International Day of Persons with Disabilities – December 3
“People with disabilities are just as worthy as those without disabilities to live happy, productive lives.”
– Sydney Badeau
“I wish people would refrain from making assumptions or judgments about individuals with disabilities based solely on their appearance or perceived limitations. It’s important to approach each person with respect, understanding, and open-mindedness.”
– Ashley Glears
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day – December 7
“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men
“Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon a great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you.”
– Dwight Eisenhower
Hanukkah Begins – December 14 (evening ends Monday, Dec. 22)
“We light candles in testament that faith makes miracles possible.”
– Nachum Braverman
“When we share something material, we are left with less of what we started. But currencies of spirit, elements such as light, love and knowledge, defy these physical conditions—they increase as they are shared and become eternal. On Chanukah when we use one flame to light another, the glow is not halved – the light is multiplied.”
– Micaela Ezra
Bill of Rights Day – December 15
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities, and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.
– Robert H. Jackson, Supreme Court Justice
“The Bill of Rights is the United States. The United States is the Bill of Rights. Compromise the Bill of Rights and you dissolve the very foundation upon which the Union stands… Nowhere in the Bill of Rights are the words ‘unless inconvenient’ to be found.”
– A. E. Samaan
Games Day – December 20
Popular games from the 1960s and 1970s – Monopoly, Concentration, Battleship, Sorry, Dominos, Jacks, Old Maid, Clue, Yahtzee, Game of Life, Twister, Chutes and Ladders, Pong, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Cat’s Cradle, Tag, Kingpin, Red Light-Green Light, Red Rover, Freeze Tag and Kick the Can – what games did/do you play?
Christmas – December 25
“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime.”
– Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it — you feel it, you know it, you believe it.”
– from The Paper Bag Christmas
Kwanzaa – December 26 – January 1
“The holiday reflects the best of African thought and practice in its reaffirmation of the dignity of the human person in community and culture, the well-being of family and community, the integrity of the environment and our kinship with it, and the rich resource and meaning of a people’s culture.”
– Dr. Maulana Karenga
“Kwanzaa is a special time to remember the ancestors, the bridge builders, and the leaders.”
– Dorothy Winbush Riley
New Year’s Day – January 1, 2026
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.”
– Susan Sontag
Trivia Day – January 4
What is the only food that can never go bad?
– Honey
The first iPhone was released in what year? – 2007
What actor played Alex Keaton on the ‘80s show Family Ties?
– Michael J. Fox
What European explorer discovered a passage that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans?
– Magellan
What president was a licensed bartender?
– Abraham Lincoln
What was America’s first national park?
– Yellowstone
National Bird Day – January 5
“A bird sitting in a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking because her trust is not in the branch but in her own wings. Believe in yourself.”
– Kelly Nelson
“I don’t feed the birds because they need me. I feed the birds because I need them.”
– Kathi Hutton
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day – January 19
“Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.” – MLK, Jr.
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
– MLK, Jr.