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Sabato 21 Dicembre 2024

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Oggi Alba 08:05 Tramonto a 16:53	Domani: Alba 08:06 Tramonto a 16:53	Differenza : -1 minute in meno
Luna piena : 13/01 23:28	luna nuova : 30/12 23:27

è successo un 21 Dicembre

1946 : Tsunami in Japan On December 21, 1946 at 4:20 a.m., an earthquake of magnitude 8.5 on the Richter scale occured, 45 km south of the island of Honshu in Japan. The earthquake caused 3 tsunamis that hit Honshu with 6-meter waves. 2000 people were killed and 500,000 others left homeless.
1988 : Flight 103 Pan Am explosion over Lockerbie December 21, 2010, Flight 103 Pan Am from London's Heathrow Airport to New York's JFK was destroyed by a terrorist bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.
1994 : Eruption of Popocatepetl Volcano After decades of inactivity, the volcano Popocatepetl began to wake up in 1993 to finally start spewing volcanic ash on december 21st,1994. The volcano Popocatepetl (smoking mountain in Aztec), is 5.426 m high and is located 70km southeast of Mexico City.
2007 : The Schengen zone expands On December 21, 2007, 9 new states were added to the list: Malta, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and Estonia The Schengen area counted 24 European countries while allowing some 400 million people to travel freely from east to west Europe and the Arctic Circle.

Novità del giorno : 21 Dicembre

Happy Pancha Ganapati
December 21 is the first day of the Hindu festival Pancha Ganapati or Ganesh Pancha ending December 25. These five days celebrate the 5 faces of Lord Ganesh, the elephant-headed Lord of Culture and the arts. Each morning the children decorate Ganesh in a different color.
December 21 is yellow. This is the day when the family must come together to restore harmony and reduce tension.

Winter solstice in the northern hemisphere
The winter solstice occurs between the 20th and the 23rd of December. It occurs when the angle of the sun reaches -23.5 ° that is to say when the North Pole is tilted 23.5 degrees relative to the sun. At that time, all that is beyond 66.5 ° N is in the dark.
This year's winter solstice will occur on December 21 at 11:38 p.m., Coordinated Universal Time.

Citazione del giorno : 21 Dicembre

Baltasar Gracian Y Morales, écrivain Espagnol
The first sign of ignorance is to assume that we know.

Compleanni : 21 Dicembre

Benjamin Disraeli, Primo Ministro del Regno Unito (1804)
U. R. Ananthamurthy, Indian writer (1932)
John G. Avildsen, American filmmaker (1935)
Jane Fonda, American director (1937)
Jean-François Théodore, French financial (1942)
Hu Jintao, Chinese president (1942)
Samuel L. Jackson, American director and actor (1948)
Florence Griffith Joyner, Atleta (1959)
Kiefer Sutherland, Attore (1966)
Mikhail Saakashvili, Presidente della Georgia (1967)
Julie Delpy, Attrice (1969)
Matthieu Chedid alias M, Auteur, compositeur et chanteur français (1971)

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Marguerite de Navarre, Queen of France (1549)
Ledru-Rollin, French statesman (1874)
Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, Esploratore polare (1933)
Franck Kellogg, American diplomat and statesman (1937)
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (1940)
George S. Patton, Generale americano (1945)
Pierre Louki, Author, composer and singer French (2006)
Jean-François Rémi, French actor and director (2007)