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November 29, 2024 · 6:41 PM

December 2024 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of December for writers and readers

Read a New Book Month

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; UNICEF Birthday
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 15 – 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; Hanukkah begins
December 26 – Boxing Day; Kwanzaa begins
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

Famous December Birthdays

Other December Events

December 2022 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of December for writers and readers

Read a New Book Month (also September)

December 1 – World AIDS Day
December 7 – Letter Writing Day
December 9 – John Milton’s Birthday
December 10 – Dewey Decimal System Day; Emily Dickinson’s Birthday
December 14 – Nostradamus’ Birthday
December 16 – Jane Austen’s Birthday
December 18 – Hanukah
December 21 – Crossword Puzzle Day; National Short Story Day; Winter Solstice (Northern Hemisphere); Summer Solstice (Southern Hemisphere)
December 24 – Christmas Eve; Jolabokaflod; Stephenie Meyer’s Birthday
December 25 – Christmas Day
December 26 – Boxing Day (Canada, U.K.); Kwanzaa
December 30 – Rudyard Kipling’s Birthday
December 31 – New Year’s Eve

Famous December Birthdays

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May 31, 2022 · 10:18 PM

June 2022 Literary Calendar

Events in the month of June for writers and readers

Audiobook Appreciation Month

GLBT Book Month

June 1 – Global Day of Parents; Global Running Day; National Pen Pal Day; National Say Something Nice Day; World Reef Awareness Day
June 3 – National Egg Day
June 4 – National Cheese Day; National Hug Your Cat Day
June 5 – National Cancer Survivor’s Day; National Donut Day; National Gingerbread Day; World Environment Day
June 8 – National Best Friend’s Day; World Oceans Day
June 10 – Ball Point Pen Day
June 11 – Global Wellness Day
June 12 – Anne Frank’s Birthday
June 14 – Bourbon Day; World Blood Donor Day
June 15 – National Photography Day; World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
June 16 – Bloomsday (celebration of Irish writer James Joyce’s life); National Fudge Day
June 17 – World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
June 19 – Father’s Day (U.S.)
June 20 – World Refugee Day
June 21 – Summer Solstice (Northern Hemisphere); Winter Solstice (Southern Hemisphere)
June 22 – Octavia Butler’s Birthday; World Rainforest Day
June 23 – National Hydration Day; Typewriter patent awarded (1868)
June 25 – Eric Carle’s Birthday
June 27 – Helen Keller’s Birthday; National PTSD Awareness Day
June 29 – Hug Holiday; National Camera Day
June 30 – National Handshake Day; National Work from Home Day; World Social Media Day

Have a Creepy Victorian Christmas

We have so many reasons to be thankful for the times in which we live: air conditioning, television, cell phones, cars, and no creepy Victorian-era Christmas cards. It may be difficult to imagine, but our ancestors of the 19^th and early 20^th centuries either had a distorted idea of what the yuletide season is supposed to represent or they had too much alcohol and not enough sex.

Whatever was wrong with them, we can undoubtedly determine their bizarre mindsets from a glance at some of their holiday cards. I mean…what reasonable person would glean Christmas joy from images of dead birds and dancing frogs? Then again, look who’s talking!