Friday, the 7th of November, 2014 is the 311th day in 2014 and in the 45th calendar week.
General Events:
National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
November 7, 2014 in the USA
National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day is celebrated each year on November 7. Lucky you….lucky me.
Chocolate is a vegetable, made from cocoa beans. Almonds are good for you, as they help to improve your Cholesterol levels. So, bittersweet chocolate with almonds is good for you, right!?
There are recent studies that have revealed certain health benefits from eating small quantities of bittersweet chocolate and it is also known of the health benefits of almonds. So pairing the two of them together gives us a delicious and healthy snack to be enjoyed on this fall day.
On this special day, we will not question this logic…will you?
Where is Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day?
Nationwide USA
Historical Events on 7th November:
921 – Treaty of Bonn: East France & West France recognize each other
1492 – The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1631 – Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler
1637 – Anne Hutchinson tried in Massachusetts Bay Colony as a heretic
1775 – Lord Dunmore promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
1811 – Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison defeats the Native Americans of the Tecumesh Confederation
1872 – Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned 4 weeks later
1875 – Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa
1908 – Dutch capture Venezuelan navy
1916 – Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising
1917 – October Revolution (Oct 25 OS) in Russia, Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace, overthrowing Provisional Government
1918 – The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year
1931 – Chinese People’s Republic proclaimed by Mao Zedong
1932 – 1st broadcast of “Buck Rogers in the 25th century” on CBS-radio
1949 – King Faruk disbands Egyptian parliament
1951 – Constitution of Jordan passes
1982 – Turkey adopts constitution
2000 – The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country’s largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.