First assisted take-off flight by the Wright Brothers, December 17, 1903

While there are many competing claims for the earliest powered, heavier-than-air flight, the most widely-accepted date is December 17, 1903 by the Wright brothers.

With the information contained in Chanute's book, the personal assistance of Chanute himself, and research carried out in their own wind tunnel, the Wright brothers gained enough knowledge of aerodynamics to fly the first powered aircraft on December 17, 1903.

The Wright brothers made their first successful test flights on December 17, 1903 and were distinguished by their ability to control their flights for substantial periods ( more so than the ability to produce lift from an airfoil, which was known ).

Bernardo Reyes ( 1850 – 1913 ), whose brutality as Governor of Nuevo León in 1903 resulted in Madero's politicization, and who launched a rebellion against Madero in Nuevo León in December 1911.

* Order of St. Anne, 3rd degree ( 1903 ) and 2nd degree ( 6 December 1909 )

On his December 7, 1903 Third Annual Message to the Senate and House of Representatives he enumerated an extensive list of interventions the U. S. armed forces had made in Panama since 1850 explaining:

* Theodore Roosevelt, Third Annual Message, December 7, 1903. presidency. ucsb. edu

An additional convention was signed in Paris on 3 December 1903.

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 8 – Luther Adler, American actor ( b. 1903 )

* December 30, 1903 — A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, USA kills 600.

* December – February 1903 – Venezuela Crisis, in which Britain, Germany and Italy sustain a naval blockade on Venezuela in order to enforce collection of outstanding financial claims.

* December 28 – Katharine Byron, U. S. Congresswoman ( b. 1903 )

* December 17 – Eddie Acuff, American actor ( b. 1903 )

* December 22 – Nathanael West, American writer ( b. 1903 )

* December 21 – Stuart Erwin, American actor ( b. 1903 )

* December 26 – Lennox Berkeley, English composer ( b. 1903 )

* December 12 – Raymond Radiguet, French author ( b. 1903 )

* December 18 – Augusta Holmès, French composer ( d. 1903 )

* December 24 – Johannes Heesters, Dutch actor and singer ( b. 1903 )

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 10 December 1903, Charlotte, the daughter of Sir William Knollys, woke to find her bedroom full of smoke.

It was selected as the state flower by the California State Floral Society in December 1890, winning out over the Mariposa lily ( genus Calochortus ) and the Matilija poppy ( Romneya coulteri ) by a landslide, but the state legislature did not make the selection official until 1903.

Antoine Henri Becquerel ( 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908 ) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and the discoverer of radioactivity along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, for which all three won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics.

After considerable hardship, Kolchak returned in December 1902 ; Eduard Toll with three other members went further north and were lost.

Kolchak ’ s government issued a decree on 3 December 1918 stating, “ In order to preserve the system and rule of the Supreme Ruler, articles of the criminal code of Imperial Russia were revised, Articles 99 and 100 of which established capital punishment for assassination attempts on the Supreme Ruler and for attempting to overthrow his government.

In December 1918, the Siberian White Army under Anatoly Pepelyayev ( who acknowledged the authority of the Omsk Government of Aleksandr Kolchak ), took Perm.

It was really a May and December combination.

As summer cooled into fall and winter, even so the relationship between the two men continued to grow colder by the day, and by December of 1834 it was icy.

In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.

The queen agreed on December 17, a warrant was signed on January 27, and the Exchequer paid Quiney his expenses on February 27, 1598/9.

He was ordained deacon 16 June and priest 22 December 1633.

In December I wrote her with authority that we would meet on the steps of the Hotel Astor, a rendezvous spot that I had learned was the most sophisticated.

The promotion of Robert E. Swift to the position of Assistant Manager of the Interference Control Field Service Department was announced early in December by Frederick S. Scarborough, Manager of Interference Control Field Service.

She was then trained on the trot until December 29, hitched to a breaking cart once around the half-mile track and hoppled again.

Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.

For these crimes he was sentenced to be hanged in public on Friday, December 2, 1859.

On December 2, 1859, John Brown was hanged at Charles Town, Virginia.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

It was the night of December 2, 1943, and it was growing dark in Bari.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

He said the snow plan was put in effect too slowly in December.

The verdict brought vindication to the dead woman's stepson, Vincent Hengesbach, 54, who was tried for the same crime in December, 1958, and released when the jury failed to reach a verdict.

The 187-mile Illinois State Toll Highway, for example, was not opened over its entire length until December, 1958.

Of course, the crowning event that has dramatically upset the traditional pattern of English religious history was the friendly visit paid by Dr. Fisher, then Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Vatican last December.

" Willie " Lincoln was born on December 21, 1850, and died on February 20, 1862.

Burnside, against the advice of the president, prematurely launched an offensive across the Rappahannock River and was stunningly defeated by Lee at Fredericksburg in December.

By December 1863 a proposed constitutional amendment that would outlaw slavery absolutely was brought to Congress for passage.

Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

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The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.