It is:
Chanukah / Festival of Lights (Night 3)
Feast of the Radishes (Oaxaca, Mexico)
Queen's Birthday(Sweden)
Suez Victory Day (Egypt)
Tenno Tanjobi / Emperor's Birthday (Japan)
Festivus
Las Posadas (day 8)
On this date in history:
1783 George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the Army and retired to his home at Mount Vernon, Va.
1788 Maryland voted to cede a 100-square-mile area for the seat of the national government; about two-thirds of the area became the District of Columbia.
1823 The poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore was first published, in the Troy (N.Y.) Sentinel.
1867, Sarah Breedlove Walker, the American businesswoman and philanthropist considered to be the first black female millionaire , was born.
1871, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1941 American forces on Wake Island surrendered to the Japanese during World War II.
1948 Former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war leaders were executed in Tokyo.
1968 Eighty-two crew members of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo were released by North Korea, 11 months after they had been captured.
1972 The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Oakland Raiders 13-7 in an NFL playoff game on a last-second touchdown catch by Franco Harris that was dubbed the "immaculate reception."
1986, the experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, completed the first non-stop, around-the-world flight without refueling as it landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
1995 A fire in Dabwali, India, killed 540 people, including 170 children, during a year-end party being held near the children's school.
1997 A jury in Denver convicted Terry Nichols of involuntary manslaughter and conspiracy for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2003 The government announced the first suspected case of mad cow disease in United States.
2003 A jury in Chesapeake, Va., sentenced teen sniper Lee Boyd Malvo to life in prison, sparing him the death penalty.
2003 New York Gov. George Pataki pardoned the late comedian Lenny Bruce for his 1964 obscenity conviction.
2004 Former Connecticut Gov. John G. Rowland pleaded guilty to a corruption charge. (He was later sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison.)
But to me it's just day 4 locked in the insane asylum with my children!
