| November
1 |
Dr.
Bernard Kouchner
born in France, 1939
Philip
Noel-Baker born
in England, 1889
Carlos
Saavedra Lamas born
in Argentina, 1878
World
Vegan Day
National
Holiday of Algeria, Antigua
& Barbuda
|
| November
2 |
UNESCO saved
Abu Simbel and other 5,000-year-old
temples of Egypt, 1980
U.S.
President Ronald Reagan
signed bill establishing
Martin Luther King Day
as a Federal holiday,
1983.
|
| November
3 |
Lynn
Woolsey born in
Washington, 1937
Culture
Day (Japan)
National
Holiday of Dominica, Micronesia,
Panama
|
| November
4 |
World
Community Day (www.CommunityDay.us)
Joseph
Rotblat born in
Warsaw, Poland, 1908
Will
Rogers born in
Oklahoma, 1879
United
Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) founded, Paris
1946
|
| November
5 |
Eugene
V. Debs born in
Indiana, 1855
Vandana
Shiva born in
India, 1952
|
| November
6 |
*International
Day for Preventing the
Exploitation of the Environment
in War and Armed Conflict
(www.PeaceCalendar.net/november6.htm)
UN
General Assembly urged
comprehensive nuclear
test ban, 1962
|
| November
7 |
DAY
OF SOLIDARITY OF UN STAFF
WITH DETAINED COLLEAGUES |
| November
8 |
Dorothy
Day born in Brooklyn,
N.Y., 1897
Edward
Goldsmith born
in France, 1928
Bonnie
Raitt born in
California, 1949
|
| November
9 |
Benjamin
Banneker born
in Maryland, 1731
National
Holiday of Cambodia
UN
Relief and Reconstruction
Agency (UNRRA), first
UN organization, founded
in Washington, 1943
National
Child Safety Council founded,
1955
Berlin
Wall opened after 28 years
of dividing East and West
Berlin, 1989
|
| November
10 |
International
Whaling Treaty in effect
1948 |
| November
11 |
Leonardo
DiCaprio born
in California, 1974
Barbara
Boxer born in
New York, 1940
National
Holiday of Angola
*INTERNATIONAL
WEEK OF SCIENCE AND PEACE
World
War 1 ended at 11am, 1918
|
| November
12 |
Elizabeth
Cady Stanton born
in Johnston, New York, 1815 |
| November
13 |
World
Kindness Day (www.KindnessDay.net)
Whoopi
Goldberg was
born in New York, 1955
|
| November
14 |
Boutros
Boutros-Ghali
born in Cairo, Egypt 1922
Astrid
Lindgren born
in Vimmerby, Sweden, 1907
Jawaharlal
Nehru born in
India, 1889
|
| November
15 |
Recycling
Day - www.RecyclingDay.net
Louis
Freeland Post
born in New Jersey, 1849
Ed
Asner born in
Kansas, 1929
|
| November
16 |
*International
Day for Tolerance - www.ToleranceDay.com
Constitution
adopted by UN Educational,
Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO)
Paris 1945
|
| November
17 |
World
Peace Day - www.peaceday.org
Grace
Abbott born in
Nebraska, 1878
Yolanda
King born in Alabama,
1955
UN
resolution recommending
teaching about UN in schools,
1947
|
| November
18 |
Prematurity
Awareness Day
South
Africa adopted a new constitution
granting civil rights
to blacks
National
Holiday of Latvia, Oman
|
| November
19 |
National
Holiday of Monaco
172
New Jersey suffragists
attempted to vote in presidential
election to test new 14th
Amendment, 1868
UN
Emblem of globe in olive
branch adopted by General
Assembly 1946
Cold
War officially ended at
Summit in Paris to reduce
nuclear weapons, 1990
Ted
Turner born in
Ohio, 1938
|
| November
20 |
*Africa
Industrialisation Day
(www.PeaceCalendar.net/november20.htm)
*Universal
Children's Day - www.ChildrensRightsDay.com
Robert
F. Kennedy born
in Massachusetts, 1925
New
Jersey became the first
state to ratify the Bill
of Rights, 1789
|
| November
21 |
*World
Television Day
(www.PeaceCalendar.net/november21.htm)
George
Fox
and fellow Quakers present
their Peace Testimony
to King Charles II of
England, 1660
National
Holiday of Bosnia and
Herzegovina
|
| November
22 |
National
Holiday of Lebanon
UN
Development Programme (UNDP)
set up, Paul Hoffman the
first director 1965 |
| November
23 |
UNESCO
World Heritage Treaty
to preserve major human-made
and natural works of art
was signed, 1972
Karl
Hjalmar Branting
born in Sweden, 1860
|
| November
24 |
Baruch
Spinoza born in Holland,
1632
Arundhati
Roy born in India,
1961
|
| November
25 |
*International
Day for the Elimination
of Violence Against Women
(www.PeaceCalendar.net/november25.htm)
National
Holiday of Suriname
|
| November
26 |
Buy
Nothing Day - www.BuyNothingDayInfo.com
Adolfo
Pérez Esquivel
was born in Argentina,
1931
UN
Resolution against Capital
Punishment 1968
|
| November
27 |
Alfred
Nobel signed his will
setting aside his estate
to create the Nobel Prize
after his death, 1895
First
session of Commission
on Narcotic Drugs began
in Geneva, 1946
|
| November
28 |
National
Holiday of Mauritania, Albania
First
World Biodiversity Conference,
Nassau, Bahamas 1994 |
| November
29 |
Wendell
Phillips born
in Massachusetts, 1811
Elias
Chacour born in Upper
Galilee, 1939
Petra
Kelly born in
Germany, 1947
|
| November
30 |
Mark
Twain (Samuel
Clemens) born
in Missouri, 1835
Shirley
Chisholm born
in New York, 1924
National
Holiday of Barbados
First
UN Resolution on Antarctica
to demilitarize the area
1953
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