Long List of December Holidays and Special Days

By popular request, here is a long list of all of the special days celebrated in December 2008. If you prefer, you can explore December's special days by date.

Month Long Observances

• Hi Neighbor Month

• National Stress Free Family Holiday Month

• Read A New Book Month

• Safe Toy and Gift Month
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• Universal Human Rights Month

• Write to a Friend Month

December 1st

• Eat A Red Apple Day

• National Pie Day

• Rosa Park's Day
  Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on the bus in 1955.

• World AIDS Day

December 2nd

• National Fritters Day

December 3rd

• International Day of the Disabled Person

• National Roof-Over-Your-Head Day

December 4th

• National Cookie Day

• Wear Brown Shoes Day

December 5th

• Walter Elias (Walt) Disney's Birthday
  Born in Chicago in 1901. Check out my page for this special day!

December 6th

• Ira Gershwin's Birthday
  A Famous Composer born in 1896.

• Mitten Tree Day

• St. Nicholas Day
  

December 7th

• National Cotton Candy Day

• Pearl Harbor Day
  Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941.

December 8th

• National Brownie Day

December 9th

• Ball-Bearing Roller Skates Patented
  In 1884.

• First Christmas Seals Issued
  In 1907.

December 10th

• Emily Dickinson's Birthday
  Born in 1830.

• Human Rights Day
  United Nations' Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

• Nobel Peace Prize Awarded

December 11th

• National Noodle Ring Day

• UNICEF Anniversary
  Established in 1946.

December 12th

• Golf Tee Patented

• Hovercraft Patented
  In 1955 by Sir Christopher Cockerill.

• Poinsettia Day

December 13th

• National Cocoa Day

December 14th

• First Miniature Golf Course Opened
  In 1929.

• South Pole Discovered
  In 1911.

December 15th

• Phonograph Patented
  By Thomas Edison in 1877.

December 16th

• Boston Tea Party Anniversary
  In 1773. Check out my page for this special day!

• Las Posadas

• Ludwig Von Beethoven's Birthday
  A Famous Composer born in 1770.

• National Chocolate Covered Anything Day

December 17th

• National Maple Syrup Day

• Underdog Day

• Wright Brother's Day
  First flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Check out my page for this special day!

December 18th

• Wear a Plunger On Your Head Day

December 19th

• Oatmeal Muffin Day

December 20th

• Games Day

December 21st

• First Crossword Puzzle in a Newspaper

• First Day of Winter

• Hanukkah Begins at Sunset

• Humbug Day

• Look at the Bright Side Day

• National Flashlight Day

December 22nd

• First Christmas Lights for Sale
  In 1882.

• Thermometer Was Invented

December 23rd

• Roots Day

December 24th

• National Egg Nog Day

December 25th

• Christmas
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• National Pumpkin Pie Day

December 26th

• Boxing Day

• Kwanzaa Begins
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• National Whiners Day

December 27th

• Visit the Zoo Day

December 28th

• Card Playing Day

• Chewing Gum Patented
  In 1869.

• National Chocolate Day

December 29th

• Bowling Ball Invented
  In 1862.

December 30th

• Tiger Woods' Birthday
  Born in 1975.

December 31st

• New Year's Eve
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This information is correct to the best of my knowledge. These dates are collected from many online and offline resources. Please do not email me asking me for more info about a date - All the information I have is posted here.