Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for November 30, 2021

Many days there are far too many anniversaries, holidays, and observances to post about individually on social media, so in an effort to have more of them available, LLPHP is going to experiment with posting them daily. If there are other items you feel should be included, please email contact@llphp.org and share!


Please note all holidays and observances listed as “National” days are American holidays and observances unless it is stated otherwise.

On This Day

• Giving Tuesday
• International Computer Security Day
• 1487: The first German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot), was promulgated in Munich by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, stating beer should be brewed from only three ingredients – water, malt and hops
• 1523: Amsterdam banned the assembly of heretics
• 1630: 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague
• 1678: Roman Catholics were banned from the English Parliament
• 1731: Beijing was hit by an earthquake causing the deaths of about 100,000 people
• 1735: The States of Holland forbade Free Masonry
• 1782: Britain signed an agreement recognizing US independence
• 1786: Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II promulgated penal reform, making his the first state to abolish the death penalty
• 1803: Spain ceded her claims to the Louisiana Territory to France
• 1908: The US Secretary of State and Japan’s Ambassador to the US exchanged notes in what came to be known as the Root-Takahira Agreement, affirming support for an independent China, with an ‘open door’ policy, and for the status quo in the Pacific
• 1938: Germany banned Jews from being lawyers
• 1966: Barbados gained independence from Great Britain
• 1967: The Kuria Muria Islands were ceded by Great Britain to Oman
• 1967: The People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen declared independence from the UK
• 1967: The Pakistan Peoples Party was founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
• 1968: A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Armagh was stopped by the Royal Ulster Constabulary because of the presence of a Loyalist counter demonstration
• 1988: A cyclone lashed Bangladesh and Eastern India, killing 317 people
• 1991: A major dust storm near San Francisco caused an accident involving 93 cars and 11 trucks in which 17 people died
• 2006: South Africa’s Civil Union Act of 2006 legalized same-sex marriage, making it the fifth country in the world and first nation in Africa to do so
• 2018: A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near Anchorage, Alaska
  
  

Weekly Holidays and Observances including November 30, 2021

• Hanukkah (November 28 – December 6)
  
  

November Monthly Holidays and Observances

• Addiction Awareness Month
• AIDS Awareness Month
• Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month
• COPD Awareness Month
• Diabetic Eye Disease Month
• Healthy Lifestyles Month
• Home Care Month
• Hospice Month
• Lung Cancer Awareness Month
• MADD’s Tie One on For Safety Holiday Campaign
• National Adoption Month
• National Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month
• National American Indian Heriatge Month
• National Bladder Health Awareness Month
• National Diabetes Awareness Month
• National Education Month
• National Epilepsy Awareness Month
• National Gratitude Month
• National Healthy Skin Month
• National Hospice Palliative Care Month
• National Inspirational Role Models Month
• National Native American Heritage Month
• National Stomach Cancer Awareness Month
• Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
• World Communication Month
• Advent (November 28 – December 24)