On this day in History - Nov. 30

• 30 BC - Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator dies.
• 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.
• 1498 - Andrés de Urdaneta was born (d. 1568). Spanish Augustinian friar, sail-captain and explorer.
• 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.
• 1700 - Battle of Narva — A Swedish army of 8,500 men under Charles XII defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva.
• 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 (b. 1682) dies killed during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten, east of Oslo Fjord, ending Sweden's “Age of Greatness.”
• 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.
• 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 of the sod turning.
• 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).
• 1835 - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain) was born (d.1910). American writer.
• 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). 7th President of Brazil.
• 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.
• 1870 - Princess Henriette, Duchess of Vendôme and Alençon was born (d. 1948).
• 1872 - The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England (0-0).
• 1872 - Dr. John McCrae was born (d. 1918). Canadian physician, soldier, poet. Author of "In Flanders Fields".
• 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.
• 1906 - Andrés Henestrosa was born (d. 2008). Mexican writer.
  
• 1907 - Jacques Barzun was born. French-born historian and author.
• 1908 - A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania killed 154.
• 1909 - Robert Nighthawk was born (d. 1967). American musician.
• 1911 - Jorge Negrete was born (d. 1953). Mexican singer and actor.
• 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.
• 1924 - Elliott Blackstone was born (d. 2006). American gay and lesbian rights supporter.
• 1924 - Shirley Chisholm was born (d. 2005). American politician, United States Representatives from New York.
• 1926 - Richard Crenna was born (d. 2003). American actor.
• 1927 - Robert Guillaume was born. American actor.
• 1928 - Joe B. Hall was born. American basketball coach.
• 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.
• 1932 - Cho Namchul was born (d. 2006). South Korean professional Go player.
• 1933 - Norman Deeley was born (d. 2007). English footballer.
• 1933 - Sir Arthur Currie dies (b. 1875). Canadian general.
• 1934 - The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
• 1934 - Hélène Boucher was born (d. 1908). French aviatrix.
  
• 1935 - Fernando Pessoa dies in Lisbon (b. 13 Jun 1888). Portuguese poet. He used several heteronimous: Bernardo Soares, Alberto Caeiro, Ricardo Reis and 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 - Adeline Yen Mah was born. Chinese writer.
• 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.
• 1937 - Tom Simpson was born (d. 1967). British cyclist.
• 1938 - Jean Eustache was born. French filmmaker.
• 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 - Terrence Malick was born. American screenwriter and producer.
• 1943 - Etty Hillesum dies executed (b. 1914). Dutch diarist.
• 1945 - Roger Glover was born. British bassist (Deep Purple).
• 1945 - Radu Lupu was born. Romanian concert pianist.
• 1947 - David Mamet was born. American playwright.
• 1947 - Sergio Badilla Castillo was born. Chilean poet.
• 1950 -Chris Claremont was born. British comic book writer.
• 1951 - Christian Bernard was born. Mystic.
• 1951 - June Chadwick was born. British actress.
• 1952 - Keith Giffen was born. American comic book writer and artist.
• 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 - Simonetta Stefanelli was born. Italian Actress (The Godfather).
• 1954 - Wilhelm Furtwängler dies (b. 1886). German conductor.
• 1955 - Kevin Conroy was born. American Actor (Batman in the DC animated universe).
• 1955 - Billy Idol was born. British musician.
• 1955 - Gordon Liu was born. Chinese actor.
• 1955 - Richard Burr was born. American politician.
• 1955 - Muricy Ramalho was born. Brazilian manager and former football player.
• 1955 - Josip Solcer-Slavenski dies (b. 1896). Croatian composer.
• 1957 - John Ashton was born. English guitarist (Psychedelic Furs).
• 1957 - Richard Barbieri was born. British keyboardist (Porcupine Tree).
• 1957 - Andrew Calhoun was born. American musician.
• 1957 - Joël Champetier was born. French Canadian author.
• 1957 - Colin Mochrie was born. British-born Canadian comedian.
• 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 - The University of Patras is inaugurated.
• 1964 - Jushin Liger was born. Japanese professional wrestler.
• 1964 - Michael Cudlitz ws born. American actor.
• 1965 - Aldair was born. Brazilian international footballer.
• 1965 - Ben Stiller was born. American actor and writer.
• 1965 - Lee Klein was born. American writer.
• 1965 - Prince Akishino of Japan was born.
• 1966 - Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1966 - Ed Kemper was born.American actor.
• 1966 - Mika Salo was born. Finnish Formula 1 Driver.
• 1966 - Wil Mara was born. American author.
• 1966 - David Nicholls was born.English novelist and screenwriter.
• 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 was born. British soul/pop singer.
• 1968 - Laurent Jalabert was born. French cyclist.
• 1969 - Amy Ryan was born. American actress.
• 1969 - Marc Goossens was born. Belgian racing driver.
• 1970 - Robert Griffith was born. American football player.
• 1971 - Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
• 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.
• 1972 - Christopher Fitzgerald was born. American stage actor.
• 1973 - Jason Reso was born. Canadian professional wrestler.
• 1973 - John Moyer was born. American bassist (Disturbed).
• 1973 - Lim Chang-jung was born. South Korean actor.
• 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 - Cypher Zero was born. American circus innovator (New York Circus Arts).
• 1976 - Josh Lewsey was born. England national and London Wasps Rugby union player.
• 1977 - Sophia de Mello Breyner, Portuguese poet is laureate with The Teixeira de Pascoaes Prize.
• 1977 - Iván Guerrero wa born. Honduran footballer.
• 1977 - Kazumi Saitoh was born. Japanese baseball player.
• 1977 - Olivier Schoenfelder was born. French ice dancer.
• 1977 - Terrence Rattigan dies (b, 1911). British writer and playwright.
  
• 1978 - Clay Aiken was born. American singer.
• 1978 - Emil Steiner was born. American writer.
• 1978 - Gael García Bernal was born. Mexican actor.
• 1979 - Pink Floyd release the album The Wall.
• 1978 - Emil Steiner was born. American writer.
• 1979 - Andrés Nocioni was born. Argentine basketball player.
• 1979 - Chris Atkinson was born. Australian rally driver.
• 1979 - Dania Ramírez was born. Dominican actress.
• 1980 - Jamie Ashdown was born. English footballer.
• 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.
• 1982 - Jason Pominville was born. Canadian ice hockey player.
• 1982 - Clémence Poésy was born. French actress.
• 1982 - Tony Giarratano was born. American baseball player.
• 1983 - Adrian Cristea was born. Romanian footballer.
• 1983 - Andy Akinwolere was born. English television presenter.
• 1984 - Nigel de Jong was born. Dutch footballer.
• 1984 - Alan Hutton was born. Scottish footballer.
• 1984 - Naima Mora was born in Detroit. American model.
• 1984 - Nigel de Jong was born. Dutch football player.
• 1984 - Omahyra Mota was born. Dominican model/actress
• 1984 - Francisco Sandaza was born. Spanish footballer.
• 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 - Vasilisa Bardina was born. Russian tennis player.
• 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 - Chanel Iman was born. American supermodel.
• 1989 - Margaret Nales Wilson was born. Filipino model.
• 1989 - Daisy Rebecca Evans was born. Musician.
  
• 1989 - Alfred Herrhausen dies (b. 1930). German banker, murdered (Deutsche Bank).
• 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 - Antoine N'Gossan was born. Ivory Coast footballer.
• 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 - Yuuri Chinen was born. Japanese actor and singer.
• 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.
• 1994 - Harry Saltzman dies (b. 1915). American film producer.
• 1994 - Lionel Stander dies (b. 1908). American actor.
• 1995 - Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
• 1995 - Fernando Assis Pacheco dies (b. 1937). Portuguese journalist and writer.
• 1995 - Randy Walker (AKA Stretch) dies (b. 1972). American musician.
• 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.
• 2003 - António Jesus Correia dies (b. 1924). Portuguese footballer and roller hockey. One of the five violins (Cinco Violinos do Sporting Clube de Portugal).
• 2004 - Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns.
• 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.
• 2006 - Elhadi Adam was born (d. 1927). Sudanese poet and lyricist.
• 2006 - Rafael Buenaventura dies (b. 1938). Former BSP Governor.
• 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.
• 2007 - Engin Arık dies (b. 1948). Turkish nuclear physicist.
• 2007 - Evel Knievel dies (b. 1938) American motorcycle daredevil.
• 2008– Munetaka Higuchi dies (b. 1958). Japanese drummer (Loudness).
  
• Barbados - Independence Day (from Britain, 1966) .
• Philippines - Andres Bonifacio Day.
• Official End of the Hurricane Season.
• Cities for Life Day: hundreds of cities around the world celebrate the first abolition of the death penalty by a European state.
• Portugal: Feriado Municipal em Mesão Frio / Portugal: Municipal hollyday in Mesão Frio
• Calendar of Saints - Saint Andrew the apostle - St Andrew's day is the national day of Scotland, and as of 2007, a bank holiday.