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Events In December 2025
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December Events
Crossword Puzzle Day (1913): December 21
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The first officially published crossword puzzle was created by the journalist Arthur Wynne of Liverpool, England, on December 21, 1913. However, his was not the first crossword puzzle ever created. A si...
December
Crossword Solvers Day: December 8
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Crossword puzzle creator Myles Mellor created Crossword Solvers Day in 2022 to celebrate people who enjoy crossword puzzles. The creation of the day is strange, given International Crossword Day is fift...
December
Curaçao Day, (CW)(1959): December 15
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Curaçao Day marks the anniversary of December 15, 1959, when the nation raised its flag for the first time after achieving independence from The Netherlands. Curaçao Day is a public holiday.
December
Cyber Monday: December 1
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The Monday following Thanksgiving is Cyber Monday. This day came about as a marketing campaign to urge people to buy online. First coined by Ellen Davis of the National Retail Federation in a press re...
December
Dancing Bears Festival (RO): December 30
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If you're wandering around any city in Romania on December 30, you'll see a lot of bears! Romanian tradition goes back centuries when local legends believed misfortune was avoided through the appearance o...
December
Date-Nut Bread Day, Ntl.: December 22
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Date Nut Bread Day celebrates the non-yeast, cake-like sweet bread first seen in the US during the early 20th century.
December
Dattatreya Jayanti (H)(2450 BC): December...
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Dattatreya Jayanti marks the birth of the Hindu god Dattatreya (Datta) in approximately 2450 BC. Dattatreya is a compilation of the Hindu divine male trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva during the full...
December
Day of Quito, (EC)(1534): December 6
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Day of Quito in Ecuador marks the anniversary of December 6, 1534, when Spanish explorers founded the city of Quito.
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Decembeard (AU): December
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Australian men skip shaving for a month and grow a beard for a good cause, fighting Bowel Cancer. Decembeard is an annual fundraising campaign (and the perfect excuse not to shave). To get started, regist...
December
Dewey Decimal System Day (1873): December...
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Dewey Decimal System Day honors Melvil Louis Kossuth Dewey, the influential librarian born on December 10, 1851, in upstate New York. Dewey's passion was simplifying processes, so much so that he even s...
December
Dhanu Sankranti (H): December 16
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Dhanu Sankranti marks the day when the sun enters the Dhanu Rashi or Sagittarius, and this is the beginning of the ninth month of the Hindu solar calendar. On this day, Lord Surya, the sun god, is worsh...
December
Dice Day, Intl.: December 4
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International Dice Day celebrates one of the oldest games and tools of gaming in existence, dice. Whether you play Monopoly, Backgammon, Dungeons & Dragons, Craps, or any other game with dice, this is you...
December
Dickensian Christmas Festival, Kent (UK):...
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Step into Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" and live the experience as in Victorian England. Each year the city of Rochester in Kent, the United Kingdom, rolls out the red carpet, plumb pudding, and Ch...
December
Digital Detox Day, World: December 10
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Take a Breath World and Detox from Digital Celebrated annually on December 10th, World Digital Detox Day is a call for digital balance and wellness. It encourages people worldwide to unplug from technol...
December
Ding-a-Ling Day, Ntl.: December 12
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National Ding-a-ling Day in the US began in 1972 when Franky Hye started it. Ding-a-ling is British slang for a telephone. In the US, a ding-a-ling is a dim-witted person who has trouble focusing on a spe...
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