To address this growing practice, and to restore integrity to the game, at its December 1868 meeting the NABBP established a professional category for the 1869 season.

Sir David Brewster ( 11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868 ) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.

The First Vatican Council was convoked by Pope Pius IX on 29 June 1868, after a period of planning and preparation that began on 6 December 1864.

There, he became State's attorney for the twenty-seventh judicial district of Illinois, holding the position from March 1861 to December 1868.

Christopher Houston " Kit " Carson ( December 24, 1809 – May 23, 1868 ) was an American frontiersman and Indian fighter.

# Arkansas ( April 6, 1868, after having rejected it on December 17, 1866 )

# Florida ( June 9, 1868, after having rejected it on December 6, 1866 )

# North Carolina ( July 4, 1868, after having rejected it on December 14, 1866 )

# South Carolina ( July 9, 1868, after having rejected it on December 20, 1866 )

Evelyn Ashley famously described the scene in the grounds of Hawarden Castle on 1 December 1868, though getting the date wrong:

* December 2 – Edmond Rostand, French writer ( b. 1868 )

* December 10 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect ( b. 1868 )

* December 24 – Kit Carson, American frontiersman ( d. 1868 )

* December 12 – Henrietta Swan Leavitt, American astronomer ( born 1868 )

* December 4 – Stefan George, German poet ( b. 1868 )

* December 3 – Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom, daughter of King Edward VII and the younger sister of King George V ( b. 1868 )

Congressman Oakes Ames testified Garfield had purchased 10 shares of Crédit Mobiler stock for $ 1000, received accrued stock interest and $ 329 ( 33 per cent ) in dividends sometime between December 1867 and June 1868.

Robert A. Millikan ( March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953 ) was an American experimental physicist, and Nobel laureate in physics for his measurement of the charge on the electron and for his work on the photoelectric effect.

Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand (; 1 April 1868 – 2 December 1918 ) was a French poet and dramatist.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh ( 7 June 1868 – 10 December 1928 ) was a Scottish architect, designer, watercolourist and artist.

* December 22, 1868: Chattanooga, Tennessee A boy who refused to be whipped and left school, returned with his brother and a friend, the next day to seek revenge on his teacher.

Baker County was established on December 30, 1868, named for Alfred Baker, with its county seat at Grantville.

On December 1, 1868 the county was abolished and Etowah County was created from the same territory.

Escambia County was established after the American Civil War, on December 10, 1868 during the Reconstruction era.

At the Mongol camp near Kars Andrew had met a certain David, who in December 1248 appeared at the court of King Louis IX of France in Cyprus.

In December 1978, the federal district court ruled in the university's favor ; two years later, that decision was overturned by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

On December 15, 2002, on the ensuing trial highlights the government's failure to demonstrate in court that the alleged coup attempt had ever actually taken place.

With the exception of a single gray whale killed in 1999, the Makah people have been prevented from hunting by a series of legal challenges, culminating in a United States federal appeals court decision in December 2002 that required the National Marine Fisheries Service to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement.

The longest prison sentence in a Norwegian trial where the main charge was insider trading, was for 8 years ( where 2 of the years are suspended ) when Alain Angelil was convicted in a district court on December 9, 2011.

Together with John Pilger and Jemima Khan, Ken Loach was among the six people in court willing to offer surety for Julian Assange when he was arrested in London on 7 December 2010.

Sigismund fled to his brother's court in Prague and, following Mary's abdication, Charles was crowned on 31 December, with Mary and her mother forced to attend his coronation.

Enrico Fermi created the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, called Chicago Pile-1 ( CP-1 ), in a racquets court below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago on December 2, 1942.

Pope Celestine V abdicated on 13 December 1294 at Naples, where he had established the papal court under the patronage of King Charles II of Sicily.

Warren G. Harding had first suggested US involvement in 1923, and in 9 December 1929, three court protocols were signed by him.

After being tried and convicted by a kangaroo court for genocide and other crimes, they were executed on December 25, 1989.

In December 2007, Hamdi Quran confessed in an Israeli court to assassinating Ze ' evi together with Basel al-Asmar after being instructed by PFLP member Majdi Rahima Rimawi.

In December 2008, an Israeli military court sentenced Ahmad Sa ' adat, leader of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ), to 30 years in prison for heading an " illegal terrorist organization " and for his responsibility for all actions carried out by his organization.

In December 1483 Richard instituted what later became known as the Court of Requests, a court to which poor people who could not afford legal representation could apply for their grievances to be heard.

* December 20 – A Missouri court passes the death sentence on Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria, for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.

* December 15 – Ignaz Aurelius Fessler, court councillor and minister to Alexander I ( b. 1756 )

* December 14 – Ganlu Incident: In the northeast sector of the Chinese capital Chang ' an, after a failure by the chancellor Li Xun to slaughter the powerful eunuchs, troops under the eunuchs ' command slaughter many court officials and Li Xun's associates.

A resolution, to have the capital moved from Lewiston to Boise, was passed by the Idaho Territorial Legislature on December 7, 1864, six weeks before the territorial legislature's session legally began, and after litigation, on a split decision decided by one vote on the territorial supreme court on geographic lines.

On 28 December 1791, three and a half weeks after Mozart's death, his widow Constanze offered to send a manuscript score of The Magic Flute to the electoral court in Bonn.

On 24 December 1903, after receiving a court ruling that performances in the United States could not be prevented by Bayreuth, the New York Metropolitan Opera staged the complete opera, using many Bayreuth-trained singers.

On 22 December 2003, the appeals court agreed with the acquittal, and on 5 January 2004, Norway's Økokrim ( Economic Crime Unit ) decided not to pursue the case further.

On 15 December 2011, the Paris court declared him guilty of diverting public funds and abusing public confidence, and gave Chirac a two-year suspended prison sentence.

On Wednesday, December 10, 2003, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that upheld the key provisions of McCain-Feingold ; the vote on the court was 5 to 4.

This would eventually lead to another court case, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, which went to trial on September 26, 2005 and was decided in U. S. District Court on December 20, 2005 in favor of the plaintiffs, who charged that a mandate that intelligent design be taught was an unconstitutional establishment of religion.