Though skies may be getting grey and the days getting chilly, November is warm with family traditions as folks get together to celebrate Thanksgiving. But November babies have much more to celebrate besides this best-known holiday. There’s lots of patriotic stuff going on, such as the Marine Corps birthday on the 10th, Veteran’s Day on the 11th, and of course Election Day (not always the first Tuesday, but the Tuesday after the first Monday). The Great American Smokeout is on the 20th, so give your butts the boot! Here are some other things to celebrate:
Monthly Observances
November is National Adoption Month,
and also the national month for AIDS awareness, Alzheimer’s
disease, American Indian heritage, COPD awareness, family caregivers,
Georgia pecans, home care & hospice, impotency, inspirational
role models, life writing, marrow awareness, novel writing, peanut
butter lovers, pet cancer awareness, pomegranates, roasting and
scholarship (or is it scholarships?)
Furthermore, November has also been
chosen the official month of diabetes, aviation history, epilepsy
awareness, family stories, gluten-free diet awareness, and military
family appreciation, as well as being something called Celebrate
Empty Nesters Month, so take some recently unburdened parents out for
a night on the town!
Weirdest Holiday: This month,
there is a three-way tie: Plan Your Epitaph Day (2nd),
Cliché Day (3rd), and Abet and Aid Punsters Day (8th),
so plan to include a pun on a cliché in your epitaph, is what I say.
Sample: Here lies John, a vegetarian and pacifist. All he was
saying is give peas a chance.
November Traditions
Flower: chrysanthemum –
cheerfulness, friendship
Birthstone: topaz, citrine -
fidelity Scorpio’s gem: smoky quartz
Zodiac sign: Scorpio (1- 22) and
Sagittarius (23-30; see December for details). Despite its sometimes
fiery nature, Scorpio is a water sign, with the
characteristics of intuition and adaptability (think of water quickly
taking the shape of its container). Scorpios are passionate and
loyal, but tend to be sensitive and oh, that tail has a sting! Try
not to take things personally, now. Best friends: Pisces and Cancer.
Best love matches: Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn.
Famous Birthdays: Aishwarya Rai (1st), Marie
Antoinette (2nd), Adam Ant (3rd), Erasmus James (4th),Vivian Leigh (5th), Sally
Field (6th), Marie Curie (7th), Katharine
Hepburn (8th), Nick Lachey (9th), Tracy Morgan (10th), Demi Moore (11th), Grace Kelly (12th), Paul Simon
(13th), Condoleezza Rice (14th), Kevin Eubanks (15th), Maggie Gyllenhaal (16th), Rock Hudson (17th), Owen Wilson (18th), Indira Gandhi
(19th), Robert F Kennedy (20th), Voltaire
(21st), Scarlett Johansson (22nd), Billy the Kid (23rd), Katherine Heigl (24th), Tina Turner (25th), Charles M Schulz
(26th), Bill Nye (27th), William Blake (28th), Vin Scully (29th). Mark Twain
(30th).
Catholic Feast Days
1-Feast of All Saints, St Marcel of
Paris, St Mathurin
2 – Feast of All Souls
3- Feast of Ste Alpais, St Hubert, St
Malachy O’More, St Martin de Porres, St Pirminus, St Rumwald, Ste
Winifred
4 – Feast of St Americus, St Charles
Borromeo
5 – Feast of Ste Elizabeth, St Kay
6 – Feast of St Leonard, St Winnoc
7 – Feast of St Florentius, St
Willibrord
8 – Feast of The Four Crowned Martyrs
9- Feast of St Benen, St Theodore the
Recruit
10- Feast of St Aedh Mac Breic, St
Andrew Avellino, St Leo the Great, Ste Nympha
11-Feast of St Martin of Tours, St
mennas, St Astericus
12-Feast of St Emilian, St josephat, St
lebuin
13-Feast of Ste Agostina Pietrantoni,
St Brice, St Diego Alcalá, Ste Francis Cabrini, St Homobonus, St
Nicholas I, St Pontian, St Stanislaus Kostka
14-Feast of St Lawrence O’Toole
15-Feast of St Albert the Great, St
Leopold, St Zachary
16-Feast of Ste Gertrude the Great, Ste
Margaret of Scotland
17-Feast of Ste Elizabeth of Hungary,
Ste Hilda, St Gregory the Wonder Worker, St Hugh of Lincoln, Ste Rose
Phillippine Duchesne
18-Feast of St Odo of Cluny, the
Blessed Miguel Pro
19-Feast of St Nerses I, St Anastasius
II
20-Feast of St Bernward
21-Feast of Mary, Queen of Peace (El
Salvador); St Gelasius
22-Feast of Ste Cecilia
23-Feast of St Clement, St Columbanus
24-Feast of Stes Flora & Mary
25-Feast of Ste Catherine of
Alexandria, St Mercury
26-Feast of St John Berchmans
27-Feast of St Maximus, St Francis
Antony Fasani
28-Feast of St James of the Marches, St
Stephen the Younger, Ste Catherine Labouré
29-Feast of Dorothy Day
30-Feast of St Andrew
Don’t have a November birthday? Check
out these other months:
February - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/02/your-february-birthday-february.html
March - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/03/your-march-birthday-march-holidays.html
April - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/03/your-april-birthday-april-holidays.html
May - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/05/your-may-birthday-may-holidays.html
June - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2017/05/your-june-birthday-holidays-traditions.html
July - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2017/07/your-july-birthday-july-holidays.html
August - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/07/your-august-birthday-august-holidays.html
September - https://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2019/08/your-september-birthday-september.html
October - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/09/your-october-birthday-october-holidays.html
December - http://bucketofuseful.blogspot.com/2016/12/your-december-birthday-december.html
Image of chrysanthemum from Pixabay https://pixabay.com/en/chrysanthemums-composites-blossom-2793019/
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