By December, 1958, when ' Abdallah Ibrahim became President of the Council, elections had even greater importance.

By December 1863 a proposed constitutional amendment that would outlaw slavery absolutely was brought to Congress for passage.

By December 1790 Phillip was ready to return to England, but the colony had largely been forgotten in London and no instructions reached him, so he carried on.

By December they decided to try his plan and made him a Colonel.

By a decree of 27 December 1999, the constitution was suspended and all the institutions of government were dissolved.

By December, the capital city of Nanjing had fallen to the Japanese, and Chiang moved the government inland, first to Wuhan and later to Chongqing.

By December 2001, it was ratified by the ECMA, with ISO standardization following in April 2003.

By December 1918, he left his father's home to attempt to find a job in San Francisco, California.

By December 1981, however, the U. S. had already begun to support armed opponents of the Sandinista regime.

By the time of the national assembly elections in December 1992, only three had qualified.

By December 5, 1969, the entire four-node network was established.

By the afternoon of 20 December Vitellius was dead, his armies having been defeated by the Flavian legions.

By the middle of December, some high-speed runs were made, in excess of but still well below Campbell's existing record.

By December 2006, over 1, 237, 000 square kilometers of forest land in Canada ( about half the global total ) had been certified as being sustainably managed ( Canadian Sustainable Forestry Certification Coalition ).

By the end of July 1948 Orwell was able to return to Jura and by December he had finished the manuscript of Nineteen Eighty-Four.

By the first week in December 2005, it had sold over 1 million physical copies.

By December 1958, the game Gettysburg from the Avalon Hill company had particularly captured Gygax's attention.

By late December to early January, eastern grays begin to arrive in the calving lagoons of Baja.

By December 1941, Hitler's troops had advanced to within 20 miles of the Kremlin in Moscow.

By December 1996 the Conservatives had lost their majority in the House of Commons.

By December 5, three months after leaving Los Angeles, Carson had brought Kearny's men to within of their destination San Diego.

By the end of the second day, December 7, the Americans were nearly out of food and water, low on ammunition and weak from the journey along the Gila River.

By December 10, Kearny believed all hope was gone, and planned to attempt a breakout the next morning.

By 28 December, the museum was cleared of most works, except those that were too heavy and " unimportant paintings were left in the basement ".

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.

By 1967, however, Frei encountered increasing opposition from leftists, who charged that his reforms were inadequate, and from conservatives, who found them excessive.

By 1967, when a military junta had seized power in Greece, the political impetus for enosis had faded, partly as a result of the non-aligned foreign policy of Cypriot President Makarios.

" By 1967, critics were suggesting that the programme no longer reflected life in 1960s Britain, but reflected how life was in the 1950s.

By 1967 the ELF had gained considerable support among peasants, particularly in Eritrea's north and west, and around the port city of Massawa.

By 1967, Humble Oil's Esso stations in the Southeast were rebranded to Enco.

By 1968 Parsons had come to the attention of The Byrds ' bassist, Chris Hillman, via Larry Spector ( The Byrds ' business manager ), as a possible replacement band member following the departures of David Crosby and Michael Clarke from the group in late 1967.

By this time, Parsons's own use of drugs had increased to the extent that new songs were rare and much of his time was diverted to partying with the Stones, who briefly relocated to America in the summer of 1969 to finish their forthcoming Let It Bleed album and prepare for an autumn cross-country tour, their first series of regular live engagements since 1967.

By 1967, the Zuse KG had built a total of 251 computers.

By the time of Katz, in 1967, telephones had become personal devices with lines not shared across homes and switching was electro-mechanical.

By the fall of 1967, Peckinpah was rewriting the screenplay into what became The Wild Bunch.

By 1967, only 25 nations still used the old three-mile limit, while 66 nations had set a 12-mile territorial limit and eight had set a 200-mile limit.

By 1967, the University of New Brunswick had two faculties: Arts and Applied Science.

By the early 1960s films based on commando missions like The Gift Horse ( 1952 ) based on the St. Nazaire Raid, and Ill Met by Moonlight ( 1956 ) had begun to inspire fictional adventure films such as The Guns of Navarone ( 1961 ), The Train ( 1964 ), The Dirty Dozen ( 1967 ), Where Eagles Dare ( 1968 ) and Hannibal Brooks ( 1969 ), which used the war as the backdrop for spectacular action films.

By 1967, the independent candidates had gained traction within the black community, winning several aldermanic seats ; by 1983, the League of Negro Voters would be instrumental in Washington's run for Mayor.

* Le Pétomane 1857-1945 a tribute to the unique act which shook and shattered the Moulin-Rouge ( 1967 ), By Jean Nohain and François Caradec-Publisher: Souvenir Press

By October 1967,

By the end of 1967, many of the hippies and musicians who initiated the Summer of Love had moved on.

By 1967, as related by Haley in an interview with radio host Red Robinson that same year, the group was " a free agent " without any recording contracts at all, although the band continued to perform regularly in North America and Europe.

By 1967, the economy had begun to stabilise once again and the bank rate was reduced to 6 % in March and 5. 5 % in May.

By 1968, over 550, 000 American soldiers were in Vietnam ; during 1967 and 1968 they were being killed at the rate of 1, 000 a month.

By 1967 these problems were cleared up, and the machines were re-launched along with an upgraded version of the GECOS operating system.

By 1967 the entire Saigon organization was decimated and sent further underground from the arrests.

By late 1967 the Airplane were national and international stars and had become one of the hottest groups in America.

By the fall of 1967, Peckinpah was rewriting the screenplay and preparing for production.