Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

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

Alp Arslan ( ālp arslān ; ālb ārslān ; 1029 – 15 December 1072 ) was the third sultan of the Seljuq dynasty and great-grandson of Seljuk, the eponymous founder of the dynasty.

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44, No. 4 ( December, 1972 ), pp. 468 – 479 in JSTOR

" Histoire et Science Sociale: La Longue Durée " ( 1958 ) Annales E. S. C., 13: 4 October – December 1958, 725 – 753

* Clay, Jenny Strauss, " Immortal and ageless forever ", The Classical Journal 77. 2 ( December 1981: pp. 112 – 117 ).

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Ahmed III ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثالث Aḥmed-i < u > s </ u > āli < u > s </ u >) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 30 / 31, 1673 – July 1, 1736 )</ span > was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of Sultan Mehmed IV ( 1648 – 87 ).

* He married, on December 7, 1929 ( civil ), in Aix-les-Bains, France, and December 13, 1929 ( religious ), in Bombay, India, Andrée Joséphine Carron ( 1898 – 1976 ).

Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz ( December 17, 1835 – March 27, 1910 ), son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer.

Alexios V Doukas, surnamed Mourtzouphlos (, d. December 1205, Constantinople ) was Byzantine Emperor ( 5 February – 12 April 1204 ) during the second and final siege of Constantinople by the participants of the Fourth Crusade.

Andrew Johnson ( December 29, 1808 July 31, 1875 ) was the 17th President of the United States ( 1865 – 1869 ).

" After a vigorous debate, a formal vote for impeachment was held in the House of Representatives on December 5, 1867, and failed, 57 – 108.

Transmission, Gregory Chaitin also presents this theorem in J. ACM – Chaitin's paper was submitted October 1966 and revised in December 1968, and cites both Solomonoff's and Kolmogorov's papers.

Afonso I ( 25 June 1109, Guimarães or Viseu – 6 December 1185, Coimbra ), more commonly known as Afonso Henriques (), nicknamed " the Conqueror " (), " the Founder " () or " the Great " () by the Portuguese, and El-Bortukali (" the Portuguese ") and Ibn-Arrik (" son of Henry ", " Henriques ") by the Moors whom he fought, was the first King of Portugal.

Alfonso had two sons by Elena Armanda Nicolasa Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( Castellón de la Plana, 15 December 1849 – Paris, 24 December 1898 ):

Nicolò Amati ( December 3, 1596 – April 12, 1684 ) was the son of Girolamo Amati.

Alexander Selkirk ( 1676 – 13 December 1721 ) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island.

Before separating in December 1717, Blackbeard and Bonnet plundered and captured merchant ships along the East Coast.

Some time after 19 December, Bonnet and Blackbeard separated.

The IIHF World U20 Championship typically begins on 26 December, while the Spengler Cup also begins on 26 December in Davos, Switzerland ; the Spengler Cup competition includes HC Davos, Team Canada, and other top European Hockey teams.

Manning's Colts defeated the Chargers in 1998 and 1999, but in 2004 with Leaf long gone from the game the revamped Chargers behind Drew Brees erupted into playoff contention ; on December 26 with both teams at 11-3 the Colts hosted the Chargers with Manning close to matching Dan Marino's touchdown record ; the Chargers stormed to a 31-16 lead, but Dominic Rhodes ' kickoff return put the Colts within eight points, then with one minute remaining Manning rifled a 21-yard touchdown to Brandon Stokley, breaking Marino's record ; the two-point try succeeded, then after Brees was intercepted the game went to overtime and the Colts won 34-31 on a field goal.

Suggested names included Newcastle F. C., Newcastle Rangers, Newcastle City and City of Newcastle, but Newcastle United was decided upon on 9 December 1892, to signify the unification of the two teams.

Rickey Nelson Henley Henderson ( born December 25, 1958 ) is an American former baseball left fielder who played in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for nine teams from 1979 to 2003, including four stints with his original team, the Oakland Athletics.

Between September and December 1952 the fragments and scrolls of Caves 4, 5, and 6 were subsequently discovered by the ASOR teams.

Joel Garner ( born 16 December 1952 ), also known as " Big Joel " or " Big Bird ", is a former West Indian cricketer, and a member of the highly regarded late 1970s and early ' 80s West Indies cricket teams.

The Tom Bowl annually invites the top two or three teams in the nation to play in the game which is traditionally scheduled for late December.

In December 1991, one of Killeen's high school football teams, the Killeen Kangaroos, won the 5-A Division I state football championship by defeating Sugar Land Dulles 14 – 10 in the Astrodome.

When bypassed by the Northern Pacific Railroad in December 1884, over 100 buildings were moved with rollers and horse teams to the nearby site of the depot.

On December 24, 1814, the members of the British and American negotiating teams signed and affixed their individual seals to the document.

* 9 December — Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association ( ECAHA ) is formed from teams in the Canadian Amateur Hockey League ( CAHL ) and the FAHL.

Following the Football Association ban on women's teams on 5 December 1921, the English Ladies ' Football Association was formed.

Negotiations between the British and Irish negotiating teams produced the Anglo-Irish Treaty, concluded on 6 December 1921.

The multiple radical changes, combined with uneven attendance ( although some teams, such as the Kansas City Steers, drew well ), and no fresh capital from new owners, caused Saperstein and Cohen to decide to throw in the towel with the close of 1962 on December 31.

On December 9, 2010, Commissioner David Gross announced that in February 2011, there would be two expansion teams created for the 2012 MLL Season.

The list of 19 markets identified by Gross in December ( not including North Carolina and Ohio where the 2012 teams are set to go ) include, in alphabetical order: Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Indianapolis, Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville ( Tenn .), Orange County ( Calif .), Orlando ( Fla .), Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City and Virginia Beach ( Va .).

On 3 December 2009, FIFA decided to expand the women's World Cup to 24 teams for 2015.

Along with teams rejected for membership in the Canadian Amateur Hockey League ( CAHL ), the club helped found the Federal Amateur Hockey League ( FAHL ) on December 5, 1903.

The IHL was formed in December 1945 and initially consisted of four cross-border teams in Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.

Roger Eugene Maris ( September 10, 1934 – December 14, 1985 ) was an American baseball right fielder who played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) on four teams, from 1957 through 1968.

On December 31, 2003 the Thrashers played the Detroit Red Wings, during the game both teams wore the commemorative patch.

With Cobalt and Haileybury, two other teams controlled by O ' Brien, the NHA was founded on December 2, 1909 at a private meeting at 300 St. James Street in Montreal, and adopted the constitution of the ECHA.

In December 2008, the SARU decided to place the protea on the left side of the Boks ' jersey, in line with other South African national teams, and move the springbok to the right of the jersey.