Monday, the 10th of November, 2014 is the 314th day in 2014 and in the 46th calendar week.
General Events:
World Science Day for Peace and Development
November 10, 2014 in the World
The World Science Day for Peace and Development (WSDPD) is annually held on November 10 to raise awareness of the benefits of science worldwide. The WSDPD is also known as World Science Day.
It was recommended at the World Conference on Science in Budapest in 1999 recognition was required for the need for a new compact between science and society. It was discussed at the conference that a World Science Day would help strengthen commitments to attain the Declaration on Science and the Use of Scientific Knowledge’s goals and to pursue the Science Agenda: Framework for Action’s recommendations.
Following the World Conference on Science, UNESCO established the WSDPD through a proclamation at a general conference in 2001. The WSDPD was to be served a reminder of the organization’s mandate and commitment to science. The day was first celebrated on November 10, 2002 and has been held annually on November 10 since then.
Where is World Science Day for Peace and Development?
Worldwide
Forget-MeNot Day
November 10, 2014 in the World
Forget-Me-Not Day is a day to remember family, friends, and loved ones.
People use this day to get in touch with family, friends and loved ones, especially those who we haven’t seen in a while. You don’t want them to forget you, do you!? This day is intended to remember the living. But, some people have used it to memorialize a loved one who is no longer with us.
Where is Forget-Me-Not Day?
Worldwide
National Young Readers Day
November 10, 2014 in the USA
Young Readers Day is today. Reading opens up a lifetime of knowledge, information, success, and happiness. Young Reader’s Day was created to help children go from reading because they have to, to reading because they want to.
According to the creators of this day, it is “… a special day to recognize the joys and benefits of reading.”
Grade schools around the country take advantage of this day, to promote the importance of reading. Use today to help and encourage our youth to learn to read, and open the door to knowledge, information, success, and happiness.
Where is National Young Readers Day?
Nationwide USA
USMC Day 2014
November 10, 2014 in the USA
USMC Day is observed on November 10, 2014. The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is a branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for providing power projection from the sea, using the mobility of the United States Navy to rapidly deliver combined-arms task forces. It is one of seven uniformed services of the United States.
Captain Samuel Nicholas formed two battalions of Continental Marines on 10 November 1775, in Philadelphia as naval infantry. Since then, the mission of the Marine Corps has evolved with changing military doctrine and American foreign policy. The Marine Corps has served in every American armed conflict and attained prominence in the 20th century when its theories and practices of amphibious warfare proved prescient and ultimately formed the cornerstone of the Pacific campaign of World War II.
By the mid-20th century, the Marine Corps had become a major theorist and practitioner of amphibious warfare. Its ability to rapidly respond on short notice to expeditionary crises gives it a strong role in the implementation and execution of American foreign policy.
Where is USMC Day?
Nationwide USA
Historical Events on 10th November:
1444 – Battle at Varna, Black Sea: Sultan Murad II beats crusaders
1674 – Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1775 – Congress forms US Marine Corps
1871 – Henry Morton Stanley in Ujiji, Central Africa, encounters David Livingstone with the immortal words ‘Dr Livingstone, I presume?’
1908 – 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, NS received a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, ON and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
1940 – Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
1945 – Heavy battle in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, celebrated as Heroes’ Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1969 – “Sesame Street” premieres on PBS TV
1975 – Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior
1986 – Bangladeshi Constitution restored
1989 – Germans begin demolishing Berlin Wall
1995 – In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces.
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