the San Diego Clippers in a 1979 trade for Joe Bryant ) to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Pistons stumbled their way out of the 1970s and into the 1980s, beginning with a 16 – 66 record in 1979 – 80 and following up with a 21 – 61 record in 1980 – 81.
Throughout the decade the administration gradually dropped the last vestiges of its manual training emphasis as the number of shop classes dwindled from 16 in 1971 to three in 1979.
On April 14, 1979, the Afghan government requested that the USSR send 15 to 20 helicopters with their crews to Afghanistan, and on June 16, the Soviet government responded and sent a detachment of tanks, BMPs, and crews to guard the government in Kabul and to secure the Bagram and Shindand airfields.
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