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 )

Facing only token opposition, Magloire won the election and assumed office on December 6.

In December 1814, during the War of 1812, Magloire Guichard and Skipwith sponsored a legislative resolution to grant amnesty to " the privateers lately resorting to Barataria, who might be deterred from offering their services for fear of persecution.

On December 11, 13 games into his first NFL season as head coach, Bobby Petrino resigned without notice to coach at the University of Arkansas, leaving the beleaguered players only a note in the locker room.

Leicester finally resigned his command in December 1587.

LaGuardia took office on March 4, 1917 but soon was commissioned in the United States Army Air Service ; he rose to the rank of major in command of a unit of Ca. 44 bombers on the Italian-Austrian front in World War I. LaGuardia resigned his seat in Congress on December 31, 1919.

At Fraunces Tavern on December 4, Washington formally bade his officers farewell and on December 23, 1783, he resigned his commission as commander-in-chief.

The Popular Party's head, Xhafer Ypi, formed a government in December 1921 with Fan S. Noli as foreign minister and Ahmed Bey Zogu as internal affairs minister, but Noli resigned soon after Zogu resorted to repression in an attempt to disarm the lowland Albanians despite the fact that bearing arms was a traditional custom.

Kemp briefly served on the board of Oracle Corporation, CEO is friend Larry Ellison, in 1996, but resigned when he ran for Vice President ; he was named to the board of Six Flags, Inc. in December 2005.

One of those accused of improprieties was Vice President Feliks Kulov, who resigned for ethical reasons in December.

In December 2000, her husband resigned as Governor of Texas to prepare for his inauguration as President of the United States in January 2001.

The government lasted only until 5 December 2007, when Kalvitis resigned due to his continuous and unsuccessful attempts to dismiss Aleksejs Loskutovs, the head of KNAB, the State Anti-Corruption Agency, after Loskutov's had investigated shadowy matters of the PM's party.

In December 2009, shortly after the election of Tony Abbott to the Liberal Party leadership, Fraser resigned from the Liberal Party.

Honorius, unwilling to accept the throne in such a manner, resigned his position before all of the assembled Cardinals, but was immediately and unanimously re-elected and consecrated on 21 December 1124.

On 31 December 1999 President Yeltsin resigned, handing the post to the recently appointed Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, who then won the 2000 presidential election.

New Worlds author Thomas Disch would not earn better quotes from Budrys in the December 1966 review for his " ineptly written " The Genocide, a work of " unrelieved trash " which was filled with a horde of " dumb, resigned victims.

In December 1991, Gorbachev resigned as president and the Soviet Union dissolved relatively peacefully into fifteen sovereign republics, all of which rejected communism and most of which adopted democratic reforms and free-market economies.

Chester Miller notes that after failing to gain agreement on any of these, Jefferson resigned in December 1793.

In December 2009, Le Guin resigned from the Authors Guild in protest over its endorsement of Google's book digitization project.

Kekkonen sided with the Soviet Union, working behind the scenes against the cabinet, and indeed, Fagerholm's cabinet resigned in December 1958.

He moved to Moscow in 1996 and joined president Boris Yeltsin's administration where he rose quickly, becoming acting President on 31 December 1999 when Yeltsin resigned unexpectedly.

He resigned as Ambassador on December 6, 1952, but remained in Mexico until 1960.

" In December 1967 Ahmad Shukeiri resigned his post as PLO Chairman.

In December 2002, Đukanović resigned as president and was appointed Prime Minister.

* December 12 – The Pennsylvania Gazette reports that Dr. Huston, the recently instated Distributor of Stamps for the Royal Colony of North Carolina, has resigned his post in protest at the Stamp Act.

He subsequently resigned his West Belfast Assembly seat on 7 December 2010.

Burleson resigned his leadership of the army on December 15 and returned to his home.