November days to mark
1 — All Saints’ Day and Sadie Hawkins Day
Sadie Hawkins Day is an American folk event and pseudo-holiday originated by Al Capp's hillbilly comic strip Li'l Abner (1934–1977). The annual comic strip inspired real-world Sadie Hawkins events, breaking cultural code as women asked men for a date or dancing - pictured in the comic as women running around chasing men.
"Sadie Hawkins Day" was introduced in the comic strip Nov. 15, 1937; the story ran until the beginning of December.
It was revisited the following Oct./Nov. and inspired a fad on college campuses. By 1939, Life reported that 201 colleges in 188 cities held a Sadie Hawkins Day event. (from wikipedia.org)
2 — 2 A.M. is the end of Daylight Saving Time. Set your clocks back one hour on Saturday night at bedtime!
4 — Election Day Don’t forget to vote!
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Missourians go to the polls Nov. 4.
Only a few counties will decide races and issues, with limited questions on the ballots featuring school, county, and citywide issues. (Gasconade County is not on the list. If you live in other areas, go to your county clerk’s office for issues, sample ballots.)
11— Veterans Day
An Act approved May 13, 1938, made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday—a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as “Armistice Day.” Armistice Day was primarily a day set aside to honor Veterans of World War I.
In 1954, after World War II had required the greatest mobilization of soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen in the Nation’s history; after American forces had fought aggression in Korea, the 83rd Congress, at the urging of the Veterans service organizations, amended the Act of 1938 by striking out the word “Armistice” and inserting in its place the word “Veterans.” With the approval of this legislation June 1, 1954, November 11th became a day to honor American Veterans of all wars. (from department.va.gov)
27 — Happy Thanksgiving Day! (The day after Thanksgiving, Nov. 28 this year, is known as Black Friday)
30 — First Sunday of Advent on the Christian calendar
FROM TIMEANDDATE.COM
Nov. 23 — Fibonacci Day
Fibonacci Day, an annual holiday, honors one of the most influential mathematicians of the Middle Ages - Leonardo Bonacci.
It is celebrated because when the date is written in the mm/dd format (11/23), the digits in the date form a Fibonacci sequence: 1,1,2,3. A Fibonacci sequence is a series of numbers where a number is the sum of the two numbers before it. For example: 1, 1, 2, 3...is a Fibonacci sequence.
The Rabbit Question
One of the biggest accomplishments of Leonardo of Pisa, came from a puzzle about rabbit population. In his book Liber acaci, Fibonacci posed this puzzle: if there are a pair of newly born rabbit - male and female in the field - and if they are able to produce another pair of rabbits in their second month of life, how many pairs of rabbits will be there after a year?
Born in 1170 in Pisa, Italy, Fibonacci was also responsible for making the Hindu-Arabic numerals popular in Europe. In Liber acaci he advocated the use of these numerals, explained the use of zero, provided ways to convert between currencies and different measurements, and described how to calculate interest.
Fibonacci in Nature
One of the beauties of the Fibonacci sequence is that the series is evident all over the natural world. Petal arrangements in flowers, ordering of leaves in plants, shell of the nautilus, DNA molecule and even hurricanes show patterns corresponding to the sequence.
