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.

Starting with the 7th Academy Awards, held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

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

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.

Ahmed III ( Ottoman Turkish: احمد ثالث Aḥmed-i < u > s </ u > āli < u > s </ u >) < span dir =" ltr ">( December 30 / 31, 1673 – July 1, 1736 )</ span > was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of Sultan Mehmed IV ( 1648 – 87 ).

The ascent stage of lunar module Challenger impacted the Moon 15 December 1972 at 06: 50: 20. 8 UT ( 1: 50 AM EST ), at.

In December 2008, Aston Martin announced that it would cut its 1, 850 workforce by 600.

DXF was originally introduced in December 1982 as part of AutoCAD 1. 0, and was intended to provide an exact representation of the data in the AutoCAD native file format, DWG ( Drawing ), for which Autodesk for many years did not publish specifications.

On 1 December 2009, Standard and Poors upgraded Bulgaria's investment outlook from " negative " to " stable ," which made Bulgaria the only country in the European Union to receive positive upgrade that year.

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

At its most recent meeting, November 27 – December 1, 2006, the Conference of the Parties of the Basel Agreement focused on issues of electronic waste and the dismantling of ships.

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

The Crickets performed " That'll Be the Day " and " Peggy Sue " on The Ed Sullivan Show on December 1.

Babrak Karmal (, born Sultan Hussein ; 6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996 ) was an Afghan politician and statesman during the Cold War.

On December 1, 2006, Selig announced that he would be retiring as commissioner of baseball upon the expiration of his contract in 2009.

On January 19, 1976, the Internal Revenue Service notified the university that its tax exemption had been revoked retroactively to December 1, 1970.

In 1972, the Blue Angels were awarded the Navy's Meritorious Unit Commendation for the two-year period from 1 March 1970 – 31 December 1971.

The French constitutional referendum of September 1958 dissolved the AEF, and on 1 December of the same year the Assembly declared the birth of the autonomous Central African Republic with Boganda as head of government.

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 )

On December 1, 1948, President José Figueres Ferrer of Costa Rica abolished the military of Costa Rica after victory in the civil war in that year.

In 1986, President Oscar Arias Sánchez declared December 1 as the Día de la Abolición del Ejército ( Military abolition day ) with Law # 8115.

According to the most authoritative source on the early history of Lie groups ( Hawkins, p. 1 ), Sophus Lie himself considered the winter of 1873 – 1874 as the birth date of his theory of continuous groups.

On 1 January 1874 Liegnitz became the third city in Lower Silesia ( after Breslau and Görlitz ) to be raised to an urban district, although the district administrator of the surrounding Landkreis Liegnitz continued to have his seat in the city.

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.

Paragraph 19 of the revised constitution of 1874 extended the definition of the federal army to every able-bodied male citizen, swelling the size of the army ( at least in theory ) from under 150, 000 to more than 700, 000, with population growth during the 20th century rising further to some 1. 5 million, the second largest armed force per capita after the Israeli Defence Forces.

Edison filed for a U. S. patent on the duplex telegraph on 1 September 1874 and received on 9 August 1892.

Congress undertook an official codification called the Revised Statutes approved June 22, 1874, for the laws in effect as of December 1, 1873.

* Matthew, H. C. G. Gladstone, 1809 – 1874 ( 1988 ); Gladstone, 1875 – 1898 ( 1995 ) excerpt & text search vol 1

* 1874 – 1, 664 runs and 140 wickets

* May 1 – Grant Mitchell, American actor ( b. 1874 )

* February 1 – Frank Shannon, American actor ( b. 1874 )

* December 27 – Siege of Bilbao-Third Carlist War -( 27 December 1873-2 May 1874 )- Campaigning in Navarre, Pretender Don Carlos VII and General Joaquín Elío besiege Bilbao, held by General Ignacio del Castillo and 1, 200 men.

* September 1 – Giuseppe Gabriel Balsamo-Crivelli, Italian naturalist ( d. 1874 )

Relying heavily on photographic methods, the naval observers returned 350 photographic plates in 1874, and 1, 380 measurable plates in 1882.

The 1874 version has been seldom played and success came only after major revisions in 1878, including a completely new scherzo and finale, and again in 1880 – 1, once again with a completely rewritten finale.

By 1859, their numbers were reduced to about 1, 400 ; however, by 1874 they were back up to 2, 000.

Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (; 1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929 ), was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.

After sending scouts to North America in 1873 along with a Mennonite delegation, three groups totaling 1, 265 individuals migrated to North America between 1874 and 1879 in response to the new Russian military service law.

He was, however, awarded 44 Austro-Hungarian gulden on 1 October 1874 for the discovery of Franz Joseph Land.

It became a legal town in 1874 and had a peak population of 1, 600 in 1913.

Olive Branch was incorporated as a town on May 1, 1874.

The population density was 1874. 1 people per square mile ( 723. 6 / km² ).

He wrote a large amount of act 1 and completed it during a trip to Algiers in 1874.

It was the northernmost township in Wood County from its establishment on April 18, 1874 until December 1, 1962.