November 2009 Calendar - UN Cyberschoolbus

November 2009
Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1995-2005 United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education
1 National Holiday of Algeria, Antigua & Barbuda Dr. Bernard Kouchner, co-founder of Médicins sans Frontières, 1999 UN administrator in Kosovo, born Avignon, France, 1939	2 Abu Simbel and other 5,000-year-old temples of Egypt saved by UNESCO 1980	3 National Holiday of Dominica, Micronesia, Panama Pope John Paul II called on UN financial institutions to cancel Third World debt 2000	4 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) founded, Paris 1946	5 UN General Assembly set up Middle East peacekeeping force (UNEF) in Egypt 1956	6 UN General Assembly urged comprehensive nuclear test ban 1962	7 DAY OF SOLIDARITY OF UN STAFF WITH DETAINED COLLEAGUES
8 UN salvage of Suez Canal authorized 1956	9 National Holiday of Cambodia UN Relief and Reconstruction Agency (UNRRA), first UN organization, founded in Washington 1943	10 International Whaling Treaty in effect 1948.	11 National Holiday of Angola INTERNATIONAL WEEK OF SCIENCE AND PEACE	12 UN General Assembly asked France not to carry out nuclear tests in the Sahara 1959	13 UN monitored first multiparty elections in Mozambique 1993	14 Sixth UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali born in Cairo, Egypt 1922
15 General Assembly approval of World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) 1947	16 INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR TOLERANCE Constitution adopted by UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Paris 1945	17 UN resolution recommending teaching about UN in schools, 1947	18 National Holiday of Latvia, Oman First international sanctions against war by League of Nations against Italy for invasion of Ethiopia 1936	19 National Holiday of Monaco UN Emblem of globe in olive branch adopted by General Assembly 1946	20 AFRICA INDUSTRIALIZATION DAY UNIVERSAL CHILDREN'S DAY celebrating adoption of Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Child 1963	21 National Holiday of Bosnia and Herzegovina WORLD TELEVISION DAY since 1996
22 National Holiday of Lebanon UN Development Programme (UNDP) set up, Paul Hoffman the first director 1965	23 UNESCO World Heritage Treaty to preserve major natural and human-made works of art, signed 1972	24 Asian Development Bank established by UN Commission for Asia 1966	25 National Holiday of Suriname INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN	26 UN Resolution against Capital Punishment 1968	27 First session of Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Geneva 1946	28 National Holiday of Mauritania, Albania First World Biodiversity Conference, Nassau, Bahamas 1994
29 INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE since 1977	30 National Holiday of Barbados First UN Resolution on Antarctica to demilitarize the area 1953

The year 2002
of the Christian Calendar is:

56 in the United Nations era

1380 in the Persian calendar

1422 in the Muslim calendar

2545 in the Buddhist calendar

2754 in the old Roman calendar

5114 in the Mayan cycle

5762 in the Hebrew calendar

4699, the Year of the "Little Dragon" (Snake) in the Chinese calendar

This United Nations Calendar for Peace is a record of many of humankind's efforts to abolish war
and poverty and to establish a world of peace and prosperity for all, on this small planet.

Information for the UN Calendar of Peace 2002 provided
by UNA-USA Connecticut and UNA-UK Westminster, England.

November 2009

1995-2005 United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education