First week of November, 2016 Calendar with holidays, observances and special days

All Saints’ Day, also known as All Hallows, Day of All the Saints, Solemnity of All Saints, or Feast of All Saints is a festival celebrated on 1 November by the Latin Chu..→

David Hamilton Jackson (1884-1946) was a United States Virgin Islands civil rights leader. At the time of his birth, the Territory was under the rule of Danish West Indie..→

Epilepsy awareness month; Omega psi phi month; Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Awareness Month and Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Awareness Month. 5.2260 Epilepsy awarene..→

World Vegan Day is an annual event celebrated on 1 November, by vegans around the world. The Day was established in 1994 by Louise Wallis, then President & Chair of T..→

All Souls’ Day, in Christianity, is a day commemorating the faithful departed, in particular but not exclusively one’s relatives. In Western Christianity the annual celeb..→

In 2014, 61 journalists lost their lives as a result of their profession. More than 137 journalists have been killed in the OSCE region since 1997. According to the fort..→

Citizenship means to be a member of a nation or country, and to have full rights and responsibilities under the law. In the United States there are three ways to become a..→

Recalling the Sendai Declaration and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030, adopted at the Third United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Red..→

Though mankind has always counted its war casualties in terms of dead and wounded soldiers and civilians, destroyed cities and livelihoods, the environment has often rema..→