december

     

December (listen) is the twelfth an last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days.

Trivia about december

  • The feast of Saint Nicholas falls on the 6th of this month
  • It's the Northern Hemisphere's seasonal equivalent to the Southern Hemisphere's June
  • The presidential electors cast their votes on the first Monday after the second Wednesday in this month
  • Since kids get lots of them then, it makes sense that this month is Safe Toys & Gifts Month
  • The first day of summer in Bolivia is in this month
  • The Santa Claus melon is so named because its peak season is in this month
  • It's National Stress-Free Family Holidays Month
  • In the proposed "World Calendar", an extra day called "Year Day" would come at the end of this month
  • (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from FedEx headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee) In this month in 1986, FedEx first handled over one million packages in a single night
  • It's the only month for which the U.S. can have a President-elect from beginning to end
  • Nutty about "The Nutcracker"? You've probably seen it during this month (that's the month it was first performed, too)
  • Traditionally, Nobel Prize winners are presented their awards on the tenth of this month
  • Every 4 years the U.S. Electoral College meets in this month
  • The Dutch celebrate the Feast of Sinterklaas on the 6th of this
  • Hungarian; he waits for Szent Mikulas to bring him presents in this month
  • As you can guess, Madison's annual Jingle Bell Run has hearty souls running 5 or 10k during this month
  • On the 14th day of this month in 1825 Nicholas I easily squelched an uprising of about 3,000 soldiers
  • In the part of South America south of the equator, summer begins during this month
  • In the Southern Hemisphere summer begins in this month
  • Before Julius Caesar's reforms, this was the tenth month in the Roman calendar