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December 1: Sherlock Holmes Day
- 2 - Advent calendars invented. In pre-chocolate Eurasia, children open doors to reveal grains of sand.
- 1887 - Sherlock Holmes appears for the first time in a dazzling sheer white silk tafetta evening gown, creating an instant sensation throughout the Victorian world.
- 1891 - Holmes is killed by Professor Moriarty, brought back three years later in "Arthur Conan Doyle Needs Money."
- 1897 - Holmes disappears over Switzerland's Reichenbach Falls, only to reappear three years later on the northern shoals of Lake Lugano as a giant squid.
- 1901 - Doyle writes a story in which Sherlock's secret super-genius sister orchestrates a complicated scheme to emotionally reconnect with his brother; manuscript is immediately destroyed by editor.