November is:
· American Diabetes Month
· Epilepsy Awareness Month
· Learn Chinese Month
· National AIDS Awareness Month
· National Peanut Butter Lovers’ Month
· National Pomegranate Month
· National Adoption Month
Special dates in November:
11/01 (1993) The European Union is established.
11/04 (1979) The U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran is stormed by student followers of the Ayatollah.
11/06 (1917) The Russian Revolution begins.
11/08 (1793) The French government opens the Louvre museum to the public.
11/10 (1970) The Great Wall of China opens for the first time to foreign tourists.
11/11 (1918) The first World War, known as the Great War, ends with an agreement between the Allies and Germany.
11/11 Veterans’ Day
11/16 (1907) Oklahoma enters the United States as the 46th state.
11/19 (1969) Brazilian soccer legend, Pele, scores his 1,000th professional goal in a game.
11/22 (1963) The 35th American President, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
11/23 Thanksgiving
11/24 (1859) British naturalist, Charles Darwin, publishes his scientific work, “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.”
For more information on the month of November, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November
