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Today is the 4th day of the 45th week, the 7th day of the 11th month, the 311th day of 2018, and:
Diwali
Employee Brotherhood Day
Hug a Bear Day
International Merlot Day
International Stress Awareness Day
Little League Girls Day
National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day
National Eating Healthy Day
Notary Public Day
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ON THIS DAY IN ...
335 – Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.
1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1775 – John Murray, the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.
1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.
1861 – The first Melbourne Cup horse race is held in Melbourne, Australia.
1874 – A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party.
1885 – The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
1907 – Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.
1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia.
1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1911 - Marie Curie became the first multiple Nobel Prize winner when she was given the award for chemisty eight years after garnering the physics prize with her late husband, Pierre. (She remains the only woman with multiple Nobels and the only person to receive the award in two science categories.)
1912 – The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1914 – The first issue of The New Republic is published.
1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
1949 – The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
1954 – In the US, Armistice Day becomes Veterans Day.
1967 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1973 – The United States Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval.
1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
Today Hindus are celebrating the third day of Diwali, the Festival of Lights that marks the victory of light over dark, of good over evil. It is a day of feasting and celebrations, both family and community.
In the aftermath of a contentious election with the certainty of more disruption and acrimony ahead, it is good to take a moment and celebrate the good in the world!
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