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- 0306 St Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1016 England's Ethelred II dies at age 48 after a 38-year reign and is succeeded by his son Edmund Ironside, who is chosen king by Londoners, while Canute is chosen by the witan at Southampton
- 1292 Coronation of John Balliol, the last recorded inauguration of a King of Scots on the Stone of Destiny
- 1652 Dutch defeat English fleet off Dungeness, England.
- 1700 Eight thousand Swedish troops under King Charles XII defeat a force of at least 50,000 Russians at the Battle of Narva.
- 1718 Sweden's "warrior king" Charles XII dies at Fredrikshald in Norway after being hit by a bullet in the head.
- 1718 Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
- 1782 Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence
- 1783 In New Jersey a 5.3 earthquake was the largest historical earthquake in the state
- 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, Louisiana, 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.
- 1803 Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France
- 1804 Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins
- 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.
- 1833 Eight people die when brig Ann Jamieson explodes while moored at King's Wharf, Sydney.
- 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 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee
- 1866 Work begins on first US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago
- 1866 Work on the first underwater highway tunnel in the United States began on this day in Chicago, Illinois. Over a three-year period, workers and engineers tunneled underneath the Chicago River, finally completing the 1,500-foot tunnel at a cost of over $500,000
- 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.
- 1874 Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born (prematurely) on this day
- 1885 The opera "Le Cid" is produced (Paris)
- 1886 First commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo
- 1886 The Folies Bergere originated as a hall for operettas, pantomime, and even political meetings before it introduced an elaborate review featuring women in sensational costumes Several years later, the Folies followed the Parisian taste for striptease and quickly gained a reputation for spectacular nudie shows
- 1886 The Folies Bergre stages its first revue.
- 1887 First indoor softball game (Chicago)
- 1900 Irish author Oscar Wilde dies in Paris.
- 1901 Death of Australian explorer Edward John Eyre.
- 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.
- 1907 Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
- 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.
- 1922 Actress Sarah Bernhardt made her last appearance on the stage
- 1924 First photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio
- 1934 The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
- 1936 Abbie Hoffman (activist: 1960s cultural revolutionary [Yippie]; one of the Chicago Eight) was born
- 1936 In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
- 1936 London's Crystal Palace (built 1851), destroyed by fire
- 1936 London's famed Crystal Palace, constructed for the International Exhibition of 1851, destroyed in a fire.
- 1937 Reich court deprives parents of children, because they opposed Nazi Socialist ideology.
- 1937 Robert Guillaume (Williams) (actor: Soap, Benson) was born
- 1939 Following Finland's rejection of Soviet demands to sign a mutual assistance pact and cede Finnish territory for the defense of Leningrad, the Red Army attacks Finland at various positions along the Russo-Finnish frontier
- 1939 USSR invades Finland over a border dispute
- 1939 Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
- 1940 First game of only 2-game Grey Cup (Ottawa 8, Toronto Balmy Beach 2)
- 1940 Lucille Ball and Cuban musician Desi Arnaz were married.
- 1940 Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
- 1941 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes its last run
- 1942 World War II Guadalcanal Campaign: Battle of Tassafaronga A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizo Tanaka defeats a a US cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
- 1945 Macy's produces its first Thanksgiving Day Parade.
- 1947 Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
- 1948 Baseball's Negro National League disbands
- 1948 Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin
- 1949 A Sikorsky helicopter flew from NAS Seattle to NAS Alameda in 10 hours and 50 minutes and unofficially bettered the existing distance record for helicopters with a flight of 755 miles.
- 1949 Chinese Communists captured Chungking
- 1953 Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
- 1954 First meteorite ( 8 lb ) known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga AL)
- 1954 In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 lb (3.86 kg) 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 rock from space.
- 1954 The first modern instance of a meteorite striking a human being occurs at Sylacauga, Alabama, when a meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and into a living room, bounces off a radio, and strikes a woman on the hip
- 1958 First guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me
- 1959 Joe Foss named first commissioner of AFL
- 1960 The First International Harvester Scoutt all-terrain vehicle rolled off the assembly line at International Harvester's Fort Wayne plant
- 1961 USSR vetoes Kuwait's application for UN membership
- 1962 U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of UN unanimously
- 1963 Visitor posting - Cara Ranae Bishop LaBrune born - USA
- 1964 The University of Patras is inaugurated.
- 1964 USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned
- 1966 Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1966 Barbados gains independence from Britain (National Day)
- 1966 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, MD to Boulder, CO
- 1967 In Albania a 6.5 quake centered centered along the Albania-Yugoslavia border in the vicinity of Debar, Yugoslavia, and Shupenze, Albania. Eighteen people were killed, 204 injured
- 1967 Julie Nixon andDavid Eisenhower announce their engagement
- 1967 Kuria Muria islands ceded by Britain to Oman
- 1967 People's Rep of South Yemen (Aden) gains independence from Britain
- 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.
- 1968 Diana Ross and The Supremes hit the #1 spot on the music charts with Love Child. The somewhat controversial tune (for the times) stayed at the top for two weeks
- 1969 Visitor posting - Dawn Michelle Martin was born on Sunday - USA
- 1969 Visitor posting - Holly Lynn Strop was born in Wisconsin - USA
- 1971 Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
- 1972 BBC bans Wings "Hi, Hi, Hi"
- 1972 Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy)
- 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.
- 1974 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks)
- 1974 Lucy (Australopithecus) is discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
- 1977 Visitor posting - November 30 1977, Akram S. Okeili was born, founder of the first Management Consultancy Firm for SMEs and Family Businesses in the Middle East Region. www.okeili.com
- 1979 Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC)
- 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 A parcel bomb is delivered to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street.
- 1982 STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad
- 1982 US sub Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in So China Sea
- 1983 Visitor posting - November 30, 1983 Brian Joseph Smith was born in Houston, Texas
- 1985 Number one hit on UK music charts - Wham! - I'm Your Man
- 1988 A group of some of the world's most powerful companies engaged in a protracted struggle to acquire a rather hefty prize--RJR Nabisco.
- 1988 Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
- 1988 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion USD.
- 1988 NYC furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase
- 1988 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; first time in 38 years
- 1988 UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO's Arafat visa
- 1989 Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
- 1989 Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida becomes serial killer Aileen Wuornos's first victim.
- 1990 Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke
- 1990 Bush proposes US-Iraq meeting to avoid war
- 1991 93 cars and11 truck accident near San Francisco during a dust storm, 17 die
- 1991 Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide
- 1993 Brady bill signed into law
- 1993 Visitor posting - amanda coffey was born - United Kingdom
- 1994 Visitor posting - Lloyd jitsu and Lloyd kwon-do master Lloyd Campbell was born - United Kingdom
- 1994 Visitor posting - November 30, 1994- Maria Elizabeth Morales was born
- 1995 Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
- 1998 Deutsche Bank announces a $10 billion USDdeal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.
- 1998 NBC announced it would purchase a minority stake in iVillage, an Internet company producing popular sites for women, such as Parent Soup
- 1998 The White House unveiled its sweeping electronic commerce agenda on this day in 1998
- 1998 Visitor posting - Shreya Soikah Shaw was born to Arnab and Shruti Shaw in Dayton, Ohio, USA
- 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.
- 2000 South and North Korean relatives who have been separated for half a century are reunited in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
- 2004 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns.
- 2004 Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
- 2004 Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700 USD, television's all-time biggest game show haul.
- 2005 John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
- 2007 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg entered the campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with a device suspected of being a bomb and held three people hostage for 5 hours.
- 2009 A court in Argentina blocks Latin America's first gay marriage, overturning an earlier ruling, saying the Supreme Court should decide on its constitutionality.
- 2009 A new railway station opens in Workington, providing a link across the River Derwent after all but one of the bridges in the town were put out of action by floods.
- 2009 A study in the journal Pediatrics indicates that if a child is diagnosed with autism early, intervention can raise IQ levels while improving language skills and behavior.
- 2009 An explosive device goes off under a train travelling from Tyumen, Russia, to Baku in Azerbaijan, in the northern Caucasus republic of Dagestan
- 2009 Argonne National Laboratory announces that nanodiscs, made from an iron-nickel alloy and subjected to a magnetic field, destroy 90 percent of cancer cells in tests.
- 2009 Former rebel leader Agathon Rwasa, of the National Liberation Forces in Burundi, is selected as a candidate in next year's presidential election.
- 2009 In a major provincial leadership reshuffle in the People's Republic of China, Lu Zhangong was appointed secretary of the Henan CPC Provincial Committee, replacing Xu Guangchun. Sun Chunlan was appointed secretary of the Fujian CPC Committee. Former Jilin Party chief Wang Min was appointed secretary of the Liaoning CPC Committee, replacing Zhang Wenyue. Former Minister of Agriculture Sun Zhengcai took over as Party chief of Jilin Province. And former governor of Hebei Hu Chunhua was appointed Party chief of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, replacing Chu Bo, who retired
- 2009 John Demjanjuk goes on trial in Munich accused of war crimes relating to the killing of 27,000 Jews in the Holocaust.
- 2009 Officials in Equatorial Guinea announce that incumbent President Teodoro Obiang Nguema won the presidential election with 96.7% of the vote, as the opposition claims irregularities.
- 2009 On St. Andrew's Day, the Scottish Government concludes the National Conversation into Scotland's constitutional future by publishing a white paper for their proposed referendum on independence.
- 2009 Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announces she will run for Congress.
- 2009 Police in Seattle report that the suspect, Maurice Clemmons, shot in the murder of four police officers in Parkland, Washington, is on the run.
- 2009 The Large Hadron Collider sets a new world record for particle accelerations.
- 2009 Three Spanish aid workers are kidnapped in northern Mauritania, after they became separated from an aid convoy.
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