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 )

* December – Major Walter Clopton Wingfield designs and patents a racquet sport which he calls sphairistike ( Greek σφάίρίστική, " skill at playing at ball "), soon known simply as Stické, for the amusement of his guests at a garden party on his estate of Nantclwyd, in Llanelidan, Wales.

Archie Moore ( born Archibald Lee Wright ; December 13, 1916 – December 9, 1998 ), was an American professional boxer and the Light Heavyweight World Champion ( 1952 – 1959 and 1961 ), who had one of the longest professional careers in the history of the sport.

Then on December 11, 1998, the Sepak Takraw Association of Canada ( STAC ) was incorporated to organise and govern the sport nationally.

Another major milestone was achieved on December 3, 2000, when STAC and the sport of Sepak Takraw became an official class E Member of the Canadian Olympic Committee.

Philip Ronald Cleary ( born 8 December 1952 ) is an Australian commentator on politics and sport, particularly Australian rules football, and a former independent politician elected at the 1992 Wills by-election.

A review of sport in the Newsletter in December that year concluded ; “ Football has rapidly worked its way into the very front rank of our outdoor sports.

Releasing a statement on December 17, 2004, the IIHF described Bertuzzi's actions as " an extremely serious violation of the rules " which put " the sport into disrepute.

Pierre Etchebaster ( December 8, 1893-March 24, 1980 ) is widely considered history's greatest player of real tennis ( in France jeu de paume ), the original racquet sport from which the modern game of lawn tennis ( which has usurped the name " tennis "), is descended.

Following the withdrawal of Honda from the sport in December 2008, he was left without a drive for the 2009 season, until Ross Brawn led a management buyout of the team in February 2009, and Button suddenly found himself in a highly competitive, Mercedes-engined car.

World in Action employed many leading journalists, among them John Pilger ; Michael Parkinson ; Gordon Burns ; Rob Rohrer ; Nick Davies, Ed Vulliamy and David Leigh of The Guardian ; Alasdair Palmer of the Sunday Telegraph ; John Ware, BBC Panoramas leading investigative reporter ; Anthony Wilson, whose second career as a music impresario was immortalised in the feature film 24 Hour Party People ; Michael Gillard, creator of the Slicker business pages in the satirical magazine Private Eye ; Donal MacIntyre ; the writer Mark Hollingsworth ; Quentin McDermott, since 1999 a leading investigative reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ; Tony Watson, editor of the Yorkshire Post for 13 years and editor-in-chief of the Press Association from December 2006 ; and Andrew Jennings, author of Lords of the Rings, who has campaigned vigorously for more than a decade against corruption in international sport.

On 13 December 2008, the undefeated Bulldogs won the NCAA Division II National Football Championship -- the first Division II championship in any sport at the school.

After spreading right across the country, the sport traveled around the world ; first to Australia in 1934 at Melbourne's Olympic Park on December 15, and to New Zealand in 1937.

While editing Sportsview, in 1954 he hit upon the idea of creating the annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year award, a glittering ceremony which is still held every December by the Corporation and seen as one of the major events in UK sport.

A 29 December 1911 New York Times article reporting on the addition of the game as an official collegiate sport in the USA referred to it as " association football ", " soccer " and " soccer football " all in a single article.

The University won its first NCAA national championship in any sport on December 19, 2008 when the Spiders football team defeated the Montana Grizzlies, 24 – 7, in the NCAA Division I Football Championship.

In December, Zhou ended the 2008 season by winning the BWF Super Series Masters Finals, the biggest prize money event in the sport.

On December 12, 2008, the IAAF announced that she would be banned from the sport for two years.

Lorenzo Christopher Wright ( 9 December 1926 – 27 March 1972 ) was a Detroit native and star athlete at Miller High School and Wayne State University ; Wright is renowned for his noteworthy accomplishments in the sport of track and field.

After these event the Executive Committee of Football Federation of the Ukrainian SSR made the decision to have a plenum in the beginning of December where the future of the growth of the national sport would be defined.

After all that, on 13 December in the big hall of ministry in affairs of the youth, sport, and tourism the Council of the Federation in one voice accepted the following declaration:

The Gold engine, introduced in December 1969, was fitted as standard to the SS and GSS sport models.

Numerous rumors surfaced linking Purnell to other Formula One teams, but in December 2006 it was announced that Purnell would return to the sport as a technical consultant to the governing body, the FIA.

IL Gneist is a sport club from Ytrebygda, Bergen, Norway founded on December 16, 1945.