In December 1940 he wrote in Tribune ( the Labour left's weekly ): " We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

Mao Zedong, also transliterated as Mao Tse-tung, and commonly referred to as Chairman Mao ( December 26, 1893September 9, 1976 ), was a Chinese communist revolutionary, political theorist and politician.

* December 31 – Maxim Litvinov, Russian revolutionary and Soviet diplomat ( b. 1876 )

* December 15 – Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary ( d. 1899 )

* December 16 – Hristo Tatarchev, Bulgarian revolutionary and leader of the revolutionary movement in Macedonia and Eastern Thrace ( d. 1952 )

* December 10 – Felice Orsini, Italian revolutionary ( d. 1858 )

* December 17 – Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan revolutionary leader and statesman ( b. 1783 )

* December 4 – Armand-Guy-Simon de Coetnempren, comte de Kersaint, French revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1742 )

* December 5 – Jean-Paul Rabaut Saint-Etienne French revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1743 )

* December 20 – Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary ( b. 1820 )

* December 26 – Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader ( b. 1743 )

* December 26 – Guru Gobind Singh, 10th Guru of Sikhism, Founder and Chief General of the Khalsa Army, social reformist, poet, and revolutionary ( d. 1708 )

Many different disagreements led to the fracture, for example ; while at the Fourth SI Conference in London in December, 1960, in a discussion about the political nature of the SI, the Gruppe SPUR members disagreed with the core situationist stance of counting on a revolutionary proletariat ; the accusation that their activities were based on a " systematic misunderstanding of situationist theses "; the understanding that at least one Gruppe SPUR member, sculptor Lothar Fischer, and possibly the rest of the group, were not actually understanding and / or agreeing with the situationist ideas, but were just using the SI to achieve success in the art market.

Pickens County was established on December 20, 1820, and named for revolutionary war hero General Andrew Pickens of South Carolina.

Frantz Fanon ( July 20, 1925 – December 6, 1961 ) was a Martinique-born French-Algerian psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary and writer whose work is influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory and Marxism.

On December 13, 1776, the newly established American revolutionary government incorporated the town as " Washington ", after George Washington — the first named in his honor.

Upon petitioning the Assembly for a town charter, the citizens of Mudfort chose to name their town for the South American revolutionary leader, Simón Bolívar ( July 24, 1783 – December 17, 1830 ).

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara ( December 21, 1949 – October 15, 1987 ) was a Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, Pan-Africanist theorist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987.

Felice Orsini (; 10 December 1819 – 13 March 1858 ) was an Italian revolutionary and leader of the Carbonari who tried to assassinate Napoleon III, Emperor of the French.

Zhu De ( Wade-Giles: Chu Teh ; pronounced ; 1 December 1886 – 6 July 1976 ) was a Chinese general, politician, revolutionary, and one of the pioneers of the Chinese Communist Party.

The Order, also known as the Brüder Schweigen ( German for Brothers Keep Silent ) or Silent Brotherhood, was a white nationalist revolutionary organization active in the United States between September 1983 and December 1984.

Defending the cards, Mallory gathers his brothers and Ebenezer Fraser – a secret police officer – to fight the revolutionary Captain Swing who leads a London riot during " the Stink ", a major episode of pollution in which London swelters under an inversion layer ( comparable to the London Smog of December 1952 ).

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.

In December 1978, the federal district court ruled in the university's favor ; two years later, that decision was overturned by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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.

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.

The longest prison sentence in a Norwegian trial where the main charge was insider trading, was for 8 years ( where 2 of the years are suspended ) when Alain Angelil was convicted in a district court on December 9, 2011.

In December 1868 the court rejected a motion to nullify the indictment, but the prosecution dropped the case in February 1869.

Together with John Pilger and Jemima Khan, Ken Loach was among the six people in court willing to offer surety for Julian Assange when he was arrested in London on 7 December 2010.

Sigismund fled to his brother's court in Prague and, following Mary's abdication, Charles was crowned on 31 December, with Mary and her mother forced to attend his coronation.

Enrico Fermi created the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, called Chicago Pile-1 ( CP-1 ), in a racquets court below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago on December 2, 1942.

Pope Celestine V abdicated on 13 December 1294 at Naples, where he had established the papal court under the patronage of King Charles II of Sicily.

Warren G. Harding had first suggested US involvement in 1923, and in 9 December 1929, three court protocols were signed by him.

After being tried and convicted by a kangaroo court for genocide and other crimes, they were executed on December 25, 1989.

In December 2007, Hamdi Quran confessed in an Israeli court to assassinating Ze ' evi together with Basel al-Asmar after being instructed by PFLP member Majdi Rahima Rimawi.

In December 2008, an Israeli military court sentenced Ahmad Sa ' adat, leader of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ), to 30 years in prison for heading an " illegal terrorist organization " and for his responsibility for all actions carried out by his organization.

In December 1483 Richard instituted what later became known as the Court of Requests, a court to which poor people who could not afford legal representation could apply for their grievances to be heard.

* December 20 – A Missouri court passes the death sentence on Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria, for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina.

* December 15 – Ignaz Aurelius Fessler, court councillor and minister to Alexander I ( b. 1756 )

* December 14 – Ganlu Incident: In the northeast sector of the Chinese capital Chang ' an, after a failure by the chancellor Li Xun to slaughter the powerful eunuchs, troops under the eunuchs ' command slaughter many court officials and Li Xun's associates.

A resolution, to have the capital moved from Lewiston to Boise, was passed by the Idaho Territorial Legislature on December 7, 1864, six weeks before the territorial legislature's session legally began, and after litigation, on a split decision decided by one vote on the territorial supreme court on geographic lines.

On 28 December 1791, three and a half weeks after Mozart's death, his widow Constanze offered to send a manuscript score of The Magic Flute to the electoral court in Bonn.

On 24 December 1903, after receiving a court ruling that performances in the United States could not be prevented by Bayreuth, the New York Metropolitan Opera staged the complete opera, using many Bayreuth-trained singers.

On 22 December 2003, the appeals court agreed with the acquittal, and on 5 January 2004, Norway's Økokrim ( Economic Crime Unit ) decided not to pursue the case further.

On 15 December 2011, the Paris court declared him guilty of diverting public funds and abusing public confidence, and gave Chirac a two-year suspended prison sentence.

On Wednesday, December 10, 2003, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that upheld the key provisions of McCain-Feingold ; the vote on the court was 5 to 4.

This would eventually lead to another court case, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, which went to trial on September 26, 2005 and was decided in U. S. District Court on December 20, 2005 in favor of the plaintiffs, who charged that a mandate that intelligent design be taught was an unconstitutional establishment of religion.