* Gaetano Bisleti ( 5 November 1916 – 17 December 1928 )

The first depth-charge sinking was on 4 December 1916, when was sunk by.

The title was briefly revived from 12 December 1915 to 22 March 1916 by President Yuan Shikai and again in early July 1917 when General Zhang Xun attempted to restore last Qing emperor Puyi to the throne.

Forrest J. Ackerman ( born Forrest James Ackerman ; November 24, 1916 – December 4, 2008 ) was an American collector of science fiction books and movie memorabilia and a science fiction fan.

He chose to stay at St Cyprian's until December 1916, in case a place at Eton became available.

The ANZAC forces completed their retreat by 19 December 1915 and the remaining British elements by 9 January 1916.

Famous battles in France include Battle of Verdun ( spanning 10 months from 21 February to 18 December 1916 ), Battle of the Somme ( 1 July to 18 November 1916 ), and five separate conflicts called the Battle of Ypres

On 10 December 1916, Alexander took second-in-command of 1st Battalion Irish Guards as acting major.

" Another development which brought about a radical change in Indian politics was the espousal of Hindu-Muslim unity with the Lucknow pact at the annual meeting of the Congress in December 1916.

Between December 1916 and August 1918, a total of 37 Katzenjammer Kids silent cartoon shorts were produced by William Randolph Hearst's own cartoon studio International Film Service, which adapted well-known comic strips owned by Hearst for animation.

Spanish authorities did not let him stay and he was deported to the United States on 25 December 1916.

December 1916 brought the first of Willie Hopkins ' 54 episodes of " Miracles in Mud " to the big screen.

Also in December 1916, the first woman animator, Helena Smith Dayton, began experimenting with clay stop motion.

The Asquith government proved ineffective but when David Lloyd George replaced him in December 1916 Britain gained a powerful and successful wartime leader.

The Treaty of the Danish West Indies was signed in August 1916, with a Danish referendum held in December 1916 to confirm the decision.

In December 1916 on unveiling a statue of Gladstone, Lord Rosebery speculated that Gladstone's view of British involvement in the Great War would not have been favourable.

* December 3 – After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic ( the bridge partially collapsed on August 29, 1907 and September 11, 1916 ).

* December 26 – The Irish Republican Brotherhood Military Council decides to stage a rising on Easter Sunday 1916.

* December 18 – Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German World War II dive bomber pilot ( b. 1916 )

* December 18 – Saki, English writer ( d. 1916 )

* December 23 – Victoriano Huerta, President of Mexico ( d. 1916 )

* December 3 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist ( d. 1916 )

Between 6 December 1916 and November 1918, the city was occupied by German forces as a result of the Battle of Bucharest, with the legitimate capital temporarily moved to Iași.

Unlike many artists who were " discovered " and recorded in their normal venues, in December 1925 or January 1926, he was taken to Chicago, Illinois, to record his first tracks.

The highest recorded temperature was on June 15, 2000, and the lowest recorded temperature was on December 22, 1990.

In December 1998 there were 20 days without sun recorded at Yeovilton.

One was recorded in 1812 ; one measuring 7. 6 on the Richter Scale hit on November 30, 1983 at 21: 46 local time and lasted 142 seconds, resulting in a small tsunami which raised wave height in the lagoon to 1. 5 metres ( 5 ft ), and another on December 2, 2002, an earthquake measuring 4. 6 on the Richter Scale struck the island at 12: 21 a. m.

In December 1944 he recorded Quite Early One Morning produced by Aneirin Talfan Davies again for the Welsh BBC but when Davies offered it for national broadcast it was turned down by BBC London .. On 31 August 1945 Quite Early One Morning was broadcast on the BBC Home Service, and in the three years beginning October 1945, Thomas made over a hundred broadcasts for the corporation.

Drummer Steve Asheim recorded drum tracks and Benton started recording vocals in December.

The recorded history of Haiti began on 5 December 1492 when the European navigator Christopher Columbus happened upon a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean.

Go Nutz, the album Brood had recorded while in the States, and the movie Cha-Cha, which finally premiered in December 1979, were considered artistic failures, even though Go Nutz produced three charting singles in the Netherlands and the Cha Cha soundtrack attained platinum status.

Her first song recorded on tape, at the home of a fellow student in December 1962, was " What Good Can Drinkin ' Do ".

The first was probably that held on 31 December 1775, and the " Lunar " name is first recorded in 1776.

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 ).

On December 7 the gas supply in the attitude control system was exhausted, and on December 10 and 11 a total of 83 micrometeoroid hits were recorded which caused perturbation of the attitude and degradation of the signal strength.

In 1999, Brøderbund / The Learning Company released Totally Mad, a Microsoft Windows 95 / 98 compatible CD-ROM set collecting the magazine's content from # 1 through # 376 ( December 1998 ), plus over 100 Mad Specials including most of the recorded audio inserts.

On September 24, 2004 a Frankfurt, Germany concert was recorded at The Festhalle for DVD ( titled R30: Live in Frankfurt ), which was released November 22, 2005 ; a complete version of the R30 Frankfurt set ( the original DVD release omitted eight songs ) was released on Blu-ray on December 8, 2009.

On 22 December 2005 the BBC broadcast a live performance ( recorded the previous week ) on the Jonathan Ross Christmas show with Katie Melua filling in for the late Kirsty MacColl, the first time the band had played the song live on television.

In January 1979, the Undertones recorded their eponymous debut album at Eden Studios in Acton, West London, using producer Roger Bechirian, whom the band had worked with for the first time the previous December, when Bechirian had produced the band's second single, " Get Over You ".

In late December 1971, The Band recorded the live album Rock of Ages, which was released in the summer of 1972.

After a brief tour from June to September 2010, Amos released the highly exclusive live album From Russia With Love in December the same year, recorded live in Moscow on 3 September 2010.

In a 9 December 2005 interview on Houston's Late Nite Snax radio show, Kool Keith confirmed rumours that the Ultramagnetic MC's had reformed and recorded a new album.

* On December 26, 2004, one of the worst natural disasters in recorded history hits Southeast Asia, when the strongest earthquake in 40 years hits the entire Indian Ocean region.

* December 13 – Abel Tasman is the first recorded European to sight New Zealand.

* December 16 – The last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji begins in Japan.

* December – Earliest recorded sighting of the planet Uranus, by John Flamsteed, who mistakenly catalogues it as the star 34 Tauri.