* December 26 – " I Want to Hold Your Hand " and " I Saw Her Standing There " are released in the U. S., marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.

* December 2004 Twins Hold Hands Hong Kong 112 pages

We Hold These Truths was first broadcast on December 15, 1941, in honor of the 150th anniversary of the United States Bill of Rights.

On 18 December 1916, she married Olympic bobsled champion Jay O ' Brien and made her motion picture debut in To Have and to Hold that same year.

In the 22 December 1984 Billboard magazine interview, Houston admitted to "' no real commercial success ' since the single ' Don't Leave Me This Way ' broke on the Pop charts in late 1976 " indicating that the disco backlash had left her with " no real base of audience support " and that her current album Qualifying Heat, executive produced by Houston herself, was a concentrated initiative to restore her as a viable chart presence ; the album featured three cuts from Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis-including the single " You Used to Hold Me So Tight "-and production work from Glen Ballard, Dennis Lambert, Cliff Magness and-in his first known recording work-Lenny Kravitz ( then billed as Romeo Blue ), who each produced a cut apiece.

EMI and Brian Epstein finally convinced American label Capitol Records, a subsidiary of EMI, that the Beatles could make an impact in the US, leading to the release of " I Want to Hold Your Hand " with " I Saw Her Standing There " on the B-Side as a single on 26 December 1963.

The station had the distinction of playing the first Beatles record on New York radio, in late December 1963, when Jack Spector aired " I Want to Hold Your Hand ".

opens with the December 1963 Capitol single " I Want to Hold Your Hand "/" I Saw Her Standing There ", and the B-side " This Boy " from the original November 1963 Parlophone single of " I Want to Hold Your Hand ".

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Its AM counterpart ( now WWRC ) was the first American radio station to play a Beatles song when it played " I Want to Hold Your Hand " in December 1963.

In December 1963, Capitol Records released the song in the United States as the B-side on the label's first single by The Beatles, " I Want to Hold Your Hand ".

On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.

On the evening of December 27th, Esther noticed my pallid look and rasping voice.

On December 5 he paced a mile in 55 on the twice-around, out in third position all the way.

On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.

On the December 13, 2010 episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen reads a passage of A Modest Proposal in support of Ted Turner's suggestions on reducing overpopulation by having poor people sell ( to rich people ) their right to bear a single child per family.

On the Arctic Circle those events occur, in principle, exactly once per year, at the June and December solstices, respectively.

On 31 December 1809, a decree of King Maximilian of Bavaria granted the city a new coat of arms, as a recognition of their ( mainly humanitarian and logistic ) services in the Battle of Abensberg the same year.

* On Saint Nicholas Day ( 6 December ), the Niklasmarkt ( Nicholas Market ) commemorates the Niklasspende, a medieval foundation for the poor.

On December 1, 2008, the Curb Exchange building at 86 Trinity Place was closed, and the Amex Equities trading floor was moved to the NYSE Trading floor at 11 Wall Street.

On December 30, 1943, during the Japanese occupation, Subhas Chandra Bose, who was controversially allied with the Japanese, first raised the flag of Indian independence.

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

On 11 December 1885, after a speech by Lord Aberdeen, Lady Aberdeen unveiled a bronze statue and plaque of Alexander Selkirk outside a house on the site of Selkirk's original home on the Main Street of Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland.

On opening night ( 10 December 1896 ), with traditionalists and the avant-garde in the audience, King Ubu ( played by Firmin Gémier ) stepped forward and intoned the opening word, " Merdre!

On 23 December 1915, Fleming married a trained nurse, Sarah Marion McElroy of Killala, County Mayo, Ireland.

On December 6, 2001, Arthur M. Blank, the co-founder and retired co-chairman of Atlanta-based Home Depot, reached a preliminary agreement with the Falcons ’ Taylor Smith to purchase the team.

On December 10, 2007, Vick received a 23-month prison sentence and was officially cut from the Atlanta roster.

On December 11, 13 games into his first NFL season as head coach, Bobby Petrino resigned without notice to coach at the University of Arkansas, leaving the beleaguered players only a note in the locker room.

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.

On December 3, 2007 the Diamondbacks traded Carlos Quentin, who had failed to perform to expectation, to the Chicago White Sox for first base prospect Chris Carter.

On December 14, in a blockbuster trade, the Diamondbacks acquired starting RHP Dan Haren from the Oakland Athletics for six players: LHP Brett Anderson, LHP Dana Eveland and LHP Greg Smith ; the above-mentioned just-acquired infielder Chris Carter ; and outfielders Aaron Cunningham and Carlos Gonzalez.

On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.

On December 9, 2008, Atari announced that it had acquired Cryptic Studios, an MMORPG developer.

On 5 December 2009 AZ announced that Koeman no longer was in charge of AZ, after losing 7 of the first 16 games in the Dutch competition.

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

The regime broke off relations with Hanoi in December 1977, protesting Vietnam's alleged attempt to create an Indochina Federation.

Eritrea broke diplomatic relations with the Sudan in December 1994.

In December 2005, jailed Intifada leader Marwan Barghouti broke ranks with the party and announced that he had formed a new political list to run in the elections called the al-Mustaqbal (" The Future "), mainly composed of members of Fatah's " Young Guard.

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.

In December 1952, a riot broke out in Casablanca over the murder of a Tunisian labor leader ; this event marked a watershed in relations between Moroccan political parties and French authorities.

The Giants broke their losing streak and regained their position atop the NFC East Division with a tightly contested 37 – 34 victory over the Cowboys on December 11.

During a storm on December 29, 1999, the Russian oil tanker Volgoneft broke in two in the Sea of Marmara, and more than 1500 tonnes of oil were spilled into the water.

On September 13, 2012, after announcement of further quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve, the index broke above this range to an intraday high of 13, 573. 33 and a close of 13, 539. 86, the highest levels reached since December 26, 2007.

In 1904, massive strike waves broke out in Odessa in the spring, Kiev in July, and Baku in December.

The even more massive St. Lucia's flood occurred 14 December 1287, when the seawalls broke during a storm, killing approximately 50, 000 to 80, 000 people in the fifth largest flood in recorded history.

During the aftermath of this crisis, on 21 December 1963, intercommunal violence broke out between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

However, Hu Zongnan went back to Pukou on December 5 when news broke that Japanese had already deployed along the north bank of the Yangtze.

In preparation for the December 2005 Iraqi election, INC broke with the United Iraqi Alliance and formed its own multi-ethnic coalition, the National Congress Coalition.

Mass rioting broke out on December 9 after a Palestinian teen was shot dead by an Israeli soldier after having thrown a Molotov cocktail at an army patrol.

While the window was in storage in the Minster's stonemasons ' yard, a fire broke out in some adjoining offices, due to an electrical fault, on 30 December 2009.

Under Hitchcock's first year, two milestones were set: on December 10, 2006, the Blue Jackets scored a team-record five power-play goals in a 6 – 2 win over the Ottawa Senators, and on April 3, 2007, the Blue Jackets broke the modern-day record for most times being shut-out in a season ( 16 ) with a 3 – 0 loss to the Detroit Red Wings.

The fourteen survivors of the tribe were placed in protective custody in the county jail, but the Paxton Boys returned on December 27, broke into the jail, and butchered the remaining Conestogas.

When his Cabinet broke up in December 1958, he was appointed to the honorary position of Minister of State, the Dutch Labour Party appointed him a member of its Executive Council for life in 1959.

In one such example, Dragnet broke one of the unspoken ( and still rarely broached ) taboos of popular entertainment in the episode ". 22 Rifle for Christmas " which aired December 22, 1949 and was repeated at Christmastime for the next three years.

Daly was associated with an act of frontier heroism that occurred when a fire broke out during a Christmas program at the isolated Oregon town of Silver Lake in December, 1894.

Governor John Penn placed the remaining fourteen Conestogas in protective custody in Lancaster, but the Paxton Boys broke in, killed, and mutilated all fourteen people on December 27, 1763.

On December 22, 2008, a impoundment containing fly ash slurry from the power plant broke, spilling more than of waste into the surrounding area.

On December 2, 2006, at the city's 16th Annual Festival of Lights, Smithville broke the Guinness World Record for the world's largest gingerbread man.

On 6 December 1992, hundreds of VHP and BJP activists broke down an organized protest into a frenzied attack, and razed the mosque.