A bad month for grinches, December is mostly all about Xmas. It’s hot, social, and festive. But there’s more to this month than you’d think. Take a look at our long list of notable and national days in December…
National Days and Days That Matter During December:
Days that vary in date each year will have the relevant year next to them.
| 01 December | World Aids Day |
| 02 December | International Day for the Abolition of Slavery |
| 03 December | International Day of Persons with Disabilities |
| Eureka Stockade Took Place in 1854 | |
| 04 December | International Cookie Day |
| 05 December | International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development |
| The first “Woolies” supermarket opens in the Imperial Arcade in Sydney in 1924 | |
| World Soil Day | |
| 06 December | St. Nicholas Day |
| 07 December | International Civil Aviation Day |
| 08 December | Geelong, Victoria, is declared a city in 1910 |
| 09 December | Pastor “Doug” Nicholls, of the Yorta Yorta people, and Governor of South Australia, was born in 1906 |
| 10 December | Human Rights Day |
| 11 December | International Mountain Day |
| 12 December | International Universal Health Coverage Day |
| 13 December | Melbourne’s Spencer Street Station was officially renamed Southern Cross Station in 2005 |
| 14 December | Monkey Day! |
| 15 December | Women in Queensland were given the right to vote in state elections in 1905 |
| 16 December | Aboriginal Land Rights Act passed in the Northern Territory in 1976 |
| In 1947, the reconstructed Regent Theatre in Melbourne reopened after it was destroyed by fire in 1945 | |
| 17 December | In 1967, Prime Minister Harold Holt went swimming at Point Nepean and was never seen again |
| 18 December | International Migrants Day |
| Arabic Language Day | |
| 19 December | Perth was linked by telephone to the rest of Australia in 1930 |
| 20 December | International Human Solidarity Day |
| 21 December | In 1938, a direct radio-telephone link was established between Canberra and Washington, D.C. |
| 22 December | Susan Grace Benny became the first Australian woman elected to a local government in 1919 |
| 23 December | In 1983, Australia recored its first death from HIV/AIDS |
| Festivus! | |
| 24 December | Christmas Eve |
| 25 December | Christmas Day |
| 26 December | Boxing Day |
| Proclamation Day | |
| 27 December | Proclamation Day Holiday (South Australia only) |
| 28 December | In 1989, Newcastle was the epicentre of a significant earthquake |
| 29 December | The Jazz Singer became the first sound film screened in Australia in 1928 |
| 30 December | In 1938, Daisy Bates book The Passing of the Aborigines was published. |
| 31 December | New Years Eve |
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All The Days is your authoritative source for commemorative, fun, unusual and national days around Australia. We create really interesting guides to national days that are inclusive, fun and relevant to Australia. We also list the school holidays and public holidays around the country by state, so you can be really savvy when planning ahead.
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