HH Abbas II Hilmi Bey ( also known as Abbas Hilmi Pasha ) () ( 14 July 1874 – 19 December 1944 ) was the last Khedive of Egypt and Sudan ( 8 January 1892 – 19 December 1914 ).

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for gallant leadership: the citation for this award, published in the London Gazette in December 1914 reads:

This large amount was irresistible to him, and in late December 1914 he travelled to Chicago to join the studio.

In December 1914, French aviator Roland Garros asked Saulnier to install his synchronization gear on Garros ' Morane-Saulnier Type L. Unfortunately the gas-operated Hotchkiss machine gun he was provided had an erratic rate of fire and it was impossible to synchronize it with a spinning propeller.

The act was proposed by Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York and was approved on December 14, 1914.

He arrived in New York City in December 1914 with $ 32 to his name.

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Edward Arnold " Eddie " Chapman ( 16 November 1914 – 11 December 1997 ) was an English pre-war criminal and wartime spy.

This official report lists 908, 371 ' soldiers ' killed in action, died of wounds, died as prisoners of war and were missing in action from 4 August 1914 to 31 December 1920, ( British Isles 702, 410 ; India 64, 449 ; Canada 56, 639 ; Australia 59, 330 ; New Zealand 16, 711 ; South Africa 7, 121 and Newfoundland 1, 204, other colonies 507 ).

* December 28 – Clayton Moore, American actor ( b. 1914 )

* December 3 – Ruth White, American actress ( b. 1914 )

* December 18 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria ( d. 1914 )

* December 21 – Roger Avon, British actor ( b. 1914 )

* December 5 – Pietro Germi, Italian film director ( b. 1914 )

* December 5 – Fred Clark, American actor ( b. 1914 )

* December 6 – Mimi Smith, maternal aunt and guardian of John Lennon ( b. 1914 )

* December 6 – Thaddeus C. Pound, American businessman and politician ( d. 1914 )

As a reconnaissance pilot with the Escadrille MS26, Garros visited the Morane-Saulnier Works in December 1914.

Bayreuth's monopoly on Parsifal ended on 1 January 1914 and some theatres began their performances at midnight on 31 December 1913.

Beginning in December 1914, London worked on The Acorn Planter, A California Forest Play, to be performed as one of the annual Grove Plays, but it was never selected — it was described as too difficult to set to music.

When the markets reopened on December 12, 1914, the index closed at 54, a drop of 24. 39 %.

** HIH Princess Fatma Neslişah Osmanoğlu Sultan ( Istanbul, Nişantaşı, Nişantaşı Palace, 4 February 1921 – 1 April 2012 ), married in Heliopolis Palace, Cairo, on 26 September 1940 to her cousin HE Damat HH Prince / HRH Prince Muhammad Abdel Moneim Beyefendi ( Alexandria, Montaza Palace, 20 February 1899 – Istanbul, 1 / 2 December 1979, buried in Cairo ), Heir Apparent to the Throne of Egypt from 1899 to 1914, created HH in 1922, created HRH in 1952, Regent of Egypt from 1952 to 1953, and had issue.

The Federal Reserve Act of December 23, 1913 took effect in November 1914 when the 12 regional banks opened for business.

* December 28 – Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, First Lord of the British Admiralty ( d. 1698 )

Dr. John Rae rebutted Dickens in two articles in Household Words: “ The Lost Arctic Voyagers ”, Household Words, No. 248 ( December 23, 1854 ), and " Dr. Rae ’ s Report to the Secretary of the Admiralty ", Household Words, No. 249 ( December 30, 1854 ).

A meeting in London of the Admiralty and General Staff urged that the Flanders operation be undertaken in 1917 and Joffre replied on 8 December agreeing to the proposal for a Flanders campaign after the spring offensive.

It was announced in November 1978 that Prince Andrew would join the Royal Navy the following year, and in December he underwent various sporting tests and examinations at the Aircrew Selection Centre, at RAF Biggin Hill, along with further tests and interviews at HMS Daedalus, and interviews at the Admiralty Interview Board, HMS Sultan.

As Randolph Churchill put it, from December 1905, " Marsh was to accompany Churchill to every Government department he occupied: to the Board of Trade, the Home Office, the Admiralty, the Duchy of Lancaster, the Ministry of Munitions, the War Office, back to his original Colonial Office and the Treasury.

In December 1744 he became a Lord of the Admiralty in the administration of Henry Pelham.

He was made First Lord of the Admiralty in December 1766.

With the election of Gladstone's government in December 1868 he rose to greater prominence, serving as First Lord of the Admiralty.

Anson subsequently continued his naval career with distinction as an administrator, joining the Admiralty Board in December 1744, then becoming First Lord of the Admiralty from June 1751 to November 1756, and again from June 1757 until his death.

The Admiralty accepted and on 6 December the Commander-in-Chief, The Nore promulgated the scheme to the officers under his jurisdiction and requested that applicants be unmarried and able to pay the membership fees of the Royal Aero Club.

The Admiralty ceased full scale production in December 1945 after 5 years.

However, Admiral Harvey had sent the Lords of the Admiralty a letter strongly commending ' the zeal and alacrity of this intelligent and excellent officer ', which may have influenced their decision to promote him to Post Captain on 7 December 1818.

* December 22-Colonial Office Circular notifying revised Admiralty requirements for flags for colonial warships and for other colonial government vessels and requesting correct drawings of seals or badges to be adopted as distinguishing marks.

The Admiralty, on December 1, wrote to Russell that Milne “ should give his particular attention to the measures that may be necessary for the protection of the valuable trade between America, the West Indies, and England .” However Somerset issued provisional orders to British naval units around the world to be prepared to attack American shipping wherever it might be found.

When the first Gladstone ministry was formed in December 1868, Trevelyan was appointed Civil Lord of the Admiralty, but resigned in July 1870 on a point of conscience connected with the government Education Bill.

When Gladstone became prime minister in December 1868, Goschen joined the cabinet as President of the Poor Law Board, until March 1871, when he succeeded Childers as First Lord of the Admiralty.

He served briefly as First Lord of the Admiralty between March and December 1905.

After ten years in opposition, the Liberals again came to power in December 1905 under Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who appointed Tweedmouth First Lord of the Admiralty, with a seat in the cabinet.

In 1852 he was sworn of the Privy Council and appointed First Lord of the Admiralty, with a seat in the cabinet, by the Earl of Derby, a post he held until the fall of the government in December 1852.

He was made Privy Counsellor in December 1834 while holding office as first Lord of the Admiralty till April 1835, and a Knight of the Garter in 1844.

In December 1796, in an unusual arrangement, the Admiralty ( Navy operations ) directed the Navy Board ( administration and supplies ) to contract Jacobs shipyard to build a frigate and later a 74-gun sloop.

After the end of the War Hill-Norton became gunnery officer on the cruiser HMS Nigeria in the South Atlantic and then, having been promoted to commander on 31 December 1947, he was posted to the naval ordnance division at the Admiralty.