Anniversaries, Holidays, & Observances for November 7, 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

• 1775: Lord Dunmore promised freedom to male slaves who joined the British army
• 1800: Paris made it illegal for women to wear trousers without a Police permit (annulled 2013)
• 1824: St Petersburg experienced its greatest flood, flooding to a depth of 4.2 meters
• 1876: Edward Bouchet became the first African American to receive a Ph.D from a US college (Yale)
• 1893: Colorado accepted women’s suffrage
• 1916: Jeannette Rankin (Montana) became the first woman elected to the US Congress
• 1917: During Russia’s October Revolution, Lenin and the Bolsheviks seized power, captured the Winter Palace, and overthrew the Provisional Government. The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was proclaimed and the first Council of People’s Commissars was formed with Vladimir Lenin as leader and including Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin
• 1918: The 1918 influenza epidemic spread to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 people (about 20% of the population) by year’s end
• 1934: Arthur L. Mitchell (Illinois) became the first African American Democratic US congressman
• 1955: The Supreme Court of Baltimore banned segregation in public recreational areas
• 1970: Race riots occurred in Daytona Beach, Florida
• 1973: US and Egypt announced the restoration of full diplomatic links
• 1978: Marion Barry Jr. was elected as Washington, DC’s first African American mayor
• 1989: New York City elected it’s first African American mayor, David Dinkins
• 1990: Mary Robinson became the first female president elected in Ireland
• 2012: 48 people were killed by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Guatemala
• 2012: Voters in Maine, Maryland, and Washington approved measures for same-sex marriage
• 2015: Sierra Leone was declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization with a final death toll of 4000
• 2017: Danica Roem of Northern Virginia became the first transgender person to be elected to a state legislature in the US
  
  

Weekly Holidays and Observances including November 7, 2021

• World Communication Week (November 1-7)
• National Diabetes Education Week (November 7-13)
• World Kindness Week (November 7-13)
  
  

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