Also on this day...
Hanukkah begins at sundown, and ends at nightfall on December 20
National Ding-a-ling Day
Poinsettia Day
Gingerbread House Day
Gustave Flaubert was born in 1821, and Edvard Munch was born in 1863. Frank Sinatra was born in 1915, and Bob Barker was born in 1923.