Educators' Calendar: United States

November 2020

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1st November

Day of the Dead

Daylight Saving Time Ends

Stamp Act in Effect (1765)

2nd November

North & South Dakota Admission Day (1889)

Harry Truman Elected President (1948)

Jimmy Carter Elected President (1976)

3rd November

National Sandwich Day

First Dog Orbited Earth (1957)

First Black Female Senator Elected (1992)

4th November

First Cash Register Patented (1880)

King Tut's Tomb Discovered (1922)

90 Americans Taken Hostage in Iran (1979)

5th November

First Automobile Patented (1885)

6th November

Abraham Lincoln Elected President (1860)

Jefferson Davis Elected President of Confederacy (1861)

First Intercollegiate Soccer Match (1869)

7th November

Scientist Marie Curie's Birthday (1867)

FDR Won Fourth Presidential Term (1944)

Douglas Wilder First Black Governor (VA) Elected (1989)

Nov. 7-13
Dear Santa Letter Week

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8th November

National STEM/STEAM Day

Montana Admission Day (1889)

Grover Cleveland Elected President (1892)

John F. Kennedy Elected President (1960)

9th November

Astronomer Benjamin Banneker's Birthday (1731)

Kristallnacht Began (1938)

Berlin Wall Opened (1989)

10th November

Sesame Street Premiered on PBS (1969)

Great Wall of China Opened for World Tourism (1970)

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Opened in Washington, DC (1982)

11th November

Pilgrims Signed Mayflower Compact (1620)

12th November

Activist Elizabeth C. Stanton's Birthday (1815)

Joseph Stalin Became Ruler of Soviet Union (1927)

World War II Battle of Guadalcanal Began (1942)

13th November

World Kindness Day

Laws for Segregation on Buses Ended (1956)

Paris Terrorist Attacks (2015)

Nov. 13-19
Transgender Awareness Week

14th November

World Diabetes Day

Artist Claude Monet's Birthday (1840)

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15th November

America Recycles Day

Articles of Confederation Approved (1777)

Largest War Protest Ever (1969)

Nov. 15-21
Geography Awareness Week

16th November

International Day for Tolerance

Oklahoma Statehood Day (1889)

Oodaaq Island Discovered (1978)

Nov. 16-20
American Education Week

17th November

Homemade Bread Day

Take a Hike Day

Queen Elizabeth I Ascended Throne (1558)

Suez Canal Opened in Egypt (1869)

18th November

National Adoption Day

William Tell Shot the Apple (1307)

19th November

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863)

20th November

Universal Children's Day

New Jersey First to Ratify Bill of Rights (1789)

Astronomer Edwin Hubble's Birthday (1889)

21st November

Writer Voltaire's Birthday (1694)

First Hot-Air Balloon Flight (1763)

North Carolina Statehood Day (1789)

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22nd November

Mount St. Helens Erupted (1842)

JFK Assassinated (1963)

23rd November

Cashew Day

Zoom Lens Patented (1948)

24th November

Native American Heritage Day

Buy Nothing Day

National Day of Listening

Pres. Zachary Taylor's Birthday (1784)

Darwin's Origin of the Species Published (1859)

Jack Ruby Shot Lee Harvey Oswald (1963)

25th November

Athlete Joe DiMaggio's Birthday (1914)

26th November

Thanksgiving

First Thanksgiving Day (1789)

Cartoonist Charles Schulz's Birthday (1922)

27th November

Astronomer Anders Celsius's Birthday (1701)

Nobel Prize Established (1895)

28th November

Ferdinand Magellan Passed through Magellan Strait (1520)

Ka Lahui (Independence Day, Hawaii) (1843)

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29th November

Author Louisa May Alcott's Birthday (1832)

Jewish Homeland Established in Palestine (1947)

30th November

Author Mark Twain's Birthday (1835)

Politician Winston Churchill's Birthday (1874)

1st December

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Month-Long Holidays and Events

International Drum Month

Aviation History Month

Peanut Butter Lovers' Month

Diabetes Month

National Native American Heritage Month