Events in the month of December for writers and readers
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- December 1 – National Christmas Lights Day; World AIDS Day
- December 2 – International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
- December 3 – International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- December 4 – Wildlife Conservation Day
- December 5 – Walt Disney’s Birthday; International Volunteer Day; World Soil Day
- December 6 – Ira Gershwin’s Birthday; Joyce Kilmer’s Birthday
- December 7 – International Civil Aviation Day; National Letter Writing Day
- December 9 – John Milton’s Birthday; Christmas Card Day; International Anti-Corruption Day; International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide; National Llama Day
- December 10 – Emily Dickinson’s Birthday; Dewey Decimal System Day; Human Rights Day; International Animal Rights Day; Nobel Prize Day
- December 11 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Birthday; International Mountain Day; International UNICEF Day
- December 12 – International Day of Neutrality; International Universal Health Coverage Day
- December 13 – National Day of the Horse (U.S.)
- December 14 – Nostradamus’ Birthday
- December 14-22 – Hanukkah
- December 15 – Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof’s Birthday; Bill of Rights Day (U.S.)
- December 16 – Jane Austen’s Birthday; Ludwig van Beethoven’s Birthday; National Chocolate Covered Anything Day
- December 17 – National Maple Syrup Day (U.S.); Wright Brothers Day (U.S.)
- December 18 – International Migrants Day; National Twin Day (U.S.)
- December 20 – International Human Solidarity Day
- December 21 – Crossword Puzzle Day; Look on the Bright Side Day; National Short Story Day; Summer Solstice (Southern Hemisphere); Winter Solstice (Northern Hemisphere)
- December 22 – National Short Person Day
- December 23 – Robert Bly’s Birthday; Harriet Monroe’s Birthday; National Roots Day
- December 24 – Mary Higgins Clark’s Birthday; Jolabokaflod (Iceland)
- December 25 – Christmas Day
- December 26 – Boxing Day
- December 26 – January 1 – Kwanzaa
- December 27 – International Day of Epidemic Preparedness
- December 28 – National Call a Friend Day; National Short Film Day
- December 30 – National Bacon Day
- December 31 – Henri Matisse’s Birthday; No Interruptions Day
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