November 2013 Educators' Calendar

Day of the Dead

Stamp Act in Effect (1765)

North & South Dakota Admission Day (1889)

Harry Truman Elected President (1948)

Jimmy Carter Elected President (1976)

National Sandwich Day

First Dog Orbited Earth (1957)

First Black Female Senator Elected (1992)

Daylight Saving Time Ends

First Cash Register Patented (1880)

King Tut's Tomb Discovered (1922)

90 Americans Taken Hostage in Iran (1979)

First Automobile Patented (1885)

Pres. Franklin Roosevelt Won Third Term (1940)

Election Day

Abraham Lincoln Elected President (1860)

Jefferson Davis Elected President of Confederacy (1861)

First Intercollegiate Soccer Match (1869)

Scientist Marie Curie's Birthday (1867)

FDR Won Fourth Presidential Term (1944)

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

Montana Admission Day (1889)

Grover Cleveland Elected President (1892)

John F. Kennedy Elected President (1960)

Astronomer Benjamin Banneker's Birthday (1731)

Kristallnacht Began (1938)

Berlin Wall Opened (1989)

Sesame Street Premiered on PBS (1969)

Great Wall of China Opened for World Tourism (1970)

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Opened in Washington, DC (1982)

Veterans Day

Pilgrims Signed Mayflower Compact (1620)

American Education Week

Geography Awareness Week

Elizabeth C. Stanton's Birthday (1815)

Joseph Stalin Became Ruler of Soviet Union (1927)

World War II Battle of Guadalcanal Began (1942)

World Kindness Day

Laws for Segregation on Buses Ended (1956)

Claude Monet's Birthday (1840)

America Recycles Day

Articles of Confederation Approved (1777)

Largest War Protest Ever (1969)

International Day for Tolerance

Oklahoma Statehood Day (1889)

Oodaaq Island Discovered (1978)

Homemade Bread Day

Queen Elizabeth I Ascended Throne (1558)

Suez Canal Opened in Egypt (1869)

William Tell Shot the Apple (1307)

Same-sex Marriage Guaranteed in Massachusetts (2004)

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863)

New Jersey First to Ratify Bill of Rights (1789)

Edwin Hubble's Birthday (1889)

Voltaire's Birthday (1694)

First Hot-Air Balloon Flight (1763)

North Carolina Statehood Day (1789)

Thanksgiving

Mount St. Helens Erupted (1842)

JFK Assassinated (1963)

Buy Nothing Day

Cashew Day

Zoom Lens Patented (1948)

Ashura

Pres. Zachary Taylor's Birthday (1784)

Darwin's Origin of the Species Published (1859)

Jack Ruby Shot Lee Harvey Oswald (1963)

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Founded (1758)

Wind-Up Car Patented (1881)

Baseball Star Joe DiMaggio's Birthday (1914)

First Thanksgiving Day (1789)

Charles Schulz's Birthday (1922)

Anders Celsius's Birthday (1701)

Nobel Prize Established (1895)

Explorer Ferdinand Magellan Passed through Magellan Strait (1520)

Ka Lahui (Independence Day, Hawaii) (1843)

Louisa May Alcott's Birthday (1832)

Jewish Homeland Established in Palestine (1947)

Mark Twain's Birthday (1835)

Winston Churchill's Birthday (1874)