MONTH-LONG
⚫ Black December
Anarchist symbolic-action period; historically associated with vandalism and property damage.
EARLY DECEMBER
December 1
- 🔵 World AIDS Day
- ⚫ 1955 – Arrest of Rosa Parks (civil-rights flashpoint used symbolically by extremist groups)
December 2
- 🔵 International Day for the Abolition of Slavery
- 🔴 2015 – San Bernardino Attack (terrorist mass shooting)
December 6
- 🔵 Saint Nicholas Day (Christian observance)
December 7 – Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
- ⚫ 1941 – Pearl Harbor Attack
- 🔴 2017 – Aztec High School Shooting (assailant posed as student)
MID-DECEMBER
December 8
- 🔵 Feast of the Immaculate Conception
- 🔵 Bodhi Day
- 🔴 1984 – Neo-Nazi Robert Jay Matthews Shootout (The Order)
December 9
- 🔴 2007 – YWAM & New Life Church Attacks (4 killed, 5 injured)
- ⚫ 1987 – Start of the First Palestinian Intifada
December 10
- 🔴 2019 – Jersey City Kosher Market Attack
- 🔴 1994 – Unabomber IED Attack (New Jersey)
December 11
- 🔴 2018 – Strasbourg Christmas Market Attack
- 🔴 2017 – NYC Subway IED Attempt (ISIS-inspired)
- 🔴 1985 – Unabomber Homicide (Sacramento)
December 13
- ⚫ 2003 – Capture of Saddam Hussein
December 14–22 – Hanukkah
- 🔵 Hanukkah Observance (Jewish)
- December 14: 🔴 2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School Attack
December 18
- 🔵 International Migrants Day
December 19
- 🔴 2016 – Berlin Christmas Market Vehicle-Ramming Attack
December 20–21
- ⚫ 2018 – Coordinated Anarchist ATM Vandalism (Philadelphia)
LATE DECEMBER & HOLIDAY PERIOD
December 22
- 🔴 2001 – Richard Reid Shoe-Bomb Attempt
December 24 – Christmas Eve
- 🔵 Christian Observance
- ⚫ 1865 – Founding of the Ku Klux Klan
December 25 – Christmas Day
- 🔵 Christian Observance
- 🔴 2020 – Nashville VBIED Detonation (communications infrastructure targeted)
December 26 – January 1 – Kwanzaa
- 🔵 Cultural Observance
December 28
- 🔴 2019 – Monsey Hanukkah Stabbing Attack
December 31 – New Year’s Eve
- 🔵 Global Observance
- 🔴 2020 – Anarchist Courthouse Vandalism (Molotovs recovered)