Ecuador National Anthem Day
Ecuador National Anthem Day is held on November 26. This event in the third decade of the month November is annual. 
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Its authors were the ambateño poet Juan León Mera Martínez and the French musician Antonio Neumane Marno. The first created the lyrics and the second composed the music, on November 14, 1865.
In later years, other political and literary figures of the time presented new proposals for the patriotic symbol. However, the lyrics and the musical piece by Mera and Neumane prevailed.
A century later, in 1965, the Military Government Junta decided by executive decree to declare November 26th as National Anthem Day. Since then, the date is commemorated annually.
On March 11, 1977, the Supreme Council of Government decreed the suppression of the singing of the first, third, fourth, fifth and sixth stanza of the national melody. This in order to make it less extensive and encourage Ecuadorians to sing it correctly.
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National Education Day in Ecuador on November 13 (established by National Decree No. 3290 of November 7, 2002);
Public Accountants Day in Ecuador on November 13 (Día Clásico del Contador Público - in honor of the first National Congress of Accountants in 1945 and the founding of the first Center for Higher Education in Accounting in 1959);
Pan American Pharmacy Day on December 1
Anniversary of the Founding of Quito in Ecuador on December 6
Doce uvas on December 31 (the Spanish New Year's tradition of eating twelve grape varieties, one for each of the twelve clock strokes by midnight, subsequently spread in such Spanish-speaking countries as Mexico, Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru, Colombia, Puerto Rico, Nicaragua, Costa Rica et al);
Three Kings Cavalcade on January 6
International Day of Education on January 24 (3 December 2018 A/RES/73/25. Education is key to sustainable development)