December Events Calendar for Educators

December Events
2008

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December 2008
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	Eat a Red Apple Day Rosa Park's Day on this day in 1955 she refused to give up her seat. World AIDS Day 1	David Macaulay National Fritters Day Artist Georges Seurat, 1859 2	International Day of the Disabled Person National Roof-Over- Your-Head Day First successful heart transplant, 1967 3	Munro Leaf National Cookie Day Wear Brown Shoes Day Phonograph Invented, 1877 4	Walter Elias (Walt) Disney's Birthday Born in Chicago in 1901 Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955 5	Ira Gershwin's Birthday A Famous Composer born in 1896 Mitten Tree Day St. Nicholas Day 13th Amendment passed, abolishing slavery, 1865 6
National Cotton Candy Day Pearl Harbor Rememberance Day, 1941 7	James Thurber National Brownie Day Inventor Eli Whitney, 1765 8	Ball-Bearing Roller Skates Patented in 1884 First Christmas Seals Issued in 1907 9	Rumer Godden Human Rights Day Emily Dickinson, 1830 10	National Noodle Ring Day UNICEF Anniversary Established in 1946. Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, 1620 11	Barbara Emberley Golf Tee Patented Hovercraft Patented Poinsettia Day Marconi's radio signal crossed the Atlantic, 1901 12	National Cocoa Day Susan B. Anthony dollar coined, 1970 13
First Miniature Golf Course Opened in 1929 South Pole Discovered in 1911 14	Bill of Rights Day Phonograph Patented By Thomas Edison in 1877 Underdog Day 15	Beethoven's BDay Marie Hall Ets Quentin Blake Boston Tea Party Anniversary in 1773 Las Posadas National Chocolate Covered Anything Day 16	Wright Brother's First Flight, 1903 National Maple Syrup Day 17	Wear a Plunger On Your Head Day Baseball great Ty Cobb, 1886 18	Eve Bunting Oatmeal Muffin Day Dickens' A Christmas Carol published, 1843 19	Games Day Electric Light demonstrated, 1879 20
Hanukkah Begins at Sundown First Crossword Puzzle in a Newspaper Humbug Day Look at the Bright Side Day National Flashlight Day First Day of Winter 21	First Christmas Lights for Sale In 1882 Thermometer Was Invented U.S. Golf Association Founded, 1894 22	Roots Day Federal Reserve System established, 1913 23	Christmas Eve National Egg Nog Day Apollo 8 reached the moon, 1968 24	Christmas National Pumpkin Pie Day 25	Boxing Day Kwanzaa Begins National Whiners Day 26	Ingri d'Aulaire Visit the Zoo Day World Bank created, 1945 27
Card Playing Day Chewing Gum Patented in 1869 Iowa became the 29th state, 1846 National Chocolate Day 28	Texas became the 28th state, 1845 29	Author Rudyard Kipling, 1865 30	New Year's Eve Artist Henri Matisse, 1869 31

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