• December starts on the same day of the week as September every year and ends on the same day of the week as April every year.
• The name December originates from the Latin word decem, which means ten. December was the tenth month of the year in the Roman calendar.
•  On December 3, 1967, the first heart transplant was completed.
• The Observer, a British newspaper, was first published in December.
• The American Bill of Right was passed in December.
• In some culture, December 28th is considered to be the unluckiest day of the year.
• The first artificial Christmas tree was made in Germany, fashioned out of goose feathers that are dyed green!
• Spiders and spider webs are considered good luck on Christmas.
• “Jingle bells” was composed in 1857, and not for Christmas – it was meant to be a Thanksgiving song!
• An almanac prediction states that if snow falls on Christmas Day, Easter will be warm, green and sunny. December often marks the beginning of rain, snow, and cold weather.
• The first day of winter is on either December 21 or 22. This is the shortest day of the year and the longest night. It is called the winter or Southern solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.
• World’s AIDS Day is celebrated on December 1st.
• On 10th December, Nobel Prizes are awarded.
• On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers made their first flight.
• 31st December is the last day of the year. It is New Year’s Eve. Many people see the old year out with a party, welcoming in the New Year with toasts of champagne, and exchanging good wishes for a ‘Happy New Year’.
• The hugs are meant to be  a random act of kindness, a selfless act performed just to make others feel better. This year’s International Free Hugs Day is celebrated on Dec 4.
• Forefathers’ Day is a holiday celebrated in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on December 22. It is a commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on December 21, 1620. It was introduced in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1769.
• The stock market tends to do better in December than any other month. This has been put down to something called the ‘Santa rally’.
• December is the month when couples argue the most.

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• Nobel prizes are given in accordance with the will of Swedish inventor of dynamite, Alfred Nobel.
• The first Nobel Prize was awarded in the year 1901
• The Nobel Prize award ceremonies are held on December 10 every year, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s
• death in 1896.
• All the Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden except for the Nobel Peace Prize which is awarded
• in Oslo, Norway.
• The Nobel Prizes were initially given in FIVE fields viz. Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Peace and
• Literature.
• Nobel Prize in the field of Economic Sciences was instituted in the year 1969.

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•  The first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize – Marie Curie for Physics in 1903.
• The first person and only woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in two different fields – Marie Curie for Physics in 1903 and for Chemistry in 1911
• The first man to be awarded the Nobel Prize in two different fields – Linus Pauling for Chemistry in 1954 and for Peace in 1962.
• The first Asian (also first Indian) to be awarded the Nobel Prize – Rabindranath Tagore for literature in 1913.
• The first African woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize – Wangari Maathai from Kenya for peace in 2004
• The first person to be awarded, Nobel Prize in the field of Physics – Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen in 1901 for his
  the discovery of X-rays.
• The first person to be awarded Nobel Prize in the field of Literature in the English language – Rudyard Kipling (of Jungle Book fame) in 1907.
• The first person to be awarded, Nobel Prize for Peace – Jean Henry Dunant, founder of International Red Cross in 1901, jointly with Frédéric Passy, Founder and President of first French peace society.
• The first woman to be awarded, Nobel Prize for Peace – Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicita von Suttner of Austria in 1905
• The youngest person to be awarded the Nobel Prize Malala Yousafzai – for Peace in 2014 (at the age of 17 years)
• The only organisation to be awarded the Nobel Prize thrice International Committee of the Red Cross – 1917, 1944 and 1963.

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