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What is celebrated on December 8?

See the observances and verified observance-history milestones attached to December 8. Each observance keeps its own source and date details.

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2023
Institutional decision

World Cleanup Day

The UN Digital Library records A/RES/78/122 as adopted without a vote on 8 December 2023.

2018
First observance

National Lard Day

A December 8, 2018 account linked from HFC’s own press index calls that edition the first annual National Lard Day; HFC’s later fifth- and sixth-annual counts align with that chro…

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6 observances

Each observance is shown once in this view, with its own source and scope details available on the guide page.

0 repeat predictably

0 use a fixed annual date and 0 follow a reusable calendar rule.

0 are edition-specific

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5 have a country-specific scope

Country-specific observances are not presented as worldwide events.

6 have in-depth guides

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Other in-depth guides on December 8

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Constitution Day

8 December · Uzbekistan

The Government of Uzbekistan identifies 8 December as Constitution Day and states that it is a national public holiday.

Source-backedFixed AnnualIn-depth guide

Día de la Madre

8 December · Panama / current national observance

Panama’s Ministry of Government currently observes Día de las Madres on 8 December. The historical 1930 Law 69 that declared the date a holiday is recorded by Infojurídica as repealed by La…

Source-backedFixed AnnualIn-depth guide

Día de la Virgen de Caacupé

8 December · Paraguay / national holiday

Paraguayan law, tourism/culture authorities and Catholic institutional sources verify December 8 as the recurring national holiday and major Caacupé Marian pilgrimage festival; current stat…

Source-backedFixed AnnualIn-depth guide

National Lard Day

8 December · United States / informal Healthy Fats Coalition-created culinary awareness campaign

Healthy Fats Coalition calls National Lard Day its brainchild and repeatedly marks December 8; its own press index links a December 8, 2018 supporter article describing the first annual obs…

Source-backedFixed AnnualIn-depth guide

Saint Clement of Ohrid Day

8 December annually · North Macedonia / public-holiday and cultural context

North Macedonia’s Law on Holidays lists 8 December, St. Clement of Ohrid, among state holidays and provides non-working-day treatment for the state-holiday list. Government tourism material…

Source-backedFixed AnnualIn-depth guide

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

8 December annually in the Roman Catholic calendar · Catholic Church / Roman liturgical calendar; civil-holiday rules remain jurisdiction-specific

Vatican sources identify December 8 as the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, trace medieval devotion, state that Clement XI established the feast for the whole Church in 1708, and pub…

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6 observances

All observances on this date

Source-backedFixed AnnualIn-depth guide

Constitution Day

8 December · Uzbekistan

The Government of Uzbekistan identifies 8 December as Constitution Day and states that it is a national public holiday.

Source-backedFixed AnnualIn-depth guide

Día de la Madre

8 December · Panama / current national observance

Panama’s Ministry of Government currently observes Día de las Madres on 8 December. The historical 1930 Law 69 that declared the date a holiday is recorded by Infojurídica as repealed by La…

Source-backedFixed AnnualIn-depth guide

Día de la Virgen de Caacupé

8 December · Paraguay / national holiday

Paraguayan law, tourism/culture authorities and Catholic institutional sources verify December 8 as the recurring national holiday and major Caacupé Marian pilgrimage festival; current stat…

Source-backedFixed AnnualIn-depth guide

National Lard Day

8 December · United States / informal Healthy Fats Coalition-created culinary awareness campaign

Healthy Fats Coalition calls National Lard Day its brainchild and repeatedly marks December 8; its own press index links a December 8, 2018 supporter article describing the first annual obs…

Source-backedFixed AnnualIn-depth guide

Saint Clement of Ohrid Day

8 December annually · North Macedonia / public-holiday and cultural context

North Macedonia’s Law on Holidays lists 8 December, St. Clement of Ohrid, among state holidays and provides non-working-day treatment for the state-holiday list. Government tourism material…

Source-backedFixed AnnualIn-depth guide

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary

8 December annually in the Roman Catholic calendar · Catholic Church / Roman liturgical calendar; civil-holiday rules remain jurisdiction-specific

Vatican sources identify December 8 as the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, trace medieval devotion, state that Clement XI established the feast for the whole Church in 1708, and pub…

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