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D ecem ber 4, 2013
SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
1
Eat a Red Apple Day
Rosa Parks Day on
this day in 1955 she
refused to give up
her seat.
World AIDS Day
15
Bill of Rights Day
Underdog Day
David McCord born,
1897
22
First Christmas Lights
sold in 1882
Mercury Thermometer
Was Invented in
1714
29
Texas became the 28th
state (1845)
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
4
David Macaulay
bom, 1946
National Fritters Day
Artist Georges Seurat
bom, 1859
8 €
James Thurber bom,
1894
National Brownie Day
Inventor Eli Whitney
bom, 1765
Page 15
International Day
of Persons with
Disabilities
National Roof-Over-
Your-HeadDay
First successful heart
transplant (1967)
9
Ball-Bearing Roller
Skates Patented in
1884
First Christmas Seals
Issued in 1907
10
Rumer Godden bom,
1907
Human Rights Day
Emily Dickinson bom,
1830
16 o
Beethoven's
Birthday (1770)
Boston Tea Party
Anniversary (1773)
Las Posadas
National Chocolate
Covered Day
23
Roots Day
Federal Reserve
System established
(1913)
30
Tiger Woods bom,
1975
Author Rudyard
Kipling bom, 1865
Munro Leaf bom,
1905
National Cookie Day
Wear Brown
Shoes Day
Phonograph Invented
(1877)
11
UNICEF Anniversary
Established in 1946
Pilgrims landed on
Plymouth Rock
(1620)
17
Wright Brother's First
Flight (1903)
National Maple Syrup
Day
18
Wear a Plunger On
Your Head Day
Baseball great Ty
Cobb bom, 1886
24 3
25
Christmas Eve
Christmas
National Egg Nog Day
Apollo 8 reached the
moon (1968)
National Pumpkin Pie
Day
Walter Elias (Walt)
Disney's Birthday
bom, 1901
Montgomery Bus
Boycott (1955)
12
Hovercraft Patented
(1955)
Marconi's radio signal
crossed the Atlantic
(1901)
19
Eve Bunting bom,
1928
Oatmeal Muffin Day
Dickens' A Christmas
Carol published in
1843
Ira Gershwin's
Birthday bom, 1896
St. Nicholas Day
13th Amendment
abolishing slavery,
ratified (1865)
13
National Cocoa Day
Susan B. Anthony
dollar coined in 1970
14
First Miniature Golf
Course Opened in
1929
South Pole Discov­
ered in 1911
90
21
Games Day
Electric Light demon­
strated in 1879
First Day of Winter
First Crossword
Puzzle in a Newspa­
p e r 1913)
National Flashlight
Day
Z rV
26
Boxing Day
Kwanzaa Begins
National Whiners Day
National Cotton
Candy Day
Pearl Harbor Remem­
brance Day (1941)
28
Ingri d'Aulaire bom,
1904
Visit the Zoo Day
World Bank created
(1945)
Card Playing Day
Iowa became the 29th
state ( 1846)
National Chocolate
Day
31
New Year's Eve
Artist Henri Matisse
bom, 1869
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