Image: Construction tour eiffel6. JPG | 26 December 1888

Eiffel had been working on the project for little more than a year when the company suspended payments of interest on 14 December 1888, and shortly afterwards was put into liquidation.

George Pólya ( December 13, 1888 – September 7, 1985, in Hungarian Pólya György ) was a Hungarian Jewish mathematician.

2057, December 16TH, 1888.

He joined HMS Colossus in April 1886 and was then in charge of the HMS Excellent experimental department from 6 December 1886 to 10 May 1888.

Maximilian Raoul " Max " Steiner ( May 10, 1888 – December 28, 1971 ) was an Austrian composer of music for theatre productions and films.

Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia on December 28, 1856 as the third of four children of Joseph Ruggles Wilson ( 1822 – 1903 ) and Jessie Janet Woodrow ( 1826 – 1888 ).

* December 6 – Leadbelly, American blues musician ( b. 1888 )

* December 28 – Max Steiner, Austrian-born film composer ( b. 1888 )

* December 8 – Marguerite Marsh, American actress ( b. 1888 )

* December 24 – Matthew Arnold, English poet ( d. 1888 )

* December 2 – Cicero Price, American commodore ( d. 1888 )

Reynaud created the Praxinoscope in 1877 and the Théâtre Optique in December 1888.

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

In December 1888 Burckhardt operated on the brains of six patients ( one of whom died a few days after the operation ) at the Préfargier Asylum, cutting out a piece of cerebral cortex.

Allen Granberry Thurman ( November 13, 1813 – December 12, 1895 ) was a Democratic Representative, Ohio Supreme Court justice, and Senator from Ohio, as well as the nominee of the Democratic Party for Vice President of the United States in 1888.

It was this case, which was hailed as a great victory throughout Wales, and his writings in Udgorn Rhyddid that led to his adoption as the Liberal candidate for Caernarfon Boroughs on 27 December 1888.

Drawing by Adolphe Willette in Le Pierrot, December 7, 1888, inspired by Paul Margueritte's Pierrot, Murderer of His Wife, 1881.

However, Ernest Chausson preceded Tchaikovsky by employing the celesta in December 1888 in his incidental music, written for a small orchestra, for La tempête ( a French translation by Maurice Bouchor of Shakespeare's The Tempest ).

Ernst Werner Siemens, von Siemens since 1888, ( 13 December 1816 – 6 December 1892 ) was a German inventor and industrialist.

Isabella ( 1888 ) by Francis William TophamThe earliest recorded performance of Measure for Measure took place on St. Stephen's night, 26 December 1604.

On the evening of December 23, 1888, frustrated and ill, Van Gogh confronted Gauguin with a razor blade.

They divorced in 1929, after O ' Neill abandoned Boulton and the children for the actress Carlotta Monterey ( born San Francisco, California, December 28, 1888 ; died Westwood, New Jersey, November 18, 1970 ).

The combined result was that in December 1888 the Lee-Metford small-bore ( 0. 303 ", 7. 70 mm ) rifle, Mark I, ( photo of cartridge on right ) was finally adopted for the British army.

By December, 1958, when ' Abdallah Ibrahim became President of the Council, elections had even greater importance.

Upon ratification, it became the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on December 6, 1865.

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.

At the time of the parliamentary decision, Lieutenant-General Valeh Barshadli became the first Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan, from September 5 to December 11, 1991.

After the DRA collapsed on 2 December 1920, it was absorbed into the Soviet Union and became part of the Transcaucasian SFSR.

Sometime before December 1837, Anne became seriously ill with gastritis and underwent a religious crisis.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 the status of the treaty became unclear, debated by members of Congress and professors of law.

In December, 2007, St. George Absinthe Verte, produced by St. George Spirits became the first brand of American-made absinthe to be legally produced in the United States since a ban was enacted in 1912.

On 16 December 2006 he became the first player for the West Indies to pass 10, 000 One Day International runs.

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur ( 14 February 148326 December 1530 ; sometimes also spelt Baber or Babar ) was a conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the basis for the Mughal dynasty in the Indian Subcontinent and became the first Mughal emperor.

Beginning with a Nintendo Entertainment System port of 1942 published in December 1985, the company started to venture into the market of home console video games, which became its main business segment a few years later.

On 4 December 1976, the republic became a monarchy — the Central African Empire — with the promulgation of the imperial constitution and the proclamation of the president as Emperor Bokassa I.

In December 2011, Rodrigo Carreras became the Costa Rican ambassador to Israel for the second time, after his posting there in the 1980s.

Emily became seriously ill shortly after Branwell's funeral, and died of pulmonary tuberculosis in December 1848.

In December 2004 Joe Pasquale, winner of the fourth series of ITV's I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here !, became well known for his frequent use of the term " Jacobs ", for Jacob's Crackers, a rhyming slang term for knackers i. e. testicles.

Claude Louis Berthollet ( 9 December 1748 – 6 November 1822 ) was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804.

Delaware was one of the 13 colonies participating in the American Revolution and on December 7, 1787, became the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby becoming known as The First State.

On 13 December 2010, Mark Weston became the first person to be retried and found guilty of murder by a jury ( Dunlop having confessed ).

Due to controversy surrounding the unit, soon after Galois became a member, on 31 December 1830, the artillery of the National Guard was disbanded out of fear that they might destabilize the government.

On 2 December 1942 he initiated the atomic age with the first self-sustaining chain reaction, after which he became known as " father of the atomic bomb ".

From 1925 to 1929, Fascism steadily became entrenched in power: opposition deputies were denied access to parliament, censorship was introduced, and a December 1925 decree made Mussolini solely responsible to the King.

On 17 December 1790 he created the Assistant Parish of Tuineje, which became a new parish division on 23 June 1792 under the bishop Tavira with lands including part of the Jandía peninsular with a population of 1, 670 inhabitants.

It became a secundogeniture of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty, who were deposed for the Bourbon-Parma in 1801, themselves deposed in December 1807 when Tuscany was annexed by France.