December 9th - Holidays and Observances

 

(click on the day for details)

• Anna's Day, marks the day to start the preparation process of the lutefisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve, as well as a Swedish name day, celebrating all people named Anna. (Sweden and Finland)
• Armed Forces Day (Peru)
• Christian feast day:
  • Feast of the Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by St. Anne (Eastern Orthodox Church)
  • Juan Diego
  • Leocadia
  • Nectarius of Auvergne
  • Peter Fourier
  • December 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Fatherland's Heroes Day (Russia)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Tanganyika from Britain in 1961. (Tanzania)
• International Anti-Corruption Day (United Nations)^[22]
• National Heroes Day, formerly V.C. Bird Day. (Antigua and Barbuda)
• Navy Day (Sri Lanka)

 

Observances (click on the day or week for details)

National Pastry Day

World Techno Day

International Day of Veterinary Medicine

 

Fun Observances

Christmas Card Day

Christmas is just a few weeks away, and if you haven’t sent out your greeting cards, make sure you do it on December 9 because it is Christmas Card Day.

How to Celebrate?

• Send out your holiday and Christmas cards.
• Make your own cards – your recipients will appreciate a handmade card.
• If you don’t have time to send in physical cards, what about sending e-cards?
• Don’t celebrate Christmas or the holidays? Why not send out New Year cards instead?

Did You Know…

…that the first Christmas cards were sent in 1843 and were commissioned in London, United Kingdom by Sir Henry Cole. John Callcott Horsley illustrated the card, which featured the members of a family.

 

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From the police blotter, 
or, what a beat cop deals with 
every day:

• A deputy responded to a report 
of a vehicle stopping at mailboxes. 
It was the mail carrier.

• A woman said her son was 
attacked by a cat, and the cat would not allow her to take her son to the hospital.

• A resident said someone had 
entered his home at night and taken five pounds of bacon. Upon further investigation, police discovered 
his wife had gotten up for a late-night snack.

• A man reported that a squirrel 
was running in circles on Davis Drive, and he wasn’t sure if it was sick or had been hit by a car. An 
officer responded, and as he drove on the street, he ran over the squirrel.

 

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My sister didn’t do as well on her driver’s-ed test as she’d hoped. 
It might have had something to 
do with how she completed this 
sentence:

“When the ______ is dead, the car won’t start.”

She wrote: “Driver.”

 

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A friend of mine works at a tattoo shop. A client walked in and got a sentence tattooed on his back. A few hours later, the customer called, 
demanding a refund.

Client: You did my tattoo backward!

Tattoo artist: It’s backward?

Client: Yes! I’m looking at it in the mirror right now!

 

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