On this day in History - Nov. 30

• 0539 - Gregory of Tours was born (d. 0594). French bishop and historian.
• 1016 - Edmund II of England dies
• 1340 - John, Duke of Berry was born (d. 1416). Son of John II of France
• 1364 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel was born (d. 1390). English soldier.
• 1466 - Andrea Doria was born (d. 1560). Italian naval leader.
• 1508 - Andrea Palladio was born (d. 1580). Italian architect.
• 1554 - Philip Sidney was born (d. 1586). English courtier, soldier, and writer.
• 1580 - Richard Farrant dies. English composer
• 1594 - John Cosin was born (d. 1672). English clergyman.
• 1603 - William Gilbert died (born 24 May 1544). English scientist, the "father of electrical studies" and a pioneer researcher into magnetism, who spent years investigating magnetic and electrical attractions
• 1625 - Jean Domat was born (d. 1696). French jurist.
• 1626 - Thomas Weelkes dies. English composer
• 1637 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont was born (d. 1698). French historian.
• 1654 - John Selden dies (b. 1584). English jurist and oriental scholar
• 1667 - Jonathan Swift was born (d. 1745). Irish writer and satirist.
• 1670 - John Toland was born (d. 1722). Irish philosopher.
• 1675 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore dies (b. 1605). Governor of Maryland.
• 1683 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller was born (d. 1744). Austrian field marshal.
• 1703 - Nicolas de Grigny dies (b. 1672). French organist and composer.
• 1705 - Catherine of Braganza dies (b. 1638). Wife of Charles II of England.
• 1718 - King Charles XII of Sweden dies killed during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten, east of Oslo Fjord, ending Sweden's “Age of Greatness.” (b. 1682)
• 1719 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha was born (d. 1772). Princess of Wales.
• 1722 - Theodore Gardelle was born (d. 1761). Swiss painter and enameler.
• 1723 - William Livingston was born (d. 1790). Revolutionary Governor of New Jersey.
• 1756 - Ernst Chladni was born (d. 1827). German physicist.
• 1761 - John Dollond dies (b. 1706). British optician
• 1765 - George Glas dies (b. 1725). British merchant and adventurer
• 1768 - Jędrzej Śniadecki was born (d. 1837). Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist
• 1781 - Alexander Berry was born (d. 1873). British adventurer.
• 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.
• 1796 - Carl Loewe was born (d. 1869). German composer.
• 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.
• 1810 - Oliver Winchester was born (d. 1880). American gunsmith.
• 1813 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann was born (d. 1890). French poet.
• 1813 - Charles-Valentin Alkan was born (d. 1888). French composer.
• 1817 - Theodor Mommsen was born (d. 1903). German author and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1821 - Frederick Temple was born (d. 1902). Archbishop of Canterbury.
• 1830 - Pope Pius VIII dies (b. 1761)
• 1835 - Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorn Clemens] was born in Florida (d. 1910). American writer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Life on the Mississippi, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn).
• 1836 - Lord Frederick Cavendish was born (d. 1882). British politician.
• 1839 - Guilherme de Azevedo was born in Santarém (d. 1882). Portuguese writer.
• 1840 - Henry Birks was born (d. 1928). Canadian businessman.
• 1847 - Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena was born (d. 1909). Brazilian president.
• 1853 - Crimean War: The Russian navy destroys the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Sinop.
• 1857 - José de Sampaio Bruno was born. Portuguese essayst and politician.
• 1857 - Bobby Abel was born (d. 1936). English test cricketer.
• 1858 - Jagdish Chandra Bose was born (d. 1937). Indian Physicist.
• 1863 - Andres Bonifacio was born (d. 1897). Head of the Philippine Revolutionary Movement Katipunan (KKK)
• 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).
• 1868 - A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in the King's garden in Stockholm.
• 1869 - Gustaf Dalén was born (d. 1937). Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate
• 1872 - The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England (0-0) .
• 1874 - Sir Winston Churchill was born in Oxfordshire, England (d. 1965). Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery was born (d. 1942). Canadian author.
• 1886 - The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
• 1889 - Edgar Douglas Adrian was born (d. 1977). British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1891 - Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum novarum" published.
• 1898 - Firpo Marberry was born (d. 1976). American baseball player.
• 1900 - Oscar Wilde dies in Paris (b. 1854). Irish writer.
• 1901 - Edward John Eyre dies (b. 1815). British explorer.
• 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.
• 1904 - Clyfford Still was born (d. 1980). American painter.
• 1907 - Jacques Barzun was born. French-born historian and author.
• 1909 - Robert Nighthawk was born (d. 1967). American musician.
• 1912 - Gordon Parks was born. American director and writer.
• 1915 - Brownie McGhee was born (d. 1996). American blues musician.
• 1915 - Henry Taube was born (d. 2005). Canadian-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate.
• 1916 - Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1918 - Denmark recognizes Iceland as an independent kingdom. Learn more about Iceland.
• 1918 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr. was born. American actor.
• 1920 - Virginia Mayo was born (d. 2005). American actress.
• 1920 - Vladimir May-Mayevsky dies (b. 1867). Russian counter-revolutionary.
• 1924 - Shirley Chisholm was born. American politician.
• 1924 - Allan Sherman was born (d. 1973). American comedian.
• 1926 - Richard Crenna was born (d. 2003). American actor.
• 1927 - Robert Guillaume was born. American actor.
• 1929 - Dick Clark was born. American television host.
• 1929 - Joan Ganz Cooney was born. American children's television pioneer.
• 1930 - G. Gordon Liddy was born. Watergate operative
• 1931 - Jack Ging was born. American actor.
• 1931 - Bill Walsh was born. American football coach.
• 1932 - Bob Moore was born. American bassist and orchestra leader
• 1933 - Sir Arthur Currie dies (b. 1875). Canadian general.
• 1935 - Fernando Pessoa dies in Lisbon (b. 13 Jun 1888). Portuguese poet. He used several heteronimous: Bernardo Soares, Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis e Álvaro de Campos.
• 1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace, built for the 1851 Great Exhibition, is destroyed in a fire. It was the most spectacular fire seen in Britain for many years.
• 1936 - Abbie Hoffman was born (d. 1989). American activist.
• 1936 - Dmitri Victorovich Anosov was born. Russian mathematician
• 1937 - Paul Stookey was born. American folk singer (Peter, Paul & Mary)
• 1937 - Frank Ifield was born. Australian/British singer
• 1937 - Ridley Scott was born. British film director.
• 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.
• 1942 - World War II: A U.S. warship force is defeated by a smaller Japanese warship force in the Battle of Tassafaronga during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
• 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.
• 1943 - Etty Hillesum dies executed (b. 1914). Dutch diarist.
• 1943 - Terrence Malick was born. American screenwriter and producer.
• 1945 - Roger Glover was born. British bassist (Deep Purple)
• 1947 - David Mamet was born. American playwright.
• 1951 - Christian Bernard was born. Mystic.
• 1951 - June Chadwick was born. British actress.
• 1952 - Mandy Patinkin was born. American actor and singer.
• 1953 - Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
• 1953 - June Pointer was born. American singer (Pointer Sisters).
• 1953 - Francis Picabia dies (b. 1857). French painter and poet.
• 1954 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 lb (3.4 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 space rock.
• 1954 - Wilhelm Furtwängler dies (b. 1886). German conductor.
• 1955 - Josip Solcer-Slavenski dies (b. 1896). Croatian composer.
• 1955 - Billy Idol was born. British musician.
• 1957 - Colin Mochrie was born. British-born Canadian comedian.
• 1957 - Andrew Calhoun was born. American musician.
• 1957 - Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8 .
• 1957 - Beniamino Gigli dies (b. 1890). Italian tenor.
• 1958 - Juliette Bergmann was born. Dutch bodybuilder.
• 1958 - Stacey Q was born. American dance-pop singer
• 1958 - Hubert Wilkins dies (b. 1888). Australian polar explorer.
• 1959 - Lorraine Kelly was born. British presenter and journalist
• 1960 - Rich Fields was born. TV personality
• 1960 - Gary Lineker was born. English international footballer.
• 1960 - Production of the De Soto automobile brand ceases.
• 1962 - Bo Jackson was born. American football and baseball player.
• 1962 - Daniel Keys Moran was born. American writer.
• 1962 - The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as the new UN Secretary-General.
• 1964 - Jushin Liger was born. Japanese professional wrestler
• 1965 - Aldair was born. Brazilian international footballer
• 1965 - Ben Stiller was born. American actor and writer.
• 1966 - Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1966 - Ed Kemper was born.American actor
• 1966 - Mika Salo was born. Finnish Formula 1 Driver
• 1967 - The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1967 - The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Quaid-e-Awam whom becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.
• 1967 - Patrick Kavanagh dies (b. 1904). Irish poet.
• 1968 - Des'ree dies. British soul/pop singer
• 1968 - Laurent Jalabert dies. French cyclist
• 1969 - Marc Goossens dies. Belgian racing driver
• 1971 - Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez was born. Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player.
• 1971 - Ray Durham was born. American baseball player
• 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.
• 1972 - Abel Xavier was born. Portuguese international footballer.
• 1973 - Jason Reso was born. Canadian professional wrestler.
• 1973 - John Moyer was born. American bassist (Disturbed)
• 1974 - Lucy (Australopithecus) was discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
• 1975 - Ben Thatcher was born. Welsh international football player.
• 1975 - Mindy McCready was born. American musican.
• 1976 - Josh Lewsey was born. England national and London Wasps Rugby union player
• 1977 - Sophia de Mello Breyner, Portuguese poetess is laureate with The Teixeira de Pascoaes Prize.
• 1978 - Clay Aiken was born. American singer.
• 1978 - Gael Garcia Bernal was born. Mexican actor
• 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).
• 1981 - Rich Harden was born. Canadian baseball player
• 1982 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street.
• 1982 -Elisha Cuthbert was born. Canadian actress.
• 1984 - Naima Mora was born in Detroit. American model.
• 1984 - Nigel de Jong was born. Dutch football player
• 1984 - Alan Hutton was born. Scottish football player
• 1985 - Kaley Cuoco was born. American actress.
• 1986 - Jordan Farmar was born. American basketball player
• 1987 - Ian Hecox was born. American comedian and co-founder of Smosh
• 1987 - Dougie Poynter was born. British singer and bassist (McFly)
• 1987 - Simon Carmiggelt dies (b. 1913). Dutch journalist and writer.
• 1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion.
• 1988 - Eduardo Lourenço, Portuguese essayist wins the 1988 Charles Veillon Essay Prize.
• 1988 - Henrique Medina dies. Portuguese painter.
• 1989 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen (b. 1930) is murdered by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
• 1989 - Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida becomes female serial killer Aileen Wuornos's first victim.
• 1989 - Carlos Alexandre dies (b. 1957). Brazilian singer and composer.
• 1989 - India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns.
• 1990 - Portugal: The last number of the newspaper " Diário de Lisboa" ( founded in 7 Apr 1921) is published.
• 1990 - Magnus Carlsen was born. Norwegian chess player.
• 1991 - Carnell Breeding was born. Member of the boy band B5
• 1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
• 1993 - Sebastian Kappen dies (b. 1924). Indian theologian.
• 1993 - David Houston dies (b. 1938). American country music singer.
• 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.
• 1994 - Nyjah Huston was born. Skateboarder
• 1994 - Guy Debord dies (b. 1931). French writyer and filmmaker.
• 1995 - Fernando Assis Pacheco dies (b. 1937). Portuguese journalist and writer.
• 1996 - A block of gray sandstone known as the Stone of Scone was returned to Scotland, 700 years after it had been taken to England as war booty by King Edward I.
• 1996 - Tiny Tim dies (b. 1932). American entertainer.
• 1997 - Diana Almeida, 14 years old, Portuguese model, wins the Super Model of the World.
• 1997 - Kathy Acker dies (b. 1947). American author
• 1997 - Randy Walker (AKA Stretch) dies (b. 1972). American musician.
• 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.
• 1999 - Charlie Byrd dies (b. 1925). American jazz guitarist.
• 2000 - The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 comes into force in the UK.
• 2001 - Robert Tools, the first person in the world to receive a fully self-contained artificial heart, died in Louisville, Ky.; he had lived with the device for 151 days.
• 2002 - Tim Woods dies (b. 1934). American professional wrestler.
• 2003 - Gertrude Ederle dies (b. 1906). American swimmer
• 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.
• 2004 - Portuguese President, Jorge Sampaio, announces the decision to dissolve The Republic Assembly falling the Santana Lopes' government
• 2004 - Pierre Berton dies (b. 1920). Canadian author.
• 2005 - John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England as Archbishop of York.
• 2005 - Jean Parker dies (b. 1915). American actress.
• R.C. Saints - Saint Andrew the apostle.
• 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.
• Portugal: Feriado Municipal em Mesão Frio / Portugal: Municipal hollyday in Mesão Frio