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The Learning Calendar is a free resource brought to you by the Homeschool Learning Network. Each month, we will highlight historical birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays, and provide teaching resources to help you learn about each topic.
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| November 01 | All Saint's Day | | | This is a Roman Catholic Holy Day of Obligation. It commemorates all saints, especially those who do not have an special feast day. This date of recognition was set by Pope Gregory IV in 835! |
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| November 01, 2005 | India's Diwali | | | Diwali is a five-day festival of lights and is the prettiest of all Indian festivals! It celebrates the victory of Lord Rama over the demon King Ravana. |
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| November 01-31 | Aviation History Month | | | In November of 1782, two brother, the Montgolfier brothers, experimented with bags of smoke and hot air, leading to the invention of the hot air balloon. We use this month to commemorate all the great achievements in aviation! |
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| November 01-31 | National American Indian Heritage Month | | | This month is set aside to honor and learn about Native Americans, their history and their culture. |
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| November 02, 1734 | Daniel Boone's Birthday | | | Daniel Boone was an American frontiersman, explorer, and military officer - many great tales have been told about his life adventures - being captured by Shawnee Indians, and much more! |
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| Nivember 04, 1922 | King Tut's Tomb Discovered | | | In 1922, one of the most important archaeological of all time - the discovery of Egypt's child-king, Tutankhamen - was discovered in Luxor, Egypt. |
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| November 05 | Sadie Hawkin's Day | | | This holiday originated in a comic strip - L'il Abner in the 1930s. It is an occasion for girls and women to take initiative and ask a boy or man out for a date, instead of the typical reverse roles. |
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| November 07, 1867 | Marie Curie's Birthday | | | Marie Curie was a Polish chemist and physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics for the discovery of the element radium. She shared this award with her partner and husband, Pierre. |
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| November 08 | Election Day | | | Today is Election Day in the U.S. - this year is a presidential election year - study the election through math and political science! |
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| November 08 | National Parents as Teachers Day | | | This day is set aside to pay tribute to parents as teachers, and the 3,000 Parents as Teachers programs across the U.S. that help guide parents as the most important teachers of their children - especially in the first years of their lives. |
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| November 08, 1519 | Cortes Conquers Mexico | | | On this date, Hernan Cortes and his troops marked into the interior of Mexico to the Aztec capital and took the Aztec emperor Montezuma hostage. |
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| November 08, 1656 | Edmund Halley's Birthday | | | Edmund Halley was an astronomer and mathematician who observed the great comet of 1682 (now named after him) and predicted its return. |
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| November 11 | Canada's Remembrance Day | | | Canada's Remembrance Day is equivalent to the U.S. Veteran's Day which takes place on the same date each year. It honors those who died in World Wars I and II. |
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| November 11 | Veteran's Day | | | Veteran's Day is set on this date in memory of the World War I Armistice which took place on November 11, 1918. The signing of the Armistice took place in the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month! |
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| November 12, 1815 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Birthday | | | Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American suffragist and reformer for the rights of women. She stated "We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men AND women are created equal…" |
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| November 13-19, 2005 | American Education Week | | | This holiday celebrates the importance of Education in America, and gives Americans time to focus on its importance and how we can improve it. |
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| November 13-19, 2005 | National Geography Awareness Week | | | This week is set aside to raise public awareness about the importance of geography in our lives - what would we do without maps? |
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| November 14, 2005 | National American Teddy Bear Day | | | The Vermont Teddy Bear Company celebrates the birth of America's most beloved companion, the Teddy bear. Legend has it that President Theodore Roosevelt spared the life of a bear cub while on a hunting trip - and a political cartoonist captured this event - celebrating "Teddy" and his "bear". |
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| November 14, 2005 | National Geographic Bee | | | Schools and homeschoolers must register by October 15. This event runs from November to January. |
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| November 14, 1840 | Claude Monet's Birthday | | | Claude Monet was a French Impressionist painter and was a key artist in the Impressionism movement - a movement which focused on presenting "reality" through the "impression" of light and color that was in a given scene. |
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| November 15, 2005 | America Recycles Day | | | This day is set aside to promote recycling and the awareness of its importance to the sustainability of our world. |
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| November 15, 1887 | Georgia O'Keeffe's Birthday | | | Georgia O'Keeffe is considered to be one of the greatest American Artists of the 20th Century. She painted desert and flower scenes with amazing detail and compositional style. |
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| November 17, 2005 | Great American Smokeout | | | This day is set aside to celebrate smoke-free environments. |
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| November 18, 1923 | Alan Shepard's Birthday | | | Alan Shepard was the first American in space when he flew Freedom 7 in 1961. He missed being the first in the world by 23 days - Russian Yuri Gargarin had gone into space just 23 days prior. |
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| November 19, 1863 | Lincoln's Gettysburg Address | | | On this date in 1863, 17 acres of Civil War battlefield ground were dedicated as a national cemetery. It was at this event that Lincoln gave his famous speech, considered one of the most eloquent pieces of writing in the English language. |
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| November 19 | Puerto Rico's Discovery Day | | | This date is set aside in Puerto Rico to celebrate Columbus discovering this island in 1493. |
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| November 20-26, 2005 | National Bible Week | | | This is an interfaith week-long holiday is set aside to promote the reading and study of the Bible. |
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| November 20-26, 2005 | National Family Week | | | This week celebrates the importance of the family, and falls during the week of Thanksgiving each year. |
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| November 20, 1910 | Mexico Revolution Day | | | This date is the anniversary of a social revolution that was launched by Francisco Madero in Mexico in 1910. It is a national holiday. |
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| November 21, 1800 | Congress First Meets in Washington | | | Prior to this date, Congress met in Philadelphia, but when the north wing of the new Capitol in Washington DC was completed, Congress moved to its new home on this date. |
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| November 22, 1963 | John F. Kennedy Assassination | | | On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by a sniper while riding in an open car in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was accused, but was killed while in police custody before he could be tried for the assassination. |
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| November 24, 2005 | American Thanksgiving Day | | | The holiday of Thanksgiving has been around since 1863! In 1620, the first colonists of the New World had a devastating first winter, but with the help of the Wampanog Indians, life improved. The following fall, they held a harvest celebration of thanks, and this is generally considered the "first Thanksgiving", and the historic event that we commemorate. It is a day to give thanks for all of the blessings in our lives. |
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| November 26, 1865 | Alice in Wonderland Published | | | On this date in 1865, this classic book was first published by author Lewis Carroll. |
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| November 26, 1789 | Charles Schultz's Birthday | | | Charles Schultz is a famous cartoonist who is known worldwide for his creation of the "Peanuts" comic strip. The comic strip ran for 50 years, starting in 1950, and featured our favorite characters, Charlie Brown, his dog, Snoopy, his sister Lucy, and his friends Lucy and Linus. |
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| November 26, 1883 | Sojourner Truth's Death | | | Sojourner Truth was a former slave turned evangelist who fought for abolition and women's rights. She died on this date in 1883. |
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| November 27, 2005 | Advent Begins | | | Advent includes the four Sundays prior to Christmas, and is set aside to prepare spiritually for the birth of Jesus. |
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| November 29, 1832 | Louisa May Alcott's Birthday | | | Louisa May Alcott was a famous American author. Her most famous novel was Little Women. |
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| November 29, 1898 | C.S. Lewis's Birthday | | | C.S. Lewis was a British author famous for his works, Chronicles of Narnia and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. |
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| November 29, 2005 | Christmas Tree Lighting - Rockefeller Center | | | The famous lighting of a giant tree in Rockefeller Center in New York City is typically the signal that the opening of the holiday season has begun! 30,000 lights on 5 miles of electrical wire light up this magnificent tree. |
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| November 30, 1835 | Mark Twain's Birthday | | | Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorn Clemens, and is a famous author who wrote the American classics The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin, and The Prince and the Pauper. |
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