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Monday 21 Nov 2016



Human-Animal Relationship Awareness Week



The Animals and Society Institute, an organization that studies and promotes human-animal relationships, will be celebrating our first ever Human-Animal Relationship Awareness Week, in the second week of November (November 13-19, 2016).

We would be very grateful if you would list this on your calendar of animal-related holidays.

The goal for this week is to raise awareness of the importance of human-animal relationships, and to highlight both the benefits of, and potential problems associated with, these relationships.

ASI’s goal is to improve and expand knowledge about the variety of human-animal relationships in order to order to create safer and more compassionate communities for all—people and animals. We have a variety of educational messages that we will be unveiling that week, as well as some exciting opportunities for people who want to get involved.



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World Television Day



The first World Television Forum was staged by the United Nations in the mid ’90s, and it was out of this event that World Television Day was born.

The forum brought together leading figures from the media industry to analyze the growing impact that TV had on decision-making and public opinion when it comes to issues of peace and security around the planet.

The History of World Television Day

In December 1996 the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the 21st of November World Television Day, the same year the first World Television Forum was held.

Acording to the Uited Nations, this decision was taken in order to give recognition of the increasing impact television has had on decision-making by bringing various conflicts and threats to peace and security to the world’s attention, as well as its coverage of other major issues, including economic and social.

World Television Day is not meant to be so much a celebration of the electronic tool itself, but rather of the philosophy which it represents–a philosophy of openness and transparency of world issues.

Television has long been thought to represent communication and globalization in the contemporary world.

However, not all of the government representatives present saw matters quite that way. The delegation from Germany said, “Television is only one means of information and an information medium to which a considerable majority of the world population has no access… That vast majority could easily look at World Television Day as a rich man’s day.

They do not have access to television. There are more important information media and here I would mention radio in particular.”

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November 21 Birthdays




Michael Strahan - 45



Goldie Hawn - 71



Troy Aikman - 50



Stan Musial - (1920-2013)



Voltaire - (1694-1778)






November 21st

2002: Ray Manzarek and Robby Krieger, the surviving members of The Doors announced that they would be performing again with Ian Astbury of The Cult singing and Stewart Copeland of The Police on drums.

1995: Peter Grant, manager of Led Zeppelin and widely credited for improving pay and conditions for musicians in dealings with concert promoters died of a heart attack while driving to his home in Eastbourne, U.K. He was 60 years old.

1991: Aerosmith were the first rock band to make a guest appearance on The Simpsons where they performed “Walk This Way” at Moe’s Tavern.

1990: Mick Jagger married his girlfriend of 13 years model Jerry Hall on the island of Bali. The couple would divorce in 1999.

1987: Billy Idol reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for the first and only time with a cover of Tommy James and the Shondells’ “Mony Mony”.

1981: Queen and David Bowie reached number one on the U.K. Singles Chart with their collaboration “Under Pressure” which spent two weeks on top of the chart. In the U.S. the song would go on to reach number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart.

1980: Don Henley was arrested after a 16 year old girl was found suffering from a drug overdose at his home Los Angeles. Henley would receive a $2,000 fine and two years probation.

1975: Elton John Week was declared in Los Angeles after being awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1974: Marty Balin, after having vowed to never work with Jefferson Airplane again, reunited with Jefferson Starship onstage during a concert at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom.



Birthdays:

Dr. John born in 1940