November 16·Every year

International Day for Tolerance

UN observance since 1995. UNESCO hands out a Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance — past winners include Father Pedro Opeka and Indian Sufi sheikh Hazrat Inayat Khan's order.

Category: Awareness
Observed in: Franceofficial

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Notable · 2020

The El Dorado Fire in California, United States, was extinguished after 71 days, having destroyed 20 structures and killed one firefighter.

2022Artemis Program: NASA launches Artemis 1 on the first flight of the Space Launch System, the start of the program's future missions to the moon.
2020A Vega rocket carrying SEOSat-Ingenio and TARANIS fails after liftoff.
2009Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-129 to the International Space Station.