By December, 1958, when ' Abdallah Ibrahim became President of the Council, elections had even greater importance.

The verdict brought vindication to the dead woman's stepson, Vincent Hengesbach, 54, who was tried for the same crime in December, 1958, and released when the jury failed to reach a verdict.

The 187-mile Illinois State Toll Highway, for example, was not opened over its entire length until December, 1958.

" Histoire et Science Sociale: La Longue Durée " ( 1958 ) Annales E. S. C., 13: 4 October – December 1958, 725 – 753

The French constitutional referendum of September 1958 dissolved the AEF, and on 1 December of the same year the Assembly declared the birth of the autonomous Central African Republic with Boganda as head of government.

Thomas ' father " DJ " died on 16 December 1952 and his mother Florence in August 1958.

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.

By December 1958, the game Gettysburg from the Avalon Hill company had particularly captured Gygax's attention.

In December 1958, following the retirement of Arthur Fadden, Holt was appointed Treasurer.

JPL was transferred to NASA in December 1958, becoming the agency ’ s primary planetary spacecraft center.

Consequently, he decided to switch from federal to state politics: He was appointed Prime Minister ( Ministerpräsident ) of the state of Baden-Württemberg on 17 December 1958, an office in which he served until 1 December 1966.

On 25 December 1958, he became the first pope since 1870 to make pastoral visits in his Diocese of Rome, when he visited children infected with polio at the Bambino Gesù Hospital and then visited Santo Spirito Hospital.

* Pioneer 3 – Lunar flyby, missed Moon due to launcher failure December 6, 1958

* Sukhan Babayevich Babayev ( July 1951 – 14 December 1958 )

* Dzhuma Durdy Karayev ( 14 December 1958 – 4 May 1960 )

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

The 1958 European premiere at the Manchester Opera House transferred to London, where it opened at Her Majesty's Theatre in the West End on Friday December 12, 1958 and ran until June 1961 with a total of 1, 039 performances.

* December 24 – Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1958 )

* December 3 – Austin Hayes, Irish footballer ( b. 1958 )

* December 19 – Zheng Zhenduo, Chinese author and translator ( d. 1958 )

On December 4, 1958, it became the République du Dahomey, self-governing within the French Community.

Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French community on December 11, 1958.

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

On 24 December 1989, a small band of rebels led by Doe's former procurement chief, Charles Taylor invaded Liberia from Côte d ' Ivoire.

Côte d ' Ivoire's contemporary political history is closely associated with the career of Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President of the republic and leader of the Parti Démocratique de la Côte d ' Ivoire ( PDCI ) until his death on December 7, 1993.

Robert Guéï (; March 16, 1941 – September 19, 2002 ) was the military ruler of the Côte d ' Ivoire from December 24, 1999 to October 26, 2000.

To curtail the illegal trade, the nation stopped all diamond mining and the UN Security Council banned all exports of diamonds from Côte d ' Ivoire in December 2005.

In December 1989, Taylor launched a Gaddafi-funded armed uprising from Côte d ' Ivoire into Liberia to overthrow the Doe regime, leading to the First Liberian Civil War.

A civil war began in December 1989, when rebels intent on toppling Doe entered Liberia through Côte d ' Ivoire.

Charles Taylor, a former ally of Doe's, crossed into Liberia from Côte d ' Ivoire on December 24, 1989, to wage a guerrilla war against Doe.

The name was given to the coast by the writer Stéphen Liégeard in his book, La Côte d ’ azur, published in December 1887.

Félix Houphouët-Boigny (; 18 October 1905 – 7 December 1993 ), affectionately called Papa Houphouët or Le Vieux, was the first President of Côte d ' Ivoire.

In 1980, Bédié was elected to the National Assembly of Côte d ' Ivoire, and he was then elected as President of the National Assembly in December 1980.

Bédié fled to a French military base before leaving Côte d ' Ivoire by helicopter on December 26 and going to Togo, along with family members.

In the final draw, on 4 December 2009, Portugal was drawn in one of the toughest groups, the so called Group of Death where the Selecção das Quinas faced 5-time champions Brazil, Africa's top contenders Côte d ' Ivoire and 1966 opponents North Korea.

* Sixth session ( 30 November – 11 December 2009 ): Côte d ' Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Democratic People ’ s Republic of Korea, Costa Rica, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Norway, Portugal, Albania.

Amara Essy ( born 20 December 1944 ) is a diplomat from Côte d ' Ivoire ( Ivory Coast ).

Ouattara returned to Côte d ' Ivoire on December 29, hailing Bédié's ouster as a " revolution supported by all the Ivorian people ".

An economist by profession, Ouattara worked for the International Monetary Fund ( IMF )-where he rose to be deputy head-and the Central Bank of West African States (, BCEAO ), and he was the Prime Minister of Côte d ' Ivoire from November 1990 to December 1993, appointed to that post by President Félix Houphouët-Boigny.

In the parliamentary election held on 10 December 2000 and 14 January 2001, the party won 4 out of 225 seats in the National Assembly of Côte d ' Ivoire.

From December 27, 2004 to December 30, 2004, the " Coordination des associations, organisations et mouvements de la jeunesse de Kati " organinized a meeting for young people from Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Côte d ' Ivoire, Senegal and Togo.

On December 24, 1989, Charles Taylor and a small group of Libyan-trained rebels calling themselves the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) entered Nimba County from neighboring Côte d ' Ivoire, attacking the village of Butuo.

Abdoulaye Cissé ( born December 24, 1983 in Adzopé, Côte d ' Ivoire ) is a naturalized Burkinabé football striker, who plays for Zamalek SC that currently competes in the Egyptian Premier League.