Educators' Calendar: United States

November 2023

29th October

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30th October

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31st October

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1st November

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2nd November

2

3rd November

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4th November

4

29th October

30th October

31st October

1st November

Day of the Dead

Stamp Act in Effect (1765)

2nd November

North & South Dakota Admission Day (1889)

Harry Truman Elected President (1948)

Jimmy Carter Elected President (1976)

3rd November

National Sandwich Day

First Dog Orbited Earth (1957)

First Black Female Senator Elected (1992)

4th November

First Cash Register Patented (1880)

King Tut's Tomb Discovered (1922)

90 Americans Taken Hostage in Iran (1979)

5th November

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6th November

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7th November

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8th November

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9th November

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10th November

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11th November

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5th November

Daylight Saving Time Ends

First Automobile Patented (1885)

Nov. 5-11
Dear Santa Letter Week

6th November

Abraham Lincoln Elected President (1860)

Jefferson Davis Elected President of Confederacy (1861)

First Intercollegiate Soccer Match (1869)

7th November

Scientist Marie Curie's Birthday (1867)

FDR Won Fourth Presidential Term (1944)

Douglas Wilder First Black Governor (VA) Elected (1989)

8th November

National STEM/STEAM Day

Montana Admission Day (1889)

Grover Cleveland Elected President (1892)

John F. Kennedy Elected President (1960)

9th November

Astronomer Benjamin Banneker's Birthday (1731)

Kristallnacht Began (1938)

Berlin Wall Opened (1989)

10th November

Sesame Street Premiered on PBS (1969)

Great Wall of China Opened for World Tourism (1970)

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Opened in Washington, DC (1982)

11th November

Pilgrims Signed Mayflower Compact (1620)

12th November

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13th November

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14th November

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15th November

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16th November

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17th November

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18th November

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12th November

Activist Elizabeth C. Stanton's Birthday (1815)

Joseph Stalin Became Ruler of Soviet Union (1927)

World War II Battle of Guadalcanal Began (1942)

13th November

World Kindness Day

Laws for Segregation on Buses Ended (1956)

Paris Terrorist Attacks (2015)

Nov. 13-17
American Education Week

Nov. 13-17
Geography Awareness Week

14th November

World Diabetes Day

Artist Claude Monet's Birthday (1840)

Nov. 14-20
World Orphans Day

15th November

America Recycles Day

Articles of Confederation Approved (1777)

Largest War Protest Ever (1969)

16th November

International Day for Tolerance

Oklahoma Statehood Day (1889)

Oodaaq Island Discovered (1978)

17th November

Homemade Bread Day

Take a Hike Day

Queen Elizabeth I Ascended Throne (1558)

Suez Canal Opened in Egypt (1869)

18th November

National Adoption Day

William Tell Shot the Apple (1307)

19th November

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20th November

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21st November

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22nd November

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23rd November

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24th November

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25th November

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19th November

Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863)

20th November

Universal Children's Day

New Jersey First to Ratify Bill of Rights (1789)

Astronomer Edwin Hubble's Birthday (1889)

Nov. 20-26
Transgender Awareness Week

21st November

Writer Voltaire's Birthday (1694)

First Hot-Air Balloon Flight (1763)

North Carolina Statehood Day (1789)

22nd November

Mount St. Helens Erupted (1842)

JFK Assassinated (1963)

23rd November

Thanksgiving

Cashew Day

Zoom Lens Patented (1948)

24th November

Native American Heritage Day

Buy Nothing Day

Pres. Zachary Taylor's Birthday (1784)

Darwin's Origin of the Species Published (1859)

Jack Ruby Shot Lee Harvey Oswald (1963)

25th November

National Day of Listening

Athlete Joe DiMaggio's Birthday (1914)

26th November

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27th November

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28th November

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29th November

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30th November

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1st December

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2nd December

2

26th November

First Thanksgiving Day (1789)

Cartoonist Charles Schulz's Birthday (1922)

27th November

Astronomer Anders Celsius's Birthday (1701)

Nobel Prize Established (1895)

28th November

Ferdinand Magellan Passed through Magellan Strait (1520)

Ka Lahui (Independence Day, Hawaii) (1843)

29th November

Author Louisa May Alcott's Birthday (1832)

Jewish Homeland Established in Palestine (1947)

30th November

Author Mark Twain's Birthday (1835)

Politician Winston Churchill's Birthday (1874)

1st December

2nd December

Month-Long Holidays and Events

Diabetes Month

National Native American Heritage Month

International Drum Month

Aviation History Month

Peanut Butter Lovers' Month