National Game & Puzzle Week*
(Thanksgiving week)
NOVEMBER CALENDAR |
1 All Saints' Day Day of the Dead (Mexico) National Authors' Day National Family Literacy Day President First Occupies the White House (1800)
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2 All Souls Day Daniel Boone's Birthday (1734) First Scheduled Radio Broadcast (1920) International Space Station Inhabited (2000)
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3 Japan Culture Day Panama Independence Day (1903)
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4 Mischief Night (UK) Italy Victory Day (1918)
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5 Guy Fawkes Day (UK)
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6 Saxophone Day Adolphe Sax's Birthday (1814) John Philip Sousa's Birthday (1854)
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7 Marie Curie's Birthday (1867) Republican Symbol's Anniversary (1874)
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8 Cortes Conquers Mexico (1519) National Parents as Teachers Day X-Ray Discovery Day (1895)
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9 Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
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10 Marine Corps Anniversary (1775) Microsoft Windows First Released (1983)
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11 Veterans Day
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12 Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Birthday (1815)
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13 Robert Louis Stevenson's Birthday (1850) Sadie Hawkins Day
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14 National American Teddy Bear Day
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15 America Recycles Day
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16 Lewis & Clark Expedition Reaches Pacific Ocean (1805) International Day for Tolerance
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17 American Education Week* (the week preceding Thanksgiving week)
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18 Mickey Mouse's Birthday (1928)
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19 Gettysburg Address Anniversary (1863)
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20 First International Space Station Module Launched by Russia (1998) Universal Children's Day
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21 Great American Smokeout* Cold War Formally Ended (1990) World Hello Day
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22 National Children's Book Week* John F. Kennedy Assassinated (1963) U.S. Department of Homeland Security Created (2002)
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23 National Farm-City Week* Billy the Kid's Birthday (1859)
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24 National Adoption Week*
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25 Shopping Reminder Day (only one month till Christmas!)
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26 Thanksgiving is First U.S. Holiday by Presidential Proclamation (1789)
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27 Black Friday* (Friday after Thanksgiving)
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28 Buy Nothing Day* (a celebration of simplicity with a 24-hour moratorium on consumer spending) John Bunyan's Birthday (1628)
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29 Louisa May Alcott's Birthday (1832) C.S. Lewis' Birthday (1898)
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30 Mark Twain's Birthday (1835) Cyber Monday* (Monday after Thanksgiving)
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