Fun Facts about December

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• Today, December 5th is Walt Disney's birthday and he would have been 110 years old!
• Sinterklaas, the winter holiday figure just like our Santa Claus, rides the rooftops of Belgium and the Netherlands tonight on his gray horse, Sleipner.
• Decem means 'ten' in Latin.
• December was the tenth month in the Roman Calendar, but was changed to the twelfth and last month in the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
• Everyone knows that December has 31 days, but did you know every year, both December and September start on the same day?
• December has the shortest daylight hours of the year in the Northern hemisphere.
• December 7th is Pearl Harbor Day, which commemorates the 1941 surprise military strike on the US by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Wow! That was 70 years ago.
• Nobel Prizes will be awarded on December 10th in the fields of Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, Peace, and Literature.
• The Honolulu Marathon, one of the world's largest, will take place on December 11th.
• December 21st starts Hanukkah this year, Christmas is December 25th, and Kwanzaa begins on December 26th.
• Fans of Seinfeld, who are frustrated with the commercialism and pressure of other December holidays will celebrate Festivus on December 23rd.