Eat a Red Apple Day

Rosa Parks Day on this day in 1955 she refused to give up her seat.

World AIDS Day

David Macaulay born, 1946

National Fritters Day

Artist Georges Seurat born, 1859

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

National Roof-Over- Your-Head Day

First successful heart transplant (1967)

Munro Leaf born, 1905

National Cookie Day

Wear Brown Shoes Day

Phonograph Invented (1877)

Walter Elias (Walt) Disney's Birthday born, 1901

Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955)

Ira Gershwin's Birthday born, 1896

Mitten Tree Day

St. Nicholas Day

13th Amendment abolishing slavery, ratified (1865)

National Cotton Candy Day

Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (1941)

James Thurber born, 1894

National Brownie Day

Inventor Eli Whitney born, 1765

Ball-Bearing Roller Skates Patented in 1884

First Christmas Seals Issued in 1907

Rumer Godden born, 1907

Human Rights Day

Emily Dickinson born, 1830

National Noodle Ring Day

UNICEF Anniversary Established in 1946

Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock (1620)

Barbara Emberley born, 1932

Golf Tee Patented (rubber/wood) (1899)

Hovercraft Patented (1955)

Poinsettia Day

Marconi's radio signal crossed the Atlantic (1901)

National Cocoa Day

Susan B. Anthony dollar coined in 1970

First Miniature Golf Course Opened in 1929

South Pole Discovered in 1911

Bill of Rights Day

Underdog Day

David McCord born, 1897

Beethoven's Birthday (1770)

Marie Hall Ets born, 1895

Quentin Blake born, 1932

Boston Tea Party Anniversary (1773)

Las Posadas

National Chocolate Covered Anything Day

Ludwig van Beethoven baptised (1770)

Wright Brother's First Flight (1903)

National Maple Syrup Day

Wear a Plunger On Your Head Day

Baseball great Ty Cobb born, 1886

Eve Bunting born, 1928

Oatmeal Muffin Day

Dickens' A Christmas Carol published in 1843

Games Day

Electric Light demonstrated in 1879

First Crossword Puzzle in a Newspaper (1913)

Humbug Day

Look at the Bright Side Day

National Flashlight Day

First Christmas Lights sold in 1882

Mercury Thermometer Was Invented in 1714

U.S. Golf Association Founded (1894)

Roots Day

Federal Reserve System established (1913)

Christmas Eve

National Egg Nog Day

Apollo 8 reached the moon (1968)

Christmas

National Pumpkin Pie Day

Boxing Day

Kwanzaa Begins

National Whiners Day

Ingri d'Aulaire born, 1904

Visit the Zoo Day

World Bank created (1945)

Card Playing Day

Chewing Gum Patented in 1869

Iowa became the 29th state (1846)

National Chocolate Day

Texas became the 28th state (1845)

Tiger Woods born, 1975

Author Rudyard Kipling born, 1865

New Year's Eve

Artist Henri Matisse born, 1869