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, 1906
Day of Week 10th » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
Day of Week 24th » Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
Day of Week 30th » The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dhaka called Dacca, East Bengal, Presidencies and provinces of British India or British India. It went on to lay the foundations of Pakistan.
Day of Week 31st » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
Famous Birthdays on December in 1906
2nd » Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer (d. 1977)
5th » Otto Preminger, Austrian-American actor, director, and producer (d. 1986)
9th » Grace Hopper, American admiral and computer scientist, designed COBOL (d. 1992)
13th » Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (d. 1968)
13th » Laurens van der Post, South African-English soldier and author (d. 1996)
17th » Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and conductor (d. 1994)
17th » Russell C. Newhouse, American engineer (d. 1998)
19th » Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th List of heads of state of the Soviet Union known as Head of State of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
24th » Frank DiPaolo, American politician (d. 2013)
24th » Franz Waxman, German-American composer (d. 1967)
25th » Lew Grade, Ukrainian-English film producer (d. 1998)
25th » Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
26th » Imperio Argentina, Argentinian actress and singer (d. 2003)
27th » Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer, and actor (d. 1972)
30th » Carol Reed, English director and producer (d. 1976)
Famous Deaths for December 1906
7th » Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and educator, Nobel Peace Prize known as Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
9th » Ferdinand Brunetière, French author and critic (b. 1849)
11th » Charles Townsend (fencer) e.g Charles Townsend, American fencer (b. 1872)