* Smissen, R. D. ( December 2002 ).

" History and Theory 41, Theme Issue 41 ( December 2002 ), 90 – 103

A visit in December, 2002 showed that the three aqueducts mentioned above have been nearly completely destroyed.

The Sultan of Brunei visited Washington in December 2002.

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

The December 2002 issue of Gear magazine featured a story about technologies and trends that could violate personal privacy moving society closer to a " Big Brother " state and utilised a recreation of the movie poster from the film version of 1984 created by Dallmeierart. com.

Prior to that Bernd Kellner computed B < sub > n </ sub > to full precision for n = 10 < sup > 6 </ sup > in December 2002 and Oleksandr Pavlyk for n = 10 < sup > 7 </ sup > with ' Mathematica ' in April 2008.

* becoming a member of the Central European Free Trade Agreement ( CEFTA ) in December 2002

In December 2002, the EU formally invited Cyprus to join in 2004, insisting that EU membership would apply to the whole island and hoping that it would provide a significant enticement for reunification resulting from the outcome of ongoing talks.

Under the Global and All-Inclusive Agreement, signed on 17 December 2002, in Pretoria, there was to be one President and four Vice-Presidents, one from the government, one from the Rally for Congolese Democracy, one from the MLC, and one from civil society.

One was recorded in 1812 ; one measuring 7. 6 on the Richter Scale hit on November 30, 1983 at 21: 46 local time and lasted 142 seconds, resulting in a small tsunami which raised wave height in the lagoon to 1. 5 metres ( 5 ft ), and another on December 2, 2002, an earthquake measuring 4. 6 on the Richter Scale struck the island at 12: 21 a. m.

On December 15, 2002, on the ensuing trial highlights the government's failure to demonstrate in court that the alleged coup attempt had ever actually taken place.

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.

* Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Southeast Asia, published March 1967 ( declassified December 2002 )

In December 2000 Guinea-Bissau qualified for almost $ 800 million in debt-service relief under the first phase of the enhanced HIPC initiative and is scheduled to submit its Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper in March 2002.

In 2002, the first bud appeared unusually early, on 7 February, and then again on 29 December of the same year.

With the exception of a single gray whale killed in 1999, the Makah people have been prevented from hunting by a series of legal challenges, culminating in a United States federal appeals court decision in December 2002 that required the National Marine Fisheries Service to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement.

From 25 users in July 1994, the number of users grew to 1, 000 by November 1995, 5, 000 by June 1996, 10, 000 by December 1996, 50, 000 by October 1999, 100, 000 in November 2001, and peaked around 142, 000 in April 2002.

* On December 19, 2002, AOL Time Warner announced that ICQ had been issued a United States patent for instant messaging.

On December 31, 2001, he was transferred to the USS Bataan, where he was held until January 22, 2002, when he was flown off the Bataan to begin the journey back to the United States to face criminal charges.

He would have to consent to a gag order that would prevent him from making any public statements on the matter for the duration of his 20-year sentence, and he would have to drop any claims that he had been mistreated or tortured by U. S. military personnel in Afghanistan and aboard two military ships during December 2001 and January 2002.

The strategy backfired, ripping his party wide open and resulting in its humiliating defeat of his candidate, Kenyatta's son, in the December 2002 general elections.

Constitutionally barred from running in the December 2002 presidential elections, Moi unsuccessfully promoted Uhuru Kenyatta, the son of Kenya's first President, as his successor.

On 27 December 2002 by 62 % the voters overwhelmingly elected members of the National Rainbow Coalition ( NaRC ) to parliament and NaRC candidate Mwai Kibaki ( b. 1931 ) to the presidency.

On 13 December 2002, at the summit in Copenhagen ( Denmark ), Prime Minister Leszek Miller completed the negotiations with the European Union.

The French constitutional referendum of September 1958 dissolved the AEF, and on 1 December of the same year the Assembly declared the birth of the autonomous Central African Republic with Boganda as head of government.

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.

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.

Accordingly, the former units of the King's African Rifles were transformed to the Kenyan Military Forces and the Independent Kenyan Government was legally empowered to assign names to the units as deemed necessary with effect from midnight, 12 December 1963.

The transformation of King's African Rifles to Kenya Military Forces on the midnight of 12 December 1963 was a major milestone in the foundation of today's Kenya Army units.

Kwanzaa is a week-long celebration held in the United States and Canada honoring African Canadian and African-American heritage and culture, observed from December 26 to January 1 each year.

As of 1 December 1999 the Central East African Railways, a consortium led by Railroad Development Corporation, won the right to operate the network.

By December 1979, Muzerowa had replaced Smith as Prime Minister and secured a a fresh agreement with the more militant African factions, allowing Rhodesia to briefly revert to her colonial status pending popular elections.

In February 1937, the South African Parliament formally gave its " assent " by passing the Abdication Act, which declared that Edward had abdicated on 10 December 1936 ; that he and his descendants, if any, would have no right of succession to the throne ; and that the Royal Marriages Act would not apply to him or his descendants, if any.

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

A two-stage election held in October and December 1962 resulted in an African majority in the legislative council and an uneasy coalition between the two African nationalist parties.

* December 22 – The interim South African constitution is approved by Parliament 237 – 45.

* December – African and Malagasy Organisation for Economic Cooperation ( OAMCE ) ( Organisation Africain et Malagache de Coopération Économique ) is established.

* December 19 – State President of South Africa F. W. de Klerk dismisses or suspends 23 military officers, including six generals, sho were suspected of unauthorized activities designed to disrupt negotiations with the African National Congress.

* December 16 – Duncan Faure, South African musician

* December 11 – Olive Schreiner, South African writer ( b. 1855 )

* December 19 – Britain acknowledges the right of Nyasaland ( now Malawi ) to secede from the Central African Federation.

* December 21 – Shaun Morgan, lead singer of South African band Seether

* December 20 – Three African Americans are assaulted by a group of white teens in the Howard Beach neighborhood of Queens, New York.

* December 31 – Samuel Ajayi Crowther, 1st African Anglican bishop ; linguist and legendary missionary ( b. 1809 )

* December 31 – In response to the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, a group of Huguenots set sail from France and settle in the recently established Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope where, using their native skills, they establish the first South African vineyards.

In late 1996, Oakland was the center of a controversy surrounding Ebonics ( African American Vernacular English ), an ethnolect the outgoing Oakland Unified School District board voted to recognize on December 18.

Sessions for the album began in December 1989, and took place in Rio de Janeiro and New York, featuring guitarist J. J. Cale and many Brazilian and African musicians.

In December 1999, the Council of Ministers approved the Southern African Development Community Trade Protocol ( SADC Trade Protocol ).