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- Alban Arthuan (Druid Festival; 4th Station)
- Chaos Day
- First Day of Winter
- Humbug Day - sponsored by the Wellness Permission League
- Look At the Bright Side Day
- Mumping Day
- National French Fried Shrimp Day
- National Flashlight Day
- Phineas Fogg Wins A Wager Day
- Yule (Wiccan) - the signification of the death of the Sun-God and his rebirth from the Earth Goddess on the Winter
Solstice
- Yule Festival - in northern Europe; dedicated to the ghosts of ancestors, houses were once decorated with greenery and filled with lamps to mark the winter solstice; today our modern Christmas
traditions such as mistletoe, garlands and lights are remnants of the Yule festival. It is still the Christmastime custom in many places that standing under mistletoe invites a kiss you cannot
refuse. Many English homes hung garlands of greenery from the middle of the ceiling in the living room, decorated with candles, red apples, rosettes of colored paper, ornaments, and suspended
from the center of this "Kissing Bough" was mistletoe. According to Erasmus, English people freely kissing each other on the lips upon meeting and parting was surprising to foreign
visitors in the 16th century. In the Druid religion, enemies who met under mistletoe were required to lay down their weapons, greet each other, and honor a truce until the next day.
Perhaps the custom of kissing under the mistletoe began with English lovers kissing to make a truce?
- Pongol of the Cows - Hindu
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Christian holidays
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anniversaries
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- Norway KidsProj - Christmas
- Solstice - International
- National Tree Planting Day - Malawi
- John D. Rockefeller, Jr. gave 8 million dollars for land on the East River, Manhattan, New York to build a home for the United Nations 1946
- December 21 - The first full-length animated cartoon was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs which premiered in 1937.
- December 21 - Basketball Day - Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts, was the site of the first basketball game in 1891.
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December holidays & events by location
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- Yalda - in Iran; on this the longest night of the year, the Indo-Iranian association of Light and Good struggle against Darkness and Evil; many remain awake throughout the night with many lights
lit, celebrating with family and friends in support of the sun’s triumphant return in the morning
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- Doleing Day (f/k/a Gooding Day) - in Sussex, UK
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- Forefathers' Day - in New England; commemorating the historic landing and settlement at Plymouth Rock by the Pilgrims
(1620); a/k/a Pilgrims Day a/k/a Pilgrim Landing Anniversary
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- Day 354, with 11 days remaining in the year
- 2001 A. D.: Friday
- 2002 A. D.: Saturday
- 2003 A. D.: Sunday
- 2004 A. D.: Tuesday
- 2005 A. D.: Wednesday
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other calendars
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season
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- Northern hemisphere: Winter begins
- Winter Solstice - with daylight at a minimum, ranging from 12 hours and 8 minutes at the equator to no daylight at the Arctic Circle, today is
the longest night of the year
- Southern hemisphere: Summer
- beginning of Summer in the Southern Hemisphere (except Australia)
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