DECEMBER NATIONAL DAYS DECEMBER 1 World AIDS Day National Pie Day National Eat a Red Apple Day Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day Day With(out) Art Day Rosa Parks Day
President Abraham Lincoln State of the Union Address Bette Middler Born
DECEMBER 2 International Day for the Abolition of Slavery National Fritters Day National Mutt Day Special Education Day #SpecialEducationDay Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting – Changes Annually Faux Fur Friday – First Friday in December
Good Will Hunting Debut
DECEMBER 3 International Day of Persons with Disabilities Roof Over Your Head Day #RoofOverYourHeadDay National Rhubarb Vodka Day – First Saturday in December Skywarn Recognition Day – First Saturday in December
A Streetcar Named Desire Opens on Broadway The First Human Heart Transplant Ozzy Osbourne Born
DECEMBER 4 National Sock Day National Cookie Day National Dice Day
DECEMBER 5 World Soil Day International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development National Sacher Torte Day Bathtub Party Day International Ninja Day Repeal Day #RepealDay
Prohibition Ends Debut of Eddie Murphy in Beverly Hills Cop Steinbeck’s Sea of Cortez is Published
DECEMBER 6 National Pawnbrokers Day National Microwave Oven Day National Gazpacho Day St. Nicholas Day Miners’ Day
DECEMBER 7 International Civil Aviation Day National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day National Cotton Candy Day
Willa Cather Born
DECEMBER 8 National Brownie Day Pretend to Be a Time Traveler Day #PretendToBeATimeTravelerDay
John Lennon Murdered Mary Queen of Scots Born
DECEMBER 9 International Anti-Corruption Day National Pastry Day Weary Willie Day
Al Pacino Stars in Scarface The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson is Published
DECEMBER 10 Dewey Decimal System Day Human Rights Day Nobel Prize Day National Wreaths Across America Day – Second Saturday in December
First Nobel Prizes Awarded Otis Redding Killed in Plane Crash Emily Dickinson Born
DECEMBER 11 International Mountain Day National Noodle Ring Day UNICEF Birthday
UNICEF Founded Alexander Solzhenitsyn Born
DECEMBER 12 National Ambrosia Day National Ding-a-Ling Day Gingerbread House Day Poinsettia Day
Da Vinci Notebook Sells for Over 5 Million Gustave Flaubert Born
DECEMBER 13 National Cocoa Day National Violin Day National Day Of The Horse (Senate Res. 452) Pick a Pathologist Pal Day
First Export of American Furs Dick Van Dyke Born
DECEMBER 14 National Bouillabaisse Day
The Birth of Quantum Theory Saturday Night Fever World Premiere First U.S. President George Washington Dies
DECEMBER 15 National Wear Your Pearls Day National Cupcake/ Lemon Cupcake Day Bill of Rights Day Cat Herders Day #CatHerdersDay
Leaning Tower of Pisa Reopens Schindler’s List Opens, Spielberg Wins First Oscar
DECEMBER 16 National Chocolate-covered Anything Day Barbie and Barney Backlash Day National Ugly Christmas Sweater Day – Third Friday in December Underdog Day – Third Friday in December Day of Reconciliation
The Boston Tea Party Jane Austen’s Birthday
DECEMBER 17 National Maple Syrup Day Wright Brothers Day
First Airplane Flies A Christmas Carol is Published
DECEMBER 18 International Migrants Day U.N. Arabic Language Day National Roast Suckling Pig Day Answer The Telephone Like Buddy The Elf Day Free Shipping Day – Changes Annually
Mayflower Docks at Plymouth Harbor Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Opens in New York Slavery Abolished in America Steven Spielberg Born
DECEMBER 19 National Hard Candy Day National Oatmeal Muffin Day
Titanic Film Opens in Theaters National Hockey Leagues Opens its First Season
DECEMBER 20 National Sangria Day Mudd Day
DECEMBER 21 National French Fried Shrimp Day Crossword Puzzle Day Humbug Day #HumbugDay Phileas Fogg Win a Wager Day Winter Solstice – Day Between December 20 and 23 National Flashlight Day – Day of Winter Solstice National Homeless Persons’ Remembrance Day – First Day of Winter Yule – Day of Winter Solstice
The Graduate Opens in New York A Beautiful Mind Debuts in Theaters
DECEMBER 22 National Date Nut Bread Day Anne and Samantha Day (also June 21) Forefathers Day – December 22 – Unless on Sunday, Then Following Monday National Re-Gifting Day – Thursday before Christmas
First Gorilla Born in Captivity Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony World Premiere
DECEMBER 23 National Pfeffernusse Day National Roots Day Festivus
Van Gogh Chops Off Ear Philadelphia Premiers In Theaters (with Tom Hanks)
DECEMBER 24 National Eggnog Day Christmas Eve Chanukah Begins – Changes Annually
Stephanie Meyer Author of Twilight is Born
DECEMBER 25 National Pumpkin Pie Day A’Phabet Day or No “L” Day Christmas
JonBenet Ramsey Murdered To Kill A Mockingbird Debuts Bing Crosby Introduces White Christmas to World
DECEMBER 26 National Candy Cane Day National Thank You Note Day National Whiner’s Day Boxing Day (Canada)
DECEMBER 27 National Fruitcake Day
Radio City Music Hall Opens Peter Pan by James Barrie Opens in London
DECEMBER 28 National Chocolate Candy Day National Card Playing Day Holy Innocents Day Pledge of Allegiance Day
First Commercial Movie Screened by the Lumiere Brothers The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Published Denzel Washington Born
DECEMBER 29 National Pepper Pot Day Tick Tock Day Ted Danson Born Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is Published
DECEMBER 30 National Bicarbonate of Soda Day Falling Needles Family Fest Day Bacon Day No Interruptions Day – Last Work Day of the Year
DECEMBER 31 National Champagne Day Leap Second Time Adjustment Day (Note: This is listed as an observance title only. Some years scientists do not make adjustments. But, if they do, then it’s done on either June 30 or December 31.) Make Up Your Mind Day New Year’s Eve Universal Hour of Peace
Thomas Edison Demonstrates Incandescent Light Anthony Hopkins is Born