November 30 Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 31 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 1782 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized in the Treaty of Paris (1783)).
• 1803 - At the Cabildo building in New Orleans, Spanish representatives Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo, officially transfer Louisiana Territory to French representative Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat (just 20 days later, France transferred the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase).
• 1804 - The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate begin an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase (he was charged with political bias but was acquitted by the Senate of all charges on March 1, 1805).
• 1853 - Crimean War: Battle of Sinope - The Russian fleet destroys the Turkish fleet.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Franklin - The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops).
• 1872 - First ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Scotland.
• 1886 - Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
• 1902 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years hard labor.
• 1916 - The Hellenic Holocaust enters its last phase, when Turkish Minister of the Interior Rafet Bey is reported of saying "we must finish off the Greeks as we did with the Armenians … on 28 November."
• 1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire (it had been built for the 1851 Great Exhibition).
• 1939 - Winter War begins: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
• 1940 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are married in Greenwich, Connecticut.
• 1943 - World War II: Teheran Conference - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord.
• 1954 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, an 8.5 pound sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise (this is the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock).
• 1960 - Production of the De Soto automobile brand ceases.
• 1962 - The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as the new UN Secretary-General.
• 1966 - Barbados becomes independent.
• 1967 - The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1972 - Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.
• 1979 - Rock band Pink Floyd release the mega-selling rock opera The Wall.
• 1981 - Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17).
• 1982 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street.
• 1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co; buys RJR Nabisco for US$25.07 billion.
• 1989 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb .
• 1989 - Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida takes a ride with Aileen Wuornos before becoming the female serial killer's first victim.
• 1993 - US President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
• 1998 - Deutsche Bank announces a US$10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.
• 1999 - In Seattle, Washington, the first major mobilization of the anti-globalization movement catches police unprepared and forces the cancellation of opening ceremonies of a World Trade Organization meeting (protests ended on December 3).
• 1999 - British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merged to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defence contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.

Births

• 539 - Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (d. 594)
• 1466 - Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (d. 1560)
• 1508 - Andrea Palladio, master builder (d. 1580)
• 1667 - Jonathan Swift, writer, satirist (d.1745)
• 1670 - John Toland, philosopher (d. 1722)
• 1723 - William Livingston, revolutionary governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
• 1781 - Alexander Berry (d. 1873), Scottish adventurer, founder of Berry, Australia
• 1796 - Carl Loewe, composer (d. 1869)
• 1810 - Oliver Winchester, developer of the Winchester rifle (d. 1880)
• 1817 - Theodor Mommsen, author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1902 (d. 1903)
• 1835 - Mark Twain, writer (d. 1910)
• 1836 - Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
• 1874 - Sir Winston Churchill , British political leader, writer (d. 1965)
• 1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, author (d. 1942)
• 1904 - Clyfford Still, painter (d. 1980)
• 1906 - Princess Marina of the United Kingdom (d. 1968)
• 1912 - Gordon Parks, director, writer
• 1915 - Brownie McGhee, musician (d.1996)
• 1918 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr, actor
• 1920 - Virginia Mayo, actress
• 1924 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician
• 1924 - Allan Sherman, comedian (d. 1973)
• 1927 - Richard Crenna, actor (d. 2003)
• 1927 - Robert Guillaume, actor
• 1929 - Joan Ganz Cooney, children's television pioneer
• 1929 - Dick Clark, television host
• 1930 - G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate scandal figure
• 1936 - Abbie Hoffman, U.S. anti-war activist
• 1937 - Ridley Scott, director
• 1943 - Terrence Malick, writer, producer
• 1947 - David Mamet, playwright
• 1951 - Christian Bernard (F.R.C.), Rosicrucian, Imperator of AMORC
• 1952 - Mandy Patinkin, actor, singer
• 1955 - Billy Idol, musician
• 1962 - Bo Jackson, American football and baseball star
• 1962 - Daniel Keys Moran, science fiction writer
• 1965 - Ben Stiller, actor, director, producer, writer (There's Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, Zoolander)
• 1971 - Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez, baseball player
• 1978 - Clay Aiken, singer
• 1982 - Elisha Cuthbert, actress
• 1985 - Kaley Cuoco, actress

Deaths

• 1016 - King Ethelred the Unready
• 1718 - King Charles XII of Sweden
• 1830 - Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
• 1900 - Oscar Wilde, writer (b. 1854)
• 1901 - Edward John Eyre, explorer
• 1935 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (b. 1888)
• 1953 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet
• 1954 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor
• 1955 - Josip Štolcer-Slavenski;, Croatian composer (b. 1896)
• 1957 - Beniamino Gigli, tenor
• 1977 - Terrence Rattigan, writer
• 1979 - Zeppo Marx, actor
• 1996 - Tiny Tim, musician
• 2001 - Robert Tools, first person to receive a fully self-contained artificial heart
• 2001 - George Harrison, musician, member of the Beatles
• 2002 - Hans Hartz, musician
• 2003 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer

Holidays and observances

• Saint Andrew's day
• Feast of the Incarnate Babalon
• Philippines: Bonifacio Day

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