Holidays and Observances:

8: China's Journalists Day.

9: National Day for Fire Safety Education.

11: International Week of Science and Peace, which takes place each year during the week in which November 11 falls.

14: World Diabetes Day, is the primary global awareness campaign of the diabetes world. It was introduced in 1991 by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) in response to the alarming rise in diabetes around the world. In 2007, the United Nations marked the Day for the first time with the passage of the United Nations World Diabetes Day Resolution in December 2006, which made the existing World Diabetes Day an official United Nations World Health Day.

17: International Students' Day, a day of international student solidarity. It was established in 1941 in London at an international meeting of students from countries struggling against fascism in memory of the Czechoslovakian students, the heroes of the Resistance. On Nov. 17, 1939, many of the leaders of the Union of Students of Czechoslovakia were arrested and shot by the fascist German occupation authorities. More than a thousand students and teachers from the higher educational institutions were sent to a concentration camp, and the higher educational institutions were closed. The first International Students' Day was observed in 1941.

20: Universal Children's Day. The United Nation General Assembly recommended in 1954 that all countries institute a Universal Children's Day, to be observed as a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between children and of activity promoting the welfare of the world's children. The date of November 20 marks the day in which the Assembly adopted the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in 1989.

21: World Hello Day

21: World Television Day

22: New Year Festival of Qiang ethnic minority, celebrated on the 1st of the 10th lunar month. The Qiangs, who primarily live in southwest China's Sichuan Province, offer sacrifices to their ancestors and deities, sending New Year greetings, and enjoy various forms of entertainment.

25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, designated by the UN General Assembly on Dec. 17, 1999 to raise public awareness of the problem. Women's activists have marked Nov. 25 as a day against violence since 1981. The date came from the brutal 1961 assassination of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, on orders of Dominican ruler Rafael Trujillo.

27: Thanksgiving Day, celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November.