During the pension year ended December 31, 1960, 23 employees retired, making a total of 171 currently retired under the Company's pension plan.

The main treaty was opened for signature on December 1, 1959, and officially entered into force on June 23, 1961.

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

Abraham Joshua Heschel ( January 11, 1907 – December 23, 1972 ) was a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century.

The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act ( ANCSA ) was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon on December 23, 1971, the largest land claims settlement in United States history.

Herman Boerhaave (, 31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738 ) was a Dutch botanist, humanist and physician of European fame.

Josiah was born at Ecton, Northamptonshire, England, on December 23, 1657, the son of Thomas Franklin, a blacksmith-farmer, and Jane White.

Trier was taken on 26 October and Landau fell on 23 November to the Margrave of Baden and Prince Eugene ; with the fall of Trarbach on 20 December, the campaign season for 1704 came to an end.

The second special was broadcast on Friday 23 December 1988.

#** Prince Louis Napoléon Murat ( Paris, December 22, 1851-Paris, September 22, 1912 ), married in Odessa, 23 November, 1873 Eudoxia Mikhailovna Somova ( Kharkov, February 17, 1850-Nice, May 6, 1924 ), related to Orest Somov, and had issue now extinct in male line ( great-grandfather of actor René Auberjonois )

Chaplin also concentrated on his family, to which he and Oona added three more children, Jane Cecil ( b. 23 May 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 3 December 1959 ) and Christopher James ( b. 8 July 1962 ).

Hot spots in the present civil war. The war started on December 23, 2005, when the government of Chad declared a state of war with Sudan and called for the citizens of Chad to mobilize themselves against the " common enemy ," which the Chadian government sees as the Rally for Democracy and Liberty ( RDL ) militants, Chadian rebels, backed by the Sudanese government, and Sudanese militiamen.

The Spanish musician probably wrote the work by 1827, the date he returned to Barcelona, and his hymn debuted in Santiago, in the Arteaga theater, 23 December 1828.

Costa Rican colones (₡) per US $ 1 – 512. 11 ( September 4, 2010 ), US $ 1 – 559. 51 ( October 24, 2008 ), per US $ 1 – 500. 10 ( December 2007 ), 516. 78 ( November 2007 ), 506. 11 ( April 2006 ), 479. 57 ( July 2005 ), 299. 63 ( February 2000 ), 285. 68 ( 1999 ), 257. 23 ( 1998 ), 232. 60 ( 1997 ), 207. 69 ( 1996 ) and 179. 73 ( 1995 )

As of 23 December 2011, the Deputy Prime Ministers are Radimir Čačić, Neven Mimica, Branko Grčić, and Milanka Opačić.

As of 23 December 2011, the prime minister is Zoran Milanović.

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The US Federal Reserve was created by the U. S. Congress through the passing of The Federal Reserve Act in the Senate and its signing by President Woodrow Wilson on the same day, December 23, 1913.

Soyuz TMA-20 / Expedition 26 / 27 ( December 15, 2010, to May 23, 2011 ) was an extended duration mission to the International Space Station.

* Johann Wilhelm Ritter, chemist and physicist, born December 16, 1776 in nearby Samitz, died January 23, 1810 in Munich

Cleveland faced the Rams on December 23 in a rematch of the previous year's title game.

This did not happen, and Beria was forced to resign from all his party posts on 26 June, and was later executed on 23 December.

On December 23, 1788, Thompson seriously fractured his leg, forcing him to spend the next two winters at Cumberland House convalescing.

The two clubs had first met in 1960, and in 1972 met in the playoffs for the first time on December 23 at Candlestick Park, in the Divisional round of the 1972 NFC playoffs.

* The Emperor's Birthday, a national holiday in Japan ( December 23 )

Pope Leo XIII ( Constitutio Universae Eccles., 29 December 1878 ) ordained that they should be written henceforth in ordinary Latin characters upon ordinary parchment, and that no abbreviations should be used except those easily understood.

Monet lived from December 1871 to 1878 at Argenteuil, a village on the right bank of the Seine river near Paris, and a popular Sunday-outing destination for Parisians, where he painted some of his best known works.

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (; born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, ; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953 ) was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 until his death in 5 March 1953.

The last Labrador Duck is believed to have been seen at Elmira, New York on December 12, 1878 ; the last preserved specimen was shot in 1875 on Long Island.

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* December 11 – Hiram Paulding, American admiral ( d. 1878 )

* December 17 – Joseph Henry, American scientist ( d. 1878 )

* December 9 – The fourth battle of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877 – 1878 is fought, concluding the Siege of Plevna.

His maternal grandparents were Benjamin Davis Wilson ( December 1, 1811 to March 11, 1878 ), mayor of Los Angeles in 1851 – 1852 and the namesake of Southern California's Mount Wilson, and his second wife, Margaret Hereford.

After the success of Pinafore, Gilbert was eager to get started on the next opera, and he began working on the libretto in December 1878.

She learns later — in Book 83, December 29, 1878 — from her father ( but does not apparently accept his statement, as she ignores it here in her preface ) that she was a full-term baby, suggesting that she was conceived before her parents had married and that all the mystification about her date of birth was intended to cover up that embarrassment.

His paternal Great-grandparents were John Walton Avery ( December 16, 1805-January 13, 1878, buried at Rock Springs Cemetery, Randolph County, AL ) and wife Elizabeth Brannon Tomme Avery ( October 17, 1809-October 15, 1895, buried at Mount Pisgah Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Stroud, AL ).

Whistler published his account of the trial in the pamphlet Whistler v. Ruskin: Art and Art Critics, included in his later The Gentle Art of Making Enemies ( 1890 ), in December 1878, soon after the trial.

The first $ 38, 000 courthouse in the newly defined county opened December 1878 west of Hanley Road and north of Clayton Road.

" The first post office had opened under the name Tapley in December 1878, but changed its name to Natoma in July 1890.

A post office was established on December 20, 1878.

The city of Heidelberg, Minnesota was platted December 4, 1878.

In 1878 the Neo-Gothic church St. John the Baptist was erected and consecrated on December 15.

The election held on December 10, 1878 was a close one.

Molly Maguire ringleader Jack Kehoe was also hanged for murder in Pottsville December 18, 1878.