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, 1894
Day of Week 22nd » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
Famous Birthdays on December in 1894
2nd » Warren William, American actor and singer (d. 1948)
3rd » Deiva Zivarattinam, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1975)
5th » Charles Robberts Swart, South African lawyer and politician, 1st State President of South Africa (d. 1982)
7th » Freddie Adkins, English illustrator (d. 1986)
8th » E. C. Segar, American cartoonist, created 'Popeye' (d. 1938)
8th » James Thurber, American author and illustrator (d. 1961)
8th » Marthe Vinot, French actress (d. 1974)
17th » Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
17th » Wim Schermerhorn, Dutch cartographer, engineer, and politician, List of Prime Ministers of the Netherlands named Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977)
19th » Ford Frick, American journalist and businessman (d. 1978)
20th » Robert Menzies, Australian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1978)
24th » Georges Guynemer, French captain and pilot (d. 1917)
24th » Jack Thayer, American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 1945)
26th » Jean Toomer, American author and poet (d. 1967)
Famous Deaths for December 1894
3rd » Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author and poet (b. 1850)
7th » Ferdinand de Lesseps, French businessman and diplomat, co-developed the Suez Canal (b. 1805)
8th » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1821)
12th » John Sparrow David Thompson, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)
29th » Christina Rossetti, English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1830)
31st » Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1856)