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MONDAY
December
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
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Eat a Red Apple Day
Rosa Parks Day on
this day in 1955 she
refused to give up
her seat.
World AIDS Day
David Macaulay
bom, 1946
National Fritters Day
Artist Georges Seurat
bom, 1859
Ball-Bearing Roller
Skates Patented in
1884
First Christmas Seals
Issued in 1907
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Bill of Rights Day
Underdog Day
David McCord bom,
1897
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Beethoven's
Birthday (1770)
Boston Tea Party
Anniversary (1773)
Las Posadas
National Chocolate .
Covered Day
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First Christmas Lights
sold in 1882
Mercury Thermometer
Was Invented in
1714
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Roots Day
Federal Reserve
System established
(1913)
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Texas became the 28th
state ( 1845)
Tiger Woods bom,
1975
Author Rudyard
Kipling bom, 1865
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Munro Leaf bom,
1905
National Cookie Day
Wear Brown
Shoes Day
Phonograph Invented
(1877)
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Rumer Godden bom,
1907
Human Rights Day
Emily Dickinson bom,
1830
UNICEF Anniversary
Established in 1946
Pilgrims landed on
Plymouth Rock
(1620)
Hovercraft Patented
(1955)
Marconi's radio signal
crossed the Atlantic
(1901)
National Cocoa Day
Susan B. Anthony
dollar coined in 1970
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Eve Bunting bom,
1928
Oatmeal Muffin Day
Dickens' A Christmas
Carol published in
1843
Games Day
Electric Light demon­
strated in 1879
First Day of Winter
First Crossword
Puzzle in a Newspa-
per(1913)
National Flashlight
Day
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Christmas Eve
Christmas
National Egg Nog Day
Apollo 8 reached the
moon (1968)
National Pumpkin Pie
Day
Boxing Day
Kwanzaa Begins
National Whiners Day
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Wright Brother's First
Flight(19O3)
National Maple Syrup
Day
Wear a Plunger On
Your Head Day
Baseball great Ty
Cobb bom, 1886
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Walter Elias (Walt)
Disney's Birthday
bom, 1901
Montgomery Bus
Boycott (1955)
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New Year's Eve
Artist Henri Matisse
bom, 1869
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FRIDAY
International Day
of Persons with
Disabilities
National Roof-Over-
Your-HeadDay
First successful heart
transplant (1967)
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James Thurber bom,
1894
National Brownie Day
Inventor Eli Whitney
bom, 1765
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Ira Gershwin's
Birthday bom, 1896
St. Nicholas Day
13th Amendment
abolishing slavery,
ratified (1865)
Ingri d'Aulaire bom,
1904
Visit the Zoo Day
World Bank created
<1945)
National Cotton
Candy Day
Pearl Harbor Remem­
brance Day (1941)
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First Miniature Golf
Course Opened in
1929
South Pole Discov­
ered in 1911
Card Playing Day
Iowa became the 29th
state (1846)
National Chocolate
Day