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- Comet Day
- National Cookie Day
- Pallas Athena Celebration (Goddess of Wisdom)
- Presentation Day
- greeting cards for Santa's List Day
- Wear a Beard of Bees Today Day
- Wear Brown Shoes Day
- Wind Whirling Bacchanalia (Fairy)
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- Calendar of Saints - December 4
- St. Barbara's Day (patron of firemen, architects, mathematicians, fireworks, miners, sailors; against lightning, fire, explosions, sudden death) - A young woman may place the twig of a cherry
tree in a glass of water today. If it blooms by Christmas Eve, the girl is certain to marry in the following year. (Please note that Saint Barbara was dropped from the Roman Catholic Calendar of
Saints in 1970 since the tales of her life and martyrdom are legendary.)
- St. Maruthas' Day (patron of Iran)
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- St. Barbara's Prediction - December 4 - Barbara...her over-protective father locked her in a tower so that no man would discover her beauty, then chopped off her head off upon discovering she
had converted to Christianity.
According to lore, a girl should place a twig from a cherry tree in a glass of water on St. Barbara's Day. If the twig blossoms by Christmas Eve, she is certain to marry in
the next year
- Wear Brown Shoes Day
- National Wear Brown Shoes Day
- (2002) Eid Al-Fitr (begins at sundown) - Islamic observance marking the end of Ramadan. At this time, the fasting ends, and three days of feasting begin with the new moon sighting. Muslims do
not work on the first full day of this holiday, beginning December 5.
- Santa's List Day cards - December 4
- Cookie Day cards - December 4
- St. Barbara's Day
- Kamolol/Thanksgiving Day in Marshall Islands
- Topou I Day in Tonga
- UN negotiations of Giandomenico Picco, UN Representative freed last hostages Lebanon 1991
- December 4 - Grange Day - The National Grange, an agricultural movement, was founded in 1867.
- December 4 - Paper Day - Manila paper was patented in 1845.
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- Kris Kringle's Fair - in Nuremburg, Germany
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- Day of the Artisans - in Mexico
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- Day 338, with 27 days remaining in the year
- 2001 A. D.: Tuesday
- 2002 A. D.: Wednesday
- 2003 A. D.: Thursday
- 2004 A. D.: Saturday
- 2005 A. D.: Sunday
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