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December
  1. World AIDS Day
     Jan Brett
    James Baldwin
    Alistair Crowley

  2. Eat a Red Apple Day
    National Pie Day
    Ann Patchett
    Philip Larkin

  3. National Roof Over Your Head Day
    Joseph Conrad
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Gwendolyn Brooks

    What do you call a kitty on a beach on Christmas morning?
    Sandy Claws!

  4. Munro Wilbur Leaf
    Ranier Maria Rilke
    Cornell Woolrich

  5. Walt Disney
    Christina Rossetti
    John A. William
    Joan Didion
    Anna Kavan

  6. Teacher Appreciation Day
    Letter Writing Day
    St. Nicholas Day
    Joyce Kilmer
    Peter Handke
    Anthony Trollope

  7. Pearl Harbor Day
    Willa Cather
    Joyce Cary
    John Kennedy Toole
    Cicero
    Robert Graves

  8. James Thurber
    Jim Morrison
    Delmore Schwartz
    Ron Hansen

  9. Children's Memorial Day
    John Milton
    Joanna Trollope

  10. Human Rights Day
    Nobel Peace Prize Awarded
    Rumer Godden
    Emily Dickinson
    Jacquelyn Mitchard
    Damon Runyon

  11. Naguib Mahfouz
    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    Grace Paley
    Jim Harrison
    Tom McGuane
    Jascha Heifetz

  12. Poinsettia Day
    Gustave Flaubert
    John Osborne
    Robert Browning
    Joseph Heller

    What kind of motorcycle does Santy ride?
    A "Holly" Davidson!!

  13. Ice Cream Day
    Violin Day
    National Cocoa Day
    Kenneth Patchen
    Heinrich Heine
    Samuel Johnson

  14. 14-20 International Language Week
    Nostradamus
    Shirley Jackson
    W.G. Sebald

    What do the elves call it when Père Noël claps his hands at the end of a play?
    Santapplause!

  15. Underdog Day
    Bill of Rights Day
    Muriel Rukeyser
    Edna O'Brien

  16. International Chocolate Covered Anything Day
    Jane Austen
    Arthur C. Clarke
    Philip K. Dick
    W. Somerset Maugham
    William Gaddis

  17. National Maple Syrup Day
    Aviation Day
    Ford Madox Ford
    Erskin Caldwell
    Penelope Fitzgerald

  18. Bake Cookies Day
    Saki

  19. Go Carolling Day
    Italo Svevo
    Jean Genet

    Emily Brontë

    What did Santa say to Mrs. Claus when he looked out the window?
    Looks like "rain", "Dear"!

  20. Hanukkah Begins
    Games Day
    Andrei Codrescu
    Sandra Cisneros
    Alain de Botton
    John Steinbeck

  21. First Day of Winter
    Look on the Bright Side Day
    Anthony Powell
    Diana Athill
    Heinrich Boll
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    William Makepeace Thackeray
  22. International Arbor Day
    World Peace Day
    Forefather's Day
    Winter Solstice
    George Eliot

  23. "A Visit From St. Nicholas" was published in 1823

    Why does Santa always go down the chimney?
    Because it soots him!
  24. Christmas Eve
    Mary HIggins Clark

  25. Christmas Day
    Jimmy Buffett
    Sir Isaac Newton

  26. Boxing Day
    Kwanzaa Begins
    Charles Babbage
    Harry S. Truman
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  27. Fruitcake Day

  28. Carol Ryrie Brinker
    Sam Levinson

  29. Richard Atwater

  30. Rudyard Kipling

  31. New Year's Eve
    Make Up Your Mind Day
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850
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