November
30
Independence
Day
Barbados : November 30
1966
Yemen : November 30
1967
Events
November
30
1700 – Battle
of Narva – A Swedish army of 8,500 men under Charles XII defeats
a much larger Russian army at Narva.
1718 – Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress
Fredriksten in Norway.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris – In Paris,
representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great
Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as
the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
1783 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
1786 – Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke
of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the
first state to abolish the death penalty. Consequently, November
30 is commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities
for Life Day.
1803 – In New Orleans, Louisiana, Spanish representatives officially
transfer the Louisiana Territory to a French representative.
Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United
States as the Louisiana Purchase.
1804 – The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate
begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme
Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
1824 – First ground is broken at Allenburg for the building
of the original Welland Canal.
1829 – First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to
the day from the ground breaking.
1853 – Crimean War: Battle of Sinop – The Imperial Russian Navy
under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman
Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.
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 commanded by
John McAllister Schofield around Franklin, Tennessee, with Hood
losing six generals and almost a third of his troops.
1868 – The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden
takes place in the King's garden in Stockholm.
1872 – The first-ever international football match takes place
at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
1886 – The 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 imprisonment
with hard labor.
1908 – A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania
kills 154.
1916 – Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright
treaty.
1934 – The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first
to officially exceed 100mph.
1936 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
1939 – Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in
several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities,
starting the war.
1940 – Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
1942 – World War II: Guadalcanal Campaign: Battle of Tassafaronga
– A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka
defeats a US cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
1947 – 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins on
this day, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.
1953 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed
and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges Meteorite
crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon
nap in the only documented case of a human being hit by a rock
from space.
1966 – Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1967 – The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent
from the United Kingdom.
1967 – The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali
Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state
and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.
1971 – Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United
Arab Emirates.
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.
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 – Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of
all time, is released.
1989 – Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed
by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
1993 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence
Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
1994 – MS Achille Lauro fire off Somalia coast.
1995 – Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
1998 – Exxon and Mobil sign a $73.7 billion USD agreement to
merge, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the world's largest company.
1999 – In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against
the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police
unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
1999 – British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge
to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and
the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
2001 – In Renton, Washington, United States, Gary Ridgway aka
The Green River Killer is arrested.
2004 – Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake
City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with US$2,520,700, television's
biggest game show winnings.
2004 – Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central
Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the
Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop
of York.
Holidays
and observances
Andrés Bonifacio
Day (the Philippines)
Christian Feast Day:
Andrew
November 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Cities for Life Day
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Barbados from
the United Kingdom in 1966
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of South Yemen
from the United Kingdom in 1967
National Day (Benin)
Regina Mundi Day (South Africa)
St. Andrew's Day (Scotland)
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