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There are noteworthy events in November that shape the conversations on Planeta.com. We celebrate Day of the Dead on November 1st and 2nd. There is also the US Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday of the month). We celebrate Garifuna Settlement Day in Belize and Revolution Day in Mexico. The entire month of November is Native American Heritage Month in the USA.
November 1 and 2 Day of the Dead
November 1 All Saints’ Day – Wikipedia
November 2 All Souls’ Day – Wikipedia
November 5 Folk Artist Day, Dia del Artesano (Ecuador)
November 6 National Parks Day (Argentina)
November 10 World Science Day
November 11 Armistice Day / Veterans Day
November 12 Postal Carriers’ Day (Mexico)
November 13-21 Leonids meteor shower
Leonid meteor shower: Light streaks of comet debris
November 19 International Men’s Day
November 19 Garifuna Settlement Day (Belize)
November 19 World Toilet Day
November 20 Revolution Day (Mexico)
November 21 St Cecilia’s Day
Mariachis at the Basilica de Guadalupe (Mexico)
Simon & Garfunkel – Cecilia
November 22 John F. Kennedy Assassination (USA)
November 29 is International Jaguar Day.
November 30 Computer Security Day
Floating Dates
Responsible Tourism Day is held in conjunction with the World Travel Market in early November
Fourth Thursday in November Thanksgiving (USA)
Last Saturday in November
Native American Heritage Month
Native American Heritage Month is held in November in the USA and join in paying tribute to the ancestry, present, and future of Indigenous peoples in the USA. Among the institutions with major celebrations: the Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Movember (a portmanteau of the words ‘Moustache’ and ‘November’), is an annual month-long event involving the growing of mustaches during the month of November. The event has been claimed to have been invented in 1999 by group of Australian men from Adelaide
Elsewhere on the Web
November Theme – National Park Service
Wikipedia
November
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