Friday, December 12 is the 346th day of 2025.
There are 19 days until the end of the year, and the day's zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
December: Famous People, Events and Dates in History
December comes from decem, the Latin word for "10". It was the name of the 10th month in the old 10-month Roman calendar. The months of January and February were later added, but the other months retained their names, hence December became the 12th month of the year.
There are 31 days in December, and 6 other months also have 31 days. These are: January, March, May, July, August and October. December is a cold month (winter) in the Northern Hemisphere while it's summer in the Southern Hemisphere.
Christmas Day is perhaps the most famous date in December when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus. Other notable dates in the month are Independence Day of Finland on December 6, Jamhuri Day on December 12 (Kenya), Independence Day of Tanzania on December 9, Human Rights Day on December 10 and the National Hamburger Day in the U.S.A on December 21.
December Historical Events
5th December 2013: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the first democratically elected president of South Africa and an anti-apartheid revolutionary died aged 95. Mandela was South Africa's first black president and was in office from 1994 to 1999. Before his presidency, Mandela was in prison for 27 years for standing up to the South African apartheid government.14th December 1990: The United Nations General Assembly voted to establish 1st October as the International Day of Older Persons.1st December 1955: Rosa Parks, the American civil rights activist, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, after refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger. African Americans had to give up their seats to whites whenever a bus was full, or be arrested.Other people followed her lead and started boycotting Montgomery buses to push for desegregation in the city's buses.
2nd December 1988: Benazir Bhutto begins her first term as the first female prime minister of Pakistan. She served for two terms, the 1st from 1988 to 1990 and the 2nd from 1993 to 1996.She was the first Muslim woman to be elected to head a nation.
3rd December 1967: Dr. Christiaan Barnard, a South African cardiac surgeon, performed the first successful human-to-human heart transplant.He transplanted the heart of an accident victim into Louis Washkansky who lived for 18 days before succumbing to pneumonia. The operation was done in Groote Schuur hospital, a government-funded, teaching hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
12th December 1963: Kenya became an independent republic from British colonial rule. The East African nation joined 33 other African countries that had earned their independence, including Ethiopia and Liberia that were never colonized.Kenya had been under British rule for 68 years. The date is celebrated every year on December 12 as Jamhuri (Republic) Day, one of the major national holidays in Kenya.
14th December 2013: China lands Yutu, its robotic lunar rover, on the moon's surface. It had been launched on the 1st of that month.This was China's first landing on the moon, and the project was one of the Asian country's major space exploration programmes.
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