Allan Dwan ( April 3, 1885 – December 28, 1981 ) was a pioneering Canadian-born American motion picture director, producer and screenwriter.

* Clay, Jenny Strauss, " Immortal and ageless forever ", The Classical Journal 77. 2 ( December 1981: pp. 112 – 117 ).

25, December 1981.

A third force, Misurasata, appeared among the Miskito, Sumo and Rama Amerindian peoples of Nicaragua's Atlantic coast, who in December 1981 found themselves in conflict with the authorities following the government's efforts to nationalize Indian land.

By December 1981, however, the U. S. had already begun to support armed opponents of the Sandinista regime.

* 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.

* First Usage of " Kluge " on UseNET ( 14 December 1981 )

11 On December 1981, the State Department invalidated U. S. passports for travel to Libya ( a de facto travel ban ) and, for purposes of safety, advised all U. S. citizens in Libya to leave.

Prior to the December 1984 coup that brought Taya to power, the Mauritanian-Moroccan cooperation agency stated that relations between the two countries were on the mend in spite of alleged Moroccan complicity in a 1981 coup attempt and Mauritania's subsequent turn toward Algeria.

The Vikings played their final game at Metropolitan Stadium on December 20 to conclude the 1981 NFL season by losing to the Kansas City Chiefs, 10 – 6.

* 1981 – Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe ( the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17 ).

An NRC study panel on the topic met in December 1981 and April 1982.

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On December 17, 1981, four members of the Red Brigades, posing as plumbers, invaded the Verona apartment of US Army Brigadier General James L. Dozier, then NATO Deputy Chief of Staff at Southern European land forces.

The December 20th, 1982 Cincinnati game was a rematch of the 1981 AFC Championship Game.

In December 1981, the Israeli Knesset voted to extend Israeli law to the part of the Golan Heights over which Israel retained control.

On December 29, 1981 the government declared an " emergency zone " in the three Andean regions of Ayacucho, Huancavelica and Apurímac, and granted the military the power to arbitrarily detain any suspicious person.

Chapter headings such as ‘ Selective Use of Violence for propagandistic Effects ’ and ‘ Implicit and Explicit Terror ’ made that fact clear enough ... The little booklet thus violated President Reagan ’ s own Presidential Directive 12333, signed in December 1981, which prohibited any U. S. government employee-including the CIA-from having anything to do with assassinations .”

His 50th goal of the season came on December 30, 1981 in the final seconds of a 7 – 5 win against the Philadelphia Flyers and was his fifth of the game.

Herwart Holland-Moritz, known as Wau Holland, ( 20 December 1951-29 July 2001 ) cofounded the Chaos Computer Club ( CCC ) in 1981, one of the world's oldest hacking clubs.

* December 12 – Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-born magazine editor and socialite ( d. 1981 )

* December 28 – Carol Ryrie Brink, American author ( d. 1981 )

* December 11 – Walter Knott, American farmer and creator of Knott's Berry Farm ( d. 1981 )

* October 8 – Poland bans Solidarity after having suspended it on 13 December 1981.

Robertson song " To Be or Not to Be " on December 31, 1981.

Pope Leo 13, on the 13th day of December 1898, granted the following indulgences: `` An indulgence of three hundred days is granted to all the Faithful who read the Holy Gospels at least a quarter of an hour.

This change temporarily stopped the ability to read this network from February to December 1942.

: Rufus Sewell read a 10-part audio adaptation combining and abridging Doctor Syn on the High Seas and Doctor Syn Returns for BBC Radio, broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in December 2006 and repeated in June 2007.

: A 10-part audio adaptation of The Further Adventures of Doctor Syn ( combining and abridging The Further Adventures of Doctor Syn and The Shadow of Doctor Syn ) read by Rufus Sewell was performed on BBC Radio 7 in December 2007.

Cros was a poet of meager means, not in a position to pay a machinist to build a working model, and largely content to bequeath his ideas to the public domain free of charge and let others reduce them to practice, but after the earliest reports of Edison's presumably independent invention crossed the Atlantic he had his sealed letter of April 30 opened and read at the December 3, 1877 meeting of the French Academy of Sciences, claiming due scientific credit for priority of conception.

It is unknown whether he had obtained a copy of Hill ’ s booklet or if he had simply read about it in The Times newspaper, which had, on two occasions, on 25 March 1837 and on 20 December 1837, reported in great detail Hill ’ s proposals.

Yet Adorno ’ s work continued with studies of Beethoven and Richard Wagner ( published in 1939 as " Fragments on Wagner "), drafts of which he read to Benjamin during their final meeting, in December on the Italian Riviera.

Tests can be seen and read in the following magazines: Yachting Monthly, November 2010 ; the German magazine Yacht, January 2011 ; the Water kampioen from the Netherlands, May 2011 and in Voile magazine in December 2011 in France.

* December 10 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley.

Daniel Webster repeatedly referred to " the Pilgrims " in his December 22, 1820 address for Plymouth's bicentennial, which was widely read.

In a letter of 18 December 1819, Lingard wrote: "... my only chance of being read by Protestants depends upon my having the reputation of a temperate writer.

On 21 December 1941, a military alliance with Japan was signed and on 25 January 1942, Sang Phathanothai read over the radio Thailand's formal declaration of war on the United Kingdom and the United States.

On December 29, 2009, the California Court of Appeal for the Sixth District ruled that California Code of Civil Procedure Section 367 cannot be read as imposing a federal-style standing doctrine on California's code pleading system of civil procedure.

* 17th Series ( Autumn 1990 )-17 November-22 December episodes ( The first time a letter sent in by Mrs Trellis from South Wales is read out.

The Nichi Nichi headline of the story of December 13 read "' Incredible Record ' the Contest to Behead 100 People — Mukai 106 – 105 Noda — Both 2nd Lieutenants Go Into Extra Innings ".

It produced the Catholic – Orthodox Joint Declaration of 1965, which was read out on December 7, 1965, simultaneously at a public meeting of the Second Vatican Council in Rome and at a special ceremony in Constantinople.

The security of the system was criticised in December 2005 with claims that communications between ICC and users could easily be read and that the timestamping could be defeated.

Following resignations among reformists in Lukashenko's cabinet, parliamentary deputy Syarhey Antonchyk read a report in parliament on December 20, 1994, about corruption in the administration.

His discovery of the decrease in intensity of Earth's magnetic field from the poles to the equator was communicated to the Paris Institute in a memoir read by him on December 7, 1804, and its importance was attested by the speedy emergence of rival claims.

On December 13, 2007, however, President Nazarbayev announced a decision not to advance the transformation to a Latin alphabet: “ For 70 years the Kazakhstanis read and wrote in Cyrillic.

# Prince of Chaos ( abridged only ) ( read by Bruce Watson ) ( December 1998 )

The letter was read in public on the 3rd December following.

On 4 December 1963, the Council issued a Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy known as Sacrosanctum Concilium, section 50 of which read as follows:

In a letter to Queen Victoria on 5 December 1861 he said that if his demands were not met, " Great Britain is in a better state than at any former time to inflict a severe blow upon and to read a lesson to the United States which will not soon be forgotten.

Airmen like Otto Lilienthal, who introduced cambered airfoils in 1891, used gliders to analyze aerodynamic forces. The Wright brothers were interested in Lilianthal's work and read several of his publications. They also found inspiration in Octave Chanute, an airman and the author of Progress in Flying Machines ( 1894 ). It was the preliminary work of Cayley, Lilienthal, Chanute, and other early aerospace engineers that brought about the first powered sustained flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina on December 17, 1903, by the Wright brothers.