World Kindness Day

World Kindness Day is observed on 13 November. It was introduced in 1998 by the World Kindness Movement a coalition of nations kindness NGOs. It is observed in many countries, including Canada, Japan, Australia, Nigeria and United Arab Emirates. In 2009, Singapore observed the day for the first time.

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India's National Voters' Day is on

Ans: January 25 

It is started from January 25th 2011.

Holland Tunnel commissioned

Holland Tunnel(is a highway tunnel under the Hudson River connecting the island of Manhattan in New York City with Jersey City, New Jersey at Interstate 78 on the mainland of the United States.) was renamed in memory of its first chief engineer by the New York State Bridge and Tunnel Commission and the New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission on November 12, 1924.

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Place: Kollam

Hugh Everett III

Hugh Everett III was an American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation of quantum physics, which he termed his "relative state" formulation. He was born on November 11, 1930 and died on July 19, 1982.

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Place: Kollam

Election Commission of India was formed on

 Ans: 25 January 1950

Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov

Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov is a Russian small arms designer, most famous for developing the AK-47, AKM, and AK-74 assault rifles. He was born on November 10, 1919.

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Photo: Ananthu Manoharan

Place: Kollam

Reserve Bank of India was established on

Ans: 1 April 1935

Jack William Szostak

Jack William Szostak was born November 9, 1952, he is a Canadian American biologist of Polish British descent and Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School and Alexander Rich Distinguished Investigator at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, along with Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol W. Greider, for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres.

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Photo: Ananthu Manoharan

Place: Kollam

International Day of the Book is the anniversary of the birth and death of

Ans: Shakespeare

World Town Planning Day

The international organisation for World Urbanism Day, also known as "World Town Planning Day", was founded in 1949 and it is celebrated in more than 30 countries on four continents each November 8th. It is a special day to recognise and promote the role of planning in creating livable communities.

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Place: Kollam

World book day is on

Ans: 23 April

Edwin Herbert Hall

Edwin Herbert Hall was an American physicist who discovered the "Hall effect". He was born on November 7, 1855 and died on November 20, 1938. 

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Place: Ooty

Red Fort was constructed by the Mughal emperor

Ans:  Shah Jahan

James Naismith was born on November 6, 1861, he was a Canadian-American sports coach and innovator. He invented the sport of basketball in 1891 and he died on November 28, 1939.

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