DECEMBER 2012

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

1
- Earmuff Day
- Special Kids Day
- Rosa Parks Day
- World Aids Day

2 - Int'l Day for the Abolition of Slavery Day
- Special Education Day
- Nat'l Mutt Day

3
- Illinois Statehood
- Int'l Day of Disabled Persons

4
- Nat'l Cookie Day
- Nat'l Dice Day

5
- Martin Van Buren Bday
- AFL-CIO Day
- Int'l Volunteer Day for Economic & Social Development

6
- Miners' Day
- St. Nicholas Day
- Nat'l Pawnbrokers Day

7 - Delaware Statehood
- Nat'l Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
- Int'l Civil Aviation Day

8
- Hanukkah (begins at Sundown)
- Int'l Shareware Day
- Eli Whitney's Bday

9 - Weary Willie Day
- World Choral Day
- Int'l Anti-Corruption Day
- Worldwide Candle Lighting Day

10 - Mississippi Statehood
- Dewey Decimal System Day
- Human Rights Day
- Nobel Prize Day

11
-UNICEF Birthday
- Indiana Statehood
- Int'l Mountain Day

12
- Pennsylvania Statehood
- Poinsettia Day

13
- Mary Todd Lincoln's Bday

14
- Alabama Statehood
- Monkey Day
- Nat'l Salesperson Day

15
- Bill of Rights Day

16
- Nat'l Chocolate Covered Anything Day
- Zionism Day

17
- Wright Bros Day

18
- New Jersey Statehood
- Int'l Migrants Day

19
- Day for South – South Cooperation

20
- Int'l Human Solidarity Day
- Mudd Day
- Nat'l Re-gifting Day

21
- Winter Solstice
- Crossword Puzzle Day
- Humbug Day
- Underdog Day
- World Peace Day

22
- Nat'l Haiku Poetry Day

23
- Festivus

24
- Christmas Eve

25
- Isaac Newton Bday
- Christmas

26 - Kwanzaa (12/26-1/1)
- Boxing Day
- Nat'l Candy Cane Day
- Nat'l Thank You Note Day

27

28 - Woodrow Wilson's Bday
- Iowa Statehood
- Holy Innocents Day
- Nat'l Chocolate Day
- Pledge of Allegiance Day

29
- Andrew Johnson Bday
- Texas Statehood
- Tick Tock Day

30
-Mercer Mayer's Bday
- Rudyard Kipling's Bday

31
- New Year's Eve
- Make Up Your Mind Day
- World Peace Meditation Day

Weekly Observances

·         Cookie Cutter Week: 1-7

·         Tolerance Week: 1-7

·         Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week: 1-8

·         National Handwashing Awareness Week: 6-12

·         Human Rights Week: 10-17

·         Halcyon Days: 14-18 (Always 7 days before and 7 days after the Winter Solstice)

·         Christmas Bird Count Week: 16-1/5

·         Gluten-free Baking Week: 16-22  (Week Before Christmas)

·         Posadas: 16-24

·         Saturnalia: 17-23

·         It's About Time Week: 25-31

·         Kwanzaa: 26-1/1

Monthly Observances

·         World Aids Month

·         Bingo's Birthday Month

·         National Drunk & Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month

·         National Write A Business Plan Month

·         National Tie Month

·         Operation Santa Paws (1-24)

·         Quince and Watermelon Month

·         Safe Toys and Gifts Month

·         Spiritual Literacy Month

·         Take a New Year's Resolution to Stop Smoking (TANYRSS) (12/17 - 2/5)

·         Tomato and Winter Squash Month

·         Universal Human Rights Month

·         Worldwide Food Service Safety Month