- 329th Day of 2013 / 36 Remaining
- 26 Days Until The First Day of Winter
- Sunrise:7:01
- Sunset:4:52
- 9 Hours 51 Minutes of Daylight
- Moon Rise:12:17am(Tuesday)
- Moon Set:12:25pm
- Moon’s Phase: %
- The Next Full Moon
- December 17 @ 1:29amam
- Full Cold Moon
- Full Long Nights Moon
During this month the winter cold fastens its grip, and nights are at their longest and darkest. It is also sometimes called the Moon before Yule. The term Long Night Moon is a doubly appropriate name because the midwinter night is indeed long, and because the Moon is above the horizon for a long time. The midwinter full Moon has a high trajectory across the sky because it is opposite a low Sun.
- Tides
- High:4:43am/3:47pm
- Low:10:53am/10:20pm
- Rainfall (measured July 1 – June 30)
- Normal To Date:3.92
- This Year:1.70
- Last Year:4.08
- Annual Seasonal Average:23.80
- Holidays
- Family Day-Nevada
- You're Welcomegiving Day
- Maize Day
- National Flossing Day
- Native American Heritage Day
- Shopping Reminder Day
- Sinkie Day
- National Parfait Day
- UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
- Independence Day-Suriname
- National Day-Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Thanksgiving Day-Palau
- Mange’ Yam-Voudon
- On This Day In …
- 1715 --- Sybilla Thomas Masters became the first American to be granted an English patent for cleaning and curing Indian corn.
- 1783 --- Nearly three months after the Treaty of Paris was signed ending the American Revolution, the last British soldiers withdraw from New York City, the last British military position in the United States. After the last Redcoat departed New York, U.S. General George Washington entered the city in triumph to the cheers of New Yorkers. The city had remained in British hands since its capture in September 1776.
- 1867 --- Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
- 1920 --- The first play-by-play broadcast of a football game was aired in College Station, TX. The game was between the University of Texas and Texas A&M.
- 1940 --- Woody Woodpecker made his debut in the cartoon 'Knock Knock.'
- 1941 --- Adm. Harold R. Stark, U.S. chief of naval operations, tells Adm. Husband E. Kimmel, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, that both President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull think a Japanese surprise attack is a distinct possibility. "We are likely to be attacked next Monday, for the Japs are notorious for attacking without warning," Roosevelt had informed his Cabinet. "We must all prepare for trouble, possibly soon," he telegraphed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
- 1947 --- Movie studio executives meeting in New York agreed to blacklist the "Hollywood 10," who were cited a day earlier and jailed
for contempt of Congress when they failed to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- 1949 --- Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer appeared on the music charts and became THE musical hit of the Christmas season.
Although Gene Autry’s rendition is the most popular, 80 different versions of the song have been recorded, with nearly 20,000,000 copies sold.
- 1952 --- "The Mousetrap," a murder-mystery written by the novelist and playwright Agatha Christie, opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. The crowd-pleasing whodunit would go on to become the longest continuously running play in history, with more than 10 million people to date attending its more than 20,000 performances in London's West End.
- 1963 --- President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated three days earlier, is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. It was his son's third birthday. Kennedy's coffin had lain in state in the rotunda of the Capitol building the previous day. Approximately 250,000 people streamed by the closed flag-draped coffin in a massive outpouring of respect. The next day, television and movie cameras rolled while Kennedy's wife Jackie, his brothers Robert and Ted, political leaders and foreign dignitaries formed a solemn funeral procession behind Kennedy's coffin as it was transferred atop a horse-drawn caisson to St. Matthew's Cathedral. Observers noted the only sounds that could be heard were the cadence of drum beats and horses' hooves and muffled sobs from the approximately 1 million people who lined the route between the Capitol and the cathedral. At one point, Kennedy's son, John Jr., who turned three that day, was filmed saluting his father's coffin. After the state funeral at St. Matthew's--the family had held a private mass at the White House on November 23--the mourners proceeded to Arlington National Cemetery by car where Kennedy, a decorated World War II hero, was buried with military honors.
- 1966 --- The Jimi Hendrix Experience made its London performance debut at the Bag O' Nails Club.
- 1984 --- Several British and American stars got together as Band-Aid, and recorded "Do They Know It's Christmas". The project
was planned by Bob Geldof. The proceeds of the record went to Ethiopian famine relief.
- 1986 --- Three weeks after a Lebanese magazine reported that the United States had been secretly selling arms to Iran, Attorney General Edwin Meese reveals that proceeds from the arms sales were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contras in Nicaragua. On November 3, the Lebanese magazine Ash Shiraa reported that the United States had been secretly selling arms to Iran in an effort to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon. The revelation, confirmed by U.S.
intelligence sources on November 6, came as a shock to officials outside President Ronald Reagan's inner circle and went against the stated policy of the administration. In addition to violating the U.S. arms embargo against Iran, the arms sales contradicted President Reagan's vow never to negotiate with terrorists. On November 25, controversy over the administration's secret dealings with Iran deepened dramatically when Attorney General Meese announced that the arms sales proceeds were diverted to fund Nicaraguan rebels--the Contras--who were fighting a guerrilla war against the elected leftist government of Nicaragua. The Contra connection caused outrage in Congress, which in 1982 had passed the Boland Amendment prohibiting the use of federal money "for the purpose of overthrowing the government of Nicaragua." The same day that the Iran-Contra connection was disclosed, President Reagan accepted the resignation of his national security adviser, Vice Admiral John Poindexter, and fired Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, a Poindexter aide. Both men had played key roles in the Iran-Contra operation. Reagan accepted responsibility for the arms-for-hostages deal but denied any knowledge of the diversion of funds to the Contras.
- 1987 --- Chicago Mayor Harold Washington died after suffering a heart attack in his City Hall office.
- 1990 --- Poland held its first popular presidential election. Solidarity founder Lech Walesa received a plurality of votes this day. He won a runoff election December 9 and became President of the Republic of Poland. Walesa served until defeated in the election of November 1995.
- 1990 --- After a howling wind- and rainstorm on Thanksgiving Day, Washington state's historic floating Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge breaks apart and sinks to the bottom of Lake Washington, between Seattle and its suburbs to the east. Because the bridge's
disintegration happened relatively slowly, news crews were able to capture the whole thing on camera, broadcasting it to a rapt audience across western Washington. "It looked like a big old battleship that had been hit by enemy fire and was sinking into the briny deep," said one observer. (He added: "It was awesome.")
- Birthdays
- Joe DiMaggio
- Carry Amelia Nation
- Andrew Carnegie
- Percy Sledge
- Ben Stein
- John Larroquette
- Amy Grant
- Barbara Bush
- Jenna Bush
- Pope John XXIII
- Augusto Pinochet
- Ricardo Montalban