What happened on November 30? There are more than 288 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About November 30
November 30 is the 335th day of the year 2024. There are 31 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday. This day falls under the 48th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Erie, Pennsylvania 16532 sunrise will occur at 07:27 AM and sunset will occur at 04:51 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Sagittarius. The modern birthstone for this month is Topaz while the mystical birthstone is Pearl.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 60 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For November 30
- 1700Battle of Narva – A Swedish army of 8,500 men under Charles XII defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva.
- 1718Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
- 1782American 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).
- 1783A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
- 1786Peter 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.
- 1803In 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.
- 1804The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
- 1824First ground is broken at Allenburg for the building of the original Welland Canal.
- 1829First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking.
- 1853Crimean 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.
- 1864American 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.
- 1868The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden takes place in the King’s garden in Stockholm.
- 1872The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
- 1886The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
- 1902American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
- 1908A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania kills 154.
- 1916Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1934The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
- 1936In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
- 1939Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
- 1940Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
- 1942World 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.
- 19471947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins on this day, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.
- 1953Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
- 1954In 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.
- 1966Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1967The 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.
- 1967The People’s Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1971Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
- 1972Vietnam 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.
- 1981Cold 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).
- 1982Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, is released.
- 1989Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
- 1993U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
- 1994MS Achille Lauro fire off Somalia coast.
- 1995Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
- 1998Exxon and Mobil sign a $73.7 billion USD agreement to merge, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the world’s largest company.
- 1999British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe’s largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
- 1999In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
- 2001In Renton, Washington, United States, Gary Ridgway aka The Green River Killer is arrested.
- 2004Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
- 2004Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with US$ 2,520,700, television’s biggest game show winnings.
- 2005John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
Who Were Born On November 30?
- 539Gregory of Tours, French bishop and historian (d. 594)
- 1340John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (d. 1416)
- 1364John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (d. 1390)
- 1466Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (d. 1560)
- 1498Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Augustinian friar, sail-captain and explorer (d. 1568)
- 1508Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (d. 1580)
- 1554Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (d. 1586)
- 1594John Cosin, English clergyman (d. 1672)
- 1625Jean Domat, French jurist (d. 1696)
- 1637Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (d. 1698)
- 1667Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist (d. 1745)
- 1670John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)
- 1683Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)
- 1719Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
- 1722Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (d. 1761)
- 1723William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
- 1756Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827)
- 1768Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)
- 1781Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)
- 1791Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg, Austrian soldier and statesman (d. 1848)
- 1796Carl Loewe, German composer (d. 1869)
- 1810Oliver Winchester, American gunsmith (d. 1880)
- 1813Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (d. 1888)
- 1813Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)
- 1817Theodor Mommsen, German historian, Nobel laureate (d. 1903)
- 1821Frederick Temple, 95th Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
- 1825William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French academic painter (d. 1905)
- 1835Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), American writer (d. 1910)
- 1836Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
- 1840Henry Birks, Canadian businessman (d. 1928)
- 1847Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena, 6th President of Brazil (d. 1909)
- 1857Bobby Abel, English cricketer (d. 1936)
- 1858Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
- 1863Andrés Bonifacio, head of the Philippine Revolutionary Movement Katipunan (KKK) (d. 1897)
- 1869Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
- 1870Princess Henriette, Duchess of Vendôme and Alençon (d. 1948)
- 1872Dr. John McCrae, Canadian physician and soldier (d. 1918)
- 1874Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942)
- 1874Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
- 1887Andrej Gosar, Slovenian politician and thinker (d. 1970)
- 1889Edgar Douglas Adrian, British physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1977)
- 1889Reuvein Margolies, Austrian-Hungarian-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar (d. 1971)
- 1898Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (d. 1976)
- 1904Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
- 1906Andrés Henestrosa, Mexican writer (d. 2008)
- 1906John Dickson Carr, American author of detective fiction (d. 1977)
- 1907Jacques Barzun, French-born historian and author
- 1909Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)
- 1910Leonidas Andrianopoulos, Greek footballer (d. 2011)
- 1911Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953)
- 1912Gordon Parks, American photographer and film director (d. 2006)
- 1915Brownie McGhee, American blues musician (d. 1996)
- 1915Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
- 1918Efrem Zimbalist Jr., American actor
- 1920Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1922Graham Crowden, Scottish actor (d. 2010)
- 1924Allan Sherman, American comedian (d. 1973)
- 1924Elliott Blackstone, American gay and lesbian rights activist (d. 2006)
- 1924Shirley Chisholm, American politician, United States Representatives from New York (d. 2005)
- 1926Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1927Robert Guillaume, American actor
- 1928Joe B. Hall, American basketball coach
- 1929Dick Clark, American television host
- 1929Joan Ganz Cooney, American children’s television pioneer
- 1930G. Gordon Liddy, American Watergate operative and talk radio host
- 1931Bill Walsh, American football coach (d. 2007)
- 1931Jack Ging, American actor
- 1932Bob Moore, American bassist and orchestra leader
- 1932Cho Namchul, South Korean professional Go player (d. 2006)
- 1933Norman Deeley, English footballer (d. 2007)
- 1936Abbie Hoffman, American activist (d. 1989)
- 1936Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, Russian mathematician
- 1937Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese writer
- 1937Frank Ifield, Australian/British singer
- 1937Ridley Scott, British film director
- 1937Tom Simpson, British cyclist (d. 1967)
- 1938Jean Eustache, French filmmaker
- 1943Terrence Malick, American director and screenwriter
- 1944Dian Parkinson, American model, ‘Price is Right’hostess
- 1944George Graham, Scottish former footballer
- 1945Radu Lupu, Romanian concert pianist
- 1945Roger Glover, British bassist (Deep Purple)
- 1947David Mamet, American playwright
- 1947Jude Ciccolella, American actor
- 1947Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet
- 1947Stuart Baird, English film editor, producer and director
- 1949Jimmy London, Jamaican reggae singer
- 1949Vlassis Bonatsos, Greek entertainer (d. 2004)
- 1950Chris Claremont, British comic book writer
- 1951Christian Bernard, mystic
- 1951June Chadwick, British actress
- 1952Keith Giffen, American comic book writer and artist
- 1952Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer
- 1953June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (d. 2006)
- 1953Shuggie Otis, American musician, composer and producer
- 1954Lawrence Summers, American economist and government official
- 1954Simonetta Stefanelli, Italian actress (The Godfather)
- 1955Andy Gray, Scottish footballer
- 1955Billy Idol (born William Michael Albert Broad), British musician
- 1955Gordon Liu, Chinese actor
- 1955Kevin Conroy, American actor (Batman in the DC animated universe)
- 1955Michael Beschloss, American historian
- 1955Muricy Ramalho, Brazilian manager and former football player
- 1955Richard Burr, American politician
- 1957Andrew Calhoun, American musician
- 1957Colin Mochrie, Scottish-born Canadian comedian
- 1957Joël Champetier, French Canadian author
- 1957John Ashton, English guitarist (The Psychedelic Furs)
- 1957Margaret Spellings, American politician and 8th United States Secretary of Education
- 1957Richard Barbieri, British keyboardist (Porcupine Tree)
- 1958Iz the Wiz, NYC graffiti artist (d. 2009)
- 1958Juliette Bergmann, Dutch bodybuilder
- 1958Stacey Q, American singer
- 1959Cherie Currie, American musician
- 1959Lorraine Kelly, British presenter and journalist
- 1960Bill Halter, American politician
- 1960Bob Tewksbury, American baseball player
- 1960Gary Lineker, English footballer
- 1960Rich Fields, American television personality
- 1962Bo Jackson, American football and baseball player
- 1962Daniel Keys Moran, American writer
- 1964Jushin Liger, Japanese professional wrestler
- 1964Michael Cudlitz, American actor
- 1965Aldair, Brazilian footballer
- 1965Ben Stiller, American actor
- 1965David Laws, British politician
- 1965Lee Klein, American writer
- 1965Prince Akishino of Japan
- 1966David Berkoff, American swimmer
- 1966David Nicholls, English novelist and screenwriter
- 1966John Bishop, British comedian
- 1966Mika Salo, Finnish racing driver
- 1966Wil Mara, American author
- 1967Rajiv Dixit, Indian Scientist & Social Activist (d. 2010)
- 1968Des'ree, English singer
- 1968Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist
- 1969Amy Ryan, American actress
- 1969Marc Goossens, Belgian racing driver
- 1969Mike Stone, American musician (Queensryche)
- 1970Perrey Reeves, American actress
- 1970Robert Griffith, American football player
- 1971Iván Rodríguez, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1971Ray Durham, American baseball player
- 1971Tonči Boban, Croatian footballer
- 1972Abel Xavier, Portuguese footballer
- 1972Christopher Fitzgerald, American stage actor
- 1973Jason Reso (aka “Christian Cage”), Canadian professional wrestler
- 1973John Moyer, American bassist (Disturbed)
- 1973Lim Chang-jung, South Korean actor
- 1975Ben Thatcher, Welsh footballer
- 1975Mindy McCready, American musician
- 1976Cypher Zero, American circus innovator (New York Circus Arts)
- 1976Josh Lewsey, English rugby union footballer
- 1976Marco Castro, American film director
- 1977Iván Guerrero, Honduran footballer
- 1977Kazumi Saito, Japanese baseball player
- 1977Olivier Schoenfelder, French ice dancer
- 1977Steve Aoki, American DJ
- 1978Clay Aiken, American singer
- 1978Emil Steiner, American writer
- 1978Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor
- 1979Andrés Nocioni, Argentine basketball player
- 1979Chris Atkinson, Australian rally driver
- 1980Jamie Ashdown, English footballer
- 1980Shane Victorino, American baseball player
- 1981Billy Lush, American actor
- 1981Rich Harden, Canadian baseball player
- 1982Clémence Poésy, French actress
- 1982Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
- 1982Jason Pominville, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982Medina, Danish singer
- 1982Tony Giarratano, American baseball player
- 1983Adrian Cristea, Romanian footballer
- 1983Andy Akinwolere, English television presenter
- 1983Vladislav Polyakov, Kazakh swimmer
- 1984Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer
- 1984Francisco Sandaza, Spanish footballer
- 1984Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer
- 1985Kaley Cuoco, American actress and model
- 1986Jordan Farmar, American basketball player
- 1987Christel Khalil, American actress
- 1987Dougie Poynter, British singer and bassist (McFly)
- 1987Vasilisa Bardina, Russian tennis player
- 1989Vladimír Weiss, Slovakian footballer
- 1990Antoine N'Gossan, Ivorian footballer
- 1990Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player
- 1993Yuri Chinen, Japanese actor and singer
- 1994William Melling, English actor
Who Died On November 30?
- 1016Edmund II of England
- 1580Richard Farrant, English composer
- 1626Thomas Weelkes, English composer
- 1654John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (b. 1584)
- 1675Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial governor (b. 1605)
- 1703Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (b. 1672)
- 1705Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England (b. 1638)
- 1718King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
- 1761John Dollond, British optician (b. 1706)
- 1765George Glas, British merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
- 1886Dimitrios Valvis, Greek judge and politician (b. 1814)
- 1900Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
- 1901Edward John Eyre, British explorer (b. 1815)
- 1908Nishinoumi Kajirō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 16th Yokozuna (b. 1855)
- 1916Dorrit Weixler, German actress (b. 1892)
- 1920Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)
- 1923John Maclean MA, Scottish Socialist (b. 1879)
- 1933Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian general (b. 1875)
- 1934Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (b. 1908)
- 1935Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (b. 1888)
- 1943Etty Hillesum, Dutch diarist (b. 1914)
- 1953Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879)
- 1954Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)
- 1955Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer (b. 1896)
- 1956Viggo Wiehe, Danish actor (b. 1874)
- 1957Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890)
- 1958Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (b. 1888)
- 1966Salah Suheimat, Jordanian parliamentarian (b. 1914)
- 1967Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (b. 1904)
- 1977Terence Rattigan, British writer and playwright (b. 1911)
- 1979Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1901)
- 1987Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1913)
- 1988Pannonica de Koenigswarter, jazz patroness and writer
- 1989Alfred Herrhausen, German banker (Deutsche Bank) (b. 1930)
- 1993David Houston, American country music singer (b. 1938)
- 1994Guy Debord, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1931)
- 1994Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)
- 1995Randy Walker, American musician (b. 1968)
- 1996Tiny Tim, American entertainer (b. 1932)
- 1997Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947)
- 1999Charlie Byrd, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
- 2000Scott Smith, Canadian musician (Loverboy) (b. 1955)
- 2002Tim Woods, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
- 2003Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
- 2004Pierre Berton, Canadian author (b. 1920)
- 2004Seung Sahn, Korean spiritual figure (b. 1927)
- 2005Jean Parker, American actress (b. 1915)
- 2006Elhadi Adam, Sudanese poet and lyricist (b. 1927)
- 2006Rafael Buenaventura, Filipino banker and politician (b. 1938)
- 2007Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (b. 1948)
- 2007Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (b. 1938)
- 2008Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese musician (Loudness) (b. 1958)
- 2010Faye Wright, American spiritual figure (b. 1914)
- 2010Garry Gross, American photographer (b. 1937)
- 2010Peter Hofmann, Czech-born German operatic tenor (b. 1944)
- 2010Rajiv Dixit, Indian scientist and Swadeshi movement figure (b. 1967)
- 2011Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, referred to as King Leka I by Albanian monarchists (b. 1939)
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