CALENDAR OF EVENTS - NOVEMBER

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- Events:

• National American Indian Heritage Month: 1-30

• 1-2 Mexico: Day of the Dead http://www.azcentral.com/rep/dead http://muertos.palomar.edu http://www.mexconnect.com/mex_/feature/daydeadindex.html http://www.holidays.net/halloween/muertos.htm
• http://www.niu.edu/newsplace/nndia.html

• 1: Family Literacy Day: http://www.famlit.org

• 2: First Scheduled Radio Broadcast: Anniversary Station KDKA at Pittsburgh, PA broadcast the results of the presidential elections. By 1922, there were almost 400 licensed radio stations in the US.

• 3: Public Television Debuts: Anniversary: 1969 Today there are 348 PBS stations.

• 4: Will Rogers Birth Anniversary: 1879-1935 http://www.willrogers.org

• 4: Circle K International Service Week Nov 4-10 For info: Circle K Intl, 3636 Woodview Trace, Indianapolis, IN 46268-3196. Phone: (317) 875-8755. E-mail: cki@kiwanis.org web site: http://www.kiwanis.org

• 6: Election Day

• 11-17: National Geography Awareness Week: Visit the National Geographic Society's website: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/gaw and the US Geological Society's Educational site at http://www.usgs.gov/education

• 11-17:Random Acts of Kindness:You can get a Teacher's Kit at Random Acts of Kindness Foundation. Phone (800) 660-2811. Web. http://www.actsofkindness.org

• 11: Veteran's Day

• 12: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Birth Anniversary (1815-Oct 26, 1902) www.nps.gov/wori/ecs.htm Lesson Plan Ideas: http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-5090.html

• 16: Ramadan: The Islamic Month of Fasting http://www.infoplease.com/spot/ramadan1.html or http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/pillars/fasting/tajuddin/fast_1.html

• 17: World Peace Day For Info: Don Morris, PO Box 565245, Miami, FL 33256-5245. Phone (305) 270-8890. E-mail: peaceguy@peaceday.org Web: http://www.peaceday.org

• 18-24: National Family Week

• 19: Cold War Formally Ended Anniversary http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html http://www.askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec5/Unit_11/Unit_11L1.html

• 19: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address Anniversary http://eserver.org/history/gettysburg-address.txt http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/00-2/lp2006.shtml http://www.americanwriters.org/classroom/videolesson/vlp14_lincoln.asp

• 20: Bill of Rights Anniversary of First State Ratification. New Jersey became the first state to ratify 10 of the 12 amendments to the US constitution proposed by Congress Sept 25.

• 20: United Nations: Universal Children's Day 1959: General Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child.

• 22: National Stop the Violence Day. Wear White ribbons that day and drive with their headlights on as a show of peace. For info: Cliff Berkowitz, Pres, Lost Coast Communications, Inc, PO Box 25, Ferndale, CA, 95536. Phone (707) 786-5104.

• 26: Custer Battlefield becomes Little Bighorn Battlefield Anniversary http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun25.html

• 26: Charles Schultz Birth Anniversary (1950-February 12, 2000) · The offical site of Snoopy and friends: http://www.comics.com/comics/peanuts · Santa Rosa paper article: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/evergreen/schulz · Artists' Biogrpahy: http://www.illustration-house.com/bios/schulz_bio.html

• 26: Sojourner Truth Death Anniversary http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/trut-soj.htm

• 30: Mark Twain Birth Anniversary · Mark Twain Quotations, Newspaper Collections and Related Resources http://www.twainquotes.com

• Mark Twain (continued) · Brief Bio from Cliff Notes: http://www.cliffsnotes.com/litnotes/spotlight-twainbio.html Mark Twain in San Francisco: http://www.zpub.com/sf/history/twain.html · Mark Twain and the October 8, 1865, San Francisco Earthquake: http://www.crustal.ucsb.edu/ics/understanding/accounts/twain.html

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