About December 21
December 21, 2024 is the 356th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 10 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Turquoise is the modern birthstone for this month. Onyx is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 39 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
December 21: More About This Day
This is a frequent day for the winter solstice to occur in the northern hemisphere and summer solstice to occur in the southern hemisphere.
What Happened On December 21
- 69 –The Roman Senate declares Vespasian as Roman emperor, the last in the Year of Four Emperors.
- 1140 –Conrad III of Germany besieged Weinsberg.
- 1598 –Battle of Curalaba: The revolting Mapuche, led by cacique Pelentaru, inflict a major defeat on Spanish troops in southern Chile.
- 1826 –American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion.
- 1832 –Egyptian–Ottoman War: Egyptian forces decisively defeat Ottoman troops at the Battle of Konya.
- 1872 –Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth.
- 1879 –World première of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen.
- 1907 –The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in in Iquique, Chile.
- 1910 –An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
- 1919 –American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.
- 1937 –Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world’s first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater.
- 1941 –World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew.
- 1946 –An 8.1 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kill over 1,300 people and destroy over 38,000 homes.
- 1962 –Rondane National Park is established as Norway’s first national park.
- 1967 –Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days after the transplant.
- 1969 –The United Nations adopts the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
- 1973 –The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens.
- 1994 –Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.
- 1999 –The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid.
- 2004 –Iraq War: A suicide bomber killed 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers.
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