In a December 1992 article for The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reported that President Richard Nixon and Charles Colson had repeatedly discussed the Capp case in Oval Office recordings that had recently been made available by the National Archives.

The United States Patent and Trademark Office granted Baekeland a patent for a " Method of making insoluble products of phenol and formaldehyde " on December 7, 1909.

The Home Office removed gunpowder from its list of Permitted Explosives ; and shortly afterwards, on 31 December 1931, the former Curtis & Harvey's Glynneath gunpowder factory at Pontneddfechan, in Wales, closed down, and it was demolished by fire in 1932.

The Mk I Colossus was built between March and December 1943 by Tommy Flowers and his colleagues at the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill in London and then shipped to Bletchley Park in January 1944.

She moved to a paid position in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs in December 1995.

The mandate of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights derives from Articles 1, 13 and 55 of the Charter of the United Nations, the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action and General Assembly resolution 48 / 141 of 20 December 1993, by which the Assembly established the post of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.

The High Commissioner is responsible for all the activities of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, as well as for its administration, and carries out the functions specifically assigned to him or her by the General Assembly in its resolution 48 / 141 of 20 December 1993 and subsequent resolutions of policy-making bodies ; advises the Secretary-General on the policies of the United Nations in the area of human rights ; ensures that substantive and administrative support is given to the projects, activities, organs and bodies of the human rights programme ; represents the Secretary-General at meetings of human rights organs and at other human rights events ; and carries out special assignments as decided by the Secretary-General.

* 28 December 1871 — Antonio Meucci files patent caveat No. 3335 in the U. S. Patent Office titled " Sound Telegraph ", describing communication of voice between two people by wire.

This patent, which the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued on December 14, 1948, details a machine in which a person uses knobs and buttons to manipulate a cathode ray tube beam to simulate firing at " air-borne " targets.

* December 20 – President Bonaparte takes his Oath of Office in front of the French National Assembly.

* December 1 – The U. S. Patent Office acknowledges this date as the day Dr Pepper is served for the very first time ; the exact date of Dr Pepper's invention is unknown.

* December 15 – The United States Patent Office burns in Washington, D. C.

The schema, or draft document, prepared for the first council session ( October – December 1962 ) reflected the conservative theology of the Holy Office under Cardinal Ottaviani.

In December 1914 the Admiralty began discussions with the War Office for a combined operation to occupy the Belgian coast to the Dutch fronter, by an attack along the coast combined with a landing at Ostend.

On 31 December 1938, both the Nansen Office and High Commission were dissolved and replaced by the Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees under the Protection of the League.

Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ( UNHCR ) ( established December 14, 1950 ) protects and supports refugees at the request of a government or the United Nations and assists in their return or resettlement.

" The United States Environmental Protection Agency report dated October 2002 and released in December 2002 titled " Exposure and Human Health Evaluation of Airborne Pollution from the World Trade Center Disaster " authored by the EPA Office of Research and Development in Washington states that dioxin levels recorded at a monitoring station on Park Row near City Hall Park in New York between October 12 and 29, 2001, averaged 5. 6 parts per trillion, or nearly six times the highest dioxin level ever recorded in the U. S. Dioxin levels in the rubble of the World Trade Centers were much higher with concentrations ranging from 10 to 170 parts per trillion.

He remained in the Whip's Office after the Conservatives won the 1951 general election, rising rapidly to Joint Deputy Chief Whip, Deputy Chief Whip and, in December 1955, Government Chief Whip under Anthony Eden.

Most functions of the OPA were transferred to the to newly established Office of Temporary Controls ( OTC ) by Executive Order 9809, December 12, 1946.

Beginning on December 24, 1824, a large land sale was held for several days at the United States Land Office on North Water Street in Crawfordsville during which a large number of the area's tracts were sold at auction.

On 8 December 1955, there was a meeting of the heads of all major German embassies and the leadership of the Foreign Office.

The Post Office opened on 1 December 1844 originally named Broken River

In December 2010, Oracle released ' Oracle Open Office ' based on OpenOffice. org 3. 3 and a web based version called Oracle Cloud Office.

OMB Circular A-123 ( issued 21 December 2004 ) defines the management responsibilities for internal financial controls in federal agencies and addressed to all federal CFOs, CIOs and Program Managers.

Guo Shui Han ( 2009 ) No. 698 (" Circular 698 ") was issued on 10 December 2009 addressing the PRC corporate income tax treatment on the transfer of PRC equity interest by non-PRC tax resident enterprises directly or indirectly, however has not resolved the uncertain tax position with regards A-Shares.

In the early years this was called, rather pretentiously, Well Hall Garden City, but it compares well with later groups of municipal housing in south London-which is surprising given the fact that it was constructed rapidly between February and December 1915 and its sub-division by the South Circular Road and, until about 1988, by the even busier A2 Trunk Road.

The Court Circular shows that she was usually known by that title until early 1886, when the Circular began to consistently refer to her by her husband's title, i. e. " HSH Princess Edward of Saxe-Weimar " ( Laura Seymour, sister of the 5th Marquess of Hertford and morganatic wife of Queen Victoria's nephew, HSH Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, was also belatedly accorded her husband's princely style by an announcement in the Court Circular dated 15 December 1885.

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.

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 all federal programs were revised to emphasize the war effort.

In December it was announced that all the offices of deputy lieutenants and Justices of the Peace would be revised.

On December 13, 1974, the constitution was revised, and Malta became a republic within the Commonwealth, with executive authority vested in the President of Malta which can be exercised directly or through officers subordinate to him.

On 18 December the BBC broadcast his radio play The Eye of the Beholder ( later revised as The Voice of One ) in which an avante-garde artist is commissioned to paint a church mural.

The constitution of December 1992 was revised by national referendum on 12 May 1996 and, again, by referendum, recised to the current version on 18 July 1999.

In December 1982, the fifth National People ’ s Congress revised the State Constitution to provide that the State Central Military Commission leads all the armed forces of the state.

In October 1987 a revised Constitution was approved by national referendum and direct elections for a new president were carried out in December, bringing the 5th Republic to a close.

A revised version of Bounce premiered off-Broadway at The Public Theater under the new name Road Show from October 28, 2008 through December 28, 2008, under the direction of John Doyle.

The House of Representatives passed a revised resolution on December 17, 1917.

Although Verdi had accepted the need to remove the first act, it seems that he changed his mind and allowed a performance on 29 December 1886 in Modena which presented the “ Fontainebleau ’’ first act along with the revised 4-act version.

The novel was further revised before being brought out posthumously in late December 1817 ( 1818 given on the title-page ), as the first two volumes of a four-volume set with Persuasion.

After several years of failing to make a profit, more than a year of negotiations over revised financing arrangements with the government, and grave concern over its future viability, National Express Group announced on 16 December 2002, its decision to walk away from all of their Victorian contracts and hand control back to the state government, with funding for its operations to stop on 23 December 2002.

Version 4 ( RFC 3010, December 2000 ; revised in RFC 3530, April 2003 ), influenced by AFS and CIFS, includes performance improvements, mandates strong security, and introduces a stateful protocol.

After Dellacroce died of cancer on December 2, 1985, Castellano revised his succession plan: appointing Bilotti as underboss to Thomas Gambino as the sole acting boss, while making plans to break up Gotti's crew.

Kolchak ’ s government issued a decree on 3 December 1918 stating, “ In order to preserve the system and rule of the Supreme Ruler, articles of the criminal code of Imperial Russia were revised, Articles 99 and 100 of which established capital punishment for assassination attempts on the Supreme Ruler and for attempting to overthrow his government.

" On December 26, Preminger submitted a revised draft of the script which, due to numerous lines of dialogue exhibiting " an unacceptably light attitude towards seduction, illicit sex, chastity, and virginity ," was rejected on January 2, 1952.

NASDAQ revised its offer ( characterized as an " unsolicited " bid, rather than a " hostile takeover attempt ") on 12 December 2006, indicating that it would be able to complete the deal with 50 % ( plus one share ) of LSE's stock, rather than the 90 % it had been seeking.

A revised test pattern was implemented in 2010 ( it was originally scheduled to be implemented from December 2009 ).

" In Waugh's preface to the 1959 revised edition of Brideshead the author explains the circumstances in which the novel was written, in the six months between December 1943 and June 1944 following a minor parachute accident.

* The Lovers ' Progress or The Wandering Lovers, tragicomedy ( licensed 6 December 1623 ; revised 1634 ; printed 1647 )

This was later revised into a 72 hour delay, resulting in a next launch attempt set for Sunday December 9, 2007.

The program was further revised when it was reauthorized in December, 2007.

In December 1914 he further revised the law and lengthened the term of the President to ten years, with no term limit.