Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa can dominate the month of December. Local communities have Holiday fairs, craft fairs, story times, tree lightings, Hanukkah lightings, and visits with Santa. They also hold toy drives and collect items for the homeless. These are wonderful activities, but it’s also important to remember other events in the last month of the year.
What’s happening in December?
12/1 World AIDS Day
12/2 Giving Tuesday
12/3 International Day of Persons with Disabilities
12/4 Wildlife Conservation Day
12/5 International Volunteer Day
12/6 St. Nicholas Day
12//7 Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
12/8 Feast of the Immaculate Conception
Green Monday
12/9 International Day of Commemoration and dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide
International Anti-corruption Day
12/10 Human Rights Day
Jane Addams Day
Nobel Prize Day
12/11 UNICEF Birthday
12/12 Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
International Day of Neutrality
12/13 St. Lucy’s Day
12/14 Hanukkah begins
12/16 Bill of Rights Day
Los Posadas: A Journey of faith and Tradition
12/17 Wright Brothers Day
12/18 International Migrants Day
National Twin Day
12/19 National Ugly Sweater Day
12/20 National Wreaths Across America Day
International Human Solidarity Day
12/21 Winter Solstice
Yule Day
12/22 Hanukkah Ends
12/23 Festivus
12/24 Christmas Eve
The Feast of the Seven Fishes
12/25 Christmas
12/26 Boxing Day
Kwanzaa
12/27 International Day of Epidemic Preparedness
12/28 National Call a Friend Day
12/29 Wounded Knee
12/30 National Bacon Day
12/31 New Year’s Eve