* 1962 – James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone.

Moses and Joshua bowing before the Ark, painting by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, c. 1900

Bronze statue in Temple Square, Salt Lake City, representing Saint Peter | Peter, James, son of Zebedee | James, and John the Apostle | John in the act of conferring the Melchizedek priesthood to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery

As it relates to apostolic succession, the apostles Peter, James, and John allegedly appeared to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdry sometime in 1829 and conferred upon them the Melchizedek Priesthood and with it " the keys of the kingdom, and of the dispensation of the fulness of times ".

Major academic sculptors of France are represented in the sculpture of the Arc de Triomphe: Jean-Pierre Cortot ; François Rude ; Antoine Étex ; James Pradier and Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire.

Phillip soon decided that this site, chosen on the recommendation of Sir Joseph Banks, who had accompanied James Cook in 1770, was not suitable, since it had poor soil, no secure anchorage and no reliable water source.

* 1916 – Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.

Bishops ( as well as other members of the priesthood ) can trace their line of authority back to Joseph Smith, Jr., who, according to church doctrine, was ordained to lead the Church in modern times by the ancient apostles Peter, James, and John, who were ordained to lead the Church by Jesus Christ.

Real estate developer James Keelty Jr. succeeded him as president with investment banker Joseph Iglehart the new board chairman.

* James Joseph Wray.

English-speaking Latter-day Saints typically own and study the LDS Church-published edition of the King James Version of the Bible, which includes LDS-oriented chapter headings, footnotes referencing books in the Standard Works, and select passages from the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible.

Some notable Columbia alumni that have gone on to work in film include directors Sidney Lumet ( 12 Angry Men ) and Kathryn Bigelow ( The Hurt Locker ), screenwriters Howard Koch ( Casablanca ) and Joseph L. Mankiewicz ( All About Eve ), and actors James Cagney and Ed Harris.

Also famous as a prose stylist, Hume pioneered the essay as a literary genre and engaged with contemporary intellectual luminaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith ( who acknowledged Hume's influence on his economics and political philosophy ), James Boswell, Joseph Butler, and Thomas Reid.

He is also commemorated on the Sunday after the Nativity, together with Joseph and James, the Brother of the Lord.

Compositions for four double basses exist by Gunther Schuller, Jacob Druckman, James Tenney, Robert Ceely, Jan Alm, Bernhard Alt, Norman Ludwin, Frank Proto, Joseph Lauber, Erich Hartmann, Colin Brumby, Miloslav Gajdos and Theodore Albin Findeisen.

Other names connected to the city include Max Born, physicist and Nobel laureate ; Charles Darwin, the biologist who discovered natural selection ; David Hume, a philosopher, economist and historian ; James Hutton, regarded as the " Father of Geology "; John Napier inventor of logarithms ; chemist and one of the founders of thermodynamics Joseph Black ; pioneering medical researchers Joseph Lister and James Young Simpson ; chemist and discoverer of the element nitrogen, Daniel Rutherford ; mathematician and developer of the Maclaurin series, Colin Maclaurin and Ian Wilmut, the geneticist involved in the cloning of Dolly the sheep just outside Edinburgh.

The rebel headquarters was located at the General Post Office ( GPO ) where James Connolly, overall military commander and four other members of the Military Council: Patrick Pearse, Tom Clarke, Seán Mac Dermott and Joseph Plunkett were located.

He was the third son of Harriet Catherine ( née Curran ) and James Patrick Joseph Kelly, a phonograph salesman.

" Thus the purported author is James, brother of Jesus, whom the text claims to be a son of Joseph from a prior marriage.

Instead it's an intelligent, beautifully read ..." Stacy Keach played the role with an all-star cast at Joseph Papp's Delacorte Theatre in the early 70's, with Colleen Dewhurst's Gertrude, James Earl Jones's King, Barnard Hughes's Polonius, Sam Waterston's Laertes and Raul Julia's Osric.

The focus of the Scottish Enlightenment ranged from intellectual and economic matters to the specifically scientific as in the work of William Cullen, physician and chemist, James Anderson, an agronomist, Joseph Black, physicist and chemist, and James Hutton, the first modern geologist.

The positions are currently held by Sharon Angelaccio, Lauren Phillips, Thomas Kelley, J. Adam Matlawski, and Joseph Mastronardo, respectively.

The Millers won four Association pennants during the 1910 – 23 tenure of " Pongo Joe " Cantillon, then were managed from 1924 – 31 by another legend, Michael Joseph Kelley, one of the great figures of American Association history.

The party crossed Mexico to California, where Kelley, along with Joseph Gale, joined the party trader Ewing Young.

Brandenburg Concerto No. 1, BWV 1046: Members of the Marlboro Festival and Myron Bloom, Robert Johnson ( horns ), John Mack, Ronald Richards, Peter Christ ( oboes ), Donald MacCourt ( bassoon ), Alexander Schneider ( violin ); Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, BWV 1047: Members of the Marlboro Festival and Robert Nagel ( trumpet ), Ornulf Gulbransen ( flute ), John Mack ( oboe ); Alexander Schneider ( violin ); Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, BWV 1048 ; Orchestral Suite No. 1, BWV 1066: Members of the Marlboro Festival and John Mack, Joseph Turner ( oboes ), Joyce Kelley ( bassoon ), Ruth Laredo ( piano ); Marlboro Festival Orchestra: Pablo Casals.

Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, BWV 1049: Members of the Marlboro Festival and Alexander Schneider ( violin ), Ornulf Gulbransen, Nancy Dalley ( flutes ), Rudolf Serkin ( piano ); Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, BWV 1050: Members of the Marlboro Festival and Ornulf Gulbransen ( flute ), Alexander Schneider ( violin ), Rudolf Serkin ( piano ); Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, BWV 1051: Members of the Marlboro Festival and Peter Serkin ( continuo ); Orchestral Suite No. 4, BWV 1069: Members of the Marlboro Festival and Henry Nowak, Wilmer Wise, Louis Opalesky ( trumpets ), John Mack, Joseph Turner, Patricia Grignet ( oboes ), Joyce Kelley ( bassoon ), John Wyre ( timpani ), Ruth Laredo ( piano ); Marlboro Festival Orchestra: Pablo Casals.

Jeff Koons, Elad Lassry, Mike Kelley, Maurizio Cattelan, Joseph Kosuth, Cady Noland, Vanessa Beecroft, Michael Bevilacqua, Ashley Bickerton, Cai Guo-Qiang, Matt Greene, Liza Lou, Miltos Manetas, Allan McCollum, Takashi Murakami, Shirin Neshat, Chris Ofili, Gabriel Orozco, William Powhida, Yinka Shonibare, Shahzia Sikander, Kara Walker, Nari Ward, and Christopher Wool.

In the first floor of the east wing the gallery displays works of Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Jannis Kounellis, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell, Franz Kline, Antoni Tàpies, Cy Twombly, Willem de Kooning, George Segal, Richard Serra, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Fred Sandback, Joseph Beuys, Blinky Palermo, Henry Moore, Marino Marini, Per Kirkeby, Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell, Bruce Nauman, Marlene Dumas, Günther Förg, Jörg Immendorff, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, David Salle, Rosemarie Trockel, David Hockney, Hermann Nitsch and many others.

Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol ( December 8, 1861 – September 27, 1944 ) was a French Catalan sculptor, painter, and printmaker.

Anthony ( Dresden, 27 December 1755 – Dresden, 6 June 1836 ), also known by his German name Anton ( full name: Anton Clemens Theodor Maria Joseph Johann Evangelista Johann Nepomuk Franz Xavier Aloys Januar ), was a King of Saxony ( 1827 – 1836 ) from the House of Wettin.

On 6 December 2006 the Transitional Government came to an end as Joseph Kabila was sworn in as President.

On December 2011, Joseph Kabila was re-elected for a second term as president.

* The beginning of the nine-day celebration beginning December 16 and ending December 24, celebrating the trials which Mary and Joseph endured before finding a place to stay where Jesus could be born ( Christians of Spanish-origin ):

A Japanese air attack on December 8, 1941 by 14 twin-engined Mitsubishi G3M " Nell " bombers killed two of the Kamehameha School colonists: Richard " Dicky " Kanani Whaley, and Joseph Kealoha Keliʻhananui.

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (; born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, ; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953 ) was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 until his death in 5 March 1953.

James Joseph Brown ( May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006 ) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist.

Joseph Severn ( 7 December 1793 – 3 August 1879 ) was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the famous English poet John Keats.

Joseph Elmer Yoakum ( February 22, 1889 – December 25, 1972 ) was a self-taught landscape artist of African-American and Native American descent, who drew landscapes in a highly individual style.

Hardy handing over command of the Kenya Army to Brigadier Joseph Ndolo on 1 December 1966, British influence was underlined with the appointment of Major General Robert Penfold as Chief of General Staff, a new position as senior officer of the entire armed forces.

* Joseph Honoré Gérald Fauteux ( 22 December 1949 – 23 December 1973 )

Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (; ; 29 March 1899 – 23 December 1953 ) was a Soviet politician, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus ( NKVD ) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years ( 1946 – 1953 ).

As Lenin neared death after suffering strokes, he declared in his testament of December 1922 an order to remove Joseph Stalin from his post as General Secretary and replace him by " some other person who is superior to Stalin only in one respect, namely, in being more tolerant, more loyal, more polite and more attentive to comrades ".

A check of the website Old Bailey for " Associated Records 1674-1834 " for an alleged trial in December 1801 and hanging of Sweeney Todd for January 1802 shows no reference ; the only murder trial for this period is that of a Governor / Lt Col. Joseph Wall who was hanged 28 January 1802 for killing a Benjamin Armstrong on 10 July 1782 on the isle of Gorée, West Africa, and the discharge of a Humphrey White in January 1802.

William Joseph Hammer, a consulting electrical engineer, began his duties as a laboratory assistant to Edison in December

Following the election of Joseph Ritner as Governor of Pennsylvania in 1835, a state convention was held in Harrisburg on December 14 – 17, 1835 to choose Presidential Electors for the 1836 election.

Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia on December 28, 1856 as the third of four children of Joseph Ruggles Wilson ( 1822 – 1903 ) and Jessie Janet Woodrow ( 1826 – 1888 ).

* December 20 – Joseph Payne Brennan, American poet / author ( d. 1990 )

* December 10 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist ( b. 1817 )

* December 31 – Joseph Yablonski, murdered American labor leader ( b. 1910 )

* December 24 – Joseph Cornell, American sculptor ( d. 1972 )

* December 24 – Joseph M. Juran, American engineer and philanthropist ( d. 2008 )