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2015
C alendar December
SUNDAY
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
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Hanukkah Begins
at Sundown
Mitten Tree Day
St. Nicholas Day
13th Amendment
(1865)
Eat a Red Apple Day
Rosa Parks Day
World AIDS Day
David Macaulay
born, 1946
National Fritters Day
Artist Georges
Seurat born, 1859
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9
James Thurber born,
1894
National Brownie Day
Inventor Eli Whitney
born, 1765
Ball-Bearing Roller
Skates Patented in
1884
First Christmas Seals
Issued in 1907
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7
National Cotton
Candy Day
Pearl Harbor
Remembrance
Day (1941)
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14
15
National Cocoa Day
Susan B. Anthony
dollar coined in
1970
First Miniature Golf
Course Opened in
1929
South Pole
Discovered in 1911
Bill of Rights Day
Underdog Day
David McCord born,
1897
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22
Games Day
Electric Light
demonstrated in
1879
27
Ingri d’Aulaire born,
1904
Visit the Zoo Day
World Bank created
(1945)
First Newspaper
Crossword Puzzle
(1913)
Humbug Day
Bright Side Day
28
Card Playing Day
National Chocolate
Day
First Day of Winter
First Christmas
Lights sold in 1882
29
Texas became the
28th state (1845)
Beethoven’s
Birthday (1770)
Las Posadas
Chocolate Covered
Anything Day
23
Roots Day
Federal Reserve
System established
(1913)
30
Tiger Woods born,
1975
Author Rudyard
Kipling born, 1865
International
Disabilities Day
Roof-Over- Your-
Head Day
FRIDAY SATURDAY
4
5
National Cookie Day
Wear Brown Shoes
Day
Phonograph
Invented (1877)
10
Human Rights
Day
Emily Dickinson
born, 1830
11
National Noodle
Ring Day
UNICEF Anniversary
Pilgrims landed
(1620)
17
Wright Brother’s
First Flight (1903)
National Maple
Syrup Day
18
Wear a Plunger On
Your Head Day
Baseball great Ty
Cobb born, 1886
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25
Christmas Eve
Christmas
National Egg Nog
Day
Apollo 8 reached the
moon (1968)
National Pumpkin
Pie Day
31
New Year’s Eve
Artist Henri Matisse
born, 1869
Walter Elias (Walt)
Disney’s Birthday
born, 1901
Montgomery Bus
Boycott (1955)
12
Poinsettia Day
Marconi’s radio
signal crossed the
Atlantic (1901)
19
Eve Bunting born,
1928
Dickens’ A
Christmas Carol
pub. 1843
26
Boxing Day
Kwanzaa Begins
National Whiners
Day