December Events Calendar for Educators

Eat a Red Apple Day

Rosa Park's Day on this day in 1955 she refused to give up her seat.

World AIDS Day

David Macaulay

National Fritters Day

Artist Georges Seurat, 1859

International Day of the Disabled Person

National Roof-Over- Your-Head Day

First successful heart transplant, 1967

Munro Leaf

National Cookie Day

Wear Brown Shoes Day

Phonograph Invented, 1877

Walter Elias (Walt) Disney's Birthday Born in Chicago in 1901

Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955

Ira Gershwin's Birthday A Famous Composer born in 1896

Mitten Tree Day

St. Nicholas Day

13th Amendment passed, abolishing slavery, 1865

National Cotton Candy Day

Pearl Harbor Rememberance Day, 1941

James Thurber

National Brownie Day

Inventor Eli Whitney, 1765

Ball-Bearing Roller Skates Patented in 1884

First Christmas Seals Issued in 1907

Rumer Godden

Human Rights Day

Emily Dickinson, 1830

Hanukkah Begins at Sundown

National Noodle Ring Day

UNICEF Anniversary Established in 1946.

Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, 1620

Barbara Emberley

Golf Tee Patented

Hovercraft Patented

Poinsettia Day

Marconi's radio signal crossed the Atlantic, 1901

National Cocoa Day

Susan B. Anthony dollar coined, 1970

First Miniature Golf Course Opened in 1929

South Pole Discovered in 1911

Bill of Rights Day

Phonograph Patented By Thomas Edison in 1877

Underdog Day

Beethoven's BDay

Marie Hall Ets

Quentin Blake

Boston Tea Party Anniversary in 1773

Las Posadas

National Chocolate Covered Anything Day

Wright Brother's First Flight, 1903

National Maple Syrup Day

Wear a Plunger On Your Head Day

Baseball great Ty Cobb, 1886

Eve Bunting

Oatmeal Muffin Day

Dickens' A Christmas Carol published, 1843

Games Day

Electric Light demonstrated, 1879

First Day of Winter

First Crossword Puzzle in a Newspaper

Humbug Day

Look at the Bright Side Day

National Flashlight Day

First Christmas Lights for Sale In 1882

Thermometer Was Invented

U.S. Golf Association Founded, 1894

Roots Day

Federal Reserve System established, 1913

Christmas Eve

National Egg Nog Day

Apollo 8 reached the moon, 1968

Christmas

National Pumpkin Pie Day

Boxing Day

Kwanzaa Begins

National Whiners Day

Ingri d'Aulaire

Visit the Zoo Day

World Bank created, 1945

Card Playing Day

Chewing Gum Patented in 1869

Iowa became the 29th state, 1846

National Chocolate Day

Texas became the 28th state, 1845

Author Rudyard Kipling, 1865

New Year's Eve

Artist Henri Matisse, 1869