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Dec 25

Isaac Newton (Sir) born in Grantham, England, 1642

Dec 25

Fellowship begins Quest

Dec 25

Birthday of Quaid-i-Azam in Pakistan

Dec 25

Children’s Day in Congo

Dec 25

Christmas

Dec 26

Chas. Babbage born, 1791

Dec 26

St Stephen (Boxing Day)

Dec 26

DPMA founded, 1951

Dec 26

Boxing Day

Dec 26

Feast of Our Theotokos in Greece

Dec 26

St. Stephen’s Day

Dec 26

Bank Holiday in Canada, Rep. of Ireland, and UK

Dec 26

Day of Goodwill in South Africa

Dec 26

Proclamation Day holiday (SA)

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Dec 21

Benjamin Disraeli born, 1804

Dec 21

Phileas Fogg completes his trip around the world in less than 80 days

Dec 21

Women gain the right to vote in South Australia, 1894

Dec 21

Women gain the right to hold political office in South Australia, 1894

Dec 21

Frank Zappa is born in Baltimore, 1940

Dec 21

Yule (Norse for “wheel”) – Germanic 12-day feast

Dec 21*

Winteranfang

Dec 21*

Winter Solstice

Dec 22

Giacomo Puccini born, 1858

Dec 18

Konrad Zuse died in Hünfeld, 1995. Zuse was an engineer and a pioneer in the computer field. He developed the world’s first functional program-controlled computer, the Z3, in 1941. He also designed the first high-level programming language, Plankaklul in 1948, although the langauge was never implemented during his lifetime. He also founded the first dot-com, before there were dot-coms, in 1946. source

Dec 18

Republic Day in Niger. Niger is a landlocked nation in West Africa (barely … almost Central Africa). The official language is French, and it includes 1.26 million square kilometers of land.

Not all days are spectacular, so I removed the non-English and padded what was left.

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Dec 16

Constitution Day in Nepal

Dec 16

National Day in Bahrain

Dec 16

Victory Day in Bangladesh

Dec 16

Day of Reconciliation in South Africa

Dec 16

Don McLean’s “American Pie” is released, 1971

Dec 16

Ludwig van Beethoven christened in Bonn, Germany, 1770

Dec 16

N’oubliez pas les Alice !

Dec 16

Bonne fête aux Adélaïde !

Dec 16

Aujourd’hui, c’est la St(e) Ã?vrard.

Dec 16

N’oubliez pas les Ã?berhard !

Dec 16

Décembre de froid trop chiche

Ne fait

pas le paysan riche.

Dec 16*

3. oder 4. Advent

Dec 16

Beethoven geboren, 1770

Dec 16

Day of Reconciliation in South Africa

Dec 17

William Safire (Safir) born, 1929

Dec 17

National Day in Bhutan

Dec 17

Bonne fête aux Gaël !

Dec 17

Aujourd’hui, c’est la St(e) Lazare.

Dec 17

N’oubliez pas les Olympe !

Dec 17

Bonne fête aux Olympias !

Dec 17

Aujourd’hui, c’est la St(e) Judicaël.

KDE 4.0 is upon us. I believe it is essentially out there, being tested and messed with, with the final launch etc. happening in a few weeks (mid January).KDE is a Window Manager (no “s” in that Window, please note) for Linux. I’m not big on KDE myself, but my daughter uses it.KDE 4.0, compared with earlier versions, will have more stuff, be flashier, etc. etc. etc. as we would expect. And, it will use about 30% less memory.Oh, and have you heard that Vista Service Release 1.1 is going to reduce the memory load of Windows Vista by 4%? No, you haven’t heard that? Well, of course not, because no one ever said it, and it is never going to happen!!!Oh, wait, did I say KDE was going to have 30% less memory demand? Ooops, I messed up. It’s actually 40% less memory! Imagine that.Details here.

Dec 14

George Washington dies, 1799

Dec 14

Bonne fête aux Odile !

Dec 15

Argo Merchant oil spill, 1976

Dec 15

Bill of Rights adopted, 1791

Dec 15

James Naismith invents basketball, Canada, 1891

Dec 15

Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest, 1890

Dec 15

Statue Day in the Netherlands Antilles

Dec 15

Thomas Edison receives patent on the phonograph, 1877

Dec 15

Aujourd’hui, c’est la St(e) Ninon.

Dec 15

N’oubliez pas les Nina !

Dec 15

Bonne fête aux Christiane !

Dec 15

Aujourd’hui, c’est la St(e) Christina.

Dec 15

Waffenstillstand zwisch RuÃ?land und Deutschland, 1917

Dec 12

E.G. Robinson born, 1893

Dec 12

First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901

Dec 12

Independence Day in Kenya

Dec 12

Debian GNU/Linux 1.2 alias “rex” released, 1996

Dec 12

N’oubliez pas les Chantal !

Dec 12

Nachrüstungsbeschlu� des NATO-Ministerates, 1979

Dec 12

Ð?енÑ? Ð?онсÑ?иÑ?Ñ?Ñ?ии

Dec 13

Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with “last” men to walk on moon aboard, 1972

Dec 13

Dartmouth College chartered, 1769

Dec 13

Geminid meteor shower (look south)

Dec 13

Republic Day in Malta

Dec 13*

Parashat Va-Yishlah

Dec 13

Ted Nugent, the motor city madman, born in Detroit, 1949

Dec 13

Bonne fête aux Lucie !

Dec 13

Aujourd’hui, c’est la St(e) Rolande.

Dec 13

N’oubliez pas les Aurore !

Dec 13

Ã? la sainte Luce,

Le jour

croît du saut d’une puce.

Dec 13

Por orden de Juan Lavalle es fusilado Manuel Dorrego, 1828

Dec 13

Se descubre petróleo en Comodoro Rivadavia (Chubut), 1907