Sales and net income for the year ended December 31, 1960 showed an improvement over 1959.

The main treaty was opened for signature on December 1, 1959, and officially entered into force on June 23, 1961.

Chaplin also concentrated on his family, to which he and Oona added three more children, Jane Cecil ( b. 23 May 1957 ), Annette Emily ( b. 3 December 1959 ) and Christopher James ( b. 8 July 1962 ).

The subcommittee completed the specifications for COBOL in December 1959.

" The prototype was first shown publicly at the Joint Computer Conference in Boston in December 1959.

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.

On 18 December 1959, the new leader of Iraq, General Abdul Karim Qassim, declared: " We do not wish to refer to the history of Arab tribes residing in Al-Ahwaz and

The institute was started in December 1959 in a room in the canteen building of the Harcourt Butler Technological Institute at Agricultural Gardens in Kanpur.

When The Second City opened its doors on December 16, 1959, directed by Paul Sill, his mother Viola Spolin began training new improvisers through a series of classes and exercises which became the cornerstone of modern improv training.

* 1961 – Cold War: the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent, comes into force after the opening date for signature set for the December 1, 1959.

On December 20, 1959, a Muay Thai among Thai fighters was held at Tokyo Asakusa town hall in Japan.

An abridged version was also serialised in the British science fiction magazine New Worlds Science Fiction in several installments from December 1959 to February 1960, under the title Biography in Time.

Patterson said he became interested in Bigfoot after reading an article about the creature by Ivan Sanderson in True magazine in December 1959.

There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom is the title of a lecture given by physicist Richard Feynman at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959.

These and other developments hint that the retroactive rediscovery of Feynman ’ s “ Plenty of Room ” gave nanotechnology a packaged history that provided an early date of December 1959, plus a connection to the charisma and genius of Richard Feynman.

Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published ( in abridged form ) as a serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ( October, November 1959, as " Starship Soldier ") and published hardcover in December, 1959.

The Blue Steel II was cancelled in December 1959 and the British cabinet had decided in February 1960 to cancel the Blue Streak.

She was commissioned 30 December 1959 and decommissioned 24 January 1985.

The 1950s or The Fifties was the decade that began on January 1, 1950 and ended on December 31, 1959.

* On 2 December 1959, Malpasset Dam in southern France collapsed and water flowed over the town of Frejus, killing 412.

* December 10 – Philip Hart, Democratic United States Senator from Michigan from 1959 – 1976 ( d. 1976 )

* December 17 – Claudia Benton, Peruvian-born child psychologist ( b. 1959 )

* December 3 – Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, Polish-born Chief Rabbi of Ireland and of Israel ( d. 1959 )

* December 31 – George Marshall, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1959 )

Handwritten notes taken by Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger on December 7, 1985 indicate that Reagan was aware of potential hostages transfers with Iran, as well as the sale of Hawk and TOW missiles to " moderates elements " within that country.

On December 14, 1818, the French privateer Hipólito Bouchard, sailing under the flag of the " United Provinces of Rio de la Plata " ( Argentina ), brought his ships La Argentina and Santa Rosa to within sight of the Mission ; aware that Bouchard ( today known as " California's only pirate ") had recently conducted raids on the settlements at Monterey and Santa Barbara, Comandante Ruíz had sent forth a party of thirty men ( under the leadership of a young Spanish lieutenant named Santiago Argüello ) to protect the Mission at first news of the approach on the 13th.

On reaching Penrith, the advanced portion of his army was repulsed on Clifton Moor in December 1745, and Cumberland became aware that an attempt to overtake the retreating Highlanders would be hopeless.

* December 3 – In Cincinnati, Ohio, a stampede for seats at Riverfront Coliseum during a Who concert kills 11 fans ( band members were not made aware of the deaths until after the show ).

By secretly, and as all parties were well aware, against the law, they both went through a form of marriage on 15 December 1785, in the drawing room of her house in Park Street, London.

Cairns first became aware of what was to become known as the Loans Affair three days after being appointed Treasurer, on the 13th of December 1974, when he entered at the end of a meeting of the Labor Party federal executive at the Lodge, Whitlam explained the situation and requested that Cairns co-sign approval for the loan.

On 2 December, he told Parliament that he was aware that money had been raised in his name in Haryana, but denied having authorized the appeal or receiving any of its proceeds.

Although the Board was aware of the error as early as December, it waited months to respond and, in late March, schools still did not have correct details.

" Himmler was well aware of Dirlewanger's reputation and record, but awarded him the German Cross in Gold on December 5, 1943, in recognition of his regiment's successes during this time, such as Operation Cottbus.

In a statement on December 17 Meyer had described this payment as " legally correct ", but also admitted "... I have nevertheless become aware of the fact that many people have a problem understanding that at that time I accepted this money, since I went back into the company ...".

Maxwell sent emails in December 2004 mentioning pressure from Greenberg ; this was before he was aware of Hoge's intent to give Rogers the last word.

* December 18, the Belgian newspapers were in an uproar on the theme of a violation of the principle of the separation of powers, with an advanced position taken up by Yves Desmet, who draws the conclusion that the government was aware of the gist of the ruling two days beforehand and had instituted a diversionary manoevre ( a frivolous request by FPIM on Thursday ) to derail the ruling.

* Friday December 19, early in the morning, De Standaard draws the conclusion that the Court of Cassation is convinced that the government was aware of the gist of the ruling two days beforehand and had instituted a diversionary manoevre ( the request by FPIM on Thursday ) to derail the ruling: it foresees a hefty debate in parliament.

On 17 December 2004, he publicly announced that he is HIV-positive and has been aware of this since 1998.

Intended as a public education campaign which focused on making America safer and more aware of existing and potential dangers, the project ceased operations on December 31, 2005.

The next day, December 18, Gaines released a statement that acknowledged that he had been aware of the allegation since June 2006 but that he did not address it for several months because Williams had been attending professional counseling, because of confidentiality concerns, and out of compassion for the staffer.

As they are keenly aware of the sea, the Moken in some areas knew the tsunami that struck on December 26, 2004 was coming, and managed to preserve many lives.

On December 11, 2008, the FDA issued a Safety Alert stating that " FDA has become aware of reports of acute phosphate nephropathy, a type of acute kidney injury, associated with the use of oral sodium phosphate products ( OSP ) for bowel cleansing prior to colonoscopy or other procedures.

Apparently, nobody associated with the show was aware of its extraordinary popularity in Serbia until December 2008 when Canadian actor Rob Stewart who played Nick Slaughter in the series accidentally discovered it by stumbling upon a Facebook fan group named " Tropical Heat / Nick Slaughter " with some 17, 000 ( mostly Serbian ) followers.

The NRC is aware of this barrier, and has held a number of public reviews to devise a new scheme that would make it financially feasible to build and operate small reactors, while at the same time maintaining appropriate level of protection at large LWR installations, the latest of which took place in December 2010, setting January 2011 as the time frame for preparation of official white paper proposal.