The series of speed increases — later in 1955, in 1956, in 1957, in 1958, in 1959 — peaked on 31 December 1964 at Dumbleyung Lake, Western Australia when he reached ; he remains the world's most prolific breaker of water speed records.

:* Binay Ranjan Sen ( India ): November 1956 – December 1967.

He became one of 12 board members of the American Astronautical Society, an organization formed in 1954 to represent the country's 300 leading scientists and engineers in the area of guided missiles — he was one of seven members of the board to resign in December 1956 after a series of disputes about the direction and control of the group.

In December 1956, the NAACP recognized him with the Spingarn Medal, which it awards annually for the highest achievement by an African-American.

In December 1956, the year of his death, he was given a memorial retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art ( MoMA ) in New York City, and a larger more comprehensive exhibition there in 1967.

* Reached an agreement for his " nuclear ambitions " with a NATO Military Committee in December 1956 that stipulated West German forces to be " equipped for nuclear warfare ".

Rockne was married to Bonnie Gwendoline Skiles ( December 18, 1891 – June 2, 1956 ), the daughter of George Skiles and Huldah Dry.

* Togoland was split into British Togoland ( under an Administrator, a post filled by the colonial Governor of the British Gold Coast ( present Ghana ) except 30 September 1920 – 11 October 1923 Francis Walter Fillon Jackson ) and French Togoland ( under a Commissioner ) ( United Kingdom and France ), 20 July 1922 separate Mandates, transformed on 13 December 1946 into United Nations trust territories, French Togo Associated Territory ( under a Commissioner till 30 August 1956, then under a High Commissioner as Autonomous Republic of Togo ) and British Togoland ( as before ; on 13 December 1956 it ceased to exist as it became part of Ghana )

In December 1956 Masurian pro-Polish activists signed a memorandum to the Communist Party leadership:

On 2 December 1956, outside Satara, India, the car in which Baba was being driven went out of control and a second serious automobile accident occurred.

" motto, was as a write-in candidate for President on issue # 30 ( December 1956 ).

Parks on a Montgomery bus on December 21, 1956, the day Montgomery's public transportation system was legally integrated.

He also had a minor role in Gerald Thomas's thriller Time Lock ( 1957 ) as a welder, appearing alongside Robert Beatty, Lee Patterson, Betty McDowall and Vincent Winter, which commenced filming on 1 December 1956 at Beaconsfield Studios.

The primary reason for this is that gaming machines have been legal in the state of New South Wales since 1956 and over that time the number of machines has grown to 97, 103 ( at December 2010, including the Australian Capital Territory ).

* 22 December 1956 — The canal zone is restored to Egyptian control, following French and British withdrawal, and the landing of UNEF troops.

* December 27 – Louis Bromfield, American writer ( d. 1956 )

* December 3 – Henry Fillmore, American composer ( d. 1956 )

* December 21 – Don Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer ( d. 1956 )

* December 20 – Charley Grapewin, American vaudeville performer and stage and film actor ( d. 1956 )

* December 14 – Katherine MacDonald, American silent screen actress ( d. 1956 )

* December 30 – Austin Osman Spare, English artist and magician ( d. 1956 )

* Eight-term senator from South Carolina ( December 1954 – April 1956 and November 1956 – January 2003 )

He was taken a prisoner of war on the Western Front in Flanders in August 1917 and was held at Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp, where he remained until December 1918.

* December 29 – Ed Flanders, American actor ( St.

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.

After Lincoln installed Brigadier General George F. Sheply as Military Governor of Louisiana in May 1862, Sheply sent two anti-slavery representatives, Benjamin Flanders and Michael Hahn, elected in December 1862, to the House which capitulated and voted to seat them.

On December 17, 1909, Leopold II died at Laeken, and the Belgian crown passed to Albert, the son of Leopold's brother, Philip, Count of Flanders.

Gerardus Mercator ( born 5 March 1512 in Rupelmonde in the Hapsburg County of Flanders, Holy Roman Empire, died 2 December 1594 in Duisburg, United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Holy Roman Empire ) was a cartographer, philosopher and mathematician.

" In Flanders Fields " was first published on December 8 of that year in the London-based magazine Punch.

The town name is derived from the Treaty of Ghent, which was signed on December 24, 1814, in Ghent, Flanders, United Kingdom of the Netherlands, which ended the War of 1812 between the United States and United Kingdom.

The largest pub quiz, according to the Guinness Book of Records, was the " Quiz for Life ", held at the Flanders Expo Halls in Ghent, Belgium, on 11 December 2010 with 2, 280 participants.

" In Flanders Fields " appeared anonymously in Punch on December 8, 1915, but in the index to that year McCrae was named as the author.

The largest quiz, according to Guinness, was the " Quiz for Life ", held at the Flanders Expo Halls in Ghent, Belgium, on 11 December 2010 with 2, 280 participants.

* FREDERICK HAMMOND ( 1 – 7, bibliography ), ALEXANDERSILBIGER ( 8 – 15, work-list ): ' Frescobaldi, Girolamo Alessandro, § 1: Ferrara, Rome and Flanders, 1583 – 1608 ', Grove Music Online ( Accessed December 4, 2006 ), < http :// www. grovemusic. com / shared / views / article. html? section = music. 10219. 1 >

Joan, called of Constantinople ( 1194 – 5 December 1244 ) was countess of Flanders and Hainaut.

* Joan, Countess of Flanders ( 1199 / 1200 – 5 December 1244 ).

On 13 December 2006, at 20: 21 CET ( 19: 21 UTC ), RTBF replaced an edition of its regular current affairs programme Questions à la Une with a fake special news report in which it was claimed that Flanders had proclaimed independence, effectively dissolving the Belgian state.

Baldwin V of Hainaut ( 1150 – 17 December 1195 ) was count of Hainaut ( 1171 – 1195 ), count of Flanders as Baldwin VIII ( 1191 – 1195 ) and margrave of Namur as Baldwin I ( 1189 – 1195 ).

On 5 December 1244, Margaret inherited Flanders and Hainaut and designated her eldest son by her second husband, William III of Dampierre, as her heir.

On 18 December 1385, the war ended with the Peace of Tournai between Ghent and Philip II, Duke of Burgundy, who had married Margaret III, Countess of Flanders, the hereditary daughter of Count Louis.

Since 13 December 2009, non-official referendums on Catalan independence are being carried out in 167 towns, villages and 5 Comarcal council covering more than 700, 000 citizens with 15, 000 volunteers, following the first one celebrated in Arenys de Munt on 13 September, 30 international observers have been accredited, like the MEPs ( Jill Evans from Plaid Cymru, Frieda Brepoels from Flanders, François Alfonsi from Corse and Oriol Junqueras from Catalonia ).

As the crusaders ' food supply reached critical levels in December, Godfrey fell ill. On 28 December Bohemund and Robert of Flanders took about 20, 000 men and went foraging for food and plunder upstream of the Orontes.

On 14 December 1914 near Kemmel, Flanders / Belgium, during an attack on a German position, Private Robson left his trench under very heavy fire and rescued a wounded NCO.

Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith ( 26 December 1776, East Flanders, Belgium – 21 September 1859, Plymouth ) was an English artist, naturalist, antiquary, illustrator, soldier and spy.