Tuesday, December 4, 2007

December

Well, it is december once again. Here at the Ostrich Blog we are prepared for all of the holidays of December. We all know of Hanukah and Christmas but there are other, less known holidays that deserve observance:

December 1-7 Cookie Cutter Week

December 4 (at night)-11 (at night) Hanukah

December 8-19 Operation Santa Paws Week

December 1 Rosa Parks Day (anniversary of Park's 1955 arrest)

December 1 National Pie Day

December 1 Eat a Red Apple Day

December 2 National Fritters Day

December 2 First artificial heart transplant (1982)

December 2 National Roof-Over-Your-Head Day (to focus attention on homeless)

December 3 International Day of Disabled Persons

December 4 Wear Brown Shoes Day

December 5 Repeal Prohibition Day

December 5 Mozart's Birthday (born in 1756)

December 5 Bathtub Party Day

December 5 Birth Anniversary of Walt Disney (1901-1967)

December 6 National Gazpacho Day

December 6 National Mitten Tree Day

December 6 Thomas Edison's first sound recording

December 7 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (1941)

December 7 National Cotton Candy Day

December 7 Delaware became first state to ratify the Constitution

December 9 National Pastry Day

December 10 Nobel Peace Prizes awarded

December 10 Festival For the Soul of Dead Whales

December 11 National Noodle Ring Day

December 11 Day of the Horse

December 12 National Ding-A-Ling Day

December 12 Poinsettia Day

December 13 Ice Cream Day

December 13 Violins Day

December 14 Tell Someone They're Doing a Good Job Day

December 15 Bill of Rights ratified (1791)

December 15 National Lemon Cupcake Day

December 15 National Firefighters Day

December 15 "Gone With the Wind" premiered (1939)

December 16 Boston Tea Party (1773)

December 16 Beethoven's Birthday (born in 1770)

December 16 National Chocolate Covered Anything Day

December 17 Wright Brother's Day

December 17 Underdog Day

December 17 National Maple Syrup Day

December 18 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery (1865)

December 19 Oatmeal Muffin Day

December 20 Games Day

December 20 Winter Solstice

December 21 National Flashlight Day

December 21 National French Fried Shrimp Day

December 21 National Hamburger Day

December 23 National Roots Day

December 24 National Eggnog Day

December 24 Anniversary of Silent Night (1818)

December 24 Christmas Eve

December 25 Christmas Day

December 25 National Pumpkin Pie Day

December 26 National Whiners Day

December 27 National Fruitcake Day

December 28 Card Playing Day

December 28 National Chocolate Day

December 28 Bairn Day (the unluckiest day of the year)

December 29 Pepper Pot Day

December 29 National Chocolate Day Again

December 31 Unlucky Day

December 31 New Years Eve


Happy holidays,
A-Fox

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