* The HMS Challenger expedition ( December 1872 – May 1876 ) first sounded the depths now known as the Challenger Deep.

* Review of Charles Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals The Times Friday, December 13, 1872 ; pg.

In 1872 the first secondary school was built. On 3 December 1877 Grenada's old representative system of government was replaced by the pure Crown Colony model.

* William Howell, born on December 6, 1861, and named for Varina's father ; died of diphtheria on October 16, 1872.

The origins of Labour Day in Canada can be traced back to December 1872 when a parade was staged in support of the Toronto Typographical Union's strike for a 58-hour work-week.

The trench was first sounded during the Challenger expedition ( December 1872 – May 1876 ), which recorded a depth of 4, 475 fathoms, 8, 184 m ( 26, 850 feet ).

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* December 14 – Sidónio Pais, 4th President of Portugal ( b. 1872 )

* December 16 – William Larned, American tennis champion ( b. 1872 )

* December 26 – Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, British admiral ( b. 1872 )

* December 5 – Louis Dewis, Belgian Post-Impressionist painter ( b. 1872 )

* December 14 – Edna Wallace Hopper, stage actress ( b. 1872 )

* December 3 – Bill Johnson, American musician ( b. 1872 )

* December 29 – Reggie Doherty, British tennis player ( b. 1872 )

* December 14 – Anton Korošec, Slovenian political leader ( b. 1872 )

* December 31 – George Meade, American general ( d. 1872 )

* December 26 – Mary Fairfax Somerville, British mathematician ( d. 1872 )

The opera was soon mounted at major opera houses throughout Italy, including the Teatro Regio di Parma ( 20 April 1872 ), the Teatro di San Carlo ( 30 March 1873 ), La Fenice ( 11 June 1873 ), the Teatro Regio di Torino ( 26 December 1874 ), the Teatro Comunale di Bologna ( 30 September 1877, with Giuseppina Pasqua as Amneris and Franco Novara as the King ), and the Teatro Costanzi ( 8 October 1881, with Theresia Singer as Aida and Giulia Novelli as Amneris ) among others.

The Revised Version was finished in 1872 ( vocal score, 14 December 1871 ; full score 23 June 1872 ), and submitted to the Imperial Theatres in the autumn.

The Revised Version of 1872 received its Moscow premiere on 16 December 1888 at the Bolshoy Theatre.

** Zemio ca. 1872 established ; December 11, 1894 under Congo Free State protectorate, April 12, 1909 under French protectorate ; 1923 Sultanate suppressed

From August 1872 to December 1873, Wilhelm Dinesen had lived among the Chippewa Indians, in Wisconsin, where he fathered a daughter, who was born after his return to Denmark.

The Fürstenthum District was dissolved on 1 September 1872 and replaced with the Cöslin District on December 13.

Mary Anne Disraeli, 1st Viscountess Beaconsfield ( 11 November 1792 – 15 December 1872 ) was a British peeress and society figure, the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.

During December Battalion forwards Cody Hodgson and Evgeny Grachev represented their respective countries ( Canada and Russia ) at the World Junior Hockey Championships in Ottawa.

John Patrick Cardinal Cody ( December 24, 1907 – April 25, 1982 ) was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church.

Cody was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Francesco Marchetti Selvaggiani on December 8, 1931.

* Bishop John Christopher Cody ( June 2, 1950 – December 5, 1963 )

On 29 December 1909 Cody became the first man to fly from Liverpool in an unsuccessful attempt to fly non-stop between Liverpool and Manchester.

On 7 June 1910 Cody received Royal Aero Club certificate number 9 using a newly built aircraft and won the Michelin Cup for the longest flight made in England during 1910 with a flight of 4 hours 47 minutes on 31 December.

On the December 30, 2011 episode of SmackDown Dustin appeared in his suit attire and no make up, to defend Booker T and confront his half brother, Cody Rhodes.

Henry John Cody ( December 6, 1868 – April 27, 1951 ) was a Canadian clergyman and President of the University of Toronto from 1932 to 1945 and Chancellor from 1944 to 1947.

Traveling with William Cody, Buntline became enamored with the gregarious man and would claim that he devised the nickname " Buffalo Bill " for the hero of his serial novel Buffalo Bill, the King of the Border Men, published in the New York Weekly beginning 23 December 1869.

In December of that year, Buntline wrote a Buffalo Bill play of his own called Scouts of the Prairie starring Cody himself, Texas Jack Omohundro, the Italian ballerina Giuseppina Morlacchi and Buntline.

Scouts of the Prairie opened in Chicago in December 1872 and starred Cody and although panned by critics, the play was a success.

Hansen resigned his Senate seat on December 31, 1978, three days before the expiration of his term to give a slight seniority edge to his moderate Republican successor Alan Kooi Simpson of Cody, brother of Peter Simpson and son of conservative Milward Simpson, Hansen's U. S. Senate predecessor.

On December 10, 2007, on the Raw 15th Anniversary special episode, Rhodes was at ringside to see Cody and Hardcore Holly defeat Lance Cade and Trevor Murdoch for the World Tag Team Championship, and congratulated the two on their victory afterwards.

Daniel Price Cody ( born December 1, 1983 in Ada, Oklahoma ) is an American football linebacker who is currently out of football.

Core members included founder George Frayne IV ( alias Commander Cody, born 19 July 1944, Boise City, Idaho, USA ) on keyboards & vocals ; Billy C. Farlow ( b. Decatur, Alabama, USA ) on vocals & harmonica ; John Tichy ( b. St. Louis, Missouri, USA ) on guitar & vocals ; Bill Kirchen ( b. 29 January 1948, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA ) on lead guitar ; Andy Stein ( b. 31 August 1948, New York, USA ) on saxophone & fiddle ; Paul " Buffalo " Bruce Barlow ( b. 3 December 1948, Oxnard, California, USA ) on bass guitar ; Lance Dickerson ( b. 15 October 1948, Livonia, Michigan, USA ) on drums ; and Bobby Black on steel guitar.

Between October and December 1928 a number of naval families, including Hubbard's, traveled from Guam to China aboard the USS Gold Star.

Hazmi stayed in California until he met up with Hani Hanjour in December 2000 and they both traveled to Phoenix, Arizona.

In 875, after the death of the Emperor Louis II ( son of his half-brother Lothair ), Charles the Bald, supported by Pope John VIII, traveled to Italy, receiving the royal crown at Pavia and the imperial insignia in Rome on 29 December.

Its first line began operating in December 1876, and traveled from the courthouse down Main Street to the T & P Depot.

Accompanied by her mother, Davis traveled by train to Hollywood, arriving on December 13, 1930.

Georgette traveled with him to Spain the end of December 1930 and returned in January 1932.

From there, it traveled overland by truck and was placed on the new rails at Victoria on December 22, 2004.

In December 2004 the band traveled to Iraq and played several shows for US troops in the area, with drummer Byron McMackin of Pennywise filling in for Freese.

Charles left Spain and traveled overland from Seville to Antibes ; he then went to Tuscany, arriving at Livorno on 27 December 1731.

Most then traveled by ship to Indianola in December, 1844 and began the overland journey to the Fisher-Miller Land Grant purchased by Prince Solms.

Buffalo Bill ’ s Wild West returned to Europe in December 1902 with a fourteen-week run in London complete with a visit from King Edward VII and the future King George V. The Wild West traveled throughout Great Britain during the 1902-03 tour as well as the 1904 tour, performing in nearly every city large enough to support it.

She and several friends, including Ellen Gates Starr, traveled in Europe from December 1887 through the summer of 1888.

He has written that on December 21, 1973, he traveled by charter bus from Toronto to Pittsburgh to attend a " miracle service " conducted by evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman.

He was known to have traveled to Philadelphia and by December 1801 was living in New York City.

After a short stay in Paris, he traveled to New York, arriving on 11 December 1911.

In November – December of 1595, Annibale and Agostino traveled to Rome to begin decorating the Camerino with stories of Hercules, appropriate since the room housed the famous Greco-Roman antique sculpture of the hypermuscular Farnese Hercules.

Huygens detached a month later than originally planned ( December 2004 instead of November ) and approached Titan in such a way that its transmissions traveled perpendicular to its direction of motion relative to Cassini, greatly reducing the Doppler shift.

In December, Santos traveled to Japan and finished in the second position in the FIFA Club World Cup, beaten by Barcelona ( 4 – 0 ).

In December 2005 the Pride Band traveled to London, England to be the honor band in the London New Year's Day parade, and was the Honor Band in the 2009 McDonald's Thanksgiving Parade in Chicago, Illinois.

Distance traveled between white-tailed prairie dog burrows from December to March averaged over 149 track routes.

On December 1, 1970 an F3 tornado touched down in Hortonville, traveled northeast and stopped 2. 5 miles from the center of Black Creek.

Olav Aukrust joined the Anthroposophical Society in December 1921 after he and his wife, Gudrun Aukrust, traveled through Goetheanum on their way home from Italy.

In December 2009 they traveled to Spain for the Purple Weekend festival.

In December 1869, the Lomax family traveled by ox cart from Mississippi to Texas.