Today is the Winter Solstice, the shortest amount of daylight for the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The moon is full and early this morning a total lunar eclipse will be visible (beginning about 2:41 a.m. EST). This is the first time an eclipse has coincided with a solstice since December 21, 1638, and the next one won't come around again until 2094. The December full moon is called the Cold Moon or the Long Nights Moon.
Today is Forefathers' Day commemorating the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock on this day in 1620. Today is also Humbug Day, National Haiku Poetry Day, and Phileas Fogg Wins a Wager Day (in Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days" wins his £20,000 wager
exactly 79 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds after starting his trip on October 2nd).
On December 21, 1864, General Sherman took Savannah, Georgia. Ninety-seven years ago today (December 21, 1913), the first crossword puzzle was compiled by Arthur Wynne and published in a supplement to the New York World. On this day in 1968, Apollo 8, the first moon voyage, was launched. On December 21, 1988, a terrorist bomb caused the explosion of Pan Am World Airways Flight 103 in midair its crash into the heart of Lockerbie, Scotland, killing the 259 passengers and crew members aboard and 11 persons on the ground.
On December 21, 1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, America’s first full-length animated feature film (and also the first Technicolor feature), premiered on this date at the Carthay Circle Theater, Hollywood, CA.
Today is the 131st anniversary of Russian leader Joseph Stalin's birthday (December 21, 1879). Rocker Frank Zappa would have been 70 years old today (born December 21, 1940).
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