December 21, 2024

December 21, 2024, was a Saturday. It was one month and one day ago. The zodiac star sign for this date is Sagittarius.

What happened on this date?

Notable events that occurred on December 21, 2024:

Boxing: Oleksandr Usyk defeats Tyson Fury in a rematch.

Facts

This date occurred 32 days ago. It was the 356th day of 2024, in week 51. The decade was the 2020s. The start of 2025 was just 10 days away. A baby that was born on this day is now 4 weeks old. 2024 was a leap year, which means that it had an extra day in February.

Zodiac

Zodiac, birthstone, and birth flower information.

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Zodiac Sign (Astrology): Anyone born on December 21, 2024, will have the star sign Sagittarius.
Zodiac Element: Fire.
Chinese Zodiac Animal: In the Chinese Zodiac, 2024 was the year of the Dragon (Yang Earth).
The Life Path Number for this date is 5.
Native American Zodiac: December 21, 2024 falls under the Owl.
Birthstone: A person during the month of December will have the birthstones Tanzanite, Zircon and Turquoise.
Birth flower (December): The Narcissus and the Holly.

Personality traits

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What happened around this time?

News stories, pop culture trends, and other events that happened around December 21, 2024.

November 22, 2024: Ridley Scott's film "Gladiator 2" is released.
November 27, 2024: The animated film "Moana 2" is released.
November 28, 2024: Lola Young's song "Messy" goes viral on TikTok.
November 29, 2024:
• The 2024 Irish general election takes place.
• Syrian opposition groups, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, capture the city of Aleppo.
December 1, 2024: Joe Biden issues a full and unconditional pardon for his son, Hunter Biden.
December 3, 2024: South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol declares martial law.
December 4, 2024:
• UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is shot dead by a hooded gunman in Manhattan.
• The French government is toppled in a historic no-confidence vote.
December 7, 2024: Syrian opposition forces capture the capital city of Damascus.
December 8, 2024:
• Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is overthrown by Islamist-led insurgents.
• Rapper Jay-Z is accused in a civil lawsuit of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000.
December 9, 2024: A 26-year-old named Luigi Mangione is arrested in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
December 16, 2024: Three people are killed in a school shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin.
December 19, 2024: Luigi Mangione is extradited to New York for the murder of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
December 20, 2024:
• The film "Sonic the Hedgehog 3" is released.
• Five people are killed after an SUV is driven into a crowd at the Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany.
This date: December 21, 2024
December 23, 2024:
• Luigi Mangione pleads not guilty to murdering healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
• Swiss snowboarder Sophie Hediger dies in an avalanche at the age of 26.
December 25, 2024: 38 people are killed after Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243 crashes near Aktau International Airport in Kazakhstan.
December 27, 2024: It is reported that homelessness in the United States has risen to 18%.
December 29, 2024:
• Former US president Jimmy Carter dies aged 100.
• 179 people are killed after Jeju Air Flight 2216 crashes into a wall after "belly landing" in Muan International Airport in South Korea.
January 1, 2025:
• 15 people are killed after a pickup truck is driven into a large crowd in New Orleans, Louisiana.
• A Tesla Cybertruck explodes outside Trump International Hotel Las Vegas in Paradise, Nevada.
January 3, 2025: Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigns over the newspaper's refusal to publish a cartoon critical of Jeff Bezos.
January 6, 2025: Justin Trudeau announces that he will be resigning as the prime minister of Canada.
January 7, 2025:
• Mark Zuckerberg announces that Meta will be ending its third party fact-checking program.
• President-elect Donald Trump refuses to rule out the use of military force to seize control of the Panama Canal and Greenland.
• Donald Trump says that he will rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.
• A series of wildfires begin to affect the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
• The documentary "Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action" is released on Netflix.
January 14, 2025: TikTok ban: TikTok users begin signing up to the Chinese app "RedNote".
January 15, 2025: Filmmaker David Lynch dies aged 78.
January 17, 2025: The US Supreme Court upholds a federal law banning TikTok.
January 18, 2025: TikTok makes its app unavailable to American users ahead of its scheduled ban.
January 19, 2025:
• Israel and Hamas begin a three-stage ceasefire.
• TikTok restores its services in the US after Donald Trump promises to delay a ban.
January 20, 2025: Donald Trump is inaugerated as the 47th president of the United States.

Television shows in December 2024

People in December 2024 were watching the following TV series:

The Family Stallone

The Night Agent

The Last of Us

House of the Dragon

The Bear

The Kardashians

Severance

The Wheel of Time

Only Murders in the Building

The White Lotus

Cobra Kai

Bridgerton

Cartoons and children's TV shows in December 2024

Children and teenagers were watching the following cartoons and TV series:

Rock Paper Scissors

Pretty Freekin Scary

Transformers: EarthSpark

Monster High

The Tiny Chef Show

Chibiverse

Face's Music Party

The Villains of Valley View

Baby Shark's Big Show!

Tyler Perry's Young Dylan

The Adventures of Paddington

Video games

Popular video games that people were playing in December 2024.

Starfield

Diablo IV

Celebrity birthdays

Celebrities, historical figures, and other notable people who were born on December 21.

Jane Fonda

Actress
Born on December 21, 1937
She turned 87 on this day in 2024.

Frank Zappa

Musician Deceased
Born on December 21, 1940
He was not alive on this date.

Samuel L. Jackson

Actor
Born on December 21, 1948
He turned 76 on this day in 2024.

Jane Kaczmarek

Actress
Born on December 21, 1955
She turned 69 on this day in 2024.

Ray Romano

Actor
Born on December 21, 1957
He turned 67 on this day in 2024.

Kiefer Sutherland

Actor
Born on December 21, 1966
He turned 58 on this day in 2024.

Emmanuel Macron

French president
Born on December 21, 1977
He turned 47 on this day in 2024.

The King of Random

Youtube personality Deceased
Born on December 21, 1980
He was not alive on this date.

Steven Yeun

Actor
Born on December 21, 1983
He turned 41 on this day in 2024.

Kaitlyn Dever

Actress
Born on December 21, 1996
She turned 28 on this day in 2024.

Ben Chilwell

Soccer player
Born on December 21, 1996
He turned 28 on this day in 2024.

US President

Joe Biden was the President of the United States on December 21, 2024.

UK Prime Minister

Keir Starmer was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Irish Taoiseach

Simon Harris was the Taoiseach of Ireland.

Conception dates

Conception estimates for this date.

Note: These conception dates are based on broad estimates.

A baby that was born on December 21, 2024 was most likely conceived around March 30, 2024.
The due date for a baby that was conceived on December 21, 2024 is close to September 13, 2025.

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Statistics

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32 days have passed since this date.
4 weeks have passed.
2,764,800 seconds have passed since December 21, 2024.
If you were born on this day, your heart has beat approximately 3,225,600 times.
Since then, the Earth has traveled approximately 1,426,636,800 miles through space.
If you were born on this day, your eyes have blinked approximately 460,800 times.
You have taken approximately 237,773 steps. That's roughly 106 miles.
33,178 meteors have entered the Earth's atmosphere.
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