November 30

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

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).
• 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.
• 1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire (it had been built for the 1851 International Exhibition).
• 1939 - Winter War begins: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
• 1943 - World War II: Teheran Conference - US President Francklin 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, causing her a bad bruise (the first 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 Zeigler 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 men.
• 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).
• 1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts buys RJR Nabisco for US$25.07 billion.
• 1989 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a terrorist's bomb (the Red Army Faction claimed responsibility of the murder).
• 1989 - A storeowner in Palm Harbor, Florida named Richard Mallory takes a ride with Aileen Wuornos and is seen for the last time (Mallory became the first of seven people killed by female serial killer Wuornos over the next year).
• 1993 - US President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
• 1998 - Deutsche Bank announces that a US$10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.
• 1999 - In Seattle, Washingtom, 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).

Births

• 539 - Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian († 594)
• 1508 - Andrea Palladio, master builder († 1580)
• 1667 - Jonathan Swift, writer, satirist (†1745)
• 1796 - Carl Loewe, composer († 1869)
• 1817 - Theodor Mommsen, author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1902 († 1903)
• 1835 - Mark Twain, writer († 1910)
• 1874 - Sir Winston Churchill , British political leader, writer († 1965)
• 1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, author († 1942)
• 1904 - Clyfford Still, painter († 1980)
• 1906 - Princess Marina of the United Kingdom († 1968)
• 1912 - Gordon Parks, director, writer
• 1915 - Brownie McGhee, musician (†1996)
• 1918 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr., actor
• 1920 - Virginia Mayo, actress
• 1924 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician
• 1924 - Allan Sherman, comedian († 1973)
• 1927 - Richard Crenna, actor
• 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
• 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

Deaths

• 1016 - King Ethelred the Unready
• 1718 - King Charles XII of Sweden
• 1900 - Oscar Wilde, writer
• 1901 - Edward John Eyre, explorer
• 1953 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet
• 1954 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor
• 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
• 2002 - Hans Hartz, musician

Holidays and observances

• Saint Andrew's day
• Feast of the Incarnate Babalon

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See also

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

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