* December 4-The University of Toronto wins the first Grey Cup.

* December 4-The McGurk's Bar bombing, carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force in Belfast, kills 15 people, the highest death toll from a single incident in the city during " the Troubles ".

* December 4-The first Jacob's Awards ceremony takes place in Dublin.

* December 4-The first Shay locomotive is completed for the 3-foot narrow gauge Alleyton and Big Lake Railroad of Everett Township, Michigan.

* December 4-The Eccles rail crash occurred at Eccles, Greater Manchester, when an express passenger train collided at speed with the rear of a freight train, killing three people.

Phillips's pivotal role in the early days of rock and roll was exemplified by a celebrated jam session on December 4, 1956 which came to be known as the Million Dollar Quartet.

The 2010 tribute Million Dollar Quartet is based on the famous photograph of Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis grouped round Elvis Presley at the piano, the night when the four joined in an impromptu jam at Sun Record's one-room sound studio, the " Million Dollar Quartet " of 4 December 1956.

The college is going under a £ 40 Million refurbish and is said to be finished in December 2011 according to the college's website.

* Monster Bash Magazine December, 2007 no. 7 " 20 Million Miles to Harryhausen " interview by Lawrence Fultz Jr.

In December 2005, it was announced that he would direct A Million Little Pieces, the film adaptation of the book of the same name but due to events regarding the authenticity of the book's content, it has also become a subject of speculation as to whether the film will indeed be made or not.

On December 1, 2011, the college announced plans to build the Kerr-Pegula Athletic Complex thanks to a $ 12 Million gift from 1991 graduate Kim Pegula.

On December 20, 2008, CBS Radio announced that it would sell the entire Denver cluster ( this includes three radio stations ) to Wilks Broadcasting for $ 19. 5 Million.

The serial was repeated in edited form as two 90-minute episodes — titled " 5 Million Years Old " and " Hob "— on 26 December 1959 and 2 January 1960.

On December 2, 2009, the band announced on Twitter and Facebook that they narrowed the final album name down to two options: A Million Hearts and Pieces of a Real Heart, and held a public vote for one hour.

On 9 December 2011, he and his wife were contestants on The Million Pound Drop Live and won £ 275, 000 for charity.

In December 2003, following a tour with Funeral For a Friend, Million Dead embarked on their first headline tour of the UK in support of the album, supported by Jarcrew and Minus.

The Marine 2, starring Ted DiBiase, Jr ( son of the wrestler ' The Million Dollar Man ', Ted DiBiase ), was released on December 29, 2009 as a direct-to-DVD and Blu-ray film.

In December 2004, Faith Shoes was bought for £ 65 Million by private equity group Bridgepoint Capital, and some years later entered into a pre-pack administration agreement in 2008.

The Gardners have written several bestselling books on investing, most recently New York Times bestseller Motley Fool Million Dollar Portfolio, published in December 2008.

Mashreq PSC is one of the leading financial institutions in the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ), with total assets as of 31 December 2010, of AED 84. 8 Billion and net profits of AED803 Million.

On December 17, 2009, Ukrop's announced that the Giant-Carlisle Division of the Dutch-based conglomerate Ahold would acquire all twenty-five of Ukrop's stores for $ 140 Million.

The December 2008 sale of 7. 5 % of the company to Larry Tanenbaum for $ 90 Million values the company at $ 1. 2 Billion.

In December 1990 Trixter filmed the video for the second single, " One in a Million ", at a sold-out show in Rockland County, New York.

On December 8, 2010, Francoeur signed a one year deal with the Kansas City Royals worth $ 2. 5 Million and includes a mutual option for the 2012 season.

* December 2003 – Alliance Capital Management Will Pay Record $ 250 Million and Make Significant Governance and Compliance Reforms To Settle SEC Charges

Written as The Million Dollar Kidnapping, which was used as the shooting title, it was filmed from early October to early December, 1970, in the Mexican states of Durango and Zacatecas, including scenes shot at the El Saltito waterfall and Sierra De Organos ( in the municipality of Sombrerete, Zacatecas ).

On December 9, 2011, the Suns tried to trade Piétrus and $ 1 Million to the Toronto Raptors in exchange for a conditional second round draft pick.

On 27 December 2006, a syndicate of 16 Australian and International banks appointed the insolvency firm KordaMentha as receivers and managers for Cross City Motorway Limited after the project accrued debts exceeding A $ 560 Million.

WLS also produced the weekly Silver Dollar Survey from October 14, 1960 to December 22, 1967, broken by the Silver Beatle Survey on February 21, 1964 ( see picture to the right ) and the Super Summer Survey from May 5, 1967 to August 25, 1967.

On December 20, 2010, seven companies were added to the NASDAQ-100 index prior to the market open: F5 Networks, Akamai Technologies, Netflix, Micron Technology, Whole Foods Market, Ctrip. com International and Dollar Tree.

As of December 2009, Bottom Dollar Food had 28 stores in North Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.

# " Waxworld " / " The Greatest Invention in the World " / " Scooby in Wonderland " / " Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Bug " / " Scrappy's Birthday " / " Counterfeit Dollar " ( December 20, 1980 )

The Toronto Dollar, founded in December 1998, is a paper local currency used in Toronto, Ontario and backed by the Canadian dollar.

* 9 December – The Australian Dollar is floated, by Federal Treasurer Paul Keating.

* A semiconductor firm started in Silicon Valley in 1972 ( mentioned on page 178 of the book " Crystals, electrons, transistors: from scholar's study to industrial research ", written by Michael Eckert and Helmut Schubert and published by the American Institute of Physics in 1990, and on the documentary " Steve Jobs: Billion Dollar Hippy ", broadcast by BBC Two on December 14, 2011 )

Silver Dollar City's operating season runs from mid-March until late December, with the park closed during the months of January and February.

That is how the Dave Brubeck Quartet had its start, a group that began in 1951 and ended in December 1967.

In December 1926 Adorno's " Two Pieces for String Quartet ," op. 2 were performed in Vienna, which provided a welcome interruption from his preparations for the Habilitation.

In December 1935 the Brosa Quartet gave the first performance of Tippett's String Quartet in A, his first acknowledged work.

* December 29-Claude Debussy's String Quartet is premièred in Paris

The quartet received its premiere on December 29, 1893 by the Ysaÿe Quartet at the Société Nationale in Paris but to mixed reviews.

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A Hugh Hopper benefit concert took place in December 2008 at the 100 Club in London and featured In Cahoots, members of Soft Machine Legacy, Delta Sax Quartet, Sophia Domancich and Simon Goubert, Yumi Hara Cawkwell, and the Alex Maguire Sextet.

The success of its first showing on British television in December 1980 encouraged Granada Television to embark on the much greater project of making The Raj Quartet into a major fourteen-part television series known as The Jewel in the Crown, first broadcast in the UK in early 1984 and subsequently in the US and many Commonwealth countries.

The debut recital of the new Budapest String Quartet ( in Hungarian: Budapesti Vónosnégyes ), took place in December 1917 in Kolozsvár, then in Hungary, now called Cluj-Napoca, in present-day Romania.

After struggling in New York for some time he received a second offer from the Budapest Quartet in December 1943 and this time accepted it.

* Beethoven: Quartet no 15 in A minor, op 132 ( rec live December 20, 1945 at Library of Congress ; CD reissue Bridge 9072 A / C ).

Chill Theodore Wills ( July 18, 1902 – December 15, 1978 ) was an American film actor, and a singer in the Avalon Boys Quartet.

* President Welcomes Quartet Principals to White House, press release from meeting of the Quartet Principals on 20 December 2002

It is dedicated to the LaSalle Quartet who gave its first performance in Baden-Baden on the 14 December 1969.

The Quartettsatz ( Movement for String Quartet ) in C minor, D. 703 was composed by Franz Schubert in December 1820.

Clara Schumann premiered the work in Hamburg on December 7, when she visited Brahms's home town to give a series of performances, which also included the Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor — which had not been well received when Brahms introduced it to Leipzig in the Gewandhaus in January 1858 — and the premiere of the G minor Quartet.

In October, 1881 Dvořák finished the sketches for his new opera Dimitrij, when he learned in the Vienna newspapers, that the Hellmesberger Quartet is proposing the performance of his new string quartet in December 1881.