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C alendar
December 2017
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
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12
National Noodle
Ring Day
UNICEF Anniversary
Pilgrims landed on
Plymouth Rock
(1620)
Hanukkah Begins
at Sundown
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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
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27
28
29
Wear a Plunger On
Your Head Day
Baseball great Ty
Cobb born, 1886
Poinsettia Day
25
Christmas
Boxing Day
National Pumpkin Pie
Day
Kwanzaa Begins
National Whiners Day
13
National Cocoa Day
Susan B. Anthony
dollar coined in
1970
Visit the Zoo Day
World Bank created
(1945)
14
FRIDAY
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)
SATURDAY
SUNDAY
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)
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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