In December 2011, Aon Corporation paid a $ 16. 26 million penalty to the US Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) and the US Department of Justice ( DOJ ) for violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ( FCPA ).

Mirvish Productions presented the earlier Stratford production at the Canon Theatre, Toronto, in December 2010 through January 2011.

It was revived in 2011 and new episodes began airing on MTV on October 27 and ended on December 29.

In December 2011, more than a year after the official reboot announcement, the Los Angeles Times site reported that Whit Anderson, the writer picked for the new Buffy movie, had her script rejected by the producers behind the project, and that a new writer was being sought.

Barney was replaced as Camden Yards ' PA announcer by Dave McGowan, who held the position until December 2011.

As of December 2011, the City Council members are: Loretta Clawson, Mayor ; Jamie Leigh, Councilor, Mayor Pro-tempore ; and Councilors: Rennie Brantz, Andy Ball, Allan Scherlen, and Lynne Mason.

The project was slated to be completed by December 31, 2011 ; as of 16 March 2012, construction is ongoing.

In December 2011, BJU announced its intention to apply for regional accreditation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools ( SACS ).

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.

They were also criticised for shutting down all servers except the Japanese servers for the games Resident Evil: Outbreak and its sequel Resident Evil Outbreak File 2, which the servers for Outbreak and Outbreak File 2 in Japan finally closed on June 30, 2011, over three and a half years after shutting down the North American and European servers on December 31, 2007.

In December 2011, Rodrigo Carreras became the Costa Rican ambassador to Israel for the second time, after his posting there in the 1980s.

The Croatian parliamentary election, 2011 was held on 4 December 2011, and the Kukuriku coalition won.

As of 23 December 2011, the Deputy Prime Ministers are Radimir Čačić, Neven Mimica, Branko Grčić, and Milanka Opačić.

As of 23 December 2011, the prime minister is Zoran Milanović.

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Soyuz TMA-20 / Expedition 26 / 27 ( December 15, 2010, to May 23, 2011 ) was an extended duration mission to the International Space Station.

In December 2011, Caltech students went to New York and pulled a prank on Manhattan's Greenwich Village.

The current version of the standard ( now known as " C11 ") was approved in December of 2011.

On 22 December 2010, the UN declared the period from 2011 to 2020 as the UN-Decade on Biodiversity.

In December 2009 the company announced that it will close its three Columbus, Georgia manufacturing facilities between June 2010 and December 2011.

The 16 largest corporate bankruptcies as of 13 December 2011:

In December 2011 the UK's Minister of State for Schools, Nick Gibb, voiced concern that children can become " too dependent " on the use of calculators.

On December 19, 2011, The Writers Guild of America announced that Trumbo will get full credit for his work on the screenplay of the 1953 romantic comedy Roman Holiday, sixty years after the fact.

In early December 1891, Canadian American Dr. James Naismith, a physical education professor and instructor at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School ( YMCA ) ( today, Springfield College ) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA ), was trying to keep his gym class active on a rainy day.

In some Canadian provinces, Boxing Day is a statutory holiday that is always celebrated on 26 December.

By December 2006, over 1, 237, 000 square kilometers of forest land in Canada ( about half the global total ) had been certified as being sustainably managed ( Canadian Sustainable Forestry Certification Coalition ).

Field Marshal Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis ( 10 December 189116 June 1969 ) was a British military commander and field marshal who served with distinction in both world wars and, afterwards, as Governor General of Canada, the 17th since Canadian Confederation.

Jean Philippe Rushton ( born December 3, 1943 ) is a Canadian psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario who is most widely known for his work on racial group differences, such as research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and the application of r / K selection theory to humans in his book Race, Evolution and Behavior ( 1995 ).

Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs ( 29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988 ) was a German-British theoretical physicist and atomic spy who in 1950 was convicted of supplying information from the American, British and Canadian atomic bomb research ( the Manhattan Project ) to the USSR during and shortly after World War II.

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.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC ( July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980 ) was a Canadian philosopher of communication theory.

On 13 December 2010 Tricky's tour bus was caught in a blizzard near Sarnia, Ontario, Canada ( near the U. S ./ Canadian border ).

However, Gilliam revealed on Canadian talk show The Hour on 17 December 2009, that Robert Duvall had been cast to play Quixote.

While Progressive Conservative Leader Joe Clark rebuffed the notion, the talks moved ahead and eventually in December 2003, the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative parties voted to rejoin into a new party called the Conservative Party of Canada.

William Lyon Mackenzie King, PC, OM, CMG ( December 17, 1874 – July 22, 1950 ), also commonly known as Mackenzie King, was the dominant Canadian political leader from the 1920s through the 1940s.

King linked Canada more and more closely to the United States, signing an agreement with Roosevelt at Ogdensburg, New York in August 1940 that provided for the close cooperation of Canadian and American forces, despite the fact that the U. S. remained officially neutral until the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

* December 10 – Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress

* December 10 – Rick Danko, Canadian musician ( b. 1943 )

* December 28 – Alfred Edwin McKay, Canadian World War I fighter ace ( b. 1892 )

* December 6 – Tomson Highway, Canadian writer

* December 17 – Ken Hitchcock, Canadian hockey coach

* December 29 – Georges Thurston, Canadian singer ( d. 2007 )

* December 16 – Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director ( b. 1873 )

* December 10 – Canadian diplomat Lester B. Pearson receives the Nobel Peace Prize for his peackeeping efforts in the United Nations.

* December 17 – Dave Madden, Canadian actor

* December 19 – Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player

* December 16 – George Ignatieff, Canadian diplomat, recipient of the 1984 Pearson Medal of Peace ( d. 1989 )

* December 13 – Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball player