1
World AIDS Day (Intern'l)

Antarctica dedicated to research (1959)

2
Abolition of Slavery Day (UN)

Nat'l. Higher Education Day (Myanmar)

Hanukkah (Judaism)

3
Disabled Person Day (UN)

Dickens in
Historic Downtown PLANO

Basque Language Day

20^th Century Limited's last run (1967)

4
US Senate approves of UN (1945)

Lantern Light PLANO

Diaspora (Judaism)

Environment Day (Thailand)

Senate ratified US in UN

5
Volunteer Day (Intern'l)

ΦΒΚ founded (1776)

Prohibition ends (1933)

NEW MOON

6
St. Nicholas Day (Catholic)

Washington Monument completed (1884)

7
Pearl Harbor Day (US 1941)

Civil Aviation Day (Intern'l)

Good Neighborliness Day (Turkmenistan)

8
Immaculate Conception (Christianity)

Bodhi Day (Buddism)

Muharram (Islam)

9
Anti-Corruption Day (UN)

Petrified Forest Nat'l. Park (1962)

10
Human Rights Day (UN, 1948)

Nobel Prize Day (Sweden)

Al Gore shares Nobel Peace Prize (2007)

11
UNICEF born (1946)

Chanukah
begins this evening (Judaism)

Tango Day (Buenos Aires)

12
Neutrality Day (Turkmenistan)

Poinsettia Day (US)

Jamhuri & Uhuru Day (Kenya)

13
St. Lucy's Day (Sweden et al.)

Sir Francis Drake sets sail around the world (1577)

14
MCOR 7 pm Holiday Dinner at 8332 Barber Oaks, PLANO

Monkey Day (US)

Amundson reaches South Pole (1911)

Planck derives Quantum Mechanics from Black Body Radiation (1900)

15
Bill of Rights Day (US)

Zamenhof Day (Intern'l.)

Leaning Tower of Pisa reopens (2001)

16
Reconciliation Day (So. Africa)

Las Posadas begins (Mexico)

Ashura (Islam)

17
1st Flight Kitty Hawk (1903)

NJ abolishes death penalty (2007)

SpaceShipOne first flight (2003)

Saturnalia (Anc. Rome)

18
Migrant's Day (UN)

1st US nuclear power plant (1957)

Capitol Reef Nat'l. Park (1971)

Ebonics, a language in Oakland, CA (1996)

19
Dickens publishes A Christmas Carol (1843)

St. Nicholas Day (Orthodox)

20
Louisiana Purchase Day (US 1803)

1st US Cotton Mill (1790)

Texas Declaration of Independence (1835)

21
Yule (Anc. Germany)

Winter Solstice (Northern Hemisphere)

1st crossword (1913)

FULL MOON

22
Mother's Day (Indonesia)

Toji (Japan)

Brandenburg Gate reopens reuniting the Germanies (1989)

23
Festivus (Seinfeld)

Night of the Radishes (Oaxaca)

HumanLight (Humanism)

Voyager flight (1986)

24
Christmas Eve (Christianity)

Noche Buena (Mexico et al.)

Santuranticuy (Peru)

Kit Carson born (1809)

Declaration of Christmas Peace (Finland)

25
Christmas (Christianity)

Family Day (Angola, Mozambique, Uruguay)

26
Boxing Day (UK)

Kwanzaa (US)

Wren Day (Ireland)

Thanksgiving (Solomon Is.)

27
St. Stephen's Day (Orthodox)

Pasteur born (1822)

Hagia Sophia (547)

28
1st American Test Tube Baby born (1981)

Congress approves Pledge of Allegiance (1945)

29
Childermas (Christianity)

Texas Admission (1845)

Khymer Rouge apologize for executing >1 million fellow Cambodians (1998)

30
Arroyo Seco Freeway opens (California 1940)

Ginza Line opens (Tokyo 1927)

Farthing goes extinct (UK 1960)

31
New Year's Eve

Hogmanay (Scotland)

Watch Night (Christianity)

Matisse born (1869)