In December 1978, there was media speculation that Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, might marry a Roman Catholic, although the rumours were never verified.

When in December 1978 there was media speculation that Prince Charles might marry a Roman Catholic, Powell defended the provision that excludes Roman Catholics from ascending the throne, claiming his objection was not rooted in religious bigotry but in political considerations.

In December 1978, the federal district court ruled in the university's favor ; two years later, that decision was overturned by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

In December 1978, Wardas received a sentence of four and a half years ' imprisonment and Gantcho a suspended sentence for disturbing the peace of the dead and for the attempt of extortion.

In December 1978, Vietnam announced formation of the Kampuchean United Front for National Salvation ( KUFNS ) under Heng Samrin, a former DK division commander.

In late December 1978, Vietnamese forces launched a full invasion of Cambodia, capturing Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979 and driving the remnants of Democratic Kampuchea's army westward toward Thailand.

A highly publicized candid interview on a Barbara Walters Special in December 1977 ( timed to coincide with Here You Come Agains release ) was followed by appearances in 1978 on Cher's ABC television special, and her own joint special with Carol Burnett on CBS, Carol and Dolly in Nashville.

From December 3, 1978, to September 20, 1980, Encyclopedia Brown was a daily and Sunday comic strip syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate.

To date, and with support from Europe's National Meteorological Services and the European Commission, ECMWF has conducted two major reanalyses of the global atmosphere: the first ECMWF re-analysis ( ERA-15 ) project generated reanalyses from December 1978 to February 1994 ; the ERA-40 project generated reanalyses from September 1957 to August 2002.

In December 1978 he was appointed as a coach at Port Vale, being demoted to reserve coach in October 1978 as the team struggled, before being dismissed in 1979.

General Oswaldo López Arellano carried out the next coup in October 1963 and a second in December 1972, followed by coups in 1975 by Juan Alberto Melgar Castro and in 1978 by Policarpo Paz García.

In December 1978 the PDPA leadership signed an agreement with the Soviet Union which would allow military support for the PDPA in Afghanistan if needed.

* Oral History interview transcript with John Bardeen 12, 16 May, 1, 22 December 1977 & 4 April 1978, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library and Archives

President Taya, who won elections in 1992 and 1997, first became chief of state through a December 12, 1984 bloodless coup which made him chairman of the committee of military officers that governed Mauritania from July 1978 to April 1992.

Margaret Mead ( December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978 ) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

For example, Spider-Man's high school graduation was published in Amazing Spider-Man # 28 ( September 1965 ), his college graduation in Amazing Spider-Man # 185 ( October 1978 ), and his high school reunion in Marvel Knights: Spider-Man # 7 ( December 2004 ).

The core of the new agency was composed of the Civil Aeronautics Board's Bureau of Safety ( The CAB retained its economic regulation of the airline industry until it was closed on December 31, 1984 due to the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 ).

Osborne Earl " Ozzie " Smith ( born December 26, 1954 ) is an American former baseball shortstop who played in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals from 1978 to 1996.

* Pioneer Venus Orbiter ( Pioneer Venus 1, Pioneer 12 ) – launched December 1978

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.

Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, ( 20 December 189415 May 1978 ) was an Australian politician and the 12th Prime Minister of Australia.

He married Wendy Kimball on December 31, 1978.

Since self-determination is not recognized in the Spanish Constitution of 1978, some Basques abstained and some even voted against it in the referendum of December 6 of that year.

With the Vietnamese Occupation of Democratic Kampuchea ( Cambodia ) on December 25, 1978, Thailand at once became the " real " front line state in fighting against communism, as the Kingdom was surrounded by three unfriendly, communist Indochinese countries and a socialist Burma under General Ne Win.

At the Mongol camp near Kars Andrew had met a certain David, who in December 1248 appeared at the court of King Louis IX of France in Cyprus.

In December of that year, allegations by Arkansas state troopers Larry Patterson and Roger Perry were first reported by David Brock in the American Spectator.

* Civil Defense Logo dies at 67, and Some Mourn its Passing, The New York Times, 1 December 2006 by David Dunlap.

* Spectres of Agrarian Territory by David Ludden 11 December 2001

David Warren " Dave " Brubeck ( born December 6, 1920 ) is an American jazz pianist.

Sir David Brewster ( 11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868 ) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer and university principal.

Jacques-Louis David (; ) ( 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825 ) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.

It was her coronation by her husband, Napoleon I, that David depicted so memorably in the Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine, 2 December 1804.

When David was leaving a theater, a carriage struck him, and he later died, on 29 December 1825.

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.

When The Byrds performed on December 12, 1965, David Crosby got into a shouting match with the show's director.

The current Chairman is David Evans, appointed at the club's Annual General Meeting on 21 December 2009.

* Sir David Omand ( July 1996 – December 1997 )

Essay and interview with John Coster-Mullen by David Samuels in the New Yorker, December 15, 2008 issue.

A delegation led by the West Cornwall Liberal Democrat MP Andrew George and representatives of the Convention ( Bert Biscoe, Richard Ford, Dick Cole, David Fieldsend and Andrew Climo ) presented the declaration to 10 Downing Street on Wednesday 12 December 2001.

* Sanger, David E., " War Figures Honored With Medal of Freedom ", The New York Times, December 15, 2004.

David Cameron famously used the phrase in a December 2005 speech.

David Samuel " Sam " Peckinpah ( February 21, 1925 – December 28, 1984 ) was an American film director and screenwriter who achieved prominence following the release of the Western epic The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ).

In New York City, David Lasser, Gernsback's managing editor, nurtured the birth of a small local club called the Scienceers, which held its first meeting in a Harlem apartment on December 11, 1929.

The Co-chairs of the Green Party of the United States are currently ( 2010 December ): Theresa El-Amin ( NC ), Mike Feinstein ( CA ), Farheen Hakeem ( MN ), Julie Jacobson ( HI ), Jason Nabewaniec ( NY ), David Strand ( MN ), and Craig Thorsen ( CA ).

The Asquith government proved ineffective but when David Lloyd George replaced him in December 1916 Britain gained a powerful and successful wartime leader.

Prime Minister David Lloyd George failed to introduce Home Rule in 1918 and in the December 1918 General Election Sinn Féin won a majority of Irish seats.

The Libertarian Party was formed in Westminster, Colorado, in the home of David Nolan on December 11, 1971.

* December 20 – David Tavaré, Spanish singer

* December 20 – David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist ( d. 1992 )