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2006-11-30 09:16:53 · 15 answers · asked by Sprinkle 5 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
Its St Andrews day.
2006-11-30 09:18:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is the day of celebration for Saint Andrew the Patron Saint of Scotland (not of England). (England is St George, Wales St David and Ireland St Patrick). A day which the Scottish Parliament did not deem important enough to declare as a National holiday. They decided it would be a voluntary Public Holiday. How many companies are going to give us a holiday? Not many.
I would quite happily give up the May day or the October holiday for a National Holiday.
2006-11-30 09:40:04 · answer #2 · answered by dunfie 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apart from being St Andrews Day, this also happened;
1988
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is refused a visa to enter the United States of America where he was planning to address the UN General Assembly.
1962
Burmese statesman U Thant is elected Secretary General of the United Nations.
1956
American boxer Floyd Paterson becomes the youngest ever world heavyweight champion.
1955
First floodlit football match at Wembley between England and Spain.
1954
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is presented with a controversial portrait by English artist Graham Sutherland which was destroyed on the instruction of Lady Churchill.
1939
World War II: Russia invades Finland.
1936
The Crystal Palace at Sydenham in London, originally built in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851, is destroyed by fire.
1913
English-born actor Charlie Chaplin makes his film debut in Mack Sennett's 'Making A Living'.
1872
In Glasgow, the first international football match is played between England and Scotland and ends in a 0-0 draw.
1840
The remains of Napoleon Bonaparte are returned from the island of St Helena, where he died in exile, to Paris.
1936
Australian singer Frank Ifield.
1914
English comedy actor Charles Hawtry.
1874
Sir Winston Churchill, a descendent of the Duke of Marlborough, is born at Blenheim Palace, the son of leading politician Sir Randolph Churchill. He enters Parliament after military service (including a dramatic escape from a prison camp during the Boer War). Becomes Prime Minister of a National Government shortly after the start of World War II. Dies in 1965.
1835
American writer Mark Twain - pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens - born in Missouri. First a printer, a Mississippi river-boat pilot and then a journalist, he becomes famous for two books : 'Tom Sawyer' (1876) and 'Huckleberry Finn' (1884). Dies in 1910.
1667
English satirical writer Jonathan Swift.
1981
American actress Natalie Wood.
1979
English actress Joyce Grenfell, aged 69.
1979
American comedian Zeppo Marx, aged 78.
1900
Irish writer Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde in Paris aged 44. Writer of witty social comedies: e.g. Lady Windermere's Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). His only novel: The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891).
2006-11-30 10:03:19 · answer #3 · answered by David D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Today is St Andrew's Day - patron saint of Scotland.
2006-11-30 09:48:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 1874 sir Winston Churchill was born.
1900 Oscar Wilde died
Both great men.
2006-11-30 09:28:19 · answer #5 · answered by ag 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
St Andrews Day, Patron saint of scotland.
2006-11-30 09:21:14 · answer #6 · answered by Jude 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is St Andrews Day + Last day of Month-going into Advent-December.
30 days hath November
2006-11-30 09:19:38 · answer #7 · answered by S O 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
St Andrews Day! Cheers from SCOTLAND!
2006-11-30 09:18:06 · answer #8 · answered by puffy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nothing to the Englist. Its something for the island up north tho
2006-11-30 09:25:55 · answer #9 · answered by Kevin-------------UK 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
nothing but for the scots its st andrews day
2006-11-30 09:20:36 · answer #10 · answered by TINYTI 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋