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- Bairns Day a/k/a Bairns' Day (Scottish) -considered, according to flak tradition, to be the unluckiest day of the year
- Card Playing Day
- Dyzemas Day
- Eat Vegetarian Day
- Fairy Academy of Window-Frosting Winter Exhibition (Fairy)
- Kwanzaa, Day 3: ujima (collective work and responsibility)
- National Chocolate Day
- Unluckiest Day of the Year - no work should be started today, as it is traditionally the unluckiest day of the year
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- Calendar of Saints - December 28
- Holy Innocents Day a/k/a Childermas (one of the 12 days of Christmas) a/k/a Bairns' Day (children's day in Scotland) - in an
attempt to kill the baby Jesus, as recorded in Matthew 2:16, King Herod ordered the infanticide of all boys under age two in Bethlehem (probably numbering fewer than 20); Church authorities regard
them as flores martyrum -- the ones who died not for Christ, but instead of Christ; in the Eastern Church they are known as the Holy Children; the Feast of the Holy Innocents is formerly known in
England as Childermas
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anniversaries
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- Endangered Species Act was enacted (1973)
- St. Thomas' Eve: Divine the Future - To dream of her future husband on the eve of St. Thomas' Day, a young lady should stick a pin in the center of an onion, followed by eight more pins in a
circle around the first. She should then repeat:
Good St. Thomas, do me right
And let my true love come to-night
That I may see him in the face
And in my arms may him embrace.She will dream of her future husband after placing the onion under her pillow.
- Woodrow Wilson
- Iowa 1826
- Anniversary of All-Byelorussian Congress - Byelorussia
- King Birendra's Birthday - Nepal
- Dia de los Inocentes - Latin America
- Christmas in Costa Rica
- His Majesty, the King's Birthday in Nepal
- National Holiday of Nepal
- Stephen Lewis, former Canadian Ambassa-dor to UN and Deputy Director of UNICEF, joined York University in England as Professor, 1999
- Chewing Gum was patented by William Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio (1869)
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December holidays & events by location
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- Indonesia Independence Day
- Nepal National Day - a three-day celebration today to recognize the birthday of His Majesty the King
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- Proclamation Day - in South Australia
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- Inocentes a/k/a Holy Innocents' Day - in Mexico; Mexican December Fool's Day
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- Day 362, with 3 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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