Month December 1908 Calendar

About Month of December Calendar

• 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, 1908

• Day of Week 2nd » Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.
• Day of Week 28th » A 1908 Messina earthquake known as magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocks Messina or Messina, Sicily, Italy killing over 75,000.

Famous Birthdays on December in 1908

• 3rd » Edward Underdown, English actor (d. 1989)
• 4th » Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
• 6th » Pierre Graber, Swiss lawyer and politician, 69th List of Presidents of the Swiss Confederation called President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2003)
• 6th » Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (d. 1934)
• 8th » John A. Volpe, American soldier and politician, 61st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1994)
• 10th » Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)
• 11th » Elliott Carter, American composer and academic (d. 2012)
• 11th » Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 11th » Hákun Djurhuus, Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1987)
• 11th » Amon Goeth, Austrian SS officer (d. 1946)
• 12th » Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and conductor (d. 1993)
• 13th » Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Brazilian Catholic activist (d. 1995)
• 14th » Morey Amsterdam, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 14th » Claude Davey, Welsh rugby player (d. 2001)
• 14th » Mária Szepes, Hungarian journalist, author, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
• 15th » Swami Ranganathananda, Indian monk (d. 2005)
• 17th » Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
• 18th » Celia Johnson, English actress (d. 1982)
• 18th » Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer (d. 1969)
• 20th » Dennis Morgan, American actor and singer (d. 1994)
• 21st » Herbert Hutner, American banker and lawyer (d. 2008)
• 23rd » Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-Canadian photographer (d. 2002)
• 25th » Quentin Crisp, English actor, author, and illustrator (d. 1999)
• 25th » Ernest L. Massad, American general (d. 1993)
• 25th » Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player (d. 2001)
• 28th » Lew Ayres, American actor and singer (d. 1996)
• 29th » Helmut Gollwitzer, German theologian and author (d. 1993)
• 29th » Magnus Pyke, British Scientist, Author and TV Presenter (1992)
• 31st » Simon Wiesenthal, Ukrainian-Austrian Holocaust survivor (d. 2005)

Famous Deaths for December 1908

• 13th » Augustus Le Plongeon, French photographer and historian (b. 1825)
• 30th » Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1844)

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