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December 2017
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
C alendar
4
National Cookie Day
Wear Brown Shoes
Day
Phonograph Invented
(1877)
5
Walter Elias (Walt)
Disney’s Birthday
born, 1901
Montgomery Bus
Boycott (1955)
FRIDAY
SATURDAY
1
2
Eat a Red Apple Day
Rosa Parks Day
World AIDS Day
6
Mitten Tree Day
St. Nicholas Day
13th Amendment
abolishing slavery,
ratified (1865)
Pearl Harbor
Remembrance Day
(1941)
National Brownie
Day
Inventor Eli Whitney
born, 1765
12
National Noodle
Ring Day
UNICEF Anniversary
Pilgrims landed on
Plymouth Rock
(1620)
Hanukkah Begins
at Sundown
18
19
20
21
22
Eve Bunting born,
1928
Oatmeal Muffin Day
Dickens’ A Christmas
Carol published, 1843
Games Day
Electric Light demon-
strated in 1879
First Day of Winter
Humbug Day
Look at the Bright Side
Day
National Flashlight Day
First Christmas
Lights sold in 1882
Mercury Thermome-
ter Invented in 1714
26
27
28
29
Wear a Plunger On
Your Head Day
Baseball great Ty
Cobb born, 1886
25
Christmas
Boxing Day
National Pumpkin Pie
Day
Kwanzaa Begins
National Whiners Day
National Cocoa Day
Susan B. Anthony
dollar coined in
1970
Visit the Zoo Day
World Bank created
(1945)
14
8
11
Poinsettia Day
13
7
First Miniature Golf
Course Opened, 1929
South Pole
Discovered in 1911
Card Playing Day
National Chocolate
Day
15
Bill of Rights Day
Underdog Day
David McCord born,
1897
Texas became the
28th state (1845)
David Macaulay
born, 1946
National Fritters Day
Artist Georges Seurat
born, 1859
9
Ball-Bearing Roller
Skates Patented in
1884
First Christmas Seals
Issued in 1907
SUNDAY
3
International Day
of Persons with
Disabilities
National Roof-Over-
Your-Head Day
10
Human Rights Day
Emily Dickinson
born, 1830
16
17
Beethoven’s Birthday
(1770)
Boston Tea Party
Anniversary (1773)
Las Posadas
Ludwig van Beetho-
ven baptised (1770)
Wright Brother’s
First Flight (1903)
23
24
Roots Day
Federal Reserve
System established
(1913)
30
Tiger Woods born,
1975
Author Rudyard
Kipling born, 1865
Christmas Eve
National Egg Nog
Day
Apollo 8 reached the
moon (1968)
31
New Year’s Eve
Artist Henri Matisse
born, 1869