Several TV documentaries, as well as some contemporary fictional references to the year 2012, refer to 21 December as the day of a cataclysmic event.

It is often referred to as the "national day of football" and since it precedes a national holiday, games usually see higher attendance than other rounds.

Original members of the Night Stalkers refer to it as "the day the Eagles came off".

Uttarayana is referred to as the day of new good healthy wealthy beginning.

When the policy was reversed in 1978, church president Kimball referred to it as "the long-promised day".

One of the first large-scale international athletics events (outside the Olympics), it is sometimes referred to as the one day Olympics.

Don McLean famously referred to it as "the day the music died" in his 1971 epic, "American Pie."

Some of these writers referred to Sunday as the "eighth day".

Postage stamps are first issued on a specific date, often referred to as the First day of issue.

However, the number "eight" may also be a reference to the Resurrection, which in the early church was often referred to as the "eighth day".