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December
December Monthly Celebrations
- Bingo Month
- National Fruitcake Month
- Safe Toys and Gifts Month
- World Food Service Safety Month
- Write a Friend Month
December Weekly Events
National Handwashing Awareness Week – first week of the month
Human Rights Week – second week in December
Thank a Soldier Week – the week including Christmas
December Holidays That Vary
- Advent Begins – date varies
- Chanukah begins – date varies
- International Children’s Day – Second Sunday in December
- Winter Solstice – the shortest day of the year, date varies
- Boxing Day – date can vary
December 1
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1887 Sherlock Holmes first appears in print in “Study in Scarlet” by Arthur Conan Doyle
- 1913 Ford Motor Company institutes world’s 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford
- 1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama
- 1956 Frank Robinson (NL) & Luis Aparicio (AL) voted Rookie of the Year
- 1984 “Beverly Hills Cop” directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold premieres in Los Angeles
- 1996 Wayne Gretzky becomes first and only player in NHL history to reach 3,000-point plateau (including playoffs); records an assist in NY Rangers’ 6-2 win over Montreal Canadiens at Madison Square Garden
December 2
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1927 1st Model A Ford sold, for $385
December 3
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1956 Basketball icon Wilt Chamberlain makes his much anticipated varsity debut; scores 52 points and grabs 31 rebounds, breaking both all-time Kansas records in an 87–69 win against Northwestern
December 4
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Holidays
Santa’s’ List Day – we hope you are on the “Nice” list
This Day In History
- 1954 The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, USA
- 1996 NASA’s 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral
December 5
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Holidays
Repeal Day – The 21st Amendment ends Prohibition.
This Day In History
- 1792 George Washington re-elected as US President
- 1848 US President James K. Polk triggers Gold Rush of 1849 by confirming a gold discovery in California
- 1955 Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery, Alabama by Rosa Parks and other civil rights activists
December 6
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1849 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland for the 2nd and final time
December 7
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Holidays
International Civil Aviation Day
National Cotton Candy Day – would you like some fairy floss?
This Day In History
- 1787 Delaware is the 1st state to ratify the US constitution
- 1941 Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people
- 1972 Apollo 17 launched, the final manned lunar landing mission where the crew takes the famous “blue marble” photo of the entire Earth
- 1979 “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” first movie of the series premieres directed by Robert Wise, starring William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy
December 8
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers “Day of Infamy” speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
December 9
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1793 Noah Webster establishes New York’s 1st daily newspaper, the “American Minerva”
- 1965 “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, the first Peanuts animated special premieres on CBS in the US
December 10
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1884 “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain is first published in the UK and Canada (US Feb 1885, due to printing error)
- 1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt is the 1st American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
- 1964 Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo, Norway
- 1971 Lucasfilm Ltd. is founded as a film and television production company by George Lucas in San Francisco, California
- 1978 Superman: The Movie, directed by Richard Donner and starring Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman and Margot Kidder premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.
- 2001 “The Fellowship of the Ring” Lord of the Rings film directed by Peter Jackson and starring Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen premieres in London
December 11
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1961 Elvis Presley‘s “Blue Hawaii” album goes #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks
- 1980 “Magnum P.I.” starring Tom Selleck premieres on CBS
- 1987 “Wall Street” film directed by Oliver Stone and starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen is released
December 12
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1792 In Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn
- 1976 QB Joe Namath last game as a NY Jet
December 13
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1950 James Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial
- 1975 1st time “Saturday Night Live” uses a time delay, Richard Pryor hosts
December 14
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1793 1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Kentucky, to Cincinnati
- 1969 “Leaving on a Jet Plane” single sung by Peter, Paul and Mary, written by John Denver, hits #1 on US Billboard’s Hot Top 100
- 2021 Steph Curry makes his 2,974th three-point shot to pass Ray Allen as the NBA’s greatest career 3-point shooter during Golden State Warriors’ 105-96 win over NY Knicks at Madison Square Garden
December 15
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1997 SF 49ers retire Joe Montana‘s #16
December 16
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1913 Charlie Chaplin begins his film career at Keystone for $150 a week
- 1953 1st White House Press Conference (President Eisenhower & 161 reporters)
- 1966 Jimi Hendrix Experience releases its 1st single, “Hey Joe,” in the UK
December 17
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1965 1st concert event at Houston Astrodome: Judy Garland headlines, with The Supremes as opening act
- 1989 “The Simpsons” created by Matt Groening, premieres on Fox TV as a full animated series with the episode, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire”
December 18
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1966 Dr. Seuss‘ “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” airs for 1st time on CBS
- 2009 James Cameron‘s “Avatar” starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver, released in the US, becomes highest-grossing film of all time
December 19
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1980 Comedy film “9 to 5” starring Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin is released
- 2001 “The Fellowship of the Ring”, 1st Lord of the Rings film is released. Makes US$47 million US opening weekend, $871 million total worldwide.
December 20
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1946 Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” film, directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore premieres in New York
- 1996 Horror film classic “Scream”, starring Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox, is released
December 21
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1784 John Jay becomes acting US Secretary of State (1789-90)
- 1891 1st game of basketball, based on rules created by James Naismith, played by 18 students in Springfield, Massachusetts
- 1937 “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, the first full-length animated feature film and the earliest in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre, Los Angeles
- 2012 “Gangnam Style” by Psy becomes the first video to reach one billion views on YouTube
December 22
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1882 1st string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
- 1966 Ice hockey legend Bobby Orr scores his first career goal (vs Montreal Canadiens)
- 2008 Google Play is launched, the official app store for the Android operating system
December 23
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1783 US General George Washington resigns his military commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army to Congress
- 1807 US Congress passes Embargo Act and President Thomas Jefferson signs into law. Prohibits American ships from trading in foreign ports, as result of involvement in hostilities between France and Britain
- 1938 Margaret Hamilton‘s costume catches fire while filming “The Wizard of Oz”
December 24
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1877 Thomas Edison files a patents for the phonograph
- 1893 Henry Ford completes his first useful petrol / gasoline fuelled engine
December 25
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Holidays
National Pumpkin Pie Day for recipes see Pumpkin Nook ‘s Cookbook
This Day In History
- 1 1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus
- 337 Earliest possible date that Christmas was celebrated on Dec 25th
- 1962 “To Kill a Mockingbird”, a film adaptation of the novel by Harper Lee, directed by Robert Mulligan and starring Gregory Peck, is released (Gregory Peck – Best Actor Academy Awards 1963)
December 26
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1862 1st US navy hospital ship enters service
December 27
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 2002 “Chicago” (Best Picture 2003), based on John Kander and Fred Ebb’s musical, directed by Rob Marshall, starring Renée Zellweger, Richard Gere, and Catherine Zeta-Jones released.
- 2012 NASA unveils plans to capture a 500 ton asteroid in 2025
December 28
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1860 Harriet Tubman arrives in Auburn, New York, on her last mission to free slaves, having evaded capture for 8 years on the Underground Railroad
- 2002 LinkedIn is founded by Reid Hoffman and others in Mountain View, California
December 29
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1965 The Supremes release single “My World is Empty Without You”
- 2007 Tom Brady sets a then-NFL record, throwing his 50th TD pass, and the New England Patriots become the first team in NFL history to finish the regular season 16-0
December 30
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Holidays
This Day In History
December 31
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Holidays
This Day In History
- 1955 The General Motors Corporation becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over $1 billion USD in a year.
- 1988 “The Fog Bowl”, a heavy, dense fog rolls over Soldier Field in Chicago during second quarter of the Bears vs Eagles NFC Divisional Playoff Game, cuts visibility to 15-20 yards (Bears win 20-12)
NOTE: Information within the Content Calendar was curated from Holidayinsights.com, & OnThisDay.com.
