On December 1, 2008, the Curb Exchange building at 86 Trinity Place was closed, and the Amex Equities trading floor was moved to the NYSE Trading floor at 11 Wall Street.

In December 2008, HDMS Absalon was involved in the rescue of putative Somali pirates 90 miles off Yemen in the Gulf of Aden.

On December 21, 2008, Atlanta beat the Minnesota Vikings 24 – 17 to clinch a wild card spot, earning a trip to the playoffs for the first time since 2004.

On December 9, 2008, Atari announced that it had acquired Cryptic Studios, an MMORPG developer.

In December 2008, Aston Martin announced that it would cut its 1, 850 workforce by 600.

AOL released an all-new AIM for the Macintosh on September 29, 2008 and the final build on December 15, 2008.

The 2008 Menier Chocolate Factory production opened on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre in previews on November 24, 2009 and officially on December 13, 2009, with the same creative team.

2008 has brought announcements of new or additional sales to Singapore, Finland, Morocco and South Korea ; in December 2010 the Swiss government requested 150 AIM-120C-7 missiles.

Digicel was finally granted a licence on 17 December 2007 and plans to start operations in the BVI sometime in 2008.

Construction of the second line started in December 2008, which is due to be opened according to initial forecasts by the end of 2012.

* Programming: Principles and Practice Using C ++ by Bjarne Stroustrup – Addison-Wesley Professional ; 1 edition ( December 29, 2008 ); ISBN 0-321-54372-1

A bocce player of note is Umberto Granaglia ( May 20, 1931 – December 13, 2008 ), who was awarded the honor of " Player of the Twentieth Century " by the Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules.

In December 2008, Power Fasteners agreed to pay $ 16 million to the state to settle manslaughter charges.

Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

The new highspeed ICE railway line from Karlsruhe to Basel was completed in 2008 while phase I of the TGV Rhin-Rhône line, opened in December 2011, has reduced travel time from Basel to Paris to about 3 hours.

With Switzerland joining the Schengen Area on December 12, 2008, immigration checks were no longer carried out at the crossings.

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.

Ellas Otha Bates ( December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008 ), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ( usually as Ellas McDaniel ), and rock and roll pioneer.

$ 7. 401 billion ( December 2008 )

Costa Rican colones (₡) per US $ 1 – 512. 11 ( September 4, 2010 ), US $ 1 – 559. 51 ( October 24, 2008 ), per US $ 1 – 500. 10 ( December 2007 ), 516. 78 ( November 2007 ), 506. 11 ( April 2006 ), 479. 57 ( July 2005 ), 299. 63 ( February 2000 ), 285. 68 ( 1999 ), 257. 23 ( 1998 ), 232. 60 ( 1997 ), 207. 69 ( 1996 ) and 179. 73 ( 1995 )

11. 5 % ( 31 December 2008 )

15. 6 % ( 31 December 2008 )

$ 21. 58 billion ( 31 December 2008 )

$ 26. 57 billion ( 31 December 2008 )

In December 2009, Robert Canning of IGN ranked the ten episodes to feature Bob that had aired at the time.

In December 2011, IGN journalists placed the multiplayer mode at 17th in their list of the " Top 100 Video Game Moments ", and in 2010 Nintendo Power listed GoldenEye 007 as one of the greatest multiplayer experiences in Nintendo history, stating that it is remembered as one of the finest examples of a first-person shooter.

The PC version of Armed and Dangerous scored 8. 3 out of 10 with IGN ( December 3, 2003 ).

The Xbox version of Armed and Dangerous scored 8. 2 out of 10 with IGN ( December 2, 2003 ).

Matt Casamassina ( born December 22, 1975 in California ) is a video game journalist who worked for IGN until April 23, 2010.

In December 2008 The New York Times listed the acquittal in its annual list of the most influential ideas of the year.

In the table they are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2010.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005.

* On December 4, 1970, the twisted nematic field effect in liquid crystals was filed for patent by Hoffmann-LaRoche in Switzerland, ( Swiss patent No. 532 261 ) with Wolfgang Helfrich and Martin Schadt ( then working for the Central Research Laboratories ) listed as inventors.

On 17 December 2005, EU Presidency conclusions listed the Republic of Macedonia as an accession candidate.

The MCG is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register and was included on the Australian National Heritage List on 26 December 2005.

Since December 1994 the old town of Quedlinburg and the castle mount with the collegiate church are listed as one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites.

When she finished the program on December 1, 1997, she ceased to exist as a complete ship and was listed as scrapped.

The " HD " Version of the game has a completion date of October 2012 listed, but it might be delayed to December 2012 or early 2013 since hitting the $ 650, 000 mark.

In the table the urban areas are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2010.

* The Second Housing Allowance Law of December 1970, which simplified the administration of housing allowances and extended entitlements, increased the income limit to 9, 600 DM per year plus 2, 400 DM for each family member, raised the general deduction on income to determine reckonable income from 15 % to 20 %, allowance rates listed in tales replacing complicated calculation procedure based on “ bearable rent burdens .”

The Park was listed on the Australian National Heritage List on 15 December 2006 for its outstanding natural beauty and being one of the richest indigenous rock art sites in south-eastern Australia.

In a PFA Fans ' Favourites survey published by the Professional Footballers ' Association in December 2007, Chris Grimshaw was listed as the all-time favourite player amongst Accrington Stanley fans.

On December 4, 2000 the company was partially privatised and listed on Oslo Stock Exchange and NASDAQ.

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of December 31, 2005.

The Prospect was listed Grade II in December 1950.

Amazon Best of 2006 Editor's Picks in Country listed the country album at number ten in December 2006.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 11, 1980.

Added in 1980, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as structure number 80004612, and was removed from the Register on December 5, 2003

In the table the localities are listed according to the size of the population as of 31 December 2005.

The distillery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 31, 1974, and designated a National Historic Landmark on December 16, 1980, listed as " Burks ' Distillery ".

The Bates Mill complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in December, 2010.