Birth Anniversary of Marie Curie

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Birth Anniversary of James Naismith

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Chittaranjan Das' Birth Anniversary

Chittaranjan Das, born on 5 November 1870, Kolkata, popularly called Deshbandhu (friend of the country), was a Bengali freedom fighter, political activist and lawyer during the Indian Independence Movement and mentor of Subhas Chandra Bose. He was the founder-leader of the Swaraj Party in undivided Bengal during the period of British Colonial rule in India. His name is abbreviated as C. R. Das. He was closely associated with a number of literary societies and wrote poems, apart from numerous articles and essays.

 

Ritwik Ghatak's Birth Anniversary

Ritwik Ghatak, born on 4 November 1925, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, was a noted Bengali filmmaker and script writer. Along with prominent contemporary Bengali filmmakers Satyajit Ray and Mrinal Sen, his cinema is primarily remembered for its meticulous depiction of social reality, partition and feminism. Although their roles were often adversarial, they were ardent admirers of each other's work and, in doing so, the three directors charted the independent trajectory of parallel cinema, as a counterpoint to the mainstream fare of Hindi cinema in India. Ghatak received many awards in his career, including National Film Award's Rajat Kamal Award for Best Story in 1974 for his Jukti Takko Aar Gappo and Best Director's Award from Bangladesh Cine Journalist's Association for Titash Ekti Nadir Naam. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri for Arts in 1970.

World Sandwich Day

 

World Sandwich Day is celebrated annually on November 3^rd. The day is held in honour of John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, an 18th-century English aristocrat. As the story goes, he was an avid gambler and would not leave the card table for meals. To eat without interrupting his game or getting his fingers greasy, he asked his servants to place meat between two slices of bread. His friends began ordering "the same as Sandwich," and the meal quickly gained popularity, eventually spreading worldwide and giving the dish its name. 

Arrival of Indentured Labourers in Mauritius in 1834

On November 2nd, Mauritius commemorates the Arrival of Indentured Labourers, a significant national public holiday that marks the beginning of large-scale Indian immigration to the island. 

On this date in 1834, the British ship Atlas arrived in Port Louis carrying the first batch of 36 Indian indentured workers (known as "girmitiyas") from Kolkata, India, to work on the sugar plantations following the abolition of slavery. This event fundamentally shaped the country's demographics and cultural identity, as people of Indian origin now comprise over 68% of the Mauritian population.

All Saints' Day

All Saints' Day is a Christian feast celebrated on November 1st in Western Christianity to honour all saints, both known and unknown. Following All Hallows' Eve (Halloween) and preceding All Souls' Day, it is part of a three-day observance known as Allhallowtide dedicated to remembering the dead.