November
The month of November celebrates these events:
AVIATION HISTORY MONTH
INTERNATIONAL DRUM MONTH
NATIONAL PEANUT BUTTER LOVERS MONTH
November 5-9 is Dear Santa Letter Week
November 14-20 is American Education Week
November 15-21 is National Children's Book Week
November 23rd-29th is National Geography Awareness Week
November 23rd-29th is National Leftover Awareness Week
November 21st-27th is National Game and Puzzle Week
November 21st-28th is National Bible Week
1st New York City Marathon
2nd Daniel Boone's Birthday
2nd Election Day
2nd National Deviled Egg Day
3rd Housewife's Day
3rd Frozen peas were first marketed
3rd Sandwich Day, in honor of gambler John Montagu,
Fourth Earl of Sandwich, who ate sandwiches to save time.
5th National Doughnut Day
5th National Gunpowder Day
6th Saxophone Day
6th James Naismith's Birthday, inventor of the basketball
7th Symbol for the Republican Party (the elephant) first appeared (1874)
8th Edmund Halley, astronomer/mathematician, who discovered Halley's
Comet (born in 1656)
8th Dunce Day
9th Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Day (unveiled in 1984)
9th Lost Sock Memorial Day
9th Astronomy Day
9th National Young Readers Day
10th Sesame Street had it first episode in 1969
10th U.S. Marine Corps Day (founded in 1775)
10th Forget-Me-Not Day
11th Veterans Day
11th Air Day
11th "God Bless America", written by Irving Berlin, first performed in 1938
by Kate Smith
12th William "Fudge" Heffelfinder became first professional football player (1892)
12th Elizabeth Cady Stanton, champion of women's rights (born in 1815)
12th National Pizza With the Works Day
13th National Indian Pudding Day
14th Operation Room Nurse Day
14th Nelly Bly ( a fake name used by newspaper reporter Elizabeth Cochrane
Seaman) started around the world
14th National American Teddy Bear Day
14th Georgia O'Keefe's Birthday (artist)
15th National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day
15th Remembrance Day
16th Button Day
16th Animal Day
16th Love a Tree Day
17th Opening of the Suez Canal (1869)
17th Take a Hike Day
17th Homemade Bread Day
17th National Farm Joke Day
18th Birth of Mickey Mouse (1928)
18th In 1993, South Africa adopted a new constitution; basic rights given to
black people.
18th Birthday of the Teddy Bear (1902)
19th Have A Bad Day Day
19th Indira Ghandi Day
20th Astronomer, Edwin Hubble, was born in 1889 (Hubble Space Telescope
is named for him)
21st National Stop the Violence Day
21st World Hello Day
21st President John F. Kennedy assassinated (1963)
22nd Start of the National Hockey League (1917)
23rd National Cashew Day
24th What do you Love about America Day?
24th Scott Joplin's Birthday (pianist and composer)
25th Andrew Carnegie's Birthday (businessman) (born in 1835)
25th National Parfait Day
26th Buy Nothing Day
26th What Do you Love About America Day
27th Black Friday, heavy shopping day, making a profit
27th Pins and Needles Day
27th Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer and inventor (born in 1701)
invented the thermometer and Celsius scale
29th Square Dance Day
30th Birth Anniversary of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)(1835-1910)
30th Stay at Home Because You're Well Day
Many thanks to RT 66 Elementary in Edgewood, New Mexico for their
contributions to this month's calendar !!
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