Events
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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