December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars. It is one of seven months with the length of 31 days. December is the first month of meteorological winter in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, December is the seasonal equivalent to June in the Northern hemisphere, which is the first month of summer. December is the month with the shortest daylight hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest daylight hours of the year in the Southern Hemisphere.
December symbols: Its birth flower is the narcissus. The birthstones of December are the turquoise, zircon, and tanzanite. The zodiac signs for the month of December are Sagittarius (until December 21) and Capricorn (December 22 onwards).
Historical Events for December, 1923
Day of Week 21st » United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Sugauli Treaty signed in 1816.
Day of Week 27th » Daisuke Namba, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito.
Day of Week 31st » The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.
Famous Birthdays on December in 1923
1st » Morris (comics) known as Morris, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2001)
1st » William F. House, American otologist and physician (d. 2012)
1st » Dick Shawn, American actor and singer (d. 1987)
1st » Stansfield Turner, American admiral, 12th Director of Central Intelligence
2nd » Maria Callas, American-Greek soprano (d. 1977)
10th » Clorindo Testa, Italian-Argentinian architect, designed the National Library of the Argentine Republic and Marriott Plaza Hotel, Buenos Aires named Marriott Plaza Hotel (d. 2013)
11th » Betsy Blair, American-English actress and dancer (d. 2009)
11th » Lilian Cahn, Hungarian-American businesswoman, co-founded Coach, Inc. (d. 2013)
11th » Nikolai Matvejev, Estonian cyclist (d. 1984)
12th » Bob Barker, American game show host and producer
12th » Bob Dorough, American singer-songwriter and pianist
12th » Ken Kavanagh, Australian race car driver and motorcycle racer
13th » Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics called Nobel Prize laureate
13th » Terence Beckett, English businessman (d. 2013)
13th » Edward Clancy (cardinal) called Edward Clancy, Australian cardinal (d. 2014)
13th » Larry Doby, American baseball player and manager (d. 2003)
14th » Gerard Reve, Dutch-Belgian author and poet (d. 2006)
15th » Freeman Dyson, English-American physicist and mathematician
15th » Uziel Gal, German-Israeli firearm designer, designed the Uzi called Uzi gun (d. 2002)
15th » Valentin Varennikov, Russian general and politician (d. 2009)
16th » Menahem Pressler, German-American pianist (Beaux Arts Trio)
16th » Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American historian and political scientist (d. 2014)
17th » Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian and scholar (d. 2006)
18th » Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall called Edwin Bramall, English field marshal
19th » Robert V. Bruce, American historian and author (d. 2008)
19th » Gordon Jackson (actor) known as Gordon Jackson, Scottish-English actor and singer (d. 1990)