Holidays Calendar for November 24, 2017
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Turks and Caicos Islands
National Day of Thanksgiving in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Since 2014 people of the Turks and Caicos Islands celebrate National Day of Thanksgiving on the fourth Friday in November. This holiday has nothing in common with the American Thanksgiving Day.
Family Day is a public holiday in Palau celebrated on the Friday after Thanksgiving, which is usually the fourth or sometimes the fifth Friday in November. It was officially established by the government of Palau to celebrate family values and give the citizens a long weekend.
International Carménère Day, also referred to as World Carménère Day or simply Carménère Day, is observed annually on November 24. It was created to commemorate the rediscovery of Carménère and celebrate the signature red wine grape of Chile.
International Systems Engineer Day is observed annually on the last Friday of November. It was created to celebrate engineers who specialize in the design, integration, and management of complex systems.
Many countries around the world celebrate the holiday of Teacher's Day. Teachers in Turkey celebrate this day every year on November 24.
Walrus Day is a Russian environmental observance held annually on November 24. It was inaugurated by the Russian chapter of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Marine Mammal Council.
Washoku Day, also known as Japanese Cuisine Day or Traditional Japanese Cuisine Day, is celebrated annually on November 24. It was created to recognize traditional Japanese culinary tradition and remind people outside of Japan that Japanese cuisine is so much more than sushi and sashimi.
Native American Heritage Day is an American observance held annually on the Friday after Thanksgiving Day. It was created to highlight the contributions of Native Americans and celebrate their rich cultural heritage.
Flag Day is a public holiday in Tajikistan, that is annually celebrated on November 24. This holiday was established by President of Tajikistan in 2009 to commemorate the anniversary of adoption of the national flag in 1992.
Martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur is a memorial day observed on November 24 in some parts of India. It honors the memory of the ninth Sikh guru who founded Anandpur Sahib, a city in the state of Punjab considered one of the most sacred places in Sikhism.
Lachit Day (Lachit Divas) is celebrated in the Indian state of Assam on November 24 every year. It commemorates the birthday of a famous military commander and statesman of the Ahom Kingdom, known for protecting the kingdom from the Mughal Empire.
November 24 is Win Friends and Influence People Day. This unofficial holiday is celebrated by the fans of How to Win Friends and Influence People book by Dale Carnegie.
The National Sardines Day is a food-related holiday observed annually on November 24. Sardines are a popular food regularly consumed by millions of people therefore they surely deserve their own national day.
Buy Nothing Day is an annual international event, that takes place on Friday after Thanksgiving Day in the USA and on the next Saturday in other countries. It was started in Canada in 1992.
D. B. Cooper Day is celebrated each year on November 24 by mystery fans across the country. It commemorates a plane hijacking that has remained one of the greatest unsolved mysteries for more than half a century.
The Friday following Thanksgiving Day is widely known as Black Friday not only in the United States where it originated, but in many other parts of the world. It marks the beginning of the holiday shopping season. Black Friday used to be a typically American phenomenon, but lately it has been promoted by retailers in many other countries that don’t celebrate Thanksgiving.
Maize Day, sometimes referred to as National Maize Day, is celebrated every year on the day after Thanksgiving, coinciding with Black Friday. It was created to celebrate one of the most important food crops grown in North America.
National Flossing Day is celebrated annually on the day after Thanksgiving. It was created to remind people of the importance of dental hygiene, especially after holiday meals.
World Conjoined Twins Day is a UN international day observed annually on November 24. It was created to raise awareness of a rare type of identical twins, occurring in approximately 1 in 50,000-200,000 live births, and to promote their well-being, social inclusion, and human rights.
Evolution Day is an annual celebration designed to commemorate the anniversary of the first publication of Charles Darwin's work On the Origin of Species. It is celebrated on November 24.
National Day of Listening is an unofficial holiday celebrated on the Friday after Thanksgiving Day. It was launched in 2008 by StoryCorps, a NPO whose mission is to provide Americans of all beliefs and backgrounds to record, preserve, and share the stories of their lives.
Festivals on November 24, 2017
- London International Documentary Festival in London, United Kingdom
- Brussels Christmas Market in Brussels, Belgium
- BilBOLBul in Bologna, Italy
- Merano Christmas Market in Merano, Italy
- Anime Festival Asia in Singapore, Singapore
- Bolzano Christmas Market in Bolzano, Italy
- Bruges Christmas Market in Bruges, Belgium
- Strasbourg Christmas Market in Strasbourg, France
- HYPER JAPAN in London, United Kingdom
- Bratislava Christmas Market in Bratislava, Slovakia
- Madrid Christmas Market in Madrid, Spain
- Waikiki Holiday Parade in Honolulu, USA
- Barcelona Christmas Market (Feria de Santa Lucia) in Barcelona, Spain
- Liège Christmas Market in Liège, Belgium
- Krakow Christmas Market in Krakow, Poland
This Day in History
- 2013 Iran signed an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries (China, France, Russia, the UK, the USA and Germany), limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
- 2001 Died: Melanie Thornton, American singer. She gained immense popularity in Europe during the last decade of the 20th century as the vocalist of the band La Bouche. Her most notable hits include "Be My Lover" and "Sweet Dreams".
- 1991 Died: Freddie Mercury, British singer, songwriter and producer, renowned as frontman of the rock band Queen. He was known for his flamboyant stage persona and powerful vocals.
- 1991 Died: Eric Carr, American musician, best known as the drummer for the rock band Kiss. He joined the band in 1980 and worked with it until his death of complications from heart cancer at the age of 41.
- 1990 Born: Sarah Hyland, American actress, singer and television host. She is best known for playing Haley Dunphy in the ABC sitcom Modern Family.
- 1990 Born: Tom Odell, English singer-songwriter who was discovered by Lily Allen. His debut album, Long Way Down, reached No. 1 in the UK Official Chart.
- 1983 Born: Karine Vanasse, French-Canadian actress best known for Colette Valois in Pan Am, Margaux LeMarchal in Revenge and Lise Delorme in Cardinal.
- 1978 Born: Katherine Heigl, American actress, producer and former child model best known for playing Izzie Stevens on Grey's Anatomy from 2005 to 2010.
- 1976 The eastern part of Turkey was his by an earthquake of a 7.3 magnitude. Between 4,000 and 5,000 people died.
- 1974 Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discovered the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. It was named Lucy after the Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
- 1969 The second manned mission to land on the Moon, Apollo 12, ended. The command module splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1966 TABSO Flight 101 en route from Sofia, Bulgaria to East Berlin, Germany crashed near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. All 82 people on board were killed.
- 1963 Died: Lee Harvey Oswald, American sniper who assassinated United States President John F. Kennedy. He was killed two days after Kennedy's assassination.
- 1961 Born: Arundhati Roy, Indian author and activist whose best-known novel, The God of Small Things, won her the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997.
- 1956 Died: Guido Cantelli, Italian orchestral conductor. He became Musical Director of La Scala, Milan in November 1956, but his promising career was cut short by his death in an aircraft crash in Paris, France.
- 1954 Born: Emir Kusturica, Serbian director, actor and screenwriter. He was recognized for several internationally acclaimed films, including Underground, When Father Was Away on Business, Black Cat, White Cat etc.
- 1951 Born: Denise Crosby, American actress and model best known for portraying Security Chief Tasha Yar mainly in season one of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- 1950 A violent snowstorm, often called the Storm of the Century, formed in southeast North Carolina, USA. It lasted until November 30, killing 353 people, injuring over 160, and creating US $66.7 million in damage.
- 1948 Died: Anna Jarvis, American activist known as the founder of Mother's Day in the United States. The celebration of this holiday has become a popular tradition around the world.
- 1932 The FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (best known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opened in Washington, D.C.
- 1926 Born: Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese-born American physician, known for his work on parity violation. This work brought him the Nobel Prize in Physics that he won in 1957 at the age of 30.
- 1925 Born: Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist. In 1984 he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the CERN project that led to the discovery of the W and Z particles.
- 1916 Died: Hiram Maxim, American inventor. His best known invention is the Maxim Gun, the first portable, fully automatic machine gun.
- 1896 Born: Óscar Carmona, Portuguese Army officer and politician who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1926 to 1928 and as the 11th president of Portugal from 1926 until his death in 1951.
- 1888 Born: Dale Carnegie, American writer and educator. He is famous for his courses in self-improvement, corporate training and salesmanship, and self-help books such as How to Win Friends and Influence People.
- 1885 Died: Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentine politician and journalist, the 8th President of Argentina from October 12, 1874 to October 11, 1880.
- 1884 Born: Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Israeli politician and historian. He was the 2nd President of Israel, serving from December 16, 1952 to April 23, 1963.
- 1877 Anna Sewell published her classic animal welfare novel Black Beauty. The book became an immediate bestseller with around 50 million copies sold.
- 1859 Charles Darwin published his seminal work On the Origin of Species. It was priced at 15 shillings with a first printing of 1250 copies.
- 1826 Born: Carlo Collodi, Italian writer, best known for his world-renowned children's fairy tale The Adventures of Pinocchio.
- 1801 Born: Ludwig Bechstein, German writer. He became popular as a collector of folk fairy tales. His German Fairy Tale Book was even more popular than the collection by Brothers Grimm.
- 1784 Born: Zachary Taylor, American politician, the 12th President of the United States. He served from March 4, 1849 until his death in 1850.
- 1722 Died: Johann Adam Reincken, Dutch-German organist and composer. He was one of the most important German composers of the 17th century, whose works had a major influence on Johann Sebastian Bach.
- 1642 Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman discovered the island now known as Tasmania. He named it Van Diemen's Land.
- 1632 Born: Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin. A forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly influenced modern biblical criticism and 17th-century rationalism.
- 835 Died: Muhammad al-Jawadf, descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the ninth of the Twelve Shia Imams. He died at the age of about twenty-five, the youngest among the Twelve Imams.