UN
Day
International
Day for Tolerance
Events
of the day
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."
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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