Educators' Calendar: Canada

December 2019

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1st December

Rosa Parks Arrested (1955)

Speed Skater Sylvie Daigle's Birthday (1962)

2nd December

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery

First Artificial Heart Transplant (1982)

First Woman Federal Party Leader (1989)

3rd December

International Day of Persons with Disabilities

First Human Heart Transplant (1967)

Dec. 3-9
Handwashing Awareness Week

4th December

U of T Won First Grey Cup (1909)

Game of "Monopoly" Debuted (1935)

Astronaut Roberta Bondar's Birthday (1945)

5th December

International Volunteer Day

Severe Influenza Hit Montreal (1700)

6th December

Halifax Explosion (1917)

First Woman Elected as a Federal MP (1921)

The Montreal Massacre Day of Mourning (1989)

7th December

Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbour (1941)

Basketball Player Larry Bird's Birthday (1956)

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8th December

Inventor Eli Whitney's Birthday (1765)

Timothy Eaton Opened First Store (1869)

Musician John Lennon Murdered (1980)

9th December

Poet John Milton's Birthday (1608)

Montreal Got First YMCA (1861)

Roller Skates Patented (1884)

10th December

Human Rights Day

Polanyi Awarded Chemistry Nobel Prize (1986)

11th December

Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon's Birthday (1863)

Last Men Hanged in Canada (1962)

12th December

Stolen Mona Lisa Recovered (1913)

Wayne Gretzy Broke NHL Record (1981)

13th December

New Zealand Discovered (1642)

Artist Emily Carr's Birthday (1871)

Saddam Hussein Captured (2003)

14th December

South Pole First Reached (1911)

DNA First Synthesized (1967)

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15th December

Sitting Bull Killed (1890)

Basketball Created (1891)

16th December

Boston Tea Party (1773)

Battle of the Bulge Began (1944)

17th December

Maple Syrup Day

Wright Brothers' Day

18th December

The Nutcracker Suite Premiered in Russia (1892)

Steven Spielberg's Birthday (1946)

Figure Skater Brian Orser's Birthday (1961)

19th December

Dickens's A Christmas Carol Published (1843)

Canadian Director's Titanic Opened (1997)

20th December

First Games Day (1975)

21st December

Pilgrims Landed at Plymouth (1607)

Crossword Puzzle Debuted (1913)

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22nd December

Winter Solstice

Novelist Samuel Beckett Died (1989)

23rd December

Hanukkah Begins at Sundown

Transistor Debuted (1947)

First Canadian Woman Governor General Appointed (1983)

First Nonstop Flight Around the World (1986)

24th December

Christmas Eve

Ku Klux Klan Formed (1865)

Verdi's Opera Aida Premiered (1871)

25th December

Nurse Clara Barton's Birthday (1821)

Winnie-the-Pooh Debuted (1925)

26th December

Boxing Day

First Performance of King Lear (1606)

Tsunami in Indian Ocean Killed 280,000 (2004)

27th December

Visit the Zoo Day

Mathematician Johannes Kepler's Birthday (1571)

Scientist Louis Pasteur's Birthday (1822)

28th December

Card Playing Day

Chewing Gum Patented (1869)

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29th December

First Issue of Paper Le Soleil (1896)

First Smoking Ban on Flights (1989)

30th December

Writer Rudyard Kipling's Birthday (1865)

31st December

Make Up Your Mind Day

President Truman Proclaimed End of Hostilities in WWII (1946)

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