Third week of December, 2017 Calendar with holidays, observances and special days

Funny facts about Indiana: Santa Claus, Indiana, receives more than a half million “Dear Santa” letters at Christmas time every year. And Santa’s little helpers are sure ..→

Mount Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain on the African continent and the highest free-standing mountain in the world. Approximately 25,000 people attempt to summit Mt. ..→

Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple (the Second Temple) in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid E..→

Funny Facts about Alabama: Alabama’s Constitution has over 100,000 words and more than 700 amendments, making it one of the longest in the United States. In Scottsboro, y..→

It was the American Thomas Sullivan who accidentally invented the teabag when he sent out samples in small silk pouches to customers in 1904. They did not know to empty t..→

The brothers tossed a coin to see who would first test the Wright Flyer on the sands of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Older brother Wilbur won the toss, but his first..→

Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) was founded on October 27, 1927 as America’s first international airline. The small company began flying air mail between Key West, Fl..→

Wright Brothers Day is a United States national observation. It is codified in the US Code, and commemorates the first successful flights in a heavier than air, mechanica..→