November
Arthur C Clarke, 10 November, World Science Day
Wins the Kalinga Prize in 1962 for achievements in popularizing science.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinga_Prize
- UN World Science Day
Origin of the Species Published 4 November 1859
Other calendars
- Anti-Defamation League ADL 2015 11 November
- Freedom from Religion Foundation FFRF Calendar 11
- United Nations Observations UN Proclamations & Observances UN Proclomations & Observances 2015 11 November
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November
| Name & Event | Reason important to Secular Humanism | Calendar Month |
| Arthur C Clarke | In a 1974 taped interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the interviewer asked Clarke how he believed the computer would change the future for the everyday person, and what life would be like around the year 2001. Clarke accurately predicted many things that became reality, including online banking, online shopping, and other now commonplace things. Responding to a question about how the interviewer’s son’s life would be different, Clarke responded: “[H]e will have, in his own house, not a computer as big as this, [points to nearby computer], but at least, a console through which he can talk, through his local computer and get all the information he needs, for his everyday life, like his bank statements, his theatre reservations, all the information you need in the course of living in our complex modern society, this will be in a compact form in his own house … and he will take it as much for granted as we take the telephone.”[37] | !0 November World Science Day Kalinga Prize awaded Clarke was a lifelong proponent of space travel. In 1934 while still a teenager, he joined the British Interplanetary Society. In 1945, he proposed asatellite communication system—an idea that, in 1963, won him the Franklin Institute‘s Stuart Ballantine Medal.[7][8] Later he was the chairman of the British Interplanetary Society from 1946–47 and again in 1951–53.[9][10] Clarke was also a science writer, who was both an avid populariser of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability, who won a Kalinga Prize (award given by UNESCO for popularising science) in 1961. These all together eventually earned him the moniker “prophet of the space age”.[11] |
| Laika | Laika (Russian: Лайка, meaning “Barker”; c. 1954 – November 3, 1957) was a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_space Laika[edit] Main article: Laika Laika on a Romanian post stamp Laika (Лайка, “Barker”), became the first living Earth-born creature (other than microbes) in orbit, aboard Sputnik 2 on 3 November 1957. Some call her the first living passenger to go into space, but many sub-orbital flights with animal passengers passed the edge of space first. She was also known as Zhuchka (Жучка, “Little Bug”) and Limonchik (Лимончик, “Lemon”). The American media dubbed her “Muttnik”, making a play-on-words for the canine follow-on to the first orbital mission, Sputnik. She died between five and seven hours into the flight from stress and overheating.[10] Her true cause of death was not made public until October 2002; officials previously gave reports that she died when the oxygen supply ran out.[6] At a Moscow press conference in 1998 Oleg Gazenko, a senior Soviet scientist involved in the project, stated “The more time passes, the more I’m sorry about it. We did not learn enough from the mission to justify the death of the dog…”.[11] | November 3, 1957 |
| Baruch Spinoza | First secular Jew God not directly involved in history (deism) | November 11/24/1632 CE Birthday |
| Charles Darwin | Origin of the Species | November Published 4 November 1859, 2 /12/ |