November 29th-December 5th

 
   

The world this week

 

 

 

Monday

November 29th

 

  Business Nature and conservation  

 

 

 

 

The Monday following Black Friday is the official start of the Christmas online shopping season

USA

 

 

December to April is a good time to see Gray Whales off the American west coast.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday

 November 30th

200 National Celebrations

around the World

       

 

Independence Day

Barbados

 

St Andrews Day

in Scotland

 

 

Bonifacio Day

A holiday in the Philippines to ccommemorates the life of a nationalist hero Andres Bonifacio

 

 

 

 

 

Wednesday

December 1st

 

December's Birthstone is the  turquoise

World

AIDS

Day

200 National Celebrations

around the World

Elections

Birthdays

Mines  

 

Restoration of Independence

Portugal

 

National Day

Rumania

 

 

Presidential elections are scheduled for sometime this month in

Tanzania

and Bolivia

 

Director

Woody Allen

(1935)

 

Target date for removing all landmines from Rwanda

 

 

 

 

Thursday

December 2nd

Religious

200 National Celebrations

around the World

     

 

 

Hanukkah

The Festival of Lights

started at sundown Wednesday

An eight-day holiday commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem,

Jewish homes display the nine-branched Hanukiah.

 

 

 

National Day

 United Arab Emirates

 

 

 

 

 

Friday

December 3rd

 

 

 

         Sport
   

 

 

 

 

Cricket

2nd  Test England v Australia

Adelaide, until 7th

 

Tennis

Davis Cup Final

3days

 

Saturday

December 4th

 

           

 

 

 

 

   

Sunday

December 5th

 

New Moon

 

 

 

200 National Celebrations

around the World

200 National Celebrations

around the World

 

 

Birthdays

 

 

Sinterklaas

Holland

 

 Sinterklaas gives presents to the children.

held the evening before  Saint Nicholas' birthday on the December 6

 

Birthday of the king of

Thailand

 

Discovery Day

Dominica Republic and Haiti

 

 

 

 

Bjumibol Adulyadej

King of Thailand

(1927)

 

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