World Tsunami Awareness Day
In the past 100 years, 58 tsnamis have claimed more than 260,000 lives, or an average of 4,600 per disaster. The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 lone caused an… Read More »World Tsunami Awareness Day
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International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
"... the environment has often remained the unpublicized victim of war. Water wells have been polluted, crops torched, forests cut down, soils poisoned, and animals killed to gain military advantage.… Read More »International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
1907: Harvester minimum wage judgement by Justice Higgins
"In 1907 Justice Henry Bourne Higgins, President of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Court, set the first federally arbitrated wages standard in Australia. Higgins’s ruling became the basis for setting… Read More »1907: Harvester minimum wage judgement by Justice Higgins
1989: Opening of the Berlin Wall
"On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a change in his city’s relations with the… Read More »1989: Opening of the Berlin Wall
Saint Leo the Great
"At a time when there is widespread criticism of Church structures, we also hear criticism that bishops and priests—indeed, all of us—are too preoccupied with administration of temporal matters. Pope… Read More »Saint Leo the Great
World Science Day for Peace and Development
By linking science more closely with society, World Science Day for Peace and Development aims to ensure that citizens are kept informed of developments in science. It also underscores the… Read More »World Science Day for Peace and Development
1995: Execution of nine Nigerian environmentalists and human rights activists
On this day in 1995, writer and human rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed in Nigeria despite worldwide pleas for clemency. The country's military rulers ordered the execution of Mr… Read More »1995: Execution of nine Nigerian environmentalists and human rights activists
Remembrance (Armistice) Day, commemorating the end of World War I in 1918
"At 11 am on 11 November 1918 the guns on the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of continuous warfare... The 11th hour of the 11th day of… Read More »Remembrance (Armistice) Day, commemorating the end of World War I in 1918
1975: Dismissal of the Whitlam Government
"On 11 November 1975, after a series of dramatic events including a 1974 double dissolution and a budgetary supply crisis, the Gough Whitlam-led federal Labor government became the first (and… Read More »1975: Dismissal of the Whitlam Government
Saint Josaphat
In 1595, the Orthodox bishop of Brest-Litovsk in present-day Belarus and five other bishops representing millions of Ruthenians, sought reunion with Rome. John Kunsevich — who took the name Josaphat… Read More »Saint Josaphat