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C alendar
December 2016
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
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Walt Disney’s Birth-
day born, 1901
Montgomery Bus
Boycott (1955)
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Mitten Tree Day
St. Nicholas Day
13th Amendment
abolishing slavery,
ratified (1865)
FRIDAY
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4
Eat a Red Apple Day
Rosa Parks Day
World AIDS Day
David Macaulay
born, 1946
National Fritters Day
International Day
of Persons with
Disabilities
National Roof-Over-
Your-Head Day
Munro Leaf born,
1905
National Cookie Day
Phonograph Invent-
ed (1877)
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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
Rumer Godden born,
1907
Human Rights Day
Emily Dickinson
born, 1830
UNICEF Anniversary
Established in 1946
Pilgrims landed
on Plymoth Rock,
1620
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18
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14
15
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Barbara Emberley
born, 1932
Hovercraft Patented
(1955)
Poinsettia Day
National Cocoa Day
Susan B. Anthony
dollar coined in
1970
First Miniature Golf
Course Opened,
1929
South Pole Discov-
ered, 1911
Bill of Rights Day
Underdog Day
David McCord born,
1897
Beethoven’s Birth-
day (1770)
Boston Tea Party
Anniversary (1773)
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26
Boxing Day
Kwanzaa Begins
National Whiners
Day
Games Day
Electric Light
demonstrated in
1879
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Ingri d’Aulaire born,
1904
Visit the Zoo Day
World Bank created
(1945)
First Day of Winter
Humbug Day
Bright Side Day
National Flashlight
Day
28
Card Playing Day
Iowa became the
29th state (1846)
National Chocolate
Day
SUNDAY
2
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Oatmeal Muffin Day
Dickens’ A Christ-
mas Carol pub-
lished in 1843
SATURDAY
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7
National Cotton
Candy Day
Pearl Harbor Re-
membrance Day
(1941)
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First Christmas
Lights, 1882
Mercury Thermome-
ter Invented, 1714
29
Texas became the
28th state (1845)
Roots Day
Federal Reserve
System established
(1913)
30
Tiger Woods born,
1975
Author Rudyard
Kipling born, 1865
Wright Brother’s
First Flight (1903)
National Maple
Syrup Day
Wear a Plunger On
Your Head Day
Baseball great Ty
Cobb born, 1886
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Hanukkah Begins
Christmas Eve
National Egg Nog Day
Apollo 8 reached
moon, 1968
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New Year’s Eve
25
Christmas
National Pumpkin
Pie Day