National Noodle Ring Day: More
Made of noodles, eggs and cheese, and baked in a ring mold.
The center hole created can be filled with what ever you like. For the
holidays, it resembles a Christmas wreath.
Tomorrow's food holiday will be ' National Noodle Ring Day'.
Made of noodles, eggs and cheese, and baked in a ring mold. The center hole created can be filled with what ever you like. For the holidays, it resembles a Christmas wreath.
[The Hankster says] An eatable wreath, I wonder if I could chow down an a eatable tree. Just saying.
Tomorrow is 'Lost and Found Day'. Since 2012 on the second Friday.
[The Hankster says] It may very by location. Concept: If you found something, try to return it. If you lost something, look for it.
Awareness / Observance Days on: December 11
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- 'International Mountain Day'. A. U.N. observance day since 2003. It promotes the importance of sustainable development of mountainous areas.
- 'National Tango Day'. Since 1977 in Argentina
- 'UNICEF Birthday'. Created within the U.N. December 11, 1946. See more in the Historical Events section for 1946.
Historical events in the past on: December 11
In 1816, Indiana becomes the 19th state of the U.S.
In 1844, The first dental use of nitrous oxide is made. From Wikipedia: 'Nitrous oxide has been used for anaesthesia in dentistry since December 1844, where Horace Wells made the first 12–15 dental operations with the gas in Hartford. Its debut as a generally accepted method, however, came in 1863, when Gardner Quincy Colton introduced it more broadly at all the Colton Dental Association clinics, that he founded in New Haven and New York City.'.
In 1882, Boston's Bijou Theater had its first performance. It was the first American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity.
In 1909, Colored moving pictures are demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC. From Wikipedia: 'The first color cinematography was by additive color systems such as the one patented by Edward Raymond Turner in 1899 and tested in 1902.[1] A simplified additive system was successfully commercialized in 1909 as Kinemacolor. These early systems used black-and-white film to photograph and project two or more component images through different color filters.'.
In 1913, The 'Mona Lisa', which was stolen from the Louvre Museum in 1911, is recovered. It had been stolen by an employee and kept in his apartment for two years, before he tried to sell it and was caught.
In 1919, The Boll Weevil monument is dedicated in Enterprise, Alabama. The monument notes the turnaround in the agriculture of the area due to the devastation that the boll weevil insect caused to cotton crops. Peanut farms improved the economy immediately and thereafter better crop diversity was applied. The Monument is a statue of a woman holding a pedestal with a boll weevil perched on top.
In 1931, The Statute of Westminster, gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndland.
In 1941, Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on them.
In 1946, The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established. From Wikipedia: 'The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF is a United Nations program headquartered in New York City that provides long-term humanitarian and developmental assistance to children and mothers in developing countries. It is one of the members of the United Nations Development Group and its Executive Committee'.
In 1961, Elvis Presley's, Blue Hawaii, album goes to #1 and stays #1 for 20 weeks. It was the sound track from his movie of the same name.
In 1972, Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
In 1980, The TV show, Magnum P.I., starring Tom Selleck premieres on CBS. The original release ran from December 11, 1980 – May 8, 1988.
In 1998, The Mars Climate Orbiter, is launched on a nine-month journey to Mars. From Wikipedia: 'However, on September 23, 1999, communication with the spacecraft was lost as the spacecraft went into orbital insertion, due to ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SI units of pound-seconds (lbf s) instead of the metric units of newton-seconds (N s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed. The spacecraft encountered Mars on a trajectory that brought it too
close to the planet, causing it to pass through the upper atmosphere and disintegrate'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in December
Food
Buckwheat Month
Worldwide Food Service Safety Month
Health
Aids Awareness Month
Take a New Year's Resolution to Stop Smoking (TANYRSS) (12/17 - 2/7)
Other
Bingo's Birthday Month
National Drunk and Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month
National Impaired Driving Prevention Month
National Tie Month
National Write A Business Plan Month
Operation Santa Paws (1-19)
Safe Toys and Gifts Month
Universal Human Rights Month
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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