There is a total lunar eclipse happening on the coming full moon. The eclipse begins at 12:27AM EST on 12/21/10. Totality begins at 2:40AM EST. With eclipse maximum at 3:17AM EST.
Winter Solstice happens just a few hours later at 6:38PM EST on 12/21/10.
Lunar eclipse coinciding with winter solstice is once in many lifetimes.
Total lunar eclipses come in clusters. There can be two or three during a period of a year or a year and a half, followed by a lull of two or three years before another round begins. When you add partial eclipses there can be three in a calendar year and again, it’s quite possible to have none at all.
Just think, the next time this happens in 350 years or whenever they will be saying, “This type of event hasn’t happened since the time of internal combustion engines, and computers were operated with a mouse and keyboard…in other words, the Dark Ages.”
edit: So I guess the next eclipse during Northern Winter Solstice will be in 2094. Maybe by then InBev will be owned by a collaboration of craft brewers.