November 30: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 31 days remaining, as the final day of November.

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 1783 Treaty of Paris).
• 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. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
• 1803 - In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer 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 Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
• 1853 - Crimean War: The Russian navy destroys the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Sinop.
• 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 - 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.
• 1916 - Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace, built for the 1851 Great Exhibition, is destroyed in a fire.
• 1939 - Winter War: 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 - U.S. 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, United States, an 8.5 pound sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise, in 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 from the United Kingdom.
• 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 - Pink Floyd release the album 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 $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 becomes female serial killer Aileen Wuornos's first victim.
• 1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
• 1994 - Hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur is robbed of $40,000 in jewelry and survives being shot five times in a New York music studio.
• 1998 - Deutsche Bank announces a $10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.
• 1999 - In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catches police unprepared and forces the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
• 1999 - British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defence contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
• 2000 - The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 comes into force in the UK.
• 2004 - Longtime Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700, television's all-time biggest game show haul.
• 2004 - Lion Air Flight 538 crashlands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
• 2005 - Rt Rev John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England as Archbishop of York.

• 539 - Gregory of Tours, French bishop and historian (d. 594)
• 1340 - John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (d. 1416)
• 1364 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (d. 1390)
• 1466 - Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (d. 1560)
• 1508 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (d. 1580)
• 1554 - Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (d. 1586)
• 1594 - John Cosin, English clergyman (d. 1672)
• 1625 - Jean Domat, French jurist (d. 1696)
• 1637 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (d. 1698)
• 1667 - Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist (d.1745)
• 1670 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)
• 1683 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)
• 1719 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
• 1722 - Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (d. 1761)
• 1723 - William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
• 1756 - Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827)
• 1781 - Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)
• 1796 - Carl Loewe, German composer (d. 1869)
• 1810 - Oliver Winchester, American gunsmith (d. 1880)
• 1813 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)
• 1813 - Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (d. 1888)
• 1817 - Theodor Mommsen, German author and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1903)
• 1835 - Samuel Clemens, Amercian writer (d. 1910)
• 1835 - Mark Twain, American writer (d. 1910)
• 1836 - Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
• 1857 - Bobby Abel, English test cricketer (d. 1936)
• 1858 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian Physicist (d. 1937)
• 1863 - Andres Bonifacio, head of the Philippine Revolutionary Movement Katipunan (KKK) (d. 1897)
• 1869 - Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)
• 1874 - Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
• 1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942)
• 1889 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)
• 1898 - Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (d. 1976)
• 1904 - Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
• 1907 - Jacques Barzun, French-born historian and author
• 1912 - Gordon Parks, American photographer, film director, composer and writer
• 1915 - Brownie McGhee, American blues musician (d.1996)
• 1915 - Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
• 1918 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr., American actor
• 1920 - Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
• 1924 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician (d. 2005)
• 1924 - Allan Sherman, American comedian (d. 1973)
• 1927 - Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1927 - Robert Guillaume, American actor
• 1929 - Dick Clark, American television host
• 1929 - Joan Ganz Cooney, American children's television pioneer
• 1930 - G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate operative
• 1931 - Jack Ging, American actor
• 1931 - Bill Walsh, American football coach
• 1936 - Abbie Hoffman, American activist (d. 1989)
• 1937 - Ridley Scott, British film director
• 1937 - Paul Stookey, American folk singer (Peter, Paul & Mary)
• 1943 - Terrence Malick, American director and screenwriter.
• 1945 - Roger Glover, British bassist (Deep Purple)
• 1947 - David Mamet, American playwright
• 1951 - Christian Bernard, mystic
• 1951 - June Chadwick, British actress
• 1952 - Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer
• 1955 - Billy Idol, British musician
• 1956 - June Pointer, American r&b/pop singer (Pointer Sisters)
• 1957 - John Ashton, British musician {Psychedelic Furs)
• 1957 - Colin Mochrie, British-born Canadian comedian
• 1957 - Andrew Calhoun, American musician
• 1958 - Juliette Bergmann, Dutch bodybuilder
• 1958 - Stacey Q, American dance-pop singer
• 1960 - Gary Lineker, English international footballer
• 1962 - Bo Jackson, American football and baseball player
• 1962 - Daniel Keys Moran, American writer
• 1965 - Ben Stiller, American actor and writer
• 1965 - Paul Wheeler, Australian musician (Icehouse)
• 1966 - Ed Kemper, American actor
• 1968 - Des'ree, British soul/pop singer
• 1971 - Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1971 - Ray Durham, American baseball player
• 1972 - Abel Xavier, Portuguese international footballer
• 1973 - Jason Reso, Canadian professional wrestler
• 1975 - Mindy McCready, American musican
• 1975 - Ben Thatcher, Welsh international footballer
• 1978 - Clay Aiken, American singer
• 1982 - Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
• 1984 - Naima Mora, American model
• 1985 - Kaley Cuoco, American actress
• 1987 - Dougie Poynter, British singer and bassist (McFly)
• 1990 - Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian Chess player

• 1016 - Edmund II of England
• 1580 - Richard Farrant, English composer
• 1626 - Thomas Weelkes, English composer
• 1654 - John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (b. 1584)
• 1675 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605)
• 1703 - Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (b. 1672)
• 1705 - Catherine of Braganza, Queen of Charles II of England (b. 1638)
• 1718 - King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
• 1761 - John Dollond, British optician (b. 1706)
• 1765 - George Glas, British merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
• 1900 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
• 1901 - Edward John Eyre, British explorer (b. 1815)
• 1935 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (b. 1888)
• 1943 - Etty Hillesum, Dutch diarist (executed) (b. 1914)
• 1953 - Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1857)
• 1954 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)
• 1955 - Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer (b. 1896)
• 1967 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (b. 1904)
• 1994 - Guy Debord, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1931)
• 1996 - Tiny Tim, American entertainer (b. 1932)
• 1997 - Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947)
• 1997 - Randy Walker (AKA Stretch), American musician (b. 1972)
• 2003 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
• 2004 - Pierre Berton, Canadian author (b. 1920)
• 2005 - Jean Parker, American Actress (b. 1915)

• R.C. Saints - Saint Andrew the apostle
• Also see November 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Barbados - Independence Day (from Britain, 1966)
• Philippines - Andres Bonifacio Day
• Official End of the Hurricane Season
• Cities for Life Day. 300 cities around the world declare their opposition to the death penalty

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