* He married, on December 7, 1929 ( civil ), in Aix-les-Bains, France, and December 13, 1929 ( religious ), in Bombay, India, Andrée Joséphine Carron ( 1898 – 1976 ).

On January 19, 1976, the Internal Revenue Service notified the university that its tax exemption had been revoked retroactively to December 1, 1970.

On 4 December 1976, the republic became a monarchy — the Central African Empire — with the promulgation of the imperial constitution and the proclamation of the president as Emperor Bokassa I.

In two referendums, in December 1974 and February 1976, the population of Mayotte voted against independence from France ( by 63. 8 % and 99. 4 % respectively ).

The number of Comorians residing in Madagascar was drastically reduced after anti-Comorian rioting in December 1976 in Mahajanga, in which at least 1, 400 Comorians were killed.

* Rochester, Bequaert, and Sharp, " The Chord Keyboard ", IEEE Computer, December 1976, p57-63

The first KH-11 KENNAN reconnaissance satellite equipped with charge-coupled device array ( pixels ) technology for imaging was launched in December 1976.

James Dalton Trumbo ( December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976 ) was an American screenwriter and novelist.

It was shown on NBC-TV in December 1976 as part of The Hallmark Hall Of Fame series.

Ernest Howard Shepard ( 10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976 ) was an English artist and book illustrator.

The band toured in support in the US only from October 1976 to April 1977 with a break in December, then an American Music Award show appearance on 31 January 1977, plus a one-off gig in San Diego in August 1977.

:* Edouard Saouma ( Lebanon ): January 1976 – December 1993.

Friedrich Christian Anton " Fritz " Lang ( December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976 ) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor.

The first democratic elections since 1976 were held in December 1984 and were won by the Grenada National Party under Herbert Blaize who won 14 out of 15 seats in elections and served as Prime Minister until his death in December 1989.

In December 1976, Albania adopted its second Stalinist constitution of the postwar era.

The invasion of East Timor by Indonesia in December 1975 and its annexation in 1976 and the referendum on independence of East Timor from Indonesia in August 1999 strained Indonesia's relations with the international community.

The north station belonging to Zambia has been in operation since 1976, and has four generators of 153. 5 MW each for a total of 615 MW ; work to expand this capacity to 1, 080 MW is expecting completion in December 2012.

Writing began in December 1976, with a first draft completed by mid-1977.

Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung, and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao ( December 26, 1893September 9, 1976 ), was a Chinese communist revolutionary, political theorist and politician.

( 2005 ), " Martin Heidegger ( 1889 — 1976 )", in: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved at December 2, 2009.

In December 1976, the English fanzine Sideburns published a now-famous illustration of three chords, captioned " This is a chord, this is another, this is a third.

Following the lead of Stinky Toys, Métal Urbain played its first concert in December 1976.

Later, in 1972, he began managing Anni-Frid Lyngstad, and finally in 1976 Agnetha Fältskog ( until December 1975, Fältskog was still bound to Cupol / CBS Records under a contract ).

The first show, on 14 December, was Generation X, a band Czekowski managed.

The first, on 14 December, was Generation X, a band Czekowski managed.

As Foreign Secretary, Owen was identified with the Anglo-American plan for then-Rhodesia, which formed the basis for the Lancaster House Agreement, negotiated by his Tory successor, Lord Carrington in December 1979.

In 2005, Carrington was charged with illegally exporting evidence-collection gear to China and took a plea bargain in December 2005 to felony charges in which he has been fined $ 850, 000.

Another officer of the 18th, Lt. George W. Grummond, also a vocal critic of Carrington, led the cavalry, which had been leaderless since Lt. Bingham's death in early December.

Davis first became popular in daytime television playing opposite Beverlee McKinsey as her character Iris Cory's formear Mr, Elliot Carrington, on the soap opera Texas, a spin-off of Another World, from October 1980 through December 1981.

Edward Carrington ( Ted ) Mack ( born 20 December 1933 ) is an Australian politician.

Michael Frederick Carrington Radcliffe ( born December 16, 1944 ) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada.

May 2010 also saw the funeral of Coronation Street favourite Blanche Hunt, who was written out after the death of her portrayer Maggie Jones on 2 December 2009.

On December 11, 1975, shortly after the release of Bugs Bunny Superstar, which prominently featured Bob Clampett, Jones wrote a letter to Tex Avery, accusing Clampett of taking credit for ideas that were not his.

Daniel Jones ( 12 September 1881 – 4 December 1967 ) was a London-born British phonetician who studied under Paul Passy, professor of phonetics at the École des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne ( University of Paris ).

David Thomas " Davy " Jones ( 30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012 ) was an English recording artist, actor, and businessman, best known as a member of the musical group The Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name.

Davy Jones was born at 20 Leamington Street, Openshaw, Manchester, England, on 30 December 1945.

Prime Minister Blaize died in December 1989 and was succeeded as prime minister by Ben Jones until after the 1990 elections.

James Logan Jones, Jr. ( born December 19, 1943 ) is the former United States National Security Advisor and a retired United States Marine Corps General.

Returning to the United States in December 1968, Jones was assigned to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, where he served as a company commander until May 1970.

As of December 2006, Jones was one of five serving Marine Corps four-star general officers who outranked the current commandant of the Marine Corps ( General James T. Conway ) in terms of seniority and time in grade — the others being Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Peter Pace ; former commandant Michael Hagee, commander of U. S. Strategic Command James E. Cartwright, and Assistant Commandant Robert Magnus.

Jones sold the company to Ashton-Tate in December 1985 for about $ 20 million.

On December 1, an incident took place that sealed punk rock's notorious reputation: On Thames Today, an early evening London TV show, Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones was goaded into a verbal altercation by the host, Bill Grundy.

*" Shortcuts " by Thomas Jones, discusses the term " political correctness " in British discourse, London Review of Books, December 1, 2005

The play has been adapted twice for BBC Radio 3, first on 24 December 1978 directed by John Tydeman ; the cast included Edward Petherbridge as Guildenstern, Edward Hardwicke as Rosencrantz, Freddie Jones as The Player, Robert Lang as Claudius, Maxine Audley as Gertrude, Angela Pleasance as Ophelia, and Martin Jarvis as Hamlet.

* December 30 – Davy Jones, English actor and singer ( The Monkees ) ( d. 2012 )

* December 4 – Gemma Jones, British actress

* December 4 – Charles Dow, American journalist, co-founder of Dow Jones & Company ( b. 1851 )

* December 22 – Noel Jones, British ambassador to Kazakhstan ( d. 1995 )

* December 31 – Pete Duel, American actor ( Alias Smith and Jones ) ( b. 1940 )

* December 12 – Henry Jones Sr., fictional character in Indiana Jones franchise ( d. 1951 )

* December 4 – Frederick Elwyn Jones, British barrister and Labour politician.

* December 14 – F. Richard Jones, American director ( b. 1893 )

* December 10 – The High Court of Australia hands down its judgement in the Internet defamation dispute in the case of Gutnick v Dow Jones.

* December 22 – Constantia Jones, English prostitute ( executed ) ( b. c. 1708 )

Jennings married again on December 10, 1962 to Lynne Jones, adopting a child, Tomi Lynne.