In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.

Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.

The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929.

* Santa Claus also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and simply " Santa ", is a figure with legendary, mythical, historical and folkloric origins who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24.

The tunnel opened for use on December 3, 1844, but was not completely finished until late Spring 1845.

In late 1792 Phillip, whose health was suffering from the poor diet, at last received permission to leave, and on 11 December 1792 he sailed in the ship Atlantic, taking with him many specimens of plants and animals.

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

Their government collapsed in late 1992, and was succeeded by a technocratic team, put forward by the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ), which served until 1994, when the president dissolved the government and appointed a provisional one to serve until the pre-term elections, appointed for December in the same year.

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.

When the first meeting of the Fourth Duma was convened in late 1912, only one out of six Bolshevik deputies, Matvei Muranov, ( another one, Roman Malinovsky, was later exposed as an Okhrana secret police agent ) voted to break away from the Menshevik faction within the Duma on 15 December 1912.

This large amount was irresistible to him, and in late December 1914 he travelled to Chicago to join the studio.

In late December 1978, Vietnamese forces launched a full invasion of Cambodia, capturing Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979 and driving the remnants of Democratic Kampuchea's army westward toward Thailand.

Mexico reasserted its claim over Clipperton Island late in the 19th century, and on December 13, 1897, sent the gunboat La Democrata to occupy and annex it.

The proximity fuse emerged on the battlefields of Europe in late December 1944.

Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar.

Diocletian met Maximian in Milan in the winter of 290 – 91, either in late December 290 or January 291.

Wheeler-Nicholson's third and final title, Detective Comics, advertised with a cover illustration dated December 1936, eventually premiered three months late with a March 1937 cover date.

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.

Eli Herschel Wallach ( born December 7, 1915 ) is an American film, television and stage actor who gained fame in the late 1950s.

This documentary and another ( Father Ted: Unintelligent Design and Small, Far Away – The World Of Father Ted ) followed by the episode Kicking Bishop Brennan Up The Arse were repeated again on Channel 4 late in the evening of 26 December 2011.

' However, these and other measures failed to stop the 2008 Guinean coup d ' état led by Moussa Dadis Camara in late December 2008.

Females show highly synchronized reproduction, undergoing oestrus in late November to early December.

By late December to early January, eastern grays begin to arrive in the calving lagoons of Baja.

Sometime between late December 1711 and early January 1712 he applied for the newly vacant Frankfurt post of city director of music and Kapellmeister at the Barfüsserkirche.

In 1976 divers in the Aar found part of a seven-meter wide wooden bridge from the late Roman times.

The earlier date, first proposed in modern times by John Robinson in a closely argued chapter of " Redating the New Testament " ( 1976 ), relies on the book's internal evidence, given that no external testimony exists earlier than that of Irenaeus, noted above, and the earliest extant manuscript evidence of Revelation ( P98 ) is likewise dated no earlier than the late 2nd century.

He also took roles in horror films opposite the late Margaux Hemingway in the thriller Lipstick ( 1976 ) and as a demon in the shocker The Sentinel ( 1977 ).

Released in late 1973, the song topped the singles chart in February 1974, and reached the lower regions of Billboard's Hot 100 ( it eventually also charted in the UK, reaching No. 7 in 1976, representing Parton's first UK success ).

When Jenette Kahn became DC's publisher in late 1976, she commissioned graphic designer Milton Glaser to design a new logo.

Cinema attendance, having rallied slightly in the late 1970s after an all-time low of 115. 1 million visits in 1976, dropped sharply again from the mid-1980s to end at just 101. 6 million visits in 1989.

As late as 1976, some doctors were advising women in the eighth and ninth months of pregnancy not to swallow semen lest it induce premature labor, even though it is now known to be safe.

* Grandchildren: Alexander ( b. March 1974 ), Kindra ( b. May 1976 ), Camberley ( b. June 1978 ), and Francis ( b. February 1981 ), Michael & Barbara Crick's children ; Mark & Nicholas, the late Jacqueline and Christopher Nichols ' children.

After " Get Up Offa That Thing ", thirteen of Brown's late 1970s recordings for Polydor, failed to reach the Top 10 of the R & B chart, with only " Body Heat " in 1976 and the disco-oriented " It's Too Funky in Here " in 1979 reaching the R & B Top 15 and the ballad " Kiss in ' 77 " reaching the Top 20.

In late 1976, CBM purchased MOS outright on the condition that Chuck Peddle would join Commodore as chief engineer.

By late 1976, bands such as the Ramones, in New York City, and the Sex Pistols and The Clash, in London, were recognized as the vanguard of a new musical movement.

In Scotland, this stemmed out of a late repeal of the wartime licensing laws, which stayed in force until 1976.

Launched on the Nine Network in late 1976 was The Sullivans, a series chronicling the effects of World War II on a Melbourne family.

At around the same time Grundy's created a new teen-oriented soap, The Young Doctors, which also screened on Channel Nine starting late 1976.

With the arrival of punk rock in late 1976, the artistic focus of the band changed.

* In late March 1976, the first truly complete recording of the opera Porgy and Bess is released in a 3-LP set, by Decca Records in England and by London Records in the U. S. It stars Willard White and Leona Mitchell.

Fleetwood Mac began recording their follow-up album, Rumours, in early 1976 and continued until late in the year.

On 1 December 1976, Queen were the intended guests on London's early evening Today programme, but they pulled out at the last-minute, which saw their late replacement on the show, EMI labelmate the Sex Pistols, give their seminal interview.

He was appointed U. S. Senator in late 1964 as a member of the Democratic Party upon the resignation of Hubert Humphrey, and held that post until 1976.

In late 1976, Robertson predicted that the end of the world was coming in October or November 1982.

In late 1975 and early 1976, a sub-committee of the U. S. Senate led by Senator Frank Church concluded that members of the Lockheed board had paid members of friendly governments to guarantee contracts for military aircraft.

Benny Goodman said in 1976, " In late 1937, before his band became popular, we were both playing in Dallas.

At a meeting of leading party men in late 1976, seated at the same table, the chief men of the party were: Hua Guofeng, Li Xiannian and Ye Jianying.

In late 1976, Rodney split from both Ruby and group members Willington and Hinds, and from that point on used the name Burning Spear for himself alone.

Though the group was initially signed to Miles Copeland III's BTM Records, the label went under in late 1976, and so their early singles and debut EP, 1977's Packet of Three, were released on the Deptford Fun City label.