Although very small amounts of berkelium were possibly produced in previous nuclear experiments, it was first intentionally synthesized, isolated and identified in December 1949 by Glenn T. Seaborg, Albert Ghiorso and Stanley G. Thompson.

The funeral, held two days later on 27 December, was a small and private Anglican ceremony, according to Chaplin's wish.

On 6 December 2008 Crowded House played the Homebake festival in Sydney, with warm up gigs at small venues in Hobart, Melbourne and Sydney.

The Dominican Republic's small Catalina Island has been studied since 13 December 2007, by a team of underwater archaeologists from Indiana University, after an Italian tourist announced the discovery of an old wreck at just under the clear blue waters, at a distance of no more than offshore.

A small chapel dedicated to Jupiter Conservator was also constructed near the house where Domitian had fled to safety on 20 December, 69.

One was recorded in 1812 ; one measuring 7. 6 on the Richter Scale hit on November 30, 1983 at 21: 46 local time and lasted 142 seconds, resulting in a small tsunami which raised wave height in the lagoon to 1. 5 metres ( 5 ft ), and another on December 2, 2002, an earthquake measuring 4. 6 on the Richter Scale struck the island at 12: 21 a. m.

In December 2007, FAO launched its Initiative on Soaring Food Prices to help small producers raise their output and earn more.

In 1893, judging that his power over Ethiopia was secure, Menelik repudiated the treaty ; in response the Italians ramped up the pressure on his domain in a variety of ways, including the annexation of small territories bordering their original claim under the Treaty of Wuchale, and finally culminating with a military campaign across the Mareb River into Tigray ( on the border with Eritrea ) in December 1894.

In December a chest specialist was summoned from Glasgow who pronounced Orwell seriously ill and a week before Christmas 1947 he was in Hairmyres hospital in East Kilbride, then a small village in the countryside, on the outskirts of Glasgow.

* 1942 September – A small group of Gibraltarians, who remained in the town serving in the British Army, joined a mechanic official, Albert Risso, to create ' The Gibraltarians Association ', the starting point of what became the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( officially established in December that year ), the first political party in Gibraltar.

Christopher Columbus established a small settlement called La Navidad, near the modern town of Cap Haitien, built from the timbers of his wrecked ship Santa María, during his first voyage in December 1492.

The result was the Decembrist Revolt ( December 1825 ), the work of a small circle of liberal nobles and army officers who wanted to install Nicholas ' brother as a constitutional monarch.

It was negotiated and signed by a small faction of Cherokee tribal members, not the tribal leadership, on December 29, 1835.

On 24 December 1989, a small band of rebels led by Doe's former procurement chief, Charles Taylor invaded Liberia from Côte d ' Ivoire.

In December 1934, a small group of nationalists — members of the newly formed Moroccan Action Committee ( Comité d ' Action Marocaine — CAM )— proposed a Plan of Reforms that called for a return to indirect rule as envisaged by the Treaty of Fès, admission of Moroccans to government positions, and establishment of representative councils.

" In December, 1877, a young man came into the office of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, and placed before the editors a small, simple machine about which very few preliminary remarks were offered.

In New York City, David Lasser, Gernsback's managing editor, nurtured the birth of a small local club called the Scienceers, which held its first meeting in a Harlem apartment on December 11, 1929.

DoD wanted its own manned facility, however, and in December it announced Manned Orbital Laboratory ( MOL ), a small space station primarily intended for photo reconnaissance using large telescopes directed by a two-man crew.

In the United States, the film was released by Warner Bros. in December, 1991, and was on a small number of screens with almost no advertising.

Vicente Fox Quesada </ small > (; born July 2, 1942 ) is a Mexican businessman and politician who served as President of Mexico from 1 December 2000 to 30 November 2006 and currently serves as co-President of the Centrist Democrat International, an international organization of Christian democratic political parties.

* December 21 – King Prithvi Narayan Shah unifies several small kingdoms to establish the modern-day Nepal.

Biblica was founded December 4, 1809, in New York as the New York Bible Society by a small group of committed believers including such notables as Henry Rutgers, William Colgate and Theodorus Van Wyke.

It detected 7 small solar bursts of radiation during September and October and 2 during November and December.

The first generator proved too small to power the whole building, and though the entire front of house was electrically lit, the stage was lit by gas until 28 December 1881.

The group, upon the issuance of its first press release on December 21, 1957, designated itself a `` Committee of Investigation ''.

On December 16, 1773, after officials in Boston refused to return three shiploads of taxed tea to Britain, a group of colonists boarded the ships and destroyed the tea by throwing it into Boston Harbor.

Göran Bror Benny Andersson () ( born 16 December 1946 ), known professionally as Benny Andersson, is a Swedish musician, composer, former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA ( 1972 – 1983 ), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia !.

The Croatian constitution was passed in December, 1990 categorizing Serbs as a minority group along with other ethnic groups.

Sorrow ( released in December 1968 ) by British group the Pretty Things is generally considered to be among the first creatively successful rock concept albums-in that each song is part of an overarching unified concept – the life story of the main character, Sebastian Sorrow.

David Thomas " Davy " Jones ( 30 December 1945 – 29 February 2012 ) was an English recording artist, actor, and businessman, best known as a member of the musical group The Monkees and star of the TV series of the same name.

In December 1980, the group was split into three subgroups, and standardization proceeded separately for each proposal.

When it declared devoid of canonical effect the consecration ceremony conducted by Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục for the Carmelite Order of the Holy Face group at midnight of 31 December 1975, the Holy See refrained from pronouncing on its validity.

In the December 1994 Wild Forest Review, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair wrote " The mainstream environmental movement was elitist, highly paid, detached from the people, indifferent to the working class, and a firm ally of big government .… The environmental movement is now accurately perceived as just another well-financed and cynical special interest group, its rancid infrastructure supported by Democratic Party operatives and millions in grants from corporate foundations .”

The group also called attention to the December 4 edition of Fox and Friends, accusing the program of misleading its viewers with a " questionable graphic " showing the result of a Rasmussen Reports climate-change poll totaling 120 percent.

He became one of 12 board members of the American Astronautical Society, an organization formed in 1954 to represent the country's 300 leading scientists and engineers in the area of guided missiles — he was one of seven members of the board to resign in December 1956 after a series of disputes about the direction and control of the group.

In December 1943, a third resistance organization, an anticommunist, anti-German royalist group known as Legaliteti, took shape in Albania's northern mountains.

In December 2004, during the War in Afghanistan ( 2001-present ) | War in Afghanistan, a group of U. S. Army soldiers tries to free a HMMWV, which is stuck in the sands of southern Afghanistan.

As of December 2011, the IEEE 802. 15. 6 task group has approved a draft of a standard for Body Area Network ( BAN ) technologies.

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 ).

When Congress reconvened on December 5, 1853, this group, termed the “ F Street Mess ”, along with Virginian William O. Goode, formed the nucleus that would insist on slaveholder equality in Nebraska.

The group finally declared its full autonomy and incorporated legally with Securities and Exchange Commission of the Philippines and was approved on December 7, 2011 with papers held for by present procurators.

In December 2004, the MusicBrainz project was turned over to the MetaBrainz Foundation, a non-profit group, by its creator Robert Kaye.

On 27 December 1974, a group of FSLN guerrillas invaded a party at the home of the Minister of Agriculture, killing him in the process of taking several leading government officials hostage.

The last group of Japanese soldiers surrendered on Saipan on December 1, 1945.

In December 1975, the group won the RAM ( Rock Australia Magazine )/ Levi's Punk Band Thriller competition.

The group of them then travelled to Akka and Haifa in Palestine ( modern day Israel ) on pilgrimage, arriving on December 14, 1889.

In a poll conducted by Ipsos-Reid following the first prorogation of the 40th parliament on December 4, 2008, it was found that 51 % of the sample group thought the prime minister was directly elected by Canadians.