Educators' Calendar: United Kingdom

November 2020

1st November

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2nd November

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3rd November

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4th November

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5th November

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6th November

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7th November

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1st November

'Day of the Dead/All Saints'' Day'

World Vegan Day

Stamp Act in Effect (1765)

Nov. 1-7
Dyslexia Awareness Week

Nov. 1-7
National Adoption Week

2nd November

Balfour Declaration in Support of Jewish National Homeland in Palestine (1917)

3rd November

First Dog Orbited Earth (1957)

Queen Opened First North Sea Oil Pipeline (1975)

4th November

Poet Wilfred Owen Killed (1918)

'King Tut''s Tomb Discovered' (1922)

5th November

Guy Fawkes Night (1605)

6th November

End of Battle of Passchendaele (WWI) (1917)

7th November

Last Public Hanging in Britain (1783)

Chemist Marie Curie Born (1867)

Mary Celeste Set Sail from New York (1872)

8th November

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10th November

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11th November

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12th November

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13th November

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14th November

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8th November

Wilhelm Röntgen Discovered X-Rays (1895)

Alleged Yeti Tracks Discovered (1951)

9th November

Kristallnacht Began (1938)

Act Banning Capital Punishment Enacted in Britain (1965)

Berlin Wall Opened (1989)

10th November

Theologian Martin Luther Born (1483)

Great Wall of China Opened for World Tourism (1970)

11th November

First Supernova Discovered (1572)

Pilgrims Signed Mayflower Compact (1620)

WWI Armistice Signed (1918)

Church of England Voted to Allow Women Priests (1992)

12th November

Joseph Stalin Became Ruler of Soviet Union (1927)

World War II Battle of Guadalcanal Began (1942)

13th November

'St. Brice''s Day Massacre' (1002)

Writer Robert Louis Stevenson Born (1850)

14th November

World Diabetes Day

Artist Claude Monet Born (1840)

15th November

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19th November

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20th November

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21st November

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15th November

Germany Bombed Coventry to Destruction (1940)

Anglo-Irish Agreement Signed (1985)

16th November

World Philosophy Day

International Day for Tolerance

Oodaaq Island Discovered (1978)

17th November

Queen Elizabeth I Ascended Throne (1558)

Suez Canal Opened in Egypt (1869)

18th November

'William Tell Shot Apple from Son''s Head' (1307)

End of the Battle of the Somme (1916)

Mickey Mouse Debuted (1928)

19th November

Abraham Lincoln Delivered the Gettysburg Address (1863)

Politician Indira Gandhi Born (1917)

20th November

Astronomer Edwin Hubble Born (1889)

Nuremberg Trial of Nazi Leaders Began (1945)

21st November

World Television Day

World Hello Day

First Hot-Air Balloon Flight (1763)

22nd November

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23rd November

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22nd November

Cutty Sark Launched on the River Clyde (1869)

President John F. Kennedy Shot Dead (1965)

23rd November

Dr. Who Broadcast for the First Time (1963)

24th November

'Abel Tasman Discovered Van Diemen''s Land – Later Renamed Tasmania' (1642)

'Darwin''s Origin of the Species Published' (1859)

25th November

International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women

Engineer Karl Benz Born (1844)

26th November

U.S. Thanksgiving Day

Footballer Danny Welbeck Born (1990)

27th November

Astronomer Anders Celsius Born (1701)

Nobel Prize Established (1895)

28th November

Poet William Blake Born (1757)

Lady Astor Became First Woman in British Parliament (1919)

Margaret Thatcher Resigned as Prime Minister (1990)

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1st December

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29th November

Novelist Louisa May Alcott Born (1832)

Novelist C.S. Lewis Born (1898)

Jewish Homeland Established in Palestine (1947)

Beatles Released I Want to Hold Your Hand (1963)

30th November

'St. Andrew''s Day'

First International Football Match (England v. Scotland) (1872)

Politician Winston Churchill Born (1874)

Barbados Independent of Great Britain (1966)

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2nd December

3rd December

4th December

5th December

Month-Long Holidays and Events

World AIDS Month