November 30th is
Cities for Life Day *
Computer Security Day *
Mousse Day
National Methamphetamine
Awareness Day *
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MORE! Jonathan Swift, Shirley Chisholm and Billy Idol, click
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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS
Barbados – Independence Day
Bolivia – Taquiña:
San Andrés Festival
Iran – Martyrdom of Imam Reza
Norfolk Island – Thanksgiving Day
Philippines – Araw ni Bonifacio
(birth of Andrés Bonifacio)
Romania – Sfânful Andrei
(Saint Andrew, protector of Romania)
Scotland – St. Andrew’s Day
(patron saint of Scotland)
Yemen – Independence Day
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On This Day in HISTORY
3340 BC – Earliest known record of a solar eclipse, in Ireland
1508 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect
1667 – Jonathan Swift born, Irish satirist and essayist, Gulliver’s Travels
1786 – The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern civil state to abolish the death penalty – commemorated as Cities for Life Day *
1803 – Spain completes the process of ceding Louisiana to France
1804 – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase is impeached by the House of Representatives, accused of political bias. He is later acquitted by the Senate
1829 – First Welland Canal trial run, five years to the day from breaking ground
1835 – Mark Twain born, American novelist and humorist, Huckleberry Finn
1838 – Three days after French occupation of Vera Cruz Mexico declares war on France
1874 – Winston Churchill born, English politician and writer, British Prime Minister, Noble Prize laureate
1874 – Lucy Maud Montgomery born, English-Canadian writer, Anne of Green Gables
1886 – The Folies Bergère stages its first revue
1916 – Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty
1924 – Shirley Chisholm born, first African American woman elected to the U. S. Congress (D-NY 1969-1983) and first woman candidate to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination
1934 – The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman is the first steam locomotive authenticated as reaching 100 mph
1936 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire
1947 – David Mamet born, American playwright-screenwriter-director, American Buffalo
1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space
1955 – Billy Idol born, English singer-songwriter
1965 – The state government of Colorado declared this day to be Rolling Stones Day.
1966 – Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1967 – The People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1968 – Sly & The Family Stone release “Everyday People”
1970 – George Harrison releases his triple album All Things Must Pass in U.K.
1971 – Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs islands from the United Arab Emirates
1981 – In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe
1982 – Michael Jackson’s second solo album Thriller is released worldwide, becoming the best-selling record album in history
1988 – First Computer Security Day *
1995 – U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favor of the Northern Ireland peace process to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall; he calls terrorists “yesterday’s men”.
1998 – Exxon and Mobil sign a $73.7 billion agreement to merge, creating ExxonMobil, the world’s largest company
1999 – Battle in Seattle: demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies
2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York
2006 – President George W. Bush signs the proclamation for the first National Methamphetamine Awareness Day *
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Visuals
- Lemon mousse
- International flags
- Palladio building designs
- Opening the First Welland Canal by JD Kelly
- First page of Huckleberry Finn
- Winston Churchill ‘continue’ quote
- Anne of Green Gables first edition cover plus first page
- Shirley Chisholm campaign poster
- The Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London, in 1851 – © RIBA Library Drawings
- “Battle in Seattle” 1999 protests of World Trade Organization policies
- John Sentamu, 97th Archbishop of York
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Happy Crystal Haggis Palace Day
Scotland – St. Andrew’s Day
(patron saint of Scotland)
National Methamphetamine Awareness Day *
I’ll toast you with Lemon Mousse! (and offer a virtual wee dram of single-malt Scotch to you and Chuck Stanley)
yum!
She is gonna lead us into a life of drink and debauchery. Well then. Lead on.
I’m not sure who’s leading!