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

Frazetta, later famous as a fantasy artist, assisted on the strip from 1954 to December, 1961.

Earlier in 1961, a Television Audience Measurement ( TAM ) showed that 75 % of available viewers ( 15 million ) tuned into Corrie and by 1964 the programme had over 20 million regular viewers, with ratings peaking on 2 December 1964, at 21. 36 million viewers.

Between 9 December 1960 and 3 March 1961, Coronation Street was broadcast twice weekly, on Wednesday and Friday.

From Friday 9 December 1960 until Friday 3 March 1961, the programme was shown in two episodes broadcast Wednesday and Friday at 19: 00.

After some reverses, UN and Congolese government forces succeeded in recapturing the breakaway provinces of South Kasai on 30 December 1961, and Katanga on 15 January 1963.

Political developments, including the formation and growth of the Tanganyika African National Union ( TANU ), led to Tanganyika attaining independence from colonial rule in December 1961.

Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page, GCMG, CH ( 8 August 188020 December 1961 ) was the 11th Prime Minister of Australia, and is to date the second-longest serving federal parliamentarian in Australian history, with 41 years, 361 days in Parliament .< ref >

At the time of independence, the Dutch retained control over the western half of New Guinea, and permitted steps toward self-government and a declaration of independence on 1 December 1961.

After negotiations with the Dutch on the incorporation of the territory into Indonesia failed, an Indonesian paratroop invasion 18 December preceded armed clashes between Indonesian and Dutch troops in 1961 and 1962.

* 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.

“ Aspects of Rousseau ’ s Political Thought ,” Political Science Quarterly, December 1961.

It became a United Nations Trust Territory on 11 December 1946, and was granted internal self-rule on 1 May 1961.

On 9 December 1961, it became an independent Commonwealth realm, transforming into a republic on the same day the next year.

They finished the regular season with 11 straight wins ( tying the 1961 team record & is also tied for the 5th longest win streak entering the playoffs ), finished with an impressive 13 – 3 record, ( including 4 – 0 in December, extending their NFL record with 18 straight wins in December, & also tying the Dolphins 1970 – 1974 in November for the longest winning streak in any month ).

Reaction to the announcement was widespread and largely positive from both religious and secular leaders outside the Catholic Church, and the council was formally summoned by the apostolic constitution Humanae Salutis on 25 December 1961.

Exclusively, Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which is entitled by the founding of United Nations as the cornerstone of modern day diplomacy since the Vienna Congress, was signed and ratified by the Republic of China on 18 April 1961 and 19 December 1969.

On 29 March 1961 Britain agreed that Tanganyika would become an independent state on 28 December 1961.

On December 9, 1961, Tanganika became an autonomous Commonwealth realm, and Nyerere became Prime Minister, under a new constitution.

Full independence came in December 1961 and Julius Kambarage Nyerere ( 1922 – 1999 ), a socialist leader who led Tanganyika from colonial rule, was elected President in 1962.

Both countries have signed diplomatic missions on December 11, 1961 Russia has an embassy in Dar es Salaam, and Tanzania has an embassy in Moscow.

In December 1961, Mbeki was elected secretary of the African Students ' Association.

Tyrus Raymond " Ty " Cobb ( December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961 ), nicknamed " The Georgia Peach ," was an American Major League Baseball outfielder.

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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.

The arrival of troops on 16 December put a final end to the republican resistance without bloodshed, and 57 insurgents were tried ; 38 were condemned to deportation ( though several were pardoned in April ).

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.

In December 1998 there were 20 days without sun recorded at Yeovilton.

* 1981 – Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop ; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become " perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate " before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.

The modern meaning of the flag was forged in December 1860 when Major Robert Anderson, acting without orders, moved the U. S. garrison from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, in Charleston Harbor, in defiance of the power of the new Confederate States of America.

On Thursday, December 12, 1799, Washington spent several hours inspecting his plantation on horseback, in snow, hail and freezing rain — later that evening eating his supper without changing from his wet clothes.

In the early hours of 23 December 2008, Aboubacar Somparé, the President of the National Assembly, announced on television that Conté had died at 6: 45pm local time on 22 December " after a long illness ", without specifying the cause of death.

In the Church of England's Common Worship prayer book, 8 December is designated a Lesser Festival of the Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( without the adjective " immaculate ").

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, Najibullah was left without foreign aid.

Netscape announced in its first press release ( October 13, 1994 ) that it would make Navigator available without charge to all non-commercial users, and beta versions of version 1. 0 and 1. 1 were indeed freely downloadable in November 1994 and March 1995, with the full version 1. 0 available in December 1994.

Thereafter, the feast of Saint Felix I, no longer mentioned in the General Roman Calendar, is celebrated on his true day of death, 30 December, and without the qualification of " martyr ".

On December 16, 2006 he was transferred by the highly specialized, ICU equipped, Swiss Air Ambulance Bombardier Challenger Jet http :// www. rega. ch /, reportedly made possible and organized in a bold and daring action by the Swiss banker, Pascal Najadi, who was able to convince the REGA Flight Operations over the phone from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ( perhaps because he was an active patron of the REGA Swiss Air Ambulance ) to swiftly approve the decision to fly without any payment guarantees and assemble at highest possible speed within 48 hours the necessary flight plan, specialized doctors, logistics and Vietnam airspace ( Northern Sector ) entry clearances for the Jet to take off from Zurich HQ, via Lahore to Hanoi, then to proceed with the critical patient in full ICU care of specialized Swiss Doctors and immediate family on board, via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Edmonton to Boston, Massachusetts, where the plane was met by US Customs ( thanks to the help of Senator John Kerry ).

Leander Starr Jameson carried out this plan, without publicly-acknowledged British authorisation, in December of that year – in the ill-fated Jameson Raid.

* June Solstice and December Solstice are an alternative to the more common " summer " and " winter " terms, but without the ambiguity as to which hemisphere is the context.

In Article 5 states: Immediate steps shall be taken in Trust and Non-Self-Governing Territories, or all other territories which have not yet attained independence, to transfer all powers to the peoples of those territories, without any conditions or reservations, in accordance with their freely expressed will and desire, without any distinction as to race, creed or colour, in order to enable them to enjoy complete independence and freedom, moreover on 15 December 1960 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1541 ( XV ) under titled Principles which should guide members in determining whether or nor an obligation exists to transmit the information called for under Article 73e of the United Nations Charter in Article 3 provided that nadequacy of political, economic, social or educational preparedness should never serve as a pretext for delaying independence.

Finally, in early December, the Taliban gave up Kandahar, their last stronghold, dispersing without surrendering.

While the Constitution always granted Congress the authority to meet on a different day without the need to pass an amendment, § 2 of the Twentieth Amendment " tidied up " the constitutional text by paralleling the original provision requiring that the Congress meet at least once a year in December, and changing it to January 3 ( unless changed by law ).

On December 14, 2010, in United States v. Warshak, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy in his emails and that the government violated Warshak's Fourth Amendment rights by compelling his internet service provider to turn over his emails without first obtaining a warrant based upon probable cause.

Some meeting invitees were involved in these preparations, so Heydrich postponed the meeting without rescheduling it on 8 December.

** Coup d ' état of December Twelfth: South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung Hee.