On 23 Dec 1975, President Gerald Ford signed Public Law 94-168, the Metric Conversion Act of 1975.

" The old story of the Samaritan has been the model of the spirituality of the council " ( Paul VI., address, Dec. 7 ): On 8 December, the Council was formally closed, with the bishops professing their obedience to the Council's decrees.

On Dec. 21, 1880, Louis Houck completed a railroad between Cape Girardeau and Delta, but service did not begin until Jan. 1, 1881.

On Dec. 3, 1955, Sedalia AFB became Whiteman AFB in honor of 2nd Lt George A. Whiteman.

On December 21, 1912, two elderly women and a young girl were killed and nearly 100 people were injured after the floor of the Jonesville High School auditorium collapsed during a Christmas concert ( Winston-Salem Journal article, Dec. 24, 1912 ).

" On Dec. 11, 1926, a 22-year old University of Texas at Austin student named Rebecca Bradley posed as a reporter from the Beaumont Enterprise and convinced officials from the Farmers National Bank of Buda to let her use the typewriter.

# " He's Gonna Do A Number On You " ( Dec 1976 demo )

On Dec. 27, 2007, the Supreme Court of Nepal issued a decision mandating that the government scrap all laws that discriminated based on sexual orientation and / or gender identity and establish a committee to study same-sex marriage policy.

* On 4 Dec 2000, flight from Brussels to Bujumbura, Burundi, en-route to Nairobi, Kenya, was struck by machine gun fire, as it approached Bujumbura, injuring a passenger and crew member.

On Dec. 17, 1953 — the 50th anniversary of Orville and Wilbur Wrights ' 12-second powered hop at Kitty Hawk — the rotunda was rededicated as the Portal of the Folded Wings.

On December 16, Daily Variety reported that the pope had seen the film, and on Dec. 17, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan reported that John Paul II had said: " It is as it was ," sourcing McEveety, who said he heard it from Dziwisz.

On Dec 10, a researcher in a SARS lab in Taiwan came down with SARS after returning from Singapore attending a medical conference, 74 people in Singapore were quarantined but none of them were infected.

On Dec 27, China announced the first suspected case of SARS in six months in Guangdong, from the area the virus originated and in an individual who was not a SARS researcher.

On Dec. 27, 2004, USPTO's follow-up Notice of Abandonment ruled that " The trademark application below was abandoned because a response to the Office Action mailed on 05-30-2004 was not received within the 6-month response period ", adding that any request for reinstatement would have to be received within two additional months.

50 Years On: The struggle for air quality in London since the great smog of December 1952 ( Dec 2002 ).

On Dec 21, 2009, Avaya and Nortel officially closed the sale, to create Avaya with a total of about 21, 000 employees.

On Dec. 2, 2011, Curbed LA reported the Frank Sinatra Fox Residence was up for sale.

On Dec. 12, 2010, the 43rd Sustainment Brigade, home stationed in Fort Carson, Colo., now deployed to Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, organized a satellite run on the base.

On Dec. 28, 2010, U. S. District Judge Ralph Beistline dismissed Miller's lawsuit.

On January 20, 2008, Baldwin wrote in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that on Dec. 14, 2007, “ I joined with my colleagues on the House Judiciary Committee,

On surrendering, Cuahtemoc asked the Spanish to respect the ladies of his court, including his young wife Tecuichpotzin .< ref > Sagaon Infante. http :// www. juridicas. unam. mx / publica / librev / rev / hisder / cont / 10 / cnt / cnt35. pdf, accessed Dec 30, 2010 </ ref >

On 10 September 2008, Ant & Dec announced that the frauds " will never happen again ", insisting that a high-tech system and strict rules will ensure viewers cannot lose out with poorly monitored premium rate phone lines.

On 30 September 2008, it was reported that Ant & Dec were being sued for $ 30 million by Greek American stand-up comedian and actor ANT for using his name in the United States.

* 5 Dec 1999: Sukhumvit Line: Mo Chit – On Nut ; Silom Line: National Stadium – Saphan Taksin

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

On her bureau lay a small, brass ornament of simple design and faded engraving -- an object which, Pamela believed now, had been the property of her great-grandfather, Major Hiram Munroe Culver.

On the other hand, howsomever, maybe you wouldn't either.

On the morning of September 10, 1895, Powell and Ross rose at dawn and began their day's work.

On unoccupied roadway the bottle shattered into a small amber flash.

`` On the basis of the facts ''.

On a bitterly cold day in January, 1895, accompanied only by Neal Brown as his deputy, Tilghman left the township of Guthrie and headed for Rock Fort and Dunn's ranch.

On the fringe of the amused throng of white onlookers stood a young woman of remarkable beauty and poise.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

On the downstream, or `` pavilion '', side these vaults give out onto terraces twice as wide as the bridge itself.

On spring and summer evenings people leave their shops and houses and walk up through the lanes of the city to the bridge.

On a military mission for his native Virginia the youthful George Washington touched off the French and Indian War, then guarded his colony's frontier as head of its militia.

On this trip to the South he wants, above all else, to sniff the effluvium of backwoods-and-sand-hill subhumanity and to see at least one barn burn at midnight ''.

On their decisive battlefield Lincoln did not distinguish between them when he paid tribute to the `` brave men, living and dead, who fought here ''.

On the glass partition between me and the driver were three signs: one asked for help for the blind, another help for orphans, and the third for relief for the war refugees.

One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.

On these posts the gates swung open with a squeak and shut with a metallic clang.

On the street outside, Hieronymus envisions a holocaust of the vanities of this world, such a burning of artistic and erotic productions as his namesake actually brought to pass in Florence, and prophetically he issues his curse: `` Gladius Dei super terram cito et velociter ''.

On the other hand, we cannot regard artistic invention as pure, uncaused, and unrelated to the times in which it occurs.

Calhoun dealt with this question in his `` Disquisition On Government ''.

On his father's side he was of German descent, on his mother's he came of the old Swedish nobility.

On the eve of his return to their native Naxos he speaks with his wife of the masterpiece which rises before them in its completed perfection.

On the one hand, he does not work for a large agency, but is almost always self-employed.

On the face of it, it is because he employs deductive techniques alien to official police routine.

On the other hand, if he wishes to continue in his chosen profession, he must abandon his own code and sacrifice his precious individualism.