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Tomorrow's food holiday will be 'National Pastry Day'.
[The Hankster says] Ah, we continue the baked treats theme. Bring 'um on. With a tall glass of 2 percent, please.
It's getting time to get those cards in the mail. tomorrow will be 'Christmas Card Day '.
Tomorrow is 'Weary Willie Day'. It celebrates the birthday, in 1898 of Emmett Leo Kelly, who created this famous clown character and style.
We have an awareness day tomorrow. It is 'International Anti-corruption Day'. A U.N. recognition day.
Get out those electric keyboards, drums and such. tomorrow is 'Techno Day'. We celebrate electronic dance music.
[The Hankster says] Disco will rise again!
Horace Mann once lamented: 'Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.'
[The Hankster says] The opportunity to use them more wisely may be lost, but not the time itself. To substantiate this, I offer the following, which has passed, but is not forgotten. Exhibit: December 9 in the past.
In 1805, Comet 3D/1805 V1 (Biela) approaches within 0.0366 AUs of Earth. It was discovered to be a periodic comet. Expected next, on March 10 2017.
In 1884, Levant Richardson patents the ball-bearing skate.
In 1888, Herman Hollerith, inventor of one of the first computing devices and precursor to IBM, installs a computing device at the US War Department. This was a punch card tabulating machine. He also invented the punch card coding system, which bares his name, Hollerith Code. His system and machine was adapted for tabulating the U.S. census.
In 1907, The first Christmas Seals were sold in the U.S. at the Wilmington Del post office.
In 1960, The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
In 1962, The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
In 1965, Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits that it examined the object. It is known as Pennsylvania's Roswell.
In 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas airs on television for the first time.
In 1935, The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded for the first time. The winner was halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago. .
In 1968, Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as 'The Mother of All Demos', publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface, using the oN-Line System (NLS).
In 1979, The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
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Buckwheat Month
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Worldwide Food Service Safety Month
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National Fruit Cake Month
Root Vegetables Month
Other:
World Aids Month
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Safe Toys and Gifts Month
National Tie Month
Universal Human Rights Month
National Drunk and Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month
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December is:
December origin (from Wikipedia): '
December gets its name from the Latin word decem (meaning ten) because it was originally the tenth month of the year in the Roman calendar, which began in March. The winter days following December were not included as part of any month. Later, the months of January and February were created out of the monthless period and added to the beginning of the calendar, but December retained its name.
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December is the first month of meteorological winter in the Northern
Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, December is the seasonal equivalent
to June in the Northern hemisphere, which is the first month of summer. D
ecember is the month with the shortest daylight hours of the year in the
Northern Hemisphere and the longest daylight hours of the year in the
Southern Hemisphere.
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