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Christmas Day is the First Day. The Twelve Days are 25 December to 5 January, counting first and last. The Octave, or Eighth Day, is New Year's Day and the Feast of the Circumcision, the day Jesus was circumcised according to the faith. The evening of the last day is Twelfth Night or Epiphany Eve, [1] [2] the next morning being Epiphany.
The Adventures of Paddington (French: Les aventures de Paddington) is an animated television series developed for television by Jon Foster and James Lamont.The series is co-produced by StudioCanal and Heyday Films, with the participation of Nickelodeon, M6 and Piwi+.
December 4, 1938 (Sunday) Anti-Italian riots broke out in Tunis over Italy's recent demand that France hand over Tunisia. Windows of an Italian tourist office, newspaper and bookstore were smashed, but police reinforcements prevented any such attack on the Italian consulate. 15 arrests were made.
18 December. South African health authorities have reported the detection of a new COVID-19 variant known as the 501Y.V2 variant in the provinces of Eastern Cape, Western Cape, and KwaZulu-Natal. This variant is similar to a British strain detected that same month, and both are considered to be more infectious than earlier strains.
December 18, 1970 (Friday) Codenamed "Baneberry", an errant underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site exposed 300 site workers to radiation— the largest number of test site workers to that time— after sending up a plume of radioactive dust 8,000 feet (2,400 m) high. In all, 600 workers were evacuated and screened.
December 1, 1960 (Thursday) The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 6, a 5-ton satellite, into orbit with two dogs, Pchelka ("Little Bee") and Mushka ("Little Fly"), plus mice, insects and plants. The next day, the capsule was reported to have burned up on re-entry into the atmosphere at too steep an angle. [1]