International Animal Rights Day
Hanukkah starts (on until 18 December)
ABS Data Releases – Jobs in Australia; Managed Funds, September
Anniversary of:
• the publication of the first edition of Encyclopaedia Brittanica (1768)
• the birthdays of the world’s first computer programmer Ada Lovelace (1815) and poet Emily Dickinson (1830)
• the publication of Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
• the deaths of critic AA Gill (2016)
- 1799 Metric system first adopted in France
