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, 1993
Day of Week 2nd » Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
2nd » Space Shuttle program: STS-61 NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
Day of Week 4th » A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
Day of Week 5th » The mayor of Vienna, Helmut Zilk, is injured by a letter bomb.
Day of Week 7th » The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson (mass murderer) e.g Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the Long Island Rail Road known as LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
Day of Week 10th » The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear named Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
Day of Week 11th » Forty-eight people are killed when a block of the Highland Towers collapses near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Day of Week 15th » The Troubles: The Downing Street Declaration is issued by British Prime Minister of the United Kingdom named Prime Minister John Major and Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds.
Day of Week 30th » Israel and Holy See called Vatican City establish diplomatic relations.
1st » Ray Gillen, American singer-songwriter (Badlands (American band) called Badlands, Black Sabbath, Blue Murder (band) called Blue Murder, and Sun Red Sun) (b. 1959)
2nd » Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (b. 1949)
3rd » Lewis Thomas, American physician, etymologist, and academic (b. 1913)
4th » Margaret Landon, American missionary and author (b. 1903)
4th » Frank Zappa, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Mothers of Invention) (b. 1940)
5th » Doug Hopkins, American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms) (b. 1961)
6th » Don Ameche, American actor and singer (b. 1908)
7th » Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian politician, 1st List of heads of state of Ivory Coast e.g President of Ivory Coast (b. 1905)
7th » Wolfgang Paul, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics called Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)