November
16
World
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day
World COPD Day is a global effort to expand understanding of
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and advocate for
better care for patients. Currently 210 million people have
the illness, according to 2007 WHO estimates. WHO predicts that
COPD will become the third leading cause of death worldwide
by 2030. Key risk factors for COPD are tobacco smoking, indoor
and outdoor air pollution, and exposure to occupational dusts
and chemicals.
World COPD
Day is an annual event organized by the Global Initiative for
Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) to improve awareness
and care of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) around
the world. World COPD Day 2010 took place on November 17 around
the theme "2010 - The Year of the Lung: Measure your lung
health - Ask your doctor about a simple breathing test called
spirometry."
November
16 : International Day for Tolerance In
1996, the UN General Assembly (by resolution 51/95) invited
UN Member States to observe the International Day for Tolerance
on 16 November, with activities directed towards both educational
establishments and the wider public.
This action
came in the wake of the United Nations Year for Tolerance, 1995,
proclaimed by the General Assembly in 1993 (by resolution 48/126).
The Year had been declared on the initiative of the General
Conference of UNESCO.
On 16 November
1995, UNESCO Member States had adopted the Declaration of Principles
on Tolerance and Follow-up Plan of Action for the Year.
The 2005
World Summit Outcome document (A/RES/60/1), outlines the commitment
of Heads of State and Government to advance human welfare, freedom
and progress everywhere, as well as to encourage tolerance,
respect, dialogue and cooperation among different cultures,
civilizations and peoples.
Events
534 – A
second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
1272 – While travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward
becomes King of England upon Henry III of England's death, but
he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume
the throne.
1491 – An auto-da-fé, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside
of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia
with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
1532 – Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture
Fort Washington from the Patriots.
1776 – American Revolution: the United Provinces (Low Countries)
recognize the independence of the United States.
1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern – Russian forces
under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under
Murat.
1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives
in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the
Santa Fe Trail.
1849 – A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death
for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual
group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the
asteroid 22 Kalliope.
1857 – Second relief of Lucknow – twenty-four Victoria Crosses
are awarded, the most in a single day.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near
Knoxville, Tennessee – Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack
Union forces.
1885 – Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of
Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for treason.
1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent
for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form
Oklahoma, that is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
1907 – Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania, sister ship of RMS Lusitania,
sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New
York City.
1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially
opens.
1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert
Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
1940 – World War II: in response to the leveling of Coventry,
England by Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal
Air Force bombs Hamburg.
1940 – Holocaust: in occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the
Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
1943 – World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric
power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled
Vemork, Norway.
1944 – Operation Queen, the costly Allied thrust to the Rur
river was launched
1944 – Dueren, Germany is destroyed by Allied bombers.
1945 – Cold War: Operation Paperclip – the United States Army
secretly admits 88 German scientists and engineers to help in
the development of rocket technology.
1945 – UNESCO is founded.
1965 – Venera program: the Soviet Union launches the Venera
3 space probe toward Venus, that will be the first spacecraft
to reach the surface of another planet.
1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of
three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day
mission.
1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline
Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of
the Alaska Pipeline.
1979 – The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened
from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
1988 – The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic
declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short
of declaring independence.
1988 – In the first open election in more than a decade, voters
in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime
Minister of Pakistan.
1989 – A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kills
six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
1992 – The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric
Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.
1997 – After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's
Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident,
from jail for medical reasons.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Edmund of Abingdon
Eucherius of Lyon
Gertrude the Great (Roman Catholic church)
Lebuinus
Margaret of Scotland
Matthew the Evangelist (Eastern Christianity)
Saint Othmar
November 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Day of Declaration of Sovereignty (Estonia)
Day of Repentance and Prayer or Buß- und Bettag (the Protestant
church bodies of Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist) and United.
A school holiday in Saxony and Bavaria)
Icelandic Language Day or Dagur íslenskrar tungu (Iceland)
International Day for Tolerance (International)
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