In December 2004, the Santa Fe Film Festival honored Alfonso Arau for his work in cinema.

On 26 December 2004, the coast of the Andaman Islands was devastated by a high tsunami following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.

A private member's bill — the Succession to the Crown Bill — was introduced in the House of Lords in December 2004.

On December 21, 2008, Atlanta beat the Minnesota Vikings 24 – 17 to clinch a wild card spot, earning a trip to the playoffs for the first time since 2004.

* American Medical Association, AMA Says Alcohol Industry Targets Teen Girls, December 16, 2004.

During grand jury testimony in December 2003 – which was illegally leaked to the San Francisco Chronicle and published in December 2004 – Giambi allegedly admitted to using many different steroids, including fertility drugs ( which could account for his declining health in the past few years ).

Ruth's heavy Louisville Slugger solid ash wood bat sold for $ 1. 26 million at a Sotheby's auction in December 2004.

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On December 3, 2004, the ceremony broke the Guinness World Record for Christmas caroling with 7, 514 carolers.

: On December 16, 2004, the CIA added an entry for the European Union ( EU ).

* The Growth of Inflation Symmetry, December 2004

In December 2004, the EU leaders announced that accession negotiations with Croatia would start on March 17, 2005 provided that Croatian government cooperates fully with the ICTY.

In December 2002, the EU formally invited Cyprus to join in 2004, insisting that EU membership would apply to the whole island and hoping that it would provide a significant enticement for reunification resulting from the outcome of ongoing talks.

" Images of race and redemption: The Protestant missionary contribution to Carl Meinhof's Zeitschrift für Kolonialsprachen ", Le Fait Missionaire: Social Sciences and Missions 15 ( December 2004 ), 59-96.

In December 2004 Joe Pasquale, winner of the fourth series of ITV's I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here !, became well known for his frequent use of the term " Jacobs ", for Jacob's Crackers, a rhyming slang term for knackers i. e. testicles.

# The Fluorescent Light Glistens Off Your Head — March 1, 2004 to December 5, 2004

# Thriving on Vague Objectives — December 6, 2004 to September 11, 2005

In December 2004, a tsunami generated near Indonesia caused minor shoreline erosion on Barton Point ( the northeast point of the atoll of Diego Garcia ).

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In December 2004, the Supreme Court lifted a stay thereby allowing the Brazil-based União do Vegetal ( UDV ) church to use a decoction containing DMT in their Christmas services that year.

* Lowest Confluence: in Matrūh, Egypt at-255 feet (- 78 m ), first visited by Dave Morrison, Steve Price and Tony Carlisle on December 4, 2004.

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

Bjarne Stroustrup (); born December 30, 1950 in Århus, Denmark ) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the creation and the development of the widely used C ++ programming language.

* Programming: Principles and Practice Using C ++ by Bjarne Stroustrup – Addison-Wesley Professional ; 1 edition ( December 29, 2008 ); ISBN 0-321-54372-1

Bozizé even planned to visit Khartoum in December 2006, but had to cancel his trip when Chad ( which has strained relations with the Sudanese Government ) threatened to withdraw its military support to C. A. R.

In accordance with the December 21, 1993, Department of Defense Directive 1332. 14, it was legal policy ( 10 U. S. C.

* Belize / Guatemala ICJ Compromis Signed at OAS in Washington, D. C. on 8 December 2008 and Compromis and Videos and U. S. Congratulations and U. K. Congratulations and Photographs and Compromis for Christmas of 8 December 2008 and Belize Leading Counsel of 19 December 2008

Some of this gas was used in the world's first helium-filled airship, the U. S. Navy's C-7, which flew its maiden voyage from Hampton Roads, Virginia, to Bolling Field in Washington, D. C., on December 1, 1921.

The embassy in Nairobi was established December 12, 1963 — Kenya ’ s independence day — with Laurence C. Vass as chargé d ' affaires ad interim pending the appointment of an ambassador.

In due course the Governor-General received the Koh-i-Noor from Login, who had been appointed Governor of the Citadel, the Royal Fort at Lahore, with the Royal Treasury, which Login valued at almost £ 1, 000, 000 (£ as of ), excluding the Koh-i-Noor, on 6 April 1848, under a receipt dated 7 December 1849, in the presence of the members of the Board of Administration — the local resident H. M. Lawrence, C. C.

Iowa Sen. Augustus C. Dodge immediately reintroduced the same legislation to organize Nebraska that had stalled in the previous session ; it was referred to Douglas ’ s committee on December 14.

* Benson, Donald C., The Moment of Proof: Mathematical Epiphanies, Oxford University Press, USA ; New Ed edition ( December 14, 2000 ).

On 14 December 1977, he appeared with Arthur C. Clarke on Patrick Moore's BBC The Sky At Night programme.

On December 1, 1874, Queen Esther Chapter No. 1 became the first Prince Hall Affiliate chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star when it was established in Washington, D. C. by Thornton Andrew Jackson.

* Pioneer 8 ( Pioneer C ) – launched December 1967

Morse made one last trip to Washington, D. C., in December 1842, stringing " wires between two committee rooms in the Capitol, and sent messages back and forth " to demonstrate his telegraph system.

* Hensher, Philip " Don't let your children go to Narnia: C. S. Lewis's books are racist and misogynist ", The Independent, 4 December 1998

* Meghan O ' Rourke The Lion King: C. S. Lewis ' Narnia isn't simply a Christian allegory, Meghan O ' Rourke, Slate magazine, 9 December 2005

As part of the legislation, Philadelphia was chosen as a temporary capital for ten years ( until December 1800 ), until the nation's capital in Washington, D. C. would be ready.

In December 2009, Washington, DC Mayor Adrian Fenty signed the bill to legalize same-sex marriage for the District of Columbia in All Souls Church, Unitarian ( Washington, D. C .).

William C. DeVries ( born December 19, 1943 ) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, who performed the first successful permanent artificial heart implantation ( on Barney Clark ), using the Jarvik-7 model.

The team then proceeded to win their first league championship, the 1937 NFL Championship Game, on December 12, 1937, against the Chicago Bears, their first year in D. C.

" He directed a pre-Broadway production of West Side Story at the National Theatre in Washington, D. C. that ran from December 15, 2008 through January 17, 2009.