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In 1819 grasshoppers again destroyed the crop at `` the Forks '' ( Fort Douglas ) and in December 1819, twenty men left Fort Daer for the most northerly American outpost at Prairie Du Chien.
On December 28, 1948, a Douglas DC-3 aircraft, number NC16002, disappeared while on a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Miami.
In December 1974 the Navy Flight Demonstration Team downsized to the subsonic Douglas A-4F Skyhawk II and was reorganized into the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron.
# McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II – 1969 – December 1974
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.
* Douglas Charles Abbott ( 1 July 1954 – 23 December 1973 )
), Douglas Wolk, Salon. com, December 3, 2005.
* Harper, Douglas, " Nihilism ", in: Online Etymology Dictionary, retrieved at December 2, 2009.
* December 14 The play Douglas is performed for the first time in Edinburgh, with overwhelming success, in spite of the opposition of the local church presbytery, who summoned Alexander Carlyle to answer for having attended its representation.
* December 12 – Douglas Fairbanks, American actor ( b. 1883 )
* December 12 – Roy Douglas, British composer
* December 9 – Douglas Engelbart publicly demonstrates his pioneering hypertext system, NLS, in San Francisco.
* December 9 – Kirk Douglas, American actor
* December 18 – James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish politician ( d. 1711 )
* December 1 – A Yugoslavian McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes into a mountain while approaching Ajaccio Airport in Corsica, killing 178.
* December 12 – Arrow Air Flight 1285, a Douglas DC-8, crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland, killing 256, 248 of whom were U. S. servicemen returning to Fort Campbell, Kentucky from overseeing a peacekeeping force in Sinai.
* December 17 – Douglas DST, prototype of the Douglas DC-3 airliner, first flies, in the United States.
* December 30 – David Douglas, a Scottish botanist ( d. 1834 )
Sir Douglas Haig succeeded Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the BEF on 19 December 1915.
In December, British Field Marshal Sir John French was replaced by General Douglas Haig as commander of the British forces.
By 19 December 1915, General Sir Douglas Haig had replaced General Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ).
On December 8, 2006, Douglas appeared on Entertainment Tonight, where the entire staff wished him a happy 90th birthday the night before.
Even before Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Air Corps leaders started to increasingly utilize the airfield, sending Boeing B-29 Superfortresses and Consolidated B-24 Liberator heavy bombers and Douglas B-18 Bolo which were used both for training and observation missions.

December and attacked
Ghazi Mohammad Jan Khan Wardak staged an uprising and attacked British forces near Kabul in the Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment in December 1879, but his defeat there resulted in the collapse of this rebellion.
Meanwhile, Japan ( allied to Germany and Italy since September 1940 ) attacked the British in Southeast Asia and the United States in Hawaii on 7 December 1941 ; Germany then completed its over-extension by declaring war on the United States.
In the December 2007 elections, Odinga, the candidate of the ODM, attacked the failures of the Kibaki regime.
U. S. embassy staff members were withdrawn from Tripoli after a mob attacked and set fire to the embassy in December 1979.
On December 7, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, forcing the United States into World War II a day later.
In December 1941, the Empire of Japan, which aimed to dominate East Asia and Indochina, joined the Axis, attacked the United States and European territories in the Pacific Ocean, and quickly conquered much of the West Pacific.
On 7 December, the Japanese attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor, causing the U. S. to declare war on Japan the next day.
" On December 3, Yahya preemptively attacked the Indian Air Force and Gandhi retaliated, pushing into East Pakistan.
* December 21 – Francis Garnier is attacked outside Hanoi by Black Flag mercenaries fighting for the Vietnamese.
* December 22 – Battle of Bocairente-Third Carlist War-Campaigning in Valenica, Spanish Republican General Valeriano Weyler is attacked at Bocairente, northwest of Alcoy, by a greatly superior Carlist force under General José Santés.
In 1978, he attacked the pro-European policy of Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing ( VGE ), and made a nationalist turn with the December 1978 Call of Cochin, initiated by his counsellors Marie-France Garaud and Pierre Juillet, which had first been called by Pompidou.
On the night of December 2, 1943, German Junkers Ju 88 bombers attacked the port of Bari, which was a key supply centre for Allied forces fighting their way up the Italian Peninsula.
In December, the King authorized Cromwell to discredit the papacy, and the Pope was attacked throughout the nation in sermons and pamphlets.
The town was attacked on several occasions by Henry IV, but it resisted, notably during the siege of December 1591 to May 1592, with the help of a Spanish army led by the Duke of Parma.
The US Army attacked Spotted Elk ( aka Bigfoot ), Mnicoujou band of Lakota at the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890 at Pine Ridge.
On 6 December 1944, a 750-strong detachment from Teishin Shudan (" Raiding Division ") and the Takachiho special forces unit, attacked U. S. airbases in the Burauen area on Leyte, in The Philippines.
In December 1869, Mir Jahandar Shah left camp of Emir of Bukhara in Kulab and attacked Badakhshan and burned fort Zang Kila.
In November and December 1818, several of the missions were attacked by Hipólito Bouchard, " California's only pirate.
On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces attacked the United States Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Arabs marching to Zion Square on December 2 were stopped by the British, and the Arabs instead turned towards the commercial center of the City, many buildings and shops were attacked.
In December 1664, the English suddenly attacked the Dutch Smyrna fleet.
In December 1941, Japan attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor and in the Philippines.
Just after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Jim Jordan, out of character, soberly ended the Fibber McGee show by inviting the studio audience to sing " America ".
In December 1941 Japan attacked the USA and Germany declared war on the USA shortly afterwards.

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