Holidays Calendar for November 2, 2024
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Poland,
Angola,
Belgium,
Bolivia,
Brazil,
Guyana,
Guam,
Haiti,
Macau,
Nicaragua,
San Marino,
Uruguay,
Ecuador,
El Salvador,
French Guiana,
Mexico
All Souls' Day in Western Christianity
All Souls' Day, also known as Feast of All Souls, is a day of prayer for the departed. It is celebrated the next day after All Saints' Day each year. In Western Christianity the celebration is held on November 2.
All Saints' Day (Feast of All Saints) in Europe is celebrated on November 1, but Sweden and Finland have chosen another date to celebrate the holiday. All Saints' Day in Sweden and Finland is celebrated on Saturday between October 31 and November 6.
Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) is a two-day holiday celebrated in Mexico and regions with large Hispanic population on November 1 and 2. It coincides two Christian holidays, All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day. However, Mexican Day of the Dead also has many traditions that originated in pre-Christian times.
Arrival of Indentured Laborers Day, also known as Indian Arrival Day, is a public holiday celebrated on November 2 in Mauritius. It commemorates the arrival of Indian laborers in Mauritius in 1834.
National Pride Day is one of the public holidays in Mongolia. It was established in 2012 and its date of celebration annually falls on the first day of the first winter month of the Mongolian calendar.
Numbats may be less known among the general public than other marsupials, but it doesn’t mean that they they don’t deserve our attention and protection. World Numbat Day, celebrated annually on the first Saturday of November, was created to raise awareness of the endangered status of numbats and promote numbat conservation.
World Mankousheh Day is celebrated annually on November 2. It was created to honor an iconic dish of Levantine cuisine that is especially popular in Lebanon, as well is neighboring countries and centers of the Lebanese diaspora.
Cultural Worker's Day in Kyrgyzstan is celebrated on November 2 every year. This professional holiday was established by the government of Kyrgyzstan in 1995 and has been celebrated ever since.
National Bison Day in the United States is celebrated on the first Saturday of November every year. It is dedicated to the historical, cultural, ecological and economic contribution of the American bison to the United States.
Dziady is an ancient Slavic festival dedicated to commemoration of the dead. It is still informally celebrated on Belarus on November 2.
On November 2, 1989 the Dakota Territory was divided into two states, North Dakota and South Dakota, both of which were admitted to the Union. The Dakotas observe the anniversary of this event as Statehood Day, although it is not a public holiday in either of the states.
The National Deviled Egg Day is celebrated on November 2. This food-related holiday is dedicated to the dish known as deviled eggs, eggs mimosa, or stuffed eggs.
World Men’s Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated primarily in the post-Soviet states. It is observed on the first Saturday in November.
If you love wine and want to know more about it, treat yourself to a wine tasting on the first Saturday of November – National Wine Tasting Day. The holiday was created for wine connoisseurs, newcomers in the wine world, and everyone in-between.
International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists is an annual United Nations observance held on November 2. It was officially establishment by the UN General Assembly in 2013.
The problem of child abuse is very acute in South Africa and the government has to do its best to eliminate it. Celebration of National Children's Day on the first Saturday in November should raise public awareness of rights of every child.
Health Day in Turkmenistan is celebrated annually on the first Saturday in November. It was established in 2000 by President Saparmurat Niyazov.
Festivals on November 2, 2024
- FACTS in Ghent, Belgium
- Louisiana Renaissance Festival in Hammond, USA
- Abbeville’s “500 EGG” Giant Omelette Celebration in Abbeville, USA
- Adelaide Christmas Pageant in Adelaide, Australia
- Whisky Dram in Kyiv, Ukraine
- Supanova Pop Culture Expo in Adelaide, Australia
- Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival in Bridgwater, United Kingdom
- Africa Movie Academy Awards in Ikeja, Nigeria
- Istanbul Book Fair in Istanbul, Turkey
- Zilantkon in Kazan, Russia
- Bayou Bacchanal: The Original Caribbean Festival of New Orleans in New Orleans, USA
- Grand Jour de Champagne in Prague, Czech Republic
- Leeds International Film Festival in Leeds, United Kingdom
- National Horse Fair in Portugal in Golegã, Portugal
- Rhode Island Comic Con in Providence, USA
This Day in History
- 2022 The Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a ceasefire agreement that came into effect the following day, ending the Tigray War.
- 2013 Died: Clifford Nass, American author and academic, co-creator of The Media Equation theory, and a renowned authority on human-computer interaction.
- 2007 Estimated 100,000 people came to the streets of Tbilisi to demonstrate against the Georgian government.
- 2002 Died: Charles Sheffield, English mathematician, physician and science-fiction author. He is best remembered for his novelette Georgina on My Mind that won him the Nebula and Hugo awards.
- 2000 Died: Eva Morris, English supercentenarian, the oldest recognized person in the world by the Guinness Book of Records as of 2000. She died at the age of 107.
- 1988 The Morris Worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- 1981 Died: Wally Wood, American writer and artist, one of the founding cartoonists of the Mad magazine. He also worked on Marvel's Daredevil comics.
- 1979 Born: Jon M. Chu, American filmmaker known for directing Now You See Me 2, Crazy Rich Asians, In the Heights, and the two-part adaptation of the Broadway musical Wicked.
- 1974 Born: Cornell Iral Haynes, Jr., better known by his stage name Nelly, American singer and rapper. He rose to prominence at the beginning of the 2000s and produced number-one hits "Hot in Herre", "Dilemma", "Work It", "Party People", "Body on Me", "Gone".
- 1966 Died: Peter Debye, Dutch-born American physicist and chemist. In 1936 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his contributions to the study of molecular structure.
- 1966 Born: David Schwimmer, American actor, director and producer, best known for the role as Ross Geller in the sitcom Friends. His later career includes roles in the films Six Days, Seven Nights, Run Fatboy Run, and the Madagascar series.
- 1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act came into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
- 1965 Born: Shah Rukh Khan, Indian actor and producer, often referred to as the Padishah of Bollywood. He has appeared in more than 100 films, and earned numerous accolades, including 14 Filmfare Awards.
- 1963 Died: Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnamese politician, the 1st President of the Republic of Vietnam. He was assassinated during a coup.
- 1961 Born: k.d. lang (Kathryn Dawn Lang), Canadian pop and country singer-songwriter and occasional actress. Her best-known songs include "Constant Craving" and "Miss Chatelaine".
- 1960 Died: Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist and composer. He received international fame as a major conductor and composer of the 20th century.
- 1950 Died: George Bernard Shaw, Irish author, playwright, and critic, one of the co-founders of the London School of Economics. He is mostly remembered for his plays, including his famous Pygmalion.
- 1947 American designer Howard Hughes performed the maiden and only flight of the Spruce Goose (H-4 The Hercules), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
- 1944 Died: Thomas Midgley, Jr., American mechanical and chemical engineer. He played a major role in developing leaded gasoline (tetraethyl lead) and some of the first chlorofluorocarbons.
- 1936 Prime Minister of Italy Benito Mussolini proclaimed the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis powers.
- 1936 The British Broadcasting Corporation initiated the BBC Television Service that became world's first regular, "high-definition" service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, it runs to this day.
- 1929 Born: Richard E. Taylor, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons.
- 1920 KDKA of Pittsburgh started broadcasting in Pennsylvania as the first commercial radio station. The broadcast was the result of the Untied States Presidential election.
- 1913 Born: Burt Lancaster, American actor ranked by the American Film Institute among the greatest male stars of classic Hollywood cinema. His career spanned 45 years.
- 1898 Organized cheerleading was started at the University of Minnesota. Johnny Campbell led a crowd in cheering for the football team.
- 1868 New Zealand officially adopted a standard time to be observed nationally.
- 1865 Born: Warren G. Harding, American politician, the 29th President of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death on August 2, 1923.
- 1818 Born: George Boole, English mathematician. He worked in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic and is best known for his book The Laws of Thought.
- 1807 Died: Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French politician, the last Prime Minister of the Bourbon Monarchy. He was appointed by King Louis XVI only one hundred hours before the storming of the Bastille.
- 1795 Born: James K. Polk, American politician, the 11th President of the USA from 1845 to 1849. He is listed as one of the best presidents due to his ability to promote and achieve the major items on his agenda.
- 1755 Born: Marie Antoinette, the last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution and the French First Republic as the wife of Louis XVI. She married him at the age of 14.
- 1734 Born: Daniel Boone, American pioneer, explorer. His frontier exploits made him one of the first fold heroes of the United States.
- 1699 Born: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter, a master of still life. He is noted for his genre paintings which depict kitchen maidens, children and domestic activities.