DECEMBER 2009
Commemorative Events in December
* Read a New Book Month
* Universal Human Rights Month
* International Calendar Awareness Month
* Wear Brown Shoes Month
* Noodle Ring Month
* National Labor Zionism Month
* Mark Prokop Awareness Month
* AIDS Awareness Month
* Pants Awareness Month
December 11 - Chanukah
December 12 - Lady of Guadalupe Day
December 16 - New Moon 25º Sagittarius
December 21 - Winter Solstice
December 21 - Sun in Capricorn
December 25 - Christmas
December 26 - Kwanzaa
December 26 - Boxing Day
December 26 - January 15 - Mercury Retrograde
December 31 - Full Moon 10º Cancer - Blue Moon
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December 5, 1901 - December 15, 1966
Walt Disney
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Walt Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist and co-founder of Walt Disney Productions. Disney became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. He received fifty-nine Academy Award nominations and won twenty-six Oscars, including a record four in one year, and thus holds the record for the individual with the most awards and the most nominations. He also won seven Emmy Awards.
December 5, 1932
Little Richard
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Little Richard is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and recording artist, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. He was among the seven initial inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and was one of only four of these honorees (along with Ray Charles, James Brown, and Fats Domino) to also receive the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award.
Royal Society marks 350th anniversary by publishing documents Telegraph.co.uk - November 30, 2009
The Royal Society puts historic papers online
One of the world's oldest scientific institutions is marking the start of its 350th year by putting 60 of its most memorable research papers online. The Royal Society, founded in London in 1660, is making public manuscripts by figures like Sir Isaac Newton. Benjamin Franklin's account of his risky kite-flying experiment is also available on the Trailblazing website.
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