November 30

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

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Contents

1 Events

1.1 1700-1899
1.2 1900-1999
1.3 2000-

2 Births

2.1 500-1899
2.2 1900-1999

3 Deaths

3.1 1000-1899
3.2 1900-1999
3.3 2000-

4 Holidays and observances

Events

1700-1899

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.

1900-1999

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 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: Tehran 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, in the United States, 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.

2000-

2004 - Linkin Park and Jay-Z release Collision Course, a mash-up album that breaks boundaries and shatters stereotypes in both the worlds of rap and rock music.
2004 - The episode in which longtime Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings finally loses airs in syndication (he leaves with $2,520,700 as television's all-time biggest game show winner).

Births

500-1899

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)

1900-1999

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
1960 - Gary Lineker, Football (soccer) player.
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
1973 - Jason Reso (Christian), professional wrestler
1978 - Clay Aiken, singer
1982 - Elisha Cuthbert, actress
1985 - Kaley Cuoco, actress

Deaths

1000-1899

1900-1999

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
1997 - Kathy Acker, author

2000-

2003 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer
2004 - Pierre Berton, Canadian author

Holidays and observances

November 29 - December 1 - October 30 - December 30 -- listing of all days

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