Dewey Decimal System Day
Happy Dewey Decimal Day, or rather Happy Birthday to its
founder, Melvil Dewey. The American
librarian who created the Dewey Decimal Classification system was born today in
1851. Our curriculum collection,
teaching aid collection, and many of our juvenile books are classified by Mr.
Dewey’s system.
Today is Human Rights Day!
The date was chosen to honour the United Nations— General
Assembly's adoption and proclamation, on 10 December 1948, of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the first global enunciation of human
rights and one of the first major achievements of the new United Nations
Nobel Prize Day
On the Nobel Day the Nobel Prizes are delivered to the Prize
Winners of the year. The prizes are for a Scientific Exploration of great value
for mankind in the areas of Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature, Economics
and Peace.
Watch the 2014 Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies live at nobelprize.org
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