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, 1933
Day of Week 5th » Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment. (This overturned the Eighteenth Ame
Day of Week 15th » The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution officially becomes effective, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution Eighteenth Amendment that Prohibition in the United States prohibited the sale, manufacture, an
Famous Birthdays on December in 1933
1st » Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2006)
1st » Curro Romero, Spanish bullfighter
2nd » Peter Robin Harding, English marshal and pilot
2nd » Mike Larrabee, American sprinter (d. 2003)
2nd » K. Veeramani, Indian lawyer and academic
3rd » Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Chemistry known as Nobel Prize laureate