* December 17-The Cleveland Cavaliers beat the Miami Heat 148 to 80, the largest margin of victory in any NBA game.

* December 17-The GST becomes law

* December 17-The Sage Gateshead, a concert hall designed by Foster and Partners, opens in North East England.

* December 17-The original Wright Flyer goes on display in the Smithsonian Institution.

* December 17-The Gaelic Athletic Association confirms that the President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, will cease to be a patron of the organisation because of his attendance at an international soccer match.

* December 17-The Rock Island Railroad converts all of its Chicago-area commuter trains to diesel locomotive power.

* December 17-The Dublin and Kingstown Railway, the first public railway in Ireland, opens between Westland Row, Dublin ( now Dublin Pearse railway station ) and Kingstown ( now Dún Laoghaire ), on the standard gauge.

* December 17-The Lancaster and Carlisle Railway is opened throughout to Carlisle.

Fuchs was put into camps on the Isle of Man and later in Quebec, Canada, from June to December 1940.

COP 11 ( or COP 11 / MOP 1 ) took place between November 28 and December 9, 2005, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

* December 3 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic ( the bridge partially collapsed on August 29, 1907 and September 11, 1916 ).

* December 3 – October Crisis: In Montreal, Quebec, kidnapped British Trade Commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days.

* December 9 – Bishop's University is founded as Bishop's College by Bishop George Jehoshaphat Mountain in Lennoxville, Quebec, for the education of members of the Church of England.

* December 9 – The first YMCA ( 1844 ) in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.

* December 25 – Samuel de Champlain, French explorer and founder of Quebec ( b. c. 1567 )

On June 17, two months into the colonial siege of Boston, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, just north of Boston, British forces are victorious, but only after suffering severe casualties and after Colonial forces run out of ammunition, Fort Ticonderoga is taken by American forces in New York Colony's northern frontier, and American forces unsuccessfully invade Canada, with an attack on Montreal defeated by British forces on November 13 and an attack on Quebec repulsed December 31.

* December 31 – American Revolution: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army generals Richard Montgomery and Benedict Arnold at Quebec.

Talks towards the establishment of the Free Trade Area of the Americas began with the Summit of the Americas in Miami on December 11, 1994, but the FTAA came to public attention during the Quebec City Summit of the Americas, held in Canada in 2001, a meeting targeted by massive anti-corporatization and anti-globalization protests.

The county was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed on December 31, 1775, while attempting to capture Quebec City in the Battle of Quebec.

The École Polytechnique Massacre, also known as the Montreal Massacre, occurred on December 6, 1989 at the École Polytechnique in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

John Kinzie ( December 3, 1763 – January 6, 1828 ) was a fur trader from Quebec who first operated in Detroit and what became the Northwest Territory of the United States.

On December 3 against the Hartford Whalers at the Cow Palace, right winger Rob Gaudreau scored the first hat trick in franchise history ; he also scored the team's second ever hat trick nine days later against the Quebec Nordiques.

The invasion reached a peak on December 31, 1775, when the Battle of Quebec ended in disaster for the Americans.

On December 31, 1776 one year after the Battle of Quebec, a mass was held in celebration of the British success, and Carleton threw a grand ball.

* Longueuil, Quebec, Canada ( Twinned December 3, 1968 )

On December 21, 1989, the National Assembly of Quebec employed the " notwithstanding clause " to override freedom of expression ( section 2b ), and equality rights ( section 15 ).

The George River reindeer herd in the tundra of Quebec and Labrador in eastern Canada, once numbered world ’ s largest 8-900, 000 animals, stands December 2011 at 74, 000 – a drop of up to 92 % because of Iron-ore mining, flooding for hydro-power and road-building.

Émile Nelligan ( December 24, 1879 – November 18, 1941 ) was a francophone poet from Quebec, Canada.

After him, no political party in Quebec elections at the provincial level had managed to win more than two terms of office in a row until the December 2008 victory of Jean Charest's Liberal party, its third consecutive win.

Jean Lesage, PC, CC, CD (; 10 June 1912 – 12 December 1980 ) was a lawyer and politician in Quebec, Canada.

He served as the 22nd Premier of Quebec in two different mandates, first from May 12, 1970, to November 25, 1976, and then from December 12, 1985, to January 11, 1994, serving a total of just under 15 years as Provincial Premier.

File: The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec December 31 1775. jpeg | John Trumbull, The Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec, December 31, 1775, 1786, Yale University Art Gallery

:* Recorded at Baby Monster Studios, New York City in August 1994, December 1995 and March 1996

As of December 2011, the City Council members are: Loretta Clawson, Mayor ; Jamie Leigh, Councilor, Mayor Pro-tempore ; and Councilors: Rennie Brantz, Andy Ball, Allan Scherlen, and Lynne Mason.

The first known Prefect of the City of Constantinople was Honoratus, who took office on 11 December 359 and held it until 361.

In September 2011, a new album called " My Heart " was released by Sony in the UK ; the American release came out in December 2011 distributed through City Hall Records.

The disc was released in the U. S. via City Hall Records on December 6, and within two weeks had climbed to # 12 on Amazon's best-seller list in spite of being priced over 25 % higher than most CDs in order to raise funds for the Doris Day Animal League.

Consequently, Abbott studied in New York City under Achille Errani, and made her concert début there in December 1871.

When The Second City opened its doors on December 16, 1959, directed by Paul Sill, his mother Viola Spolin began training new improvisers through a series of classes and exercises which became the cornerstone of modern improv training.

In December 2004, the City of Indianapolis and Jim Irsay agreed to a new stadium deal at an estimated cost of $ 1 billion ( Including Indianapolis Convention Center upgrades ).

Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571, at the Free Imperial City of Weil der Stadt ( now part of the Stuttgart Region in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, 30 km west of Stuttgart's center ).

In December 1956, the year of his death, he was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ) in New York City, and a larger more comprehensive exhibition there in 1967.

Johnny Lee Bench ( born December 7, 1947 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ) is a former professional baseball catcher who played in the Major Leagues for the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 to 1983 and is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

On December 17, Wizards president Robb Heineman provided an update on the stadium situation published on team official website and blog, basically identifying the Kansas City, Kansas, location as final, pending the signature of the final agreements.

Westport became part of Kansas City on December 2, 1897.

Another well known backward pass in the NFL was the River City Relay in a game between the New Orleans Saints and the Jacksonville Jaguars on December 21, 2003.

The LTTE has been accused of hijacking several vessels and ships in waters outside Sri Lanka, including Ocean Trader ( in October 1994 ), Irish Mona ( in August 1995 ), Princess Wave ( in August 1996 ), Athena ( in May 1997 ), Misen ( in July 1997 ), Morong Bong ( in July 1997 ), MV Cordiality ( in September 1997 ), Princess Kash ( in August 1998 ), Newko ( in July 1999 ), Uhana ( in June 2000 ), Fuyuan Ya 225 ( Chinese trawler, in March 2003 ), MV Farah III ( in December 2006 ) and City of Liverpool ( in January 2007 ).

In March 2005, digging began on a new railway connection called the City Tunnel, which opened for traffic on December 4 2010.

Adler was born in New York City on December 28, 1902, to Jewish immigrants.

He arrived in New York City in December 1914 with $ 32 to his name.

The Vikings played their final game at Metropolitan Stadium on December 20 to conclude the 1981 NFL season by losing to the Kansas City Chiefs, 10 – 6.

Madeline Amy Sweeney ( December 14, 1966 – September 11, 2001 ), known as Amy Sweeney, was an American flight attendant on board American Airlines Flight 11 which was hijacked and flown deliberately into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

In December 1930, the Giants played a team of Notre Dame All Stars at the Polo Grounds to raise money for the unemployed of New York City.

In December 1994, McVeigh and Fortier visited Oklahoma City to inspect their target: the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

Bowery Ballroom, New York City, December 31, 2007

" A pregnant Cruz showed her support for the battle against AIDS by lighting up the Empire State Building with red lights in New York City December 1, 2010 on International AIDS Day, as part of ( RED )' s new awareness campaign, ' An AIDS Free Generation is Due in 2015 ,' which aims to eradicate the HIV virus from pregnant mothers to their babies.

Five hundred miles ( 800 km ) away, Eagle City, Alaska, had a telegraph station ; Amundsen travelled there ( and back ) overland to wire a success message ( collect ) on 5 December 1905.