In December 1941 Montgomery was given command of South-Eastern Command overseeing the defence of Kent, Sussex and Surrey.

The Bronze Star Medal may be awarded by the Secretary of a military department or the Secretary of Homeland Security with regard to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy, or by such military commanders, or other appropriate officers as the Secretary concerned may designate, to any person who, while serving in any capacity in or with the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Coast Guard of the United States, after 6 December 1941, distinguishes, or has distinguished, himself by heroic or meritorious achievement or service, not involving participation in aerial flight —

The Bronze Star Medal ( without the " V " device ) may be awarded to each member of the Armed Forces of the United States who, after 6 December 1941, was cited in orders or awarded a certificate for exemplary conduct in ground combat against an armed enemy after 7 December 1941.

President Roosevelt authorized the Bronze Star Medal by Executive Order 9419 dated 4 February 1944, retroactive to 7 December 1941.

In English outside of North America, full dates are written as 7 December 1941 ( or 7th December 1941 ) and spoken as " the seventh of December, nineteen forty-one " ( exceedingly common usage of " the " and " of "), with the occasional usage of December 7, 1941 (" December the seventh, nineteen forty-one ").

In the United States, the usual written form is December 7, 1941, spoken as " December seventh, nineteen forty-one " or colloquially " December the seventh, nineteen forty-one ".

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.

The observations were continued, and the star was seen to continue its southerly course until March, when it took up a position some 20 ″ more southerly than its December position.

In due course the Governor-General received the Koh-i-Noor from Login, who had been appointed Governor of the Citadel, the Royal Fort at Lahore, with the Royal Treasury, which Login valued at almost £ 1, 000, 000 (£ as of ), excluding the Koh-i-Noor, on 6 April 1848, under a receipt dated 7 December 1849, in the presence of the members of the Board of Administration — the local resident H. M. Lawrence, C. C.

The previous December, Clemente had been involved in a car accident in Puerto Rico ; over the course of the season, this caused him to miss several games with an injury in his lower back.

According to the Slovenian Motorway Company Act valid since December 2010, the construction and building of highways in Slovenia is carried out and financed by private companies, primarily the Motorway Company in the Republic of Slovenia ( Slovene:, acronym DARS ), while the strategic planning and the acquisition of land for their course is carried out and financed by the Government of Slovenia.

* December 29 – Pete Dye, American golf course architect

* December 16 – The New Madrid earthquake in the Mississippi Valley near New Madrid reverses the course of the river for a while.

He later underwent surgery in 2003 for cancer in his salivary gland, and in December of that year, underwent a four-week follow-up course of radiation to his salivary glands, which altered his voice slightly.

The Korean independence officially occurred on 1 December 1943, when the United States, China, and Great Britain signed the Cairo Conference, which stated, “ The aforesaid three powers, mindful of the enslavement of the people of Korea, are determined that “ in due course ” Korea shall become free and independent .” In 1945, the United Nations developed plans for trusteeship administration of Korea.

According to Van Vliet, the 28 songs on the album were written in a single 8½ hour session at the piano, an instrument which he had no skill in playing, an approach Mike Barnes compared to John Cage's " maverick irreverence toward classical tradition ", though band members have stated that the songs were written over the course of about a year, beginning around December 1967.

The last est Training was held in December 1984 in San Francisco ; in its place came a newly developed course called " The Forum ", which began in January 1985.

While other such facilities in the area have closed over the course of years, the Silver survived through public outcry over proposals to close and demolish it, making a comeback in 2005 .< Ref name =" one ">( 12 December 2008 ).

When orders came in December 1915 for the evacuation, he methodically supervised the exact course to be followed by members of his own command, and was in one of the last parties to leave.

A reunion gig with Ken Hensley & John Lawton took place in London on 7 December 2001 in the course of the Magicians Birthday Party, which since then became a tradition, even though Hensley never actually joined again.

Columbia landed on Runway 17 at Edwards Air Force Base on 8 December 1983, at 3: 47 pm PST, having completed 166 orbits and travelled over the course of its mission.

Having completed his course at teachers ’ college in December, Baxter spent 1953 in full-time study at Victoria University College and published his third major collection, The fallen house.

Bennett died on Friday, December 13, 1974, shortly after the start of the fourth course.

Between December and March, extra trains are run on some evenings between Grindelwald and Alpiglen to carry passengers to the floodlit Eiger Run sledging course.

In the course of the Russo-Turkish War of 1768 – 1774, the Ottoman armies were defeated by the Russian Empire, that occupied the region during 15 December 1769 – September 1774, and previously during 14 September – October 1739.

* December 1 – American swimmer Jenny Thompson breaks her own world record in the women's 100m butterfly ( short course ): 56: 90

* December 13 – Mark Foster twice breaks the world record in the men's 50m freestyle ( short course ) during the European SC Championships in Sheffield, clocking 21. 31 eventually.

* December 1 – American swimmer Misty Hyman clocks 58: 29 to break the world record in the women's 100m butterfly ( short course )

** December 2 – PR China's Limin Liu breaks the world record in the Women's 100m Butterfly ( short course ): 58: 68

* December 13 – Steve Crocker sets the first official world record in the men's 50m freestyle ( short course ) in Sheffield, United Kingdom, clocking 25. 64.

* December 6 – USA's Tom Jager takes the world record from Dano Halsall ( 22. 52 ) in the 50m freestyle ( long course ) at a swimming meet in Austin, Texas, clocking 22. 40.

From June, 1942, until December, 1945, Pfaff served in the Army Air Corps.

( Siegel and Shuster had earlier poked fun at Capp in a Superman story in Action Comics # 55, December 1942, in which a cartoonist named " Al Hatt " invents a comic strip featuring the hillbilly " Tiny Rufe.

This change temporarily stopped the ability to read this network from February to December 1942.

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 December 2, 1942, physicist Enrico Fermi conducted the world's first controlled nuclear reaction at the University of Chicago as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project.

Therefore, in December 1942, several patients with advanced lymphomas ( cancers of certain white blood cells ) were given the drug by vein, rather than by breathing the irritating gas.

In December 1942, after a British blockade lasting one hundred and one days, Governor Pierre Nouailhetas surrendered French Somaliland.

The money was used in studies which led to the first nuclear reactor — Chicago Pile-1, a massive " atomic pile " of graphite bricks and uranium fuel which went critical on December 2, 1942.

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 ".

Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Bush decided to join the US Navy, so after graduating from Phillips Academy earlier in 1942, he became a naval aviator at the age of 18.

* 1942 September – A small group of Gibraltarians, who remained in the town serving in the British Army, joined a mechanic official, Albert Risso, to create ' The Gibraltarians Association ', the starting point of what became the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( officially established in December that year ), the first political party in Gibraltar.

In December 1942, more Albanian nationalist groups were organized.

In December 1942, during a meeting with the Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, who brought a message from Mussolini asking for the Germans to go on the defensive in the Soviet Union in order to focus on North Africa, Ribbentrop joined with Hitler in belittling Italy's war effort.

On 21 December 1941, the Partisans created the First Proletarian Brigade ( commanded by Koča Popović ) and on 1 March 1942, Tito created the Second Proletarian Brigade.

50 stills from the filming in Krün near Mittenwald were later found and from these, surviving prisoners were able to identify 29 camp inmates who worked for Riefenstahl and were then deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the first weeks of March 1943 following Himmler ’ s December 1942 decree.

He persuaded his superiors that codebreaking process could be mechanised, and he was assigned to develop a suitable machine in December 1942.

Enrico Fermi created the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, called Chicago Pile-1 ( CP-1 ), in a racquets court below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago on December 2, 1942.

An Australian soldier, Private George " Dick " Whittington, is aided by Papuan orderly Raphael Oimbari, near Buna on 25 December 1942.

The Army Air Forces in World War II, Volume Two: Europe, Torch to Pointblank, August 1942 to December 1943.

By Executive Order 9277, dated December 3, 1942, the decoration was extended to be applicable to all services and the order required that regulations of the Services be uniform in application as far as practicable.

Both men met in Paris in December 1942 and adapted Gagnan's regulator to a diving cylinder.

Authorization for the Silver Star was placed into law by an Act of Congress for the U. S. Navy on August 7, 1942 and an Act of Congress for the U. S. Army on December 15, 1942.

Vicente Fox Quesada </ small > (; born July 2, 1942 ) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.

He was dropped near Littleport Cambridgeshire on 16 December 1942 equipped with wireless, pistol, cyanide capsule and ₤ 1, 000.