November
10
World
Science Day for Peace and Development
Proclaimed by the UNESCO General Conference ( Resolution 31C/
20) in 2001, the World Science Day for Peace and Development
is an annual event celebrated all over the world to recall the
commitment made at the UNESCO-ICSU World Conference on Science
(Budapest 1999).
The purpose
of the World Science Day for Peace and Development is to renew
the national, as well as the international commitment to science
for peace and development and to stress the responsible use
of science for the benefit of society. The World Science Day
for Peace and Development also aims at raising public awareness
of the importance of science and to bridge the gap between science
and societies.
The theme
for 2018 is “Science, a Human Right”, in celebration of the
70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(art. 27), and of the Recommendation on Science and Scientific
Researchers.
"This
World Science Day for Peace and Development 2018, UNESCO urges
everyone to exercise their human right to participate in and
benefit from science.
This right
is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which
celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, but it is only when
we use this right to join and support scientific endeavours
that we can transition to stronger science and reinforce scientific
culture in our societies.
UNESCO also
calls on governments, businesses, civil society and scientists
to fully embrace the values of responsible and ethical science,
by fully implementing the 2017 UNESCO Recommendation on Science
and Scientific Researchers.
Events
1293 – Raden
Wijaya is crowned as the first monarch of Majapahit kingdom
of Java, taking throne name Kertarajasa Jayawardhana.
1444 – Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus
III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of
Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus
is killed.
1520 – Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in
the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
1619 – René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations
on First Philosophy.
1659 – Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj, Maratha King kills Afzal
Khan, Adilshahi in the battle popularly known as Battle of Pratapgarh.
This is also recognised as the first defence of Swarajya
1674 – Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster,
Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
1702 – English colonists besiege Spanish St. Augustine in Queen
Anne's War.
1766 – The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin,
signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers
University).
1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern
in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
1793 – A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention
at the suggestion of Chaumette.
1821 – Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los
Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which lead to Panama's
independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part
of Colombia
1847 – The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick
fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110
on board. The disaster results in the construction of the Fastnet
Rock lighthouse.
1865 – Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp
in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American
Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
1871 – Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary,
Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously
greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
1898 – Beginning of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the
only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in
US history.
1910 – The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego
Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is
November 23, 1910.
1918 – The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova
Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that
would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario and Washington, DC) that said
on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and
in the air.
1919 – The first national convention of the American Legion
is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ending on November 12.
1940 – The 1940 Vrancea earthquake strikes Romania killing an
estimated 1,000 and injuring approximately 4,000 more.
1942 – World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following
French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with
the Allies in North Africa.
1944 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler
Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and
wounding 371.
1945 – Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists
and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated
as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
1951 – Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in
the United States.
1954 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC
War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.
1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution
by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
1969 – National Educational Television (the predecessor to the
Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the
children's television program Sesame Street.
1970 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – For the first time in five
years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat
fatalities in Southeast Asia.
1970 – The Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 is launched.
1971 – In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom
Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging
nine aircraft.
1972 – Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is
hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into
the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers
are jailed by Fidel Castro.
1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks
during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
1975 – United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General
Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism
(the resolution is repealed in December 1991 by Resolution 4686).
1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive
and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails
in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime
evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North
American history.
1984 – The first Breeders' Cup takes place at Hollywood Park
Racetrack.
1989 – Longtime leader of the People's Republic of Bulgaria
Todor Zhivkov is removed from office and replaced by Petar Mladenov.
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.
1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion
merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
2006 – Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj is
assassinated in Colombo.
2006 – The National Museum of the Marine Corps is opened and
dedicated by U.S. President George W. Bush and announces that
Marine Corporal Jason Dunham will receive the Medal of Honor
in Quantico, Virginia.
2007 – ¿Por qué no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos
of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Andrew Avellino
Justus
Pope Leo I
November 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Cry of Independence Day (Panama)
Day of Remembrance of Ataturk (Turkey)
Day of Russian Militsiya (Russia)
Day of Tradition or Día de la Tradición, celebrated on the birthday
of José Hernández (Argentina, especially San Antonio de Areco)
Heroes' Day or Hari Pahlawan (Indonesia)
United States Marine Corps birthday ball (United States)
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