As it began raining at around eight o'clock on December 26th, I retired into my tent early, somewhat tired and discouraged, my body reacting sluggishly because of the continued exposure.

The promotion of Robert E. Swift to the position of Assistant Manager of the Interference Control Field Service Department was announced early in December by Frederick S. Scarborough, Manager of Interference Control Field Service.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

In the early morning hours in Antium of December 15, 37, Agrippina gave birth to a son.

The Missileer project was cancelled in December 1960, but in the early 1960s Navy made the next interceptor attempt with the F-111B, and they needed a new missile design.

The recent winter of 2009 / 2010 was an exception as there was a permanent snow cover from late December till early March.

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.

It is not uncommon for long queues to form early in the morning of 26 December, hours before the opening of shops holding the big sales, especially at big-box consumer electronics retailers.

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.

Chaplin arrived in Los Angeles, home of the Keystone studio, in early December 1913.

Chaplin died in his sleep from the complications of a stroke in the early morning of 25 December 1977 at his home in Switzerland.

However, when the Island re-opened in early December to tourists the cruise ships once more started to pour in, all intrigued to see the damage.

It celebrates the illumination of the medium-sized trees lining College Walk in front of Kent and Hamilton Halls on the east end and Dodge and Journalism Halls on the west, just before finals week in early December.

In the early morning of December 10, 1949, Communist troops laid siege to Chengdu, the last KMT controlled city in mainland China, where Chiang Kai-shek and his son Chiang Ching-kuo directed the defense at the Chengdu Central Military Academy.

With the help of five Central American Presidents, including Ortega, it was agreed that a voluntary demobilization of the contras should start in early December 1989, in order to facilitate free and fair elections in Nicaragua in February 1990 ( even though the Reagan administration had pushed for a delay of contra disbandment ).

The Germans launched a surprise counter offensive in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944 which was turned back in early 1945 by the Allies after Eisenhower repositioned his armies and improved weather allowed the Air Force to engage.

Another popular early project was Jonathon Fowler's JFDuke3D, which in December 2003 received backing from the original author of Build, programmer Ken Silverman.

Edvard Munch (; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944 ) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.

The title was briefly revived from 12 December 1915 to 22 March 1916 by President Yuan Shikai and again in early July 1917 when General Zhang Xun attempted to restore last Qing emperor Puyi to the throne.

It had a " golden age " in the United Kingdom in the early 1920s when crowds reached 50, 000 at some matches ; this was stopped on 5 December 1921 when England's Football Association voted to ban the game from grounds used by its member clubs.

On the average, winter lasts from early December to mid March in the archipelago and the southwestern coast and from early October to early May in Lapland.

In the early hours of 23 December 2008, Aboubacar Somparé, the President of the National Assembly, announced on television that Conté had died at 6: 45pm local time on 22 December " after a long illness ", without specifying the cause of death.

In 1794, he declined to serve another term, and left Congress in early 1795.

The other early authors and works included Christian Heinrich Spiess, with his works Das Petermännchen ( 1793 ), Der alte Überall and Nirgends ( 1792 ), Die Löwenritter ( 1794 ), and Hans Heiling, vierter und letzter Regent der Erd-Luft-Feuer-und Wasser-Geister ( 1798 ), Heinrich von Kleist's short story Das Bettelweib von Locarno ( 1797 ) and Ludwig Tieck's Der blonde Eckbert ( 1797 ), Der Runenberg ( 1804 ).

It was not until word of France's ratification of emancipation arrived back in the colony that Toussaint Louverture and his corps of well-disciplined, battle-hardened former slaves came over to the French Republican side in early May 1794.

KTH was founded in 1827 under the name Technological Institute ( Teknologiska institutet ), following the establishment of polytechnical schools in many European countries the early years of the 19th century, often based on the model of École Polytechnique in Paris in 1794.

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet (; 17 September 1743 – 28 March 1794 ), known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist whose Condorcet method in voting tally selects the candidate who would beat each of the other candidates in a run-off election.

Unable to return to Germany and separated from his friends and family, he died in Paris of illness in early 1794.

In early 1794, Louis Philippe began courting Marianne Banzori, the cook of the Reichenau schoolmaster.

It is named after James Geddes, a prominent early settler who settled at the head of Onondaga Lake in 1794 and developed the salt industry.

In April 1794, a group of travelers was ambushed by a band of Creeks, killing early Cumberland County settler Thomas " Big Foot " Spencer.

As early as 1794, Greenville was platted and divided into 14 lots of and sold by Thomas and Jane Steele.

Franklin was established in 1794 and named for Francis Evick, an early settler.

In early August 1794, Washington dispatched three commissioners, all of them Pennsylvanians, to the west: Attorney General William Bradford, Justice Jasper Yeates of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and Senator James Ross.

His early projects included the Lancaster Canal ( started 1792 ), the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation ( 1793 ), the Crinan Canal ( 1794 ), Rudyard Lake ( 1797 ) and the Dundas Aqueduct on the Kennet and Avon Canal ( 1800 ).

Founded in 1794, Elizabeth City prospered early on from the Dismal Swamp Canal as a mercantile city, before later shifting later into a varied industrial and commercial focus.

The two river stretches were made navigable in the early 18th century, and the canal section was constructed between 1794 and 1810.

* Georges Danton ( 1759 – 1794 ), leading figure in the early stages of the French Revolution

In 1657, and again in 1706, the town and castle were captured by the Swedes during their invasions of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ; on January 13, 1660 the invading Muscovite Russian army under Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky took the Brest castle in a surprise early morning attack, the town having been captured earlier, and massacred the 1700 defenders and their families ( according to captain Rosestein, Austrian observer ); on July 23, 1792 a battle was fought between the regiments of Duchy of Lithuania ( part of Polish Army ) defending the town and the invading Russian Imperial Army ; on September 19, 1794 the area between Brest and Terespol was the scene of a victorious battle won by the invading Russian Imperial army under Suvorov over the Kościuszko Uprising army division under general Karol Sierakowski known in Russian sources as ( Battle of Brest ).

Sympathetic to the early ideals of the French Revolution, Holcroft assisted in the publication of the first part of Thomas Paine's The Rights of Man in 1791 He joined the Society for Constitutional Information ( SCI ) in 1792 and was appointed a member of a liaison committee to work with the LCS in early 1794.

The boiler needed replacement as early as 1794 and an accident with the engine killed a workman in 1796.

His ultra-radical ideas were soon regarded as affront to the National Conventions ' policies, and as the public and official opinion began to turn against the likewise minded Hébertists in the early spring of 1794, Chaumette increasingly became target of

Bowdoin College was chartered in 1794 by Governor Samuel Adams of Massachusetts, of which Maine was then a district, and was named for former Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, whose son James Bowdoin III was an early benefactor.

By early 1794, however, radicalism was rapidly losing influence and political legitimacy in the National Convention.

His active career as a woodblock artist seems to have spanned just ten months in the mid-Edo period of Japanese history, from the middle of 1794 to early 1795.