In 2023, December’s Full Moon reaches peak illumination on Tuesday, December 26. December’s Moon is most commonly known as the Cold Moon—a Mohawk name that conveys the frigid conditions of this time of year, when cold weather truly begins to grip us. Read more about December’s Cold Moon here.
Daily Calendar for Wednesday, December 7, 2022
Born
- Willa Cather (author) –
- Harry Chapin (musician) –
- Johnny Bench (baseball player) –
- Ron Hynes (Canadian singer-songwriter) –
- Larry Bird (basketball player) –
- Terrell Owens (football player) –
- Aaron Carter (singer) –
- Emily Browning (actress) –
Died
- Rube Goldberg (cartoonist) –
- Thornton Wilder (playwright) –
- Jerry Scoggins (sang The Ballad of Jed Clampett” that introduced the Clampett clan on The Beverly Hillbillies”) –
- Harry Morgan (actor) –
Events
- The steam locomotive was used for the first time in Germany when a railroad opened from Nuremberg to Furth–
- The first Christmas postage stamp was released in Canada–
- Christmas seals sold for the first time–
- The crew of Apollo 17, while on their way to the Moon, took a photo of Earth from about 28,000 miles away–
- Hockey player Gordie Howe scored his 1,000th professional goal –
Weather
- The Connecticut and Merrimack rivers in New England flooded after a great rainstorm–
- An ice storm in Nashville, Tennessee, cut electricity to 40,000 houses for several wintry hours–
- Denver, Colorado’s temperature plunged to 0 degrees F–
- Gunnison, Colorado, experienced a frigid temperature of -24 degrees F–