Most everyone's excited about the holiday season, whether it's Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas or (sometimes) Eid. If you're not into religious holidays, there's the remembrance of Pearl Harbor Day on the 7th (which brings the happier annual tradition of the Army-Navy football game), the super-party-time of New Year's Eve, and plenty of other interesting things going on:
Monthly Observances
It's no surprise that December is Safe Toys and Gifts Month, but rather less intuitively, it is also Choose a Summer Camp Month. Go figure. It is the National Month for drunk and drugged driving prevention, writing a business plan, and it is Universal Human Rights Month. In addition, it is Colorectal Cancer Education and Awareness Month, Identity Theft Prevention and Awareness Month, and also Spiritual Literacy Month, but I'm not sure what that means. Adding the roundhouse punch to November's Great American Smokeout jab, it is the month to celebrate TANYRSS, otherwise known as Take a New Year's Resolution to Stop Smoking. Ending on a rather unexpected note (unless you run a men's haberdashery business, in which case you probably knew), December is National Tie Month. Yes, ties have a National Month. I'll bet socks are next!
Weirdest Holiday
December 15th is Cat Herders Day. Yes, I know what you're thinking-these people don't exist! Well, apparently they do. I'm guessing they share a guildhall with the Jell-o Nailers. So, today's the day to go out and do the impossible!
December Traditions
Flower: narcissus - respect, modesty
Birthstone: zircon, turquoise- love and riches
Sagittarius's gem: amethyst - humility, sincerity
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius (1- 21) and Capricorn (22-31; see January for details). Sagittarius , the archer, is a fire sign, characterized by excitability and enthusiasm, like brightly burning flame. Sagittarians are typically very open and guileless, but these qualities are a double-edged sword, sometimes, as Sagittarians can be lacking in tact and sensitivity. Archers, try to think about where your little arrows are going to land, okay? Best friends: Aries and Leo. Best love matches: Gemini, Libra and Aquarius.
Famous Birthdays: Bette Midler (1st), Georges Seurat (2nd), Ozzy Osbourne (3rd), Marisa Tomei (4th), Walt Disney (5th), Randy Rhoads (6th), Harry Chapin (7th), Mary, Queen of Scots (8th), Kirk Douglas (9th), Emily Dickinson (10th), Mo'Nique (11th), Dionne Warwick (12th), Dick van Dyke (13th), Nostradamus (14th), Don Johnson (15th), Beethoven (16th), Pope Francis (17th), Ty Cobb (18th), Jake Gyllenhaal (19th), Jonah Hill (20th), Frank Zappa (21st), Diane Sawyer (22nd), Madam C.J. Walker (23rd), Ava Gardner (24th), Humphrey Bogart (25th), Steve Allen (26th), Marlene Dietrich (27th), Denzel Washington (28th), Mary Tyler Moore (29th), LeBron James (30th), Donna Summer (31st).
Catholic Feast Days
1- Feast of St Edmund Campion, St Eloy, the Blessed Sister Maria Clementine Anurite Nengapete
2 -Feast of Ste Bibiana
3- Feast of St Cassian of Tangier, St Francis Xavier
4 -Feast of Ste Barbara, St Maruthas
5 -Feast of St Sabas, Ste Crispina
6 -Feast of St Emilian, St Nicholas
7 -Feast of St Ambrose
8 -Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary
9- Feast of Ste Gorgonia, Ste Leocadia, St Budoc
10- Feast of Our Lady of Loreto, Ste Eulalia, St John Roberts
11- Feast of St Damasus, St Gentian, St Cury
12- Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Ste Jean Frances de Chantal
13- Feast of St Josse, Ste Lucy, Ste Odilia
14- Feast of St John of the Cross, St Spiridion, the Blessed Nimatullah Youssef Kassab
15- Feast of Ste Nino, St Valerian
16- Feast of Ste Adelaide
17- Feast of St Lazarus
18- Feast of the Virgin of the Lonely, St Flannan
19- Feast of St Adam
20- Feast of St Dominic of Silos
21- Feast of St Peter Canisius
22- Feast of the Blessed Gratian
23- Feast of St Dagobert II St John of Kanti, St Servulus of Rome, St Thorlac
24- Feast of St Levan, Sharbel Makhlouf, Our Lord's Ancestors
25- Feast of Ste Anastasia, Ste Eugenia, St Fulk, Christmas
26- Feast of St Stephen
27- Feast of St Fabiola, St John the Divine
28- Feast of the Holy Innocents (Childermass)
29- Feast of St Thomas a Becket, St Tropez
30- Feast of Our Lady of Lujan
31- Feast of St Sylvester, Ste Columba
Check out these other months!
January - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2017/01/your-january-birthday-january-holidays.html
February - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/02/your-february-birthday-february.html
May - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/05/your-may-birthday-may-holidays.html
June - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2017/05/your-june-birthday-holidays-traditions.html
July - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2017/07/your-july-birthday-july-holidays.html
August - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/07/your-august-birthday-august-holidays.html
September - https://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2019/08/your-september-birthday-september.html
October - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/09/your-october-birthday-october-holidays.html
November - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2017/10/your-november-birthday-november.html
Poinsettia image from Pixabay at https://pixabay.com/en/poinsettia-christmas-flower-557704/
June - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2017/05/your-june-birthday-holidays-traditions.html
July - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2017/07/your-july-birthday-july-holidays.html
August - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/07/your-august-birthday-august-holidays.html
September - https://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2019/08/your-september-birthday-september.html
October - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/09/your-october-birthday-october-holidays.html
November - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2017/10/your-november-birthday-november.html
Poinsettia image from Pixabay at https://pixabay.com/en/poinsettia-christmas-flower-557704/
