Winter Solstice
Shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. Light a candle and note that from tomorrow, the daylight trend reverses.
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Full history →Notable · 2018
Operatives of the British Special Boat Service boarded the container ship Grande Tema in the Thames Estuary to detain four stowaways who had threatened the crew.- 2023Fourteen people are killed and 25 others injured during a mass shooting at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic.
- 2020A great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurs, with the two planets separated in the sky by 0.1 degrees. This is the closest conjunction between the two planets since 1623.
- 20122012 phenomenon: Festivities are held in parts of Mesoamerica to commemorate the conclusion of b'ak'tun 13, a roughly 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar whose passing many New Age spiritualists had earlier held to portend a variety of cataclysmic or transformative events.