* December 3-The first East-West Grey Cup game took place between the Toronto Argonauts and the Edmonton Eskimos.

* December 3-The UK sends reinforcements to British North America.

* December 3-The first of the 2600-series rapid transit cars ( 2601 – 3200 ), built by the Budd Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, are placed in service on the Chicago ' L ' system.

December is the month with the shortest daylight hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest daylight hours of the year in the Southern Hemisphere.

The longest prison sentence in a Norwegian trial where the main charge was insider trading, was for 8 years ( where 2 of the years are suspended ) when Alain Angelil was convicted in a district court on December 9, 2011.

By December 15, 2010 it broke the record for longest serving spacecraft at Mars, with 3, 340 days of operation, claiming the title from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.

They finished the regular season with 11 straight wins ( tying the 1961 team record & is also tied for the 5th longest win streak entering the playoffs ), finished with an impressive 13 – 3 record, ( including 4 – 0 in December, extending their NFL record with 18 straight wins in December, & also tying the Dolphins 1970 – 1974 in November for the longest winning streak in any month ).

The other members of the group from North East London, the " Stoke Newington Eight " were prosecuted for carrying out bombings as the Angry Brigade in one of the longest criminal trials of English history ( it lasted from 30 May to 6 December 1972 ).

* December 20 – After the longest reign by a Chinese Emperor in history, the Kangxi Emperor dies and is succeeded by his son Yinzhen with the reign name Yongzheng.

With 25 years as manager of Manchester United, he is the longest serving manager in their history after overtaking Sir Matt Busby's record on 19 December 2010.

With the December 18, 2010 episode, Bridges beat Sigourney Weaver's record for longest gap between hosting appearances on SNL ( Weaver had a 24-year gap between her first time hosting in 1986 and her second time hosting in 2010, while Bridges had a 27-year gap between his first appearance in 1983 and his most recent one, also in 2010 ).

The shortest day is December 21 with 8: 01 hours of sunlight ; the longest day is June 20 with 15: 58 hours of sunlight.

After the longest and one of the most bitter speakership contests on record, lasting from December 3, 1855 to February 2, 1856, Banks was chosen on the 133rd ballot.

Archie Moore ( born Archibald Lee Wright ; December 13, 1916 – December 9, 1998 ), was an American professional boxer and the Light Heavyweight World Champion ( 1952 – 1959 and 1961 ), who had one of the longest professional careers in the history of the sport.

In early December 2007, she beat Barbara Castle's record of the longest unbroken service for a woman MP, at 33 years, 9 months.

He also holds the record, along with twelve other receivers, for the longest pass caught in the NFL, 99 yards, from Kansas City quarterback Trent Green, in a December 22, 2002 game against the San Diego Chargers.

Empress Kōjun was empress consort ( kōgō ) from 25 December 1926 to 7 January 1989, making her the longest lived empress consort in Japanese history.

Since its independence ( declared on 6 December 1917 ), Finland has had 71 cabinets, including the current one, the longest lasting being the two cabinets of Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen, both lasting 1, 464 days.

Snow-tracking from December to March over a 4-year period near Meeteetse, Wyoming, revealed that movement distances were shortest during winter and longest between February and April, when black-footed ferrets were breeding and white-tailed prairie dogs emerged from hibernation.

In December 1994 the London production became the Theatre Royal's ( Drury Lane ) longest running musical, eclipsing the record set by My Fair Lady.

Created and originally drawn by Leo Baxendale, she first appeared in issue 596, dated 19 December 1953, making her the third longest running Beano character, behind only Dennis the Menace and Roger the Dodger.

On December 26, 2010, Daley became the longest serving mayor of the city, surpassing his father's record.

On 7 June 1910 Cody received Royal Aero Club certificate number 9 using a newly built aircraft and won the Michelin Cup for the longest flight made in England during 1910 with a flight of 4 hours 47 minutes on 31 December.

The record for the longest bareknuckle fight is listed as 6 hours and 15 minutes for a match between James Kelly and Jonathan Smith, fought near Fiery Creek, Victoria, Australia, on December 3, 1855, when Smith gave in after 17 rounds.

The final of this line, which opened on 18 December 1905, lies within the borders of Lesotho, running from the border bridge on the Mohokare River through the northern industrial district of Maseru to that city's station, the only railway station in the country.

This bridge lasted until December 2009.

* 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 29 – The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 92 dead.

* December 24 – Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge collapses at Tangiwai, New Zealand, sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River ; 151 are killed.

The bridge was reopened on Middle Creek Road in December 2010.

As a result of the stimulus package, a mile-long ( 1. 6 km ) bridge to replace the Tamiami Trail, a road that borders Everglades National Park to the north and has blocked water from reaching the southern Everglades, was begun by the Army Corps of Engineers in December 2009.

In December 2011, the bridge was featured in the ending scenes of the last ever Bristol-made edition of the BBC's Casualty ( TV series ) programme.

The contract for building the bridge was awarded to the American Bridge Company of New York City for $ 2, 788 on December 3, 1901 by the Board of County Commisioners.

The State's final road and bridge plans were approved in early 1960, and the developer's dredging permit was granted in December of that year.

By December 1962, there was a road and a bridge to Tierra Verde.

On December 26, 1862 John Hunt Morgan CSA sent a detachment from Upton to the bridge over Bacon Creek in Bonnieville.

The new bridge, opened on December 30, 2006, is called the Penobscot Narrows Bridge and Observatory.

Photo of a gauge inspector and the Manville, New Jersey gage house built into the County Route 533 ( New Jersey ) | North Main Street / CR-533 bridge abutment during the Raritan River flood of December 31, 1948.

Other hurricanes, such as Diana in 1984, Bertha and Fran in 1996 and Floyd in 1999, have caused damage to the island, though nowhere near as catastrophic as that of Hazel. Construction began on a $ 64 million bridge project in November 2007, with a December 2009 completion date.

On December 29, 1876, one of the nation's most notorious rail accidents occurred, known as the Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster, Ashtabula Horror or Ashtabula bridge disaster.

In December 2007 the bridge was reopened after a two year restoration funded by government grants.

The City of Cottage Grove restored the bridge in 2011, reopening it on December 3.

The bridge was opened December 18, 1953.

On 1 December 2010 the bridge was closed for the first time due to heavy snow.

The bridge collapsed on 28 December 1879 when it was hit by strong side winds.

The improved bridge was fully opened to traffic on 20 December 2001 ( although it was never fully closed, in fact during peak hours every effort was made to keep three lanes open ).

Other improvements followed, with a new cut between Shepley bridge and Mirfield started in December 1775 supervised by William Jessop, and the raising of water levels in 1776 to allow boats to carry additional cargo.

Finally, on December 19, 1944, between Stavelot and Trois-Ponts, German forces tried to regain control of the bridge over the Ambleve river in Stavelot, which was crucial for receiving reinforcements, fuel, and ammunition.

As a result, plans were announced on 26 December 2009 to construct a suicide barrier along the walkways of the bridge ; design constraints were cited as the reason for non-implementation before this time.