Educators' Calendar: United Kingdom

December 2019

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1st December

Sherlock Holmes First in Print (1887)

Rosa Parks Refused to Give Up Bus Seat (1955)

2nd December

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

Napoleon Crowned Emperor of France (1804)

First Artificial Heart Transplant (1982)

First Protestant & Catholic Cabinet Convened in Northern Ireland (1999)

3rd December

Start of Advent (Christian)

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

4th December

Game of "Monopoly" Debuted (1935)

5th December

International Volunteer Day

Animator Walt Disney Born (1901)

6th December

Feast of St. Nicholas

Thomas Edison First Recorded Human Voice (1877)

7th December

Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbour (1941)

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8th December

U.S. Entered WWII (1941)

Musician John Lennon Murdered (1980)

9th December

Poet John Milton Born (1608)

The Great Smog Lifted from London (1952)

10th December

Human Rights Day

First Nobel Prizes Awarded (1901)

11th December

King Edward VIII Abdicated Throne (1936)

Hitler Declared War on United States (1941)

12th December

Marconi Received First Transatlantic Radio Signal (1901)

Stolen Mona Lisa Recovered (1913)

Kenya Gained Independence from Britain (1963)

13th December

New Zealand Discovered (1642)

14th December

South Pole First Reached (1911)

DNA First Synthesised (1967)

Israel Annexed Golan Heights (1981)

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15th December

French Defeated Germans in Battle of Verdun (1916)

Glenn Miller Disappeared Over English Channel (1944)

Nazi SS Officer Adolf Eichmann Sentenced (1961)

16th December

Oliver Cromwell Became Lord Protector (1653)

Boston Tea Party (1773)

Battle of the Bulge Began (1944)

17th December

France Recognised American Independence (1777)

Wright Brothers Made First Powered Flight (1903)

18th December

The Nutcracker Suite Premiered in Russia (1892)

19th December

A Christmas Carol Published (1843)

Apollo 17 Returned to Earth (1972)

20th December

Cardiff Proclaimed Capital of Wales (1955)

21st December

Pilgrims Landed at Plymouth (1620)

Crossword Puzzle Debuted (1898)

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22nd December

Winter Solstice

Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu Overthrown (1989)

23rd December

Hanukkah Begins at Sundown

Transistor Debuted (1947)

First Nonstop Flight Around the World (1986)

24th December

Christmas Eve

War of 1812 Ended (1814)

'Verdi''s Opera Aida Premiered' (1871)

25th December

William the Conqueror Crowned King of England (1066)

Physicist Sir Issac Newton Born (1642)

26th December

'St. Stephen''s Day (Boxing Day)'

First Performance of King Lear (1606)

27th December

Mathematician Johannes Kepler Born (1571)

Bacteriologist Louis Pasteur Born (1822)

World Bank Created (1945)

28th December

Westminster Abbey Consecrated (1065)

First Film Shown (1895)

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29th December

Thomas Becket Murdered in Canterbury Cathedral (1170)

Constitution of Ireland Enacted (1937)

30th December

Author Rudyard Kipling Born (1865)

Sun Yat-sen Elected First President of China (1911)

USSR Established (1922)

31st December

'New Year''s Eve (Hogmanay)'

Truman Proclaimed End of Hostilities in WWII (1946)

Marshall Plan Expired (1961)

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