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.

He spent 1860 in Kentucky until December 21, when he sailed for California to take command of the Department of the Pacific.

The modern meaning of the flag was forged in December 1860 when Major Robert Anderson, acting without orders, moved the U. S. garrison from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, in defiance of the power of the new Confederate States of America.

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ( 28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860 ), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British politician and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.

Lord Aberdeen died at Argyll House, St. James's, London, on 14 December 1860, and was buried in the family vault at Stanmore. In 1994 novelist, columnist and politician Ferdinand Mount used George Gordon's life as the basis for a historical novel – Umbrella.

In December 1857, Charles Scammon, in the brig Boston, along with his schooner-tender Marin, entered Laguna Ojo de Liebre ( Jack-Rabbit Spring Lagoon ) or later known as Scammon's Lagoon ( by 1860 ) and found one of the gray's last refuges.

* G. Jean-Aubry, “ Isaac Albéniz 1860 – 1909 ,” The Musical Times, Vol 58 No. 898, Musical Times Publications Ltd., December 1917 pgs 535 – 538.

South Carolina adopted an ordinance of secession on December 20, 1860, and Mississippi did so on January 9, 1861.

* Charles Dickens ' novel, Great Expectations ( first published in serial form in the publication All the Year Round from 1 December 1860 to August 1861 ), contains a reference in chapter 48 to a couple having been married " over the broomstick.

His father, Franjo Broz ( 26 November 1860 – 16 December 1936, Zagreb, buried at Mirogoj ), was a Croat, while his mother Marija ( born Javeršek, 25 March 1864, Loka pri Podsredi – 14 January 1918, Kupinec ), was a Slovene.

* December 21 – Klara Hitler, Austrian mother of Adolf Hitler ( b. 1860 )

* December 13 – Anna Mary Robertson Moses aka Grandma Moses, painter ( b. 1860 )

* December 31 – Boies Penrose, U. S. Senator from Pennsylvania ( born 1860 )

December 29: HMS Warrior ( 1860 ) | HMS Warrior ( restored ).

* December 15 – János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician ( d. 1860 )

They safely reached the home of David and Martha Wright in Auburn, New York on December 28, 1860.

The duchy was constituted by rescript of 20 December 1860, and by imperial patent of 26 February 1861, modified by legislation of 21 December 1867, granting power to the home parliament to enact all laws not reserved to the imperial diet, at which it was represented by eleven delegates, of whom two elected by the landowners, three by the cities, towns, commercial and industrial boards, five by the village communes, and one by a fifth curia by secret ballot, every duly registered male twenty-four years of age has the right to vote.

The latter was the only important piece he composed between December 1860 and August 1863: the reasons for this probably lie in the painful re-emergence of his subjective crisis in 1860 and the purely objective difficulties which resulted from the emancipation of the serfs the following year – as a result of which the family was deprived of half its estate, and Mussorgsky had to spend a good deal of time in Karevo unsuccessfully attempting to stave off their looming impoverishment.

Ernst Moritz Arndt ( 26 December 1769 – 29 January 1860 ) was a German nationalistic and antisemitic author and poet.

He was born in Morley, West Yorkshire, England, to Joseph Dixon Asquith ( 10 February 1825 – 16 June 1860 ) and his wife Emily Willans ( 4 May 1828 – 12 December 1888 ).

Finally, on December 14, 1860 Missoula County was carved out of Spokane County with the county seat at Hell Gate.

The railroad ran its first train on December 22, 1860, making Rolla the terminus of the road.

János Bolyai ( pronounced ) ( December 15, 1802 – January 27, 1860 ) was a Hungarian mathematician, one of the founders of non-Euclidean geometry — a geometry that differs from Euclidean geometry in its definition of parallel lines.

The Panthers got their second win of the season against the Arizona Cardinals on December 19, 2010 with a score of 19-12.

When The Byrds performed on December 12, 1965, David Crosby got into a shouting match with the show's director.

Filming got underway on 6 December 1929 and wrapped on 22 January 1930.

But finally on December 5, 2011, the Chargers got their first win in over a month against the Jacksonville Jaguars, beating their also-struggling team.

On 31 December, in his annual summary, he wrote that ' I have never lived so merrily ( besides that I never got so much ) as I have done this plague time '.

The band got their first positive press in late December, with Johnson tipping them for success in 1985 in Sounds, with a feature on the band following in January.

Patrick and Vanecko got a $ 13, 114 " tax distribution " in December 2004.

On December 21 Patton met with General Bradley to go over the impending advance: " Brad, this time the Kraut's stuck his head in the meatgrinder, and I've got hold of the handle.

He got down to business in early November, however, and rehearsals began in December.

Its history dates back to December 1954, when Saab got a license to build its own copy of BESK, an early Swedish computer design using vacuum tubes, from Matematikmaskinnämnden ( the Swedish governmental board for mathematical machinery ).

After appearing for three seasons on The Tracey Ullman Show, the Simpson family got their own series on Fox that debuted December 17, 1989.

In addition to winning various national and regional awards, Chattanooga was the profile city of the August 2007 edition of US Airways Magazine, Volkswagen announced the construction of its first U. S. auto plant in over three decades, the Volkswagen Chattanooga Assembly Plant, in July 2008, Chattanooga was ranked 8th out of America's 100 largest metro areas for the best " Bang For Your Buck " city, according to Forbes magazine, which measured overall affordability, housing rates, and more, in December 2009, and got the first one gigabit a second Internet service in the United States in September 2010 through the city-owned utility of EPB, among other major events.

In December Heine met the Marxes and got on well with them.

But in December 1809 they got a message that they had waited too long and the Emperor had taken on himself the decision to ask the engineer Perier ( 1742 – 1818 ) to build a steam engine to operate the pumps at Marly.

* You've got Sendmail, Salon article about sendmail going commercial ( December 1998 )

" Rockin ' Around the Christmas Tree " got noticed in its third release a few months later, and sales snowballed ; the song remains a perennial favorite each December and is the record with which she is most identified by contemporary audiences.

In December 2006, Kjell Jonevret became head coach after Stavrum got fired, even though Ove Christensen was their first choice.

" His strong stand got a contract for Rand in December 1941.

As Donald's popularity grew, he became the star of the Silly Symphony strip for an extended run ( August 1936 to December 1937 ), and then got his own daily strip starting on February 7, 1938.

Otto Messmer gave two different versions of how Felix got his name, the one on his official site ” Rejoining Sullivan with a great idea for a new character named Felix the Cat, and the second that ” Mr. ( John ) King of Paramount Magazine suggested the name " Felix ", after the Latin words felis ( cat ) and felix ( lucky ), which was used for the third film, The Adventures of Felix ( released on 14 December 1919 ).

During the Second Intifada, Petah Tikva suffered three terrorist attacks: On May 27, 2002, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a small cafe outside a shopping mall, leaving two dead, including a baby ; on December 25, 2003, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a bus stop near the Geha bridge, killing 4 civilians, and on February 5, 2006, a Palestinian got into a shuttle taxi, pulled out a knife, and began stabbing passengers killing two of them, but a worker from a nearby factory hit him with a log, subduing him.

When Demjanjuk was convicted in 2011 his son claimed, in an email to Associated Press, " My dad is a survivor of the genocide famine in Ukraine .. " When interviewed in late December 2009, residents of Dubovi Makharyntsi declared that Demjanjuk got along well with the Jewish families living nearby.

The studio was in dire financial straits when it got a big break in December 1990 with the release of Kevin Costner's Western epic Dances with Wolves.

After dismissal of the first indictment as inadequate, the trial finally got under way on 3 December with an expanded indictment.

On December 7, 1935, the Bombers got their first shot at winning the Grey Cup.