Monday, the 17th of November, 2014 is the 321th day in 2014 and in the 47th calendar week.
General Events:
World Peace Day
November 17, 2014 in the World
World Peace Day is celebrated on November 17, 2014. Peace is a sign of harmony characterized by the lack of violence, conflict behaviors and the freedom from fear of violence. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility, peace also suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the establishment of equality, and a working political order that serves the true interests of all.
Many different theories of “peace” exist in the world of peace studies, which involves the study of conflict transformation, disarmament, and cessation of violence. The definition of “peace” can vary with religion, culture, or subject of study.
One definition is that peace is a state of balance and understanding in yourself and between others, where respect is gained by the acceptance of differences, tolerance persists, conflicts are resolved through dialog, people’s rights are respected and their voices are heard, and everyone is at their highest point of serenity without social tension.
Where is World Peace Day?
Worldwide
World Prematurity Day
November 17, 2014 in the World
World Prematurity Day is an observance held on the 17th of November. Approximately 15 million babies are born prematurely each year accounting for more than one in 10 of all babies born worldwide.
It is estimated that the world’s 39 highest-income countries could cut around 58 000 premature births annually by implementing interventions to prevent preterm births, amounting to roughly US$3.0 billion in economic cost savings. World Prematurity Day aims to raise awareness for prematurity and the concerns of preterm babies and their families worldwide because infants born preterm represent the largest child patient group.
World Prematurity day was started in 2011 by the European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI), March of Dimes, Africa-based Little Big Souls International Foundation, and the National Premmie Foundation of Australia and has since been taken place in more than 50 countries.
Where is World Prematurity Day?
Worldwide
International Students’ Day
November 17, 2014 in the World
International Students’ Day is observed on November 17, 2014. International Students’ Day is an international observance of student community. Taking the day differently than its original meaning, a number of universities mark it, sometimes on a day other than November 17, for a nonpolitical celebration of the multiculturalism of their international students. The date commemorates the anniversary of the 1939 Nazi storming of the University of Prague after demonstrations against the killing of Jan Opletal and worker Václav Sedlá?ek as well as against the occupation of Czechoslovakia, and the execution of nine student leaders, over 1,200 students sent to concentration camps, and the closure of all Czech universities and colleges.
Where is Students’ Day?
Worldwide
Homemade Bread Day
November 17, 2014 in the World
Homemade Bread Day takes place on November 17, 2014. Bread is a staple food prepared by baking a dough of flour and water. It is popular around the world and is one of the world’s oldest foods. Fresh bread is prized for its taste, aroma, quality, appearance and texture. Retaining its freshness is important to keep it appetizing. Bread that has stiffened or dried past its prime is said to be stale.
Doughs are usually baked, but in some cuisines breads are steamed, fried, or baked on an unoiled frying pan. It may be leavened or unleavened. Salt, fat and leavening agents such as yeast and baking soda are common ingredients, though bread may contain other ingredients, such as milk, egg, sugar, spice, fruit, vegetables, nuts or seeds.
Referred to colloquially as the “staff of life”, bread has been prepared for at least 30,000 years. The development of leavened bread can probably also be traced to prehistoric times. Sometimes, the word bread refers to a sweetened loaf cake, often containing appealing ingredients like dried fruit, chocolate chips, nuts or spices, such as pumpkin bread, banana bread or gingerbread.
The invention of the bread-maker has taken a lot of the effort out of baking, meaning that there is no reason why everyone shouldn’t enjoy home-made bread, which is often of much higher quality than the stuff you can buy in a shop. Home-baked bread is often healthier, higher in fibre and lower in salt and additives than commercial varieties, and the recipe can be modified to suit the maker’s tastes, with grains, spices or other additions.
Where is Homemade Bread Day?
Worldwide
Natural Events:
Peak of Leonid meteor shower
November 17, 2014 in the World
The maximum of the Leonid activity in 2014 is expected during the night of the 17th November 2014. The Leonids are a prolific meteor shower. It tends to peak around November 17, but some are spread through several days on either side and the specific peak changing every year.
Conversely, young trails are spatially very dense and the cause of meteor storms when the Earth enters one. Usual counts during a storm exceed 1000 meteors per hour, to be compared to the annual background (1 to 2 meteors per hour) and the shower background (a few per hour).
A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate from one point in the night sky. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth’s atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories. Most meteors are smaller than a grain of sand, so almost all of them disintegrate and never hit the Earth’s surface.
Where is Peak of Leonid meteor shower?
The sky Worldwide
Historical Events on 17th November:
1278 – 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins
1292 – (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scots.
1558 – Elizabeth I aged 42 ascends English throne upon death of her half sister “Bloody” Mary
1798 – -21) Snow storms in New England, hundreds die
1831 – Ecuador and Venezuela were separated from Greater Colombia.
1855 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe.
1869 – Suez Canal (Egypt) opens, links Mediterranean & Red seas
1903 – In the Treaty of Petropolis, Bolivia cedes the territory of Arce to Brazil; Bolivia gains rail and water outlets in the east
1914 – US declares Panama Canal Zone neutral
1922 – The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire Mehmed VI is expelled to Malta on British warship
1933 – United States recognizes Soviet Union, opens trade
1953 – The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland.
1966 – Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour)
1969 – SALT-discussions open in Helsinki Finland
1970 – Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.
1973 – Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed
1992 – Erling Kagge begins successful exploration at South pole
1996 – Time White and T. Assebework discover the first fossils of 2.5 million year old Australopithecus garhi, an ancestor on the human family tree, in Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia
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