November 30

November 30 is the 334th day of the year (335th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 31 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

Up to 1900

• 3340 BC – Earliest believed record of an eclipse.
• 1700 – Battle of Narva: A Swedish army of 8,500 men under Charles XII of Sweden defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva (present-day Estonia, next to Russian border).
• 1707 – The Second Siege of Pensacola comes to an end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.
• 1718 – Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten, Norway.
• 1731 – An earthquake in Beijing kills thousands of people.
• 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris – In Paris, representatives of the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace agreements – they later become official in the 1783 Treaty of Paris.
• 1786 – The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under the future Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes the first modern state to ban the death penalty.
• 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.
• 1853 – Crimean War: Battle of Sinop – The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman Empire fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, present-day Turkey.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Franklin, Tennessee.
• 1872 – The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow on Saint Andrew's Day, between Scotland and England. It ends 0–0.
• 1886 – The Folies Bergere in Paris stages its first performance.

1901 – 2000

• 1908 – 154 miners are killed in a mining explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania.
• 1916 – Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Copyright Convention.
• 1920 – Liberato Ribeiro Pinto becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
• 1934 – The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive known to have reached a speed of 100 miles per hour.
• 1936 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
• 1939 – Winter War: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
• 1940 – Actress Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
• 1942 – World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga – A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizo Tanaka defeats a US cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
• 1943 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin agree to the planned June 1944 invasion of Europe code-named Operation Overlord.
• 1953 – Edward Mutesa II, the last King of Buganda, is deposed and exiled to London by Andrew Cohen, British Governor of Uganda.
• 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. She got a bad bruise. This is the only known case of a human being hit by a rock from space.
• 1956 – Floyd Patterson becomes heavyweight world boxing champion against Archie Moore.
• 1958 – French Equatorial Africa splits up into the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Chad and the Central African Republic, all of which becomes fully independent in 1960.
• 1966 – Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1967 – The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1967 – Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
• 1975 – Dahomey is renamed the "People's Republic of Benin".
• 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 – Michael Jackson releases his hit, "Thriller".
• 1989 – Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida becomes serial killer Aileen Wuornos's first victim.
• 1989 – German banker Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction bomb. He was a board member at Deutsche Bank.
• 1993 – Steven Spielberg's movie Schindler's List is first shown, in Washington, DC.
• 1994 – The ship MS Achille Lauro catches fire off Somalia.
• 1995 – Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
• 1995 – Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland, as the first US president to do so.
• 1996 – The Stone of Scone is installed at Edinburgh Castle on its official return to Scotland from England.
• 1998 – Exxon and Mobil sign an agreement to merge.
• 1999 – British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems.

From 2001

• 2001 – Green River Killer Gary Ridgway is arrested in Renton, Washington, ending a killing spree in which 49 people were murdered.
• 2004 – Lion Air Flight 538 crash-lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26 people.
• 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 when he becomes Archbishop of York.
• 2006 – Typhoon Durian causes a mud avalanche from the Mount Mayon volcano on Luzon, Philippines, killing 300 people.
• 2013 – Actor Paul Walker, star of the "Fast and Furious", is killed in a car crash.
• 2015 – Climate change talks begin in Paris.
• 2017 – Katrín Jakobsdóttir becomes Prime Minister of Iceland, leading a three-party coalition.

Births

Up to 1800

• 539 – Gregory of Tours, French bishop and historian (d. 594)
• 1327 – Andrew, Duke of Calabria (d. 1345)
• 1340 – John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (d. 1416)
• 1427 – Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (d. 1492)
• 1466 – Andrea Doria, Genoese naval officer (d. 1560)
• 1498 – Andres de Urdaneta, Spanish friar, sail-captain and explorer (d. 1568)
• 1508 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (d. 1580)
• 1554 – Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier and writer (d. 1586)
• 1602 – Otto von Guericke, German politician, jurist, physicist and inventor (d. 1686)
• 1642 – Andrea Pozzo, Italian painter and architect (d. 1709)
• 1645 – Andreas Werckmeister, German organist, theorist and composer (d. 1706)
• 1667 – Jonathan Swift, Irish writer (d. 1745)
• 1670 – John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)
• 1719 – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
• 1723 – William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
• 1761 – Smithson Tennant, English chemist (d. 1815)
• 1768 – Jedrzej Sniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)
• 1781 – Alexander Berry, Scottish surgeon, merchant and explorer (d. 1873)
• 1791 – Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg, Austrian soldier and statesman (d. 1848)
• 1796 – Carl Loewe, German composer (d. 1869)

1801 – 1900

• 1813 – Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)
• 1813 – Claude-Valentin Alkan, French composer (d. 1888)
• 1817 – Theodor Mommsen, German historian and writer (d. 1903)
• 1821 – Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
• 1825 – William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French painter (d. 1905)
• 1835 – Mark Twain, American writer (d. 1910)
• 1836 – Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
• 1847 – Afonso Augusto Moreira, 6th President of Brazil (d. 1909)
• 1858 – Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
• 1866 – Andrey Lyapchev, Bulgarian politician (d. 1933)
• 1869 – Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist (d. 1937)
• 1872 – John McCrae, Canadian poet (d. 1918)
• 1874 – Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
• 1874 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian writer (d. 1942)
• 1875 – Otto Strandman, 2nd Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1941)
• 1887 – Andrej Gosar, Slovenian–Yugoslavian politician, economist and theorist (d. 1970)
• 1887 – Beatrice Kerr, Australian swimmer, diver and aquatic performer (d. 1971)
• 1889 – Edgar Douglas Adrian, English doctor, won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1977)

1901 – 1950

• 1904 – Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
• 1906 – John Dickson Carr, American author (d. 1977)
• 1907 – Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author (d. 2012)
• 1909 – Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)
• 1911 – Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953)
• 1912 – Gordon Parks, American photographer, musician, writer and movie director (d. 2006)
• 1915 – Henry Taube, Canadian-American physicist (d. 2005)
• 1918 – Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (d. 2014)
• 1920 – Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
• 1924 – Klaus Huber, Swiss composer (d. 2017)
• 1924 – Shirley Chisholm, American politician (d. 2005)
• 1926 – Andrew W. Schally, Polish–Canadian Nobel Prize winner in medicine
• 1927 – Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1928 – Takako Doi, Japanese scholar and politician (d. 2014)
• 1928 – Karin Söder, Swedish politician (d. 2015)
• 1929 – Dick Clark, American entertainer (d. 2012)
• 1929 – Joan Ganz Cooney, American television presenter
• 1930 – G. Gordon Liddy, American Watergate scandal operative and talk show host
• 1930 – Jacques Hamel, French priest (d. 2016)
• 1931 – Bruce C. Murray, American geologist (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Tsai Chin, Chinese-English actress
• 1935 – Woody Allen, American director and actor
• 1936 – Dmitri Anosov, Russian mathematician (d. 2014)
• 1936 – Abbie Hoffman, American political and social activist (d. 1989)
• 1937 – Tom Simpson, English cyclist (d. 1967)
• 1937 – Ridley Scott, English movie director
• 1937 – Frank Ifield, English-Australian singer
• 1938 – Margarita Salas, Spanish biochemist and molecular geneticist (d. 2019)
• 1939 – Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Nepalese shortest-man-ever record holder (d. 2015)
• 1943 – Terrence Malick, American movie producer
• 1944 – George Graham, Scottish footballer
• 1945 – Hilary Armstrong, English politician
• 1945 – Roger Glover, Welsh bassist (Deep Purple)
• 1945 – Radu Lupu, Romanian pianist
• 1945 – Pita Paraone, New Zealand politician (d. 2019)
• 1947 – Stuart Baird, English movie editor, producer and director
• 1947 – David Mamet, American director and writer
• 1950 – Wolfgang Niersbach, German journalist and football official

1951 – 1975

• 1952 – Mandy Patinkin, American actor and musician
• 1952 – Keith Griffen, American comic book writer and artist
• 1953 – Shuggie Otis, American musician, composer and producer
• 1953 – June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (d. 2006)
• 1954 – Simonetta Stefanelli, Italian actress
• 1954 – Lawrence Summers, American economist and academic
• 1955 – Billy Idol, English musician
• 1955 – Richard Burr, American politician
• 1955 – Andy Gray, Scottish footballer
• 1957 – Richard Barbieri, English keyboardist and composer
• 1957 – Patrick McLoughlin, English politician
• 1957 – Colin Mochrie, Scottish-Canadian actor and comedian
• 1957 – Margaret Spellings, American politician
• 1957 – Gary Lewis, Scottish actor
• 1958 – Stacey Q, American singer, actress and dancer
• 1959 – Cherie Currie, American musician, singer, songwriter and actress
• 1959 – Lorraine Kelly, Scottish television presenter
• 1960 – Gary Lineker, English footballer
• 1960 – Bob Tewksbury, American baseball player
• 1961 – Innocent Egbunike, Nigerian sprinter and coach
• 1962 – Daniel Keys Moran, American computer programmer and author
• 1965 – Ben Stiller, American actor and comedian
• 1965 – Prince Akishino of Japan
• 1965 – Aldair, Brazilian footballer
• 1965 – David Laws, British politician
• 1966 – David Berkoff, American swimmer
• 1966 – John Bishop, English comedian
• 1966 – Mika Salo, Finnish racing driver
• 1968 – Des'ree, English R&B singer
• 1968 – Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist
• 1969 – Amy Ryan, American actress
• 1973 – Kate Fischer, Australian model and actress
• 1974 – Sébastien Tellier, French singer
• 1975 – Ben Thatcher, English-Welsh footballer
• 1975 – Mindy McCready, American country music singer (d. 2013)

From 1976

• 1976 – Josh Lewsey, English rugby player
• 1976 – Paul Nuttall, English politician, former leader of UKIP
• 1977 – Kozumi Saito, Japanese baseball player
• 1978 – Clay Aiken, American singer
• 1978 – Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor
• 1981 – Otto Fredrikson, Finnish footballer
• 1982 – Jason Pominville, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 – David Carney, Australian footballer
• 1983 – Adrian Cristea, Romanian footballer
• 1984 – Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer
• 1984 – Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer
• 1984 – Francisco Sandaza, Spanish footballer
• 1985 – Kaley Cuoco, American actress
• 1985 – Chrissy Teigen, American model
• 1985 – Luis Valbuena, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2018)
• 1986 – Jordan Farmar, American basketball player
• 1987 – Dougie Poynter, English singer and musician (McFly)
• 1987 – Ian Hecox, American comedian
• 1987 – Naomi, American dancer, model, singer and professional wrestler
• 1987 – Victoria Thornley, Welsh cyclist
• 1988 – Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)
• 1988 – Vitaliy Polyanskyi, Ukrainian footballer
• 1989 – Vladimir Weiss, Slovakian footballer
• 1990 – Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player
• 1993 – Yuri Chinen, Japanese actor and singer
• 1994 – William Melling, English actor

Deaths

Up to 1900

• 30 BC – Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt (b. 69 BC)
• 1016 – Edmund II, King of England (b. 989)
• 1580 – Richard Farrant, English composer and playwright (b. 1530)
• 1600 – Nanda Bayin, King of Burma (b. 1535)
• 1626 – Thomas Weelkes, English organist and composer (b. 1576)
• 1703 – Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (b. 1672)
• 1705 – Catherine of Braganza, Queen-Consort of King Charles II of England and Scotland (b. 1638)
• 1718 – King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
• 1873 – Alexander Berry, Scottish surgeon, merchant and explorer (b. 1781)
• 1892 – Dimitrios Valvis, 69th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1814)
• 1894 – Joseph E. Brown, American politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1821)
• 1900 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)

1901 – 2000

• 1901 – Edward John Eyre, English explorer (b. 1815)
• 1908 – Nishinoumi Kajiro I, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1855)
• 1920 – Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian general (b. 1867)
• 1930 – Pannambalam Ramanathan, Ceylonese Tamil statesman (b. 1851)
• 1934 – Helene Boucher, French pilot (b. 1908)
• 1934 – Roy Turk, American songwriter (b. 1892)
• 1935 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (b. 1888)
• 1938 – Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Romanian leader of the far-right Iron Guard (b. 1898)
• 1939 – Bela Kun, Hungarian politician (b. 1886)
• 1944 – Paul Masson, French cyclist (b. 1876)
• 1947 – Ernst Lubitsch, German actor and director (b. 1892)
• 1953 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879)
• 1954 – Wilhelm Furtwangler, German conductor (b. 1886)
• 1957 – Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890)
• 1958 – Hubert Wilkins, Australian soldier, explorer and photographer (b. 1888)
• 1970 – Nina Ricci, Italian-French fashion designer (b. 1883)
• 1972 – Compton Mackenzie, Scottish novelist, actor and political activist (b. 1883)
• 1977 – Terence Rattigan, English playwright (b. 1911)
• 1979 – Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1901)
• 1989 – Alfred Herrhausen, German banker (b. 1930)
• 1989 – Ahmadou Ahidjo, 1st President of Cameroon (b. 1924)
• 1994 – Guy Debord, French theorist and author (b. 1931)
• 1994 – Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1995 – Stretch, American rapper, producer and actor (b. 1968)
• 1996 – Tiny Tim, American entertainer (b. 1932)
• 1999 – Charlie Byrd, American guitarist (b. 1925)

From 2001

• 2003 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
• 2004 – Seung Sahn, South Korean spiritual leader (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Jean Parker, American actress (b. 1915)
• 2005 – Nora Denney, American actress (b. 1927)
• 2007 – Evel Knievel, American daredevil and stuntman (b. 1938)
• 2008 – Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer and producer (b. 1958)
• 2009 – Milorad Pavic, Serbian writer (b. 1929)
• 2009 – Paul Naschy, Spanish actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1934)
• 2011 – Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, Albanian royal and pretender (b. 1939)
• 2011 – Zdenek Miler, Czech animator (b. 1921)
• 2012 – I. K. Gujral, Prime Minister of India (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Jean Kent, English actress (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Yury Yakovlev, Russian actor (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Paul Walker, American actor (b. 1973)
• 2014 – Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (b. 1914)
• 2014 – Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Fred Catherwood, English politician and writer (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Martin Litton, American environmentalist (b. 1917)
• 2014 – Jarbom Gamlin, Indian politician (b. 1950)
• 2015 – Eldar Ryazanov, Russian movie director (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Gerrit Holdijk, Dutch politician (b. 1944)
• 2015 – Greg Fisk, American politician (b. 1945)
• 2017 – Alfie Curtis, British actor (b. 1930)
• 2017 – Dick Gernert, American baseball player (b. 1928)
• 2017 – Colin Groves, British-Australian biologist and professor (b. 1942)
• 2017 – Jim Nabors, American actor, singer and comedian (b. 1930)
• 2017 – Surin Pitsuwan, Thai politician and diplomat (b. 1949)
• 2017 – Marina Popovich, Soviet-Russian air force colonel, engineer and test pilot (b. 1931)
• 2017 – Vincent Scully, American architecture historian (b. 1920)
• 2018 – Palden Gyatso, Tibetan Buddhist monk (b. 1933)
• 2018 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (b. 1924)
• 2019 – Michael Howard, English historian (b. 1922)
• 2019 – Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor (b. 1943)
• 2019 – Petr Málek, Czech sport shooter (b. 1961)
• 2019 – Harold Rahm, American-Brazilian Roman Catholic priest and humanitarian (b. 1919)
• 2019 – Milagrosa Tan, Filipina politician (b. 1958)
• 2019 – Brian Tierney, English historian (b. 1922)

Holidays and observances

• Barbados – Independence Day (from the United Kingdom, 1966)
• Official end of the North Atlantic hurricane season
• Saint Andrew's Day – Christian apostle, and patron saint (several countries including Scotland and Barbados)
• Cities for Life Day
• National Day (Benin)
• Regina Mundi Day (South Africa)