November
2
World
Pneumonia Day
November
2, 2009, marks the first-ever World Pneumonia
Day. Pneumonia is a preventable and treatable
disease, but it still remains the number-one
killer of children in the developing world.
Pneumonia kills more than 2 million children
under 5 each year – more than HIV/AIDS, malaria,
and measles combined. The United States and
countries around the world are observing this
day as an opportunity to raise global awareness
of pneumonia and reaffirm the commitment to
save the lives of children.
On
World Pneumonia Day, the United States unites
with countries and communities across the
globe in the fight against pneumonia. We commemorate
World Pneumonia Day with the hope of a better
future for all children. Celebrations of the
Day will kick off with a Global Pneumonia
Summit in New York City gathering scientists,
political leaders, donors, and public health
organizations to discuss pneumonia prevention,
treatment, and other ways to protect children.
Events
1410
– The Peace of Bicêtre between the Armagnac
and Burgundian factions is signed.
1570 – A tsunami in the North Sea devastates
the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing
more than 1,000 people.
1675 – King Philip's War: A combined effort
by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts
Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great
Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts.
1769 – Don Gaspar de Portolà leads the first
documented European visit to San Francisco
Bay.
1772 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel
Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee
of Correspondence.
1783 – In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General
George Washington gives his "Farewell
Address to the Army".
1795 – The French Directory succeeds the French
National Convention as the government of Revolutionary
France.
1861 – American Civil War: Western Department
Union General John C. Fremont is relieved
of command and replaced by David Hunter.
1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts
a standard time to be observed nationally
1882 – Oulu, Finland is devastated by the
Great Oulu Fire of 1882
1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted
as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1895 – The first gasoline-powered race in
the United States. First prize: $2,000
1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University
of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading
the crowd in cheering on the football team.
1899 – The Boers begin their 118 day siege
of British held Ladysmith during the Second
Boer War.
1909 – Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded
at Boston University.
1914 – Russia declares war on the Ottoman
Empire.
1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British
support for the "establishment in Palestine
of a national home for the Jewish people"
with the clear understanding "that nothing
shall be done which may prejudice the civil
and religious rights of existing non-Jewish
communities".
1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first
commercial radio station. The first broadcast
is the result of the U.S. presidential election,
1920.
1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of
Ethiopia.
1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
is established.
1936 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims
the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance
of the Axis Powers.
1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation
initiates the BBC Television Service, the
world's first regular, "high-definition"
(then defined as at least 200 lines) service.
Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs
to this day.
1940 – World War II: First day of Battle of
Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes
performs the maiden (and only) flight of the
Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest
fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference
ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer
sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the
United States of Indonesia.
1953 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan
names the country The Islamic Republic of
Pakistan.
1957 – The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland,
Texas, generates national publicity.
1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game
show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to
a Congressional committee that he had been
given questions and answers in advance.
1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway,
the first inter-urban motorway in the United
Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions
5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and
M45 motorway
1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of
obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case
1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Ðình
Diệm is assassinated following a military
coup.
1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed
by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother
King Faisal.
1965 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker,
sets himself on fire in front of the river
entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use
of napalm in the Vietnam war.
1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into
force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity
to apply for permanent residence in the United
States.
1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B.
Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude
that the American people should be given more
optimistic reports on the progress of the
war.
1973 – The Communist Party of India (Marxist)
and the Communist Party of India form a 'United
Front' in the state of Tripura.
1974 – 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in
Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the
victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh
floor after a club official barred the doors
after the fire started.
1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs
a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield
becomes the first woman executed in the United
States since 1962.
1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed
computer worm to gain significant mainstream
media attention, is launched from MIT.
2000 – The first resident crew to the ISS
docked in November 2nd on the Soyuz TM-31.
2007 – 50,000–100,000 people demonstrate against
the Georgian government in Tbilisi.
Holidays
and observances
All
Souls Day (Roman Catholic and Anglican Church),
and its related observances:
Dia de Finados or Dia dos Fiéis Defuntos (Brazil
and Portugal)
Christian Feast Day:
Victorinus of Pettau
Coronation of Haile Selassie (Rastafari movement)
All Souls Day or Day of the Dead is the Día
de los Difuntos in Spain.
Day of the Dead, The second day of Day of
the Dead or El Dia de los Muertos celebration.
(Mexico)
Earliest day on which Election Day can fall,
while November 8 is the latest; celebrated
on Tuesday following the first Monday in November
of every even numbered year (United States)
Indian Arrival Day (Mauritius)
Karatsu Kunchi (Karatsu, Saga)
Statehood Day (North Dakota and South Dakota)
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