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 )

The ' Dowra Affair ': The brother of Seán Doherty's wife Maura, Garda Thomas Nangle, was charged with assaulting a Mr James McGovern, a native of County Fermanagh, in a public house in December 1981.

The band attempted to go back and re-record the entire album but in the process, Davis and McGovern's relationship dissolved and by December 1981 McGovern was no longer in the band ( McGovern subsequently formed the band Burning Sensations ).

Despite first-choice goalkeeper Łukasz Załuska announcing a pre-contract move in December to Celtic, McGovern failed to make a first-team appearance for United, with manager Craig Levein admitting, " It looks like Michael McGovern may not be here next season.

by Ray McGovern, December 29, 2009

The McGovern – Hatfield amendment ( alternately, Hatfield – McGovern amendment ) was a proposed amendment in 1970 during the Vietnam War that, if passed, would have required the end of United States military operations in the Republic of Vietnam by December 31, 1970 and a complete withdrawal of American forces halfway through the next year.

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.

The demonstration that the phase transition is second order, that it reproduces the Meissner effect and the calculations of specific heats and penetration depths appeared in the December 1957 article, " Theory of superconductivity ".

In 1964, he appeared as Richard Kimble's nephew in ABC's The Fugitive in the 15th episode entitled " Home Is The Hunted "; as Barry in the NBC medical drama The Eleventh Hour, episode " Sunday Father "; as himself three times in the ABC sitcom The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet ; in the Disney film For the Love of Willadena ; and as a troubled orphan taken home with Darrin and Samantha Stephens in Bewitched episode " A Vision of Sugarplums " ( December 1964 ).

" The Phoenix on the Sword " appeared in Weird Tales cover-dated December 1932.

She also appeared in the NBC television live action production of The Year Without a Santa Claus in December 2006.

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.

The series first appeared in December 1969, when it was published simultaneously in six different magazines.

In December 1969, the Doraemon manga appeared simultaneously in six different children's monthly magazines.

On the morning of 18 December, the emperor appeared to deposit the imperial insignia at the Temple of Concord, but at the last minute retraced his steps to the Imperial palace.

The company's second title, New Comics # 1 ( cover date December 1934 ), appeared in a size close to what would become comic books ' standard during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books, with slightly larger dimensions than today's.

He was more successful as a journalist and published articles in Monde, a political / literary journal edited by Henri Barbusse, – his first article as a professional writer, La Censure en Angleterre, appeared in that journal on 6 October 1928 – G. K .' s Weekly – where his first article to appear in England, A Farthing Newspaper, was printed on 29 December 1928 – and Le Progrès Civique ( founded by the left-wing coalition Le Cartel des Gauches ).

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

In December 2008, Lineker appeared on the ITV1 television programme Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

In December 1945, Albanians elected a new People's Assembly, but only candidates from the Democratic Front ( previously the National Liberation Movement then the National Liberation Front ) appeared on the electoral lists, and the communists used propaganda and terror tactics to gag the opposition.

In December 1994 the two of them appeared on the cover of People magazine, announcing their engagement and Grammer's substance abuse problems.

Clarence Leroy " Lee " Van Cleef, Jr. ( January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989 ) was an American film actor who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures.

He appeared as a villainous swindler in the Bonanza episode, " The Bloodline " ( December 31, 1960 ).

Shang-Chi first appeared in Special Marvel Edition # 15 ( December 1973 ) by Englehart and Starlin ( SME # 1 – 14 were reprints of older Marvel superhero stories ).

On 14 December 1977, he appeared with Arthur C. Clarke on Patrick Moore's BBC The Sky At Night programme.

On 31 December 2008, Smith appeared on Celebrity Mastermind whilst suffering from severe pharyngitis.

She appeared in previews of the Neil Simon play Rose's Dilemma at the off-Broadway Manhattan Theatre Club in December 2003 but quit the production after receiving a critical letter from Simon instructing her to " learn your lines or get out of my play ".

Her first story, Atlanta Girl Sees Italian Revolution, by Margaret Mitchell Upshaw, appeared on December 31, 1922.

The inaugural issue of Punk appeared in December.

On 16 December 2005, senior Sinn Féin member Denis Donaldson appeared before TV cameras in Dublin and confessed to being a British spy for twenty years.

The first issue appeared on 18 December 1884.