<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* '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] I'll take a filling of, let me see: pizza, no won't fit , lasagna, no more noodles, chili, no it would run all over the place. I have it, BBQ. Of course there will also need to be a potato salad and bean filled ring. No, I refuse to even think about a banana pudding filled noodle ring.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'World Choral Day'.
Second Sunday in December. Using choral groups to raise funds for wold
needs.
[The Hankster says] Great idea. I will celebrate, and thus increase profits, by not vibrating my cords.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Other:
* 'UNICEF Birthday'. Created within the U.N. December 11, 1946. See more in
the Historical Events section for 1946. More in the history section for
1946.
* 'International Mountain Day'. A. U.N. observance day since 2003. It
promotes the importance of sustainable development of mountainous areas..
- From Wikipedia (Mountain Day) (International Mountain Day):
'December 11, International Mountain Day, was designated by the United
Nations General Assembly in 2003. The General Assembly encouraged the
international community to organize events at all levels on that day to
highlight the importance of sustainable mountain development.
International Mountain Day is observed every year with a different theme
relevant to sustainable mountain development. FAO is the U.N. organization
mandated to lead observance of International Mountain Day. br /> The theme
for International Mountain Day 2010 was Mountain minorities and indigenous
peoples. It aims to raise awareness about indigenous peoples and minorities
who live in mountain environments and the relevance of their cultural
heritage, traditions and customs.'.
<> Historical events on December 11
* 'In 1816, Indiana becomes the 19th state of the U.S. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Indiana is a U.S. state located in the midwestern and
Great Lakes regions of North America. Indiana is the 38th largest by area
and the 16th most populous of the 50 United States. Its capital and largest
city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th
U.S. state on December 11, 1816.
Before becoming a territory, varying cultures of indigenous peoples and
historic Native Americans inhabited Indiana for thousands of years. Since
its founding as a territory, settlement patterns in Indiana have reflected
regional cultural segmentation present in the Eastern United States the
state's northernmost tier was settled primarily by people from New England
and New York, Central Indiana by migrants from the Mid-Atlantic states and
from adjacent Ohio, and Southern Indiana by settlers from the Southern
states, particularly Kentucky and Tennessee.
Indiana has a diverse economy with a gross state product of $298 billion in
2012. Indiana has several metropolitan areas with populations greater than
100,000 and a number of smaller industrial cities and towns. Indiana is
home to several major sports teams and athletic events including the NFL's
Indianapolis Colts, the NBA's Indiana Pacers, the WNBA's Indiana Fever, the
Indianapolis 500, and Brickyard 400 motorsports races'.
* '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. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Bijou Theatre (1882–1943) in Boston, Massachusetts,
occupied the second floor of no. 545 Washington Street near today's Theatre
District. Architect George Wetherell designed the space, described by a
contemporary reviewer as dainty. Proprietors included Edward Hastings,
George Tyler, and B.F. Keith. Around the 1900s, it featured a staircase of
heavy glass under which flowed an illuminated waterfall. The Bijou closed
31 December 1943 and was razed in 1951. The building's facade still exists.
It is a pending Boston Landmark.
The new theatre opened on December 18, 1882 with the Arthur Sullivan and
W.S. Gilbert (Gilbert and Sullivan) comic opera Iolanthe. By September 27,
1886, the theatre became owned by B.F. Keith and George R. Batcheller. On
March 24, 1894, Keith opened a theatre next the Bijou named B.F. Keith’s
Theatre In 1901, it was renamed the Bijou Opera House The Bijou would later
be named Bijou Dream when it became a movie house in 1927, and also became
known as Intown sometime after that.
The Bijou was a distinct theatre for a couple of reasons. The Bijou was the
first theatre in the United States to be elementarily lighted by
electricity, which Thomas Edison personally installed and supervised. It
also was unique for the fact that it did not have a traditional exit to the
outside. Since it was on the second floor, the exits led to the lobbies of
the two surrounding theatres, the B.F. Keith Theatre (later the Normandie
and Laffmovie) and the newer Keith Memorial (later known as the Savoy and
is now the Boston Opera House). After the tragic 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire
(492 deaths), Boston heavily enforced new fire laws, and since the Bijou
did not have adequate exits, it was forced to close.
The Bijou was razed to the orchestra and stage floors, which became the
roof of the stores below. Most of what remained of the Bijou building was
demolished in 2008, but Emerson College bought the property and plans to
make the Bijou and Paramount Theatre into theatres and dormitories'.
* '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.
- From Wikipedia: 'On 21 August 1911, the painting was stolen from the
Louvre. The next day, painter Louis Béroud walked into the museum and went
to the Salon Carré where the Mona Lisa had been on display for five years,
only to find four iron pegs on the wall. Béroud contacted the head of the
guards, who thought the painting was being photographed for promotional
purposes. A few hours later, Béroud checked back with the Section Chief of
the Louvre who confirmed that the Mona Lisa was not with the photographers.
The Louvre was closed for an entire week during the investigation. Museum
director Giovanni Poggi (right) inspects the painting.
French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who had once called for the Louvre to be
burnt down, came under suspicion and was arrested and imprisoned.
Apollinaire implicated his friend Pablo Picasso, who was brought in for
questioning. Both were later exonerated. Two years later the thief was
found. Louvre employee Vincenzo Peruggia had stolen the Mona Lisa by
entering the building during regular hours, hiding in a broom closet, and
walking out with it hidden under his coat after the museum had closed.
Peruggia was an Italian patriot who believed da Vinci's painting should
have been returned for display in an Italian museum. Peruggia may have also
been motivated by a friend whose copies of the original would significantly
rise in value after the painting's theft. A later account suggested Eduardo
de Valfierno had been the mastermind of the theft and had commissioned
forger Yves Chaudron to create six copies of the painting to sell in the
U.S. while the location of the original was unclear. However, the original
painting remained in Europe. After having kept the Mona Lisa in his
apartment for two years, Peruggia grew impatient and was caught when he
attempted to sell it to directors of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. It was
exhibited in the Uffizi Gallery for over two weeks and returned to the
Louvre on 4 January 1914. Peruggia served six months in prison for the
crime and was hailed for his patriotism in Italy. Before its theft, the
Mona Lisa was not widely known outside the art world. It was not until the
1860s that some critics, a thin slice of the French intelligentsia, began
to hail it as a masterwork of Renaissance painting.
In 1956, part of the painting was damaged when a vandal threw acid at it.
On 30 December of that year, a speck of pigment near the left elbow was
damaged when a rock was thrown at the painting, which was later restored.
The use of bulletproof glass has shielded the Mona Lisa from subsequent
attacks. In April 1974, a woman, upset by the museum's policy for disabled
people, sprayed red paint at it while it was being displayed at the Tokyo
National Museum. On 2 August 2009, a Russian woman, distraught over being
denied French citizenship, threw a ceramic teacup purchased at the Louvre
the vessel shattered against the glass enclosure. In both cases, the
painting was undamaged'.
* '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.
- From Wikipedia: 'The Boll Weevil Monument in downtown Enterprise,
Alabama, United States is a prominent landmark and tribute erected by the
citizens of Enterprise in 1919 to show their appreciation to an insect, the
boll weevil, for its profound influence on the area's agriculture and
economy. Hailing the beetle as a herald of prosperity, it stands as the
world's first monument built to honor an agricultural pest.
The Monument consists of a statue of a woman holding a pedestal with a boll
weevil perched on top.
The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) was indigenous to Mexico, but appeared
in Alabama in 1915. By 1918 farmers were losing whole cotton crops to the
beetle. H. M. Sessions saw this as an opportunity to convert the area to
peanut farming. In 1916 he convinced C. W. Baston, an indebted farmer, to
back his venture. The first crop paid off their debts and was bought by
farmers seeking to change to peanut farming. Cotton was grown again, but
farmers learned to diversify their crops, a practice which brought new
money to Coffee County.
Bon Fleming, a local businessman, came up with the idea to build the
monument, and helped to finance the cost. As a tribute to how something
disastrous can be a catalyst for change, and a reminder of how the people
of Enterprise adjusted in the face of adversity, the monument was dedicated
on December 11, 1919 at the intersection of College and Main Street, the
heart of the town's business district'.
* 'In 1931, The Statute of Westminster, gives complete legislative
independence to Canada, Australia, NZ, South Africa, Ireland, Newfndland. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Statute of Westminster, 1931 is an Act of the
Parliament of the United Kingdom and separate versions of it are now
domestic law within Australia and Canada it has been repealed in New
Zealand and implicitly by subsequent laws in former Commonwealth realms.
Passed on 11 December 1931, the act, either immediately or upon
ratification, effectively both established the legislative independence of
the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire from the United Kingdom
and bound them all to seek each other's approval for changes to monarchical
titles and the common line of succession. It thus became a statutory
embodiment of the principles of equality and common allegiance to the Crown
set out in the Balfour Declaration of 1926. It thus had the effect of
making the Dominions sovereign nations.
The Statute of Westminster's relevance today is that it sets the basis for
the continuing relationship between the Commonwealth realms and the Crown'.
* '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. 'The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is a
United Nations (UN) programme headquartered in New York City that provides
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.
UNICEF was created by the United Nations General Assembly on 11 December
1946, to provide emergency food and healthcare to children in countries
that had been devastated by World War II. The Polish physician Ludwik
Rajchman is widely regarded as the founder of UNICEF and served as its
first chairman from 1946. On Rajchman's suggestion, the American Maurice
Pate was appointed its first executive director, serving from 1947 until
his death in 1965. In 1953, UNICEF's mandate was extended to address the
needs of children in the developing world and became a permanent part of
the United Nations System. At that time, the words international and
emergency were dropped from the organization's name, making it simply the
United Nations Children's Fund, or popularly known as UNICEF
UNICEF relies on contributions from governments and private donors,
UNICEF's total income for 2008 was US$3,372,540,239. Governments contribute
two-thirds of the organization's resources. Private groups and some six
million individuals contribute the rest through national committees. It is
estimated that 92 per cent of UNICEF revenue is distributed to programme
services. UNICEF's programmes emphasize developing community-level services
to promote the health and well-being of children. UNICEF was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 and the Prince of Asturias Award of Concord in
2006.
Most of UNICEF's work is in the field, with staff in over 190 countries and
territories. More than 200 country offices carry out UNICEF's mission
through programmes developed with host governments. Seven regional offices
provide technical assistance to country offices as needed.
UNICEF's Supply Division is based in Copenhagen and serves as the primary
point of distribution for such essential items as vaccines, antiretroviral
medicines for children and mothers with HIV, nutritional supplements,
emergency shelters, family reunification,and educational supplies. A 36
member executive board establishes policies, approves programmes and
oversees administrative and financial plans. The executive board is made up
of government representatives who are elected by the United Nations
Economic and Social Council, usually for three-year terms'.
* '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. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Blue Hawaii is the fourteenth album by Elvis Presley,
released on RCA Victor Records in mono and stereo, LPM/LSP 2426, on October
20, 1961. It is a soundtrack for Presley's film of the same name. Recording
sessions took place at Radio Recorders in Hollywood on March 21, 22, and
23, 1961. In the United States, the album spent 20 weeks at the number one
slot and 39 weeks in the Top 10 on Billboard's Top Pop LPs chart. It was
certified Gold on December 21, 1961, Platinum and 2x Platinum on March 27,
1992 and 3x Platinum on July 30, 2002 by the Recording Industry Association
of America. On the US Top Pop Albums chart Blue Hawaii is second only to
the soundtrack of West Side Story as the most successful album of the
1960s'.
* 'In 1972, Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on
the Moon. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA's Apollo
program, the enterprise that landed the first humans on the Moon. Launched
at 12:33 am Eastern Standard Time (EST) on December 7, 1972, with a crew
made up of Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans, and
Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt, it was the last use of Apollo hardware
for its original purpose after Apollo 17, extra Apollo spacecraft were used
in the Skylab and Apollo–Soyuz programs.
Apollo 17 was the first night launch of a U.S. human spaceflight and the
final manned launch of a Saturn V rocket. It was a J-type mission which
included three days on the lunar surface, extended scientific capability,
and the third Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). While Evans remained in lunar
orbit in the Command/Service Module (CSM), Cernan and Schmitt spent just
over three days on the moon in the Taurus–Littrow valley and completed
three moonwalks, taking lunar samples and deploying scientific instruments.
Evans took scientific measurements and photographs from orbit using a
Scientific Instruments Module mounted in the Service Module.
The landing site was chosen with the primary objectives of Apollo 17 in
mind: to sample lunar highland material older than the impact that formed
Mare Imbrium, and investigate the possibility of relatively new volcanic
activity in the same area. Cernan, Evans and Schmitt returned to Earth on
December 19 after a 12-day mission.
Apollo 17 is the most recent manned Moon landing and was the last time
humans travelled beyond low Earth orbit. It was also the first mission to
be commanded by a person with no background as a test pilot, and the first
to have no one on board who had been a test pilot X-15 test pilot Joe Engle
lost the lunar module pilot assignment to Schmitt, a scientist. The mission
broke several records: the longest moon landing, longest total
extravehicular activities (moonwalks), largest lunar sample, and longest
time in lunar orbit'.
* '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. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Magnum, P.I. is an American crime drama television
series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator living
on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988 during its first-run
broadcast on the American television network CBS. According to the Nielsen
ratings, Magnum, P.I. consistently ranked in the top twenty U.S. television
programs during the first five years of its original run in the United
States'.
* '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
National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month
National Impaired Driving Prevention Month
Safe Toys and Gifts Month
Animal and Pet
Operation Santa Paws
Other
National Tie Month
National Write A Business Plan Month
Universal Human Rights Month
Youngsters on The Air 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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