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Cultural Calendar

{ Cultural Calendar: December }

The Month Of...

Bingo's Birthday * Hi Neighbor * Closed Caption TV * Stress Free *  Family Holidays * Read A New Book * Safe Toys and Gifts * Universal Human Rights * Winter Month

First:

- World AIDS Day

Second:

- International Day for the Abolition of Slavery (UN)

Third:

- International Day of Disabled Persons (UN)

Fourth:

- St. Barbara's Day (Poland)

Fifth:

- Sinterklass Day (Netherlands)

- International Volunteer Day for Economic and Soical Development (UN)

Sixth:

- St. Nicholas Day

- Independence Day (Finland)

Ninth:

- Independence Day (Tanzania)

Tenth:

- Human Rights Day (UN)

- Constitution Day (Thailand)

Eleventh:

- National Unity Day (Nepal)

- Carmentalia (Old Roman Festival to 9 Muses)

Thirteenth:

- Luciadagen (Sweden)

- Aga Khan's Birthday (Ismaeli)

Fifteenth:

- Bill of Rights Day (US)

Sixteenth:

- Nine Days of Posada (Mexico)

- Bijoy Dibash/Vicotry Day (Bangladesh)

- national Day (Bahrain)

Seventeenth:

- World Religion Day

- Blessing of the Animals at the Cathedral day

- Carnivale begins (Italy)

- Thomas Crapper Day

- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Eighteenth:

- Republic day (Niger)

Nineteenth:

- St. Nicholas day (Russian Orthodox)

Twenty first :

- Mother Night/Winter Solsice (carries into the twenty second; International)

Twenty second:

- Yule (Wicca)

Twenty third:

- Joseph Smith's Birthday (Mormon)

Twenty fourth:

- Independence Day (Libya)

Twenty fifth:

- Christmas Day (Christian)

Twenty sixth:

- Boxing Day (Eruope, Cnada, Jamaica, Bahamas)

- St. Stephen's Day (Czech Republic and Slovakia)

- Wren Day (Ireland)

- Junkanoo (Bahamas)

- Kwanzaa (African/ Canadian/ American)

Twenty eighth:

- Childermas (Europe and Mexico)

Thirtieth:

- Rizal Day (Philippines)

Thirty first:

- Birth of Guru Gobind Singh (Sikh)

- Festival of Iemanja (Brazil)

- Hogmanay (Scotland)

- Omisaka (Japan)

- Gahambar Maidyarem (Zorostian)

- New Year's Eve

Floating Holidays:

Hanukkah/ Festival of Lights (Jewish) * Pikkujoulu (Finland) * Rmadan (Islam)