November 14th is

Blue Circle Selfie Day
& World Diabetes Day

Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day

National Spicy Guacamole Day

Pickle Appreciation Day

Operating Room Nurse Day

National Speakers Association:
Spirit of NSA Day
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MORE! Herman Melville, Nellie Bly and Aaron Copeland, click

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

British Virgin Islands – Prince of Wales Birthday

Cayman Islands – Remembrance Day

Columbia – Cartagena Independence

Germany – National Day of Mourning

Guinea Bissau –
Readjustment Movement Day * 

India and Nepal –
Guru Nanak Jayanti Birthday (Sikh)

Jordan – King Hussein Birthday

Laos – That Luang Festival

Myanmar – Tazaungmone/Thasaung Mong
(lights festival)

Palestinian Authority – National Day

Tuvalu – Heir to the Throne Day

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On This Day in HISTORY

1666 – First experimental blood transfusion takes place in Britain, between two dogs

1765 – Robert Fulton is born, American engineer and inventor

1770 – Scottish explorer James Bruce discovers the Blue Nile source at Lake Tana in northwest Ethiopia

1832 – New York City’s first streetcar begins operation – horse-drawn, it carries 30 people

1840 – Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter, born

1851 – Herman Melville’s Moby Dick is published in the U.S.

1881 – Charles J. Guiteau’s trial for assassinating U.S. President Garfield opens

1889 – Pioneering journalist Nellie Bly (born Elizabeth Cochrane) begins her challenge: to beat the fictional Phileas Fogg’s record, going around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes

1900 – Aaron Copeland, American composer, is born

(just ignore the subtitles)

1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely makes the first takeoff from a ship in a Curtiss pusher, from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia

1918 – Czechoslovakia becomes a republic

1919 – Veronica Lake is born, American actress whose long ‘peek-a-boo’ hair was so copied that she changed her hairstyle during WWII to help prevent women working in wartime factories from catching their hair in the machinery

1922 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins domestic radio service

1935 – FDR announces that the Philippines have become a free commonwealth after approval of their new constitution The Tydings-McDuffie Act plans for the Philippines to be completely independent by July 4, 1946

1943 – Assistant Conductor Leonard Bernstein, age 25, debuts with the New York Philharmonic, filling in for ailing Bruno Walter  prior to a national broadcast concert

1944 – Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra record “Opus No. 1” for RCA records, after it was “left on the cutting room floor” of a movie the previous year

1954 – Condoleezza Rice is born, U.S. Secretary of State (2005-09)

1956 – The USSR crushes the Hungarian uprising

1961 – The Elvis Presley film Blue Hawaii premieres

1967 – The Columbian Congress declares the “Day of the Columbia Woman” in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the death of ‘La Pola’, Policarpa Salavarrieta, a Neogranadine seamstress-turned-spy for the revolutionary forces fighting against the Spanish who was caught and executed

1968 – Yale University announces it is going co-educational.

1969 – NASA’s Apollo 12 blasts off for the moon from Cape Kennedy FL

1970 – Santana releases Black Magic Woman

1972 – Blue Ribbon Sports becomes Nike

1980 – Readjustment Movement Day * Prime Minister João Bernardo Vieira leads a bloodless coup in Guinea-Bissau, appoints Council of the Revolution to run the country 

1983 – The British government announces that 96 Tomahawk cruise missiles, part of a planned NATO deployment, have arrived at Greenham Common air base, where thousands of protesters, mostly women, are encamped surrounding the base

1994 – U.S. experts visited North Korea’s main nuclear complex for the first time under an accord that opened such sites to outside inspections.

1995 – The U.S. government instituted a partial shutdown, closing national parks and museums while most government offices operated with skeleton crews, because President Clinton vetoed the spending bill sent to him by the Republican-controlled Congress which brutally slashed funding for Medicare, education, the environment, and public health

1999 – The United Nations imposes sanctions on Afghanistan for refusing to hand over terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden

2007 – Buildings in Kaixian, China are demolished to make way for the Three Gorges project – the urban area, dating back 1,800 years, will be submerged under the Three Gorges reservoir by October 2008

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Visuals

• World Diabetes Day poster
• International flags
• Map of the Blue Nile
• Rockwell Kent illustration of Moby Dick
• Nellie Bly photo and review of her book
• Veronica Lake
• Greenham Common lie-in
• Kaixian, China demolition

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