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What happened in history on this day: November 30?
On November 30 in ...
- 306 - Saint Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 538 - Birth of Saint Gregory of Tours, chronicler/bishop.
- 1016 - Edmund II Ironsides, King of the Saxons (1016), dies at age 27.
- 1466 - Birth of Andrea Doria Genoese statesman/admiral.
- 1554 - Birth of Philip Sidney England, poet/statesman/soldier (Arcadia).
- 1554 - Formal ceremony of English reconciliation with Rome, restoring Catholic faith in England.
- 1631 - Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels dies.
- 1667 - Birth of Jonathan Swift in England; satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal).
- 1694 - Marcello Malpighi father of microscopic anatomy, dies.
- 1718 - (about 2100 hours) At the siege of Fredrikshald, King Karl XII is struck in the head by a bullet, killing him instantly.
- 1782 - Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence.
- 1783 - In New Jersey, a magnitude 5.3 earthquake occurs. The largest historical earthquake in New Jersey.
- 1793 - Birth of Johann Lukas Schonlein; helped establish scientific medicine.
- 1803 - Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France.
- 1804 - Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins.
- 1810 - Birth of Oliver Fisher Winchester; rifle maker (Winchester).
- 1817 - Birth of Theodor Mommsen in Germany; historian/writer (Nobel Prize 1902).
- 1835 - Birth of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, in Florida, Missouri, USA; writer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn).
- 1841 - An act is passed in Brazil authorizing the issuance of postage stamps.
- 1863 - Birth of Andres Bonifacio; leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain.
- 1866 - Work begins on first US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago, Illinois.
- 1874 - Birth of Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill at Blemheim Palace, England; British Conservative Prime Minister (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel Prize 1953).
- 1875 - With the help of private financing, the British government now owns 44 percent of Suez Canal Company.
- 1886 - The Folies Bergere hall in Paris, France, stages its first revue, the Place aux Jeunes.
- 1886 - First commercially-successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo, New York, USA.
- 1887 - First indoor softball game (Chicago, Illinois).
- 1894 - Birth of Ture Rangstrom in Stockholm, Sweden; composer/critic (Kronbruden).
- 1898 - Birth of Roy (Link) Lyman; NFL tackle (Chicago Bears).
- 1900 - Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris, France.
- 1907 - Birth of Jacques Barzun in France; author (The House of Interlect).
- 1910 - Birth of Paul Cerutti in Monaco; trap shooter, disqualified for drugs in 1976 Olympics.
- 1912 - Birth of Gordon Parks; film director/writer (Learning Tree).
- 1913 - Birth of John K.M. McCaffery in Moscow, Idaho, USA; TV host (One Minute Please).
- 1915 - Birth of Angier Biddle Duke in New York City, New York, USA; US Ambassador (Spain).
- 1915 - Birth of Henry Taube; chemist (Nobel Prize 1983).
- 1918 - Birth of Efrem Zimbalist Junior in New York City, New York, USA; actor (The FBI, 77 Sunset Strip, Scruples, voice of Alfred - Batman-the Animated Series).
- 1920 - Birth of Virginia Mayo in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; actress (Out of the Blue, White Heat).
- 1922 - The Japanese navy's Honsho aircraft carrier is launched for sea trials. This is the world's first designed and completed aircraft carrier. The ship can carry 21 aircraft, and can travel at a speed of 25 knots.
- 1924 - First photo facsimile is transmitted across Atlantic Ocean by radio.
- 1924 - Birth of Allan Sherman in Chicago, Illinois, USA; comedian and writer (I've Got a Secret TV show, "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh!" song).
- 1924 - Birth of Shirley Chisholm; American politician (Democrat-Representative-New York), presidential candidate.
- 1926 - Birth of Richard Crenna in Los Angeles, California, USA; radio actor (Our Miss Brooks, A Date with Judy, The Great Gildersleeve), TV actor (Our Miss Brooks, Rambo, Summer Rental, Sand Pebbles, The Real McCoys, Slattery's People, Judging Amy, The Rape of Richard Beck (Emmy award)).
- 1927 - Birth of Robert Guillaume in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; actor (Benson, Soap, Sports Night).
- 1928 - Birth of Chic Hecht; American politician (Senator-Republican-Nevada).
- 1929 - Birth of Joan Ganz Cooney in Phoenix, Arizona, USA; TV executive (Children's TV Workshop).
- 1929 - Birth of Johnny Horton in Los Angeles, California, USA; singer ("The Battle of New Orleans", "North to Alaska").
- 1929 - Birth of Dick Clark in Mount Vernon, New York, USA; TV host (American Bandstand).
- 1930 - Birth of G Gordon Liddy; Watergate felon, radio talk-show host.
- 1931 - Birth of Gunther Herbig in Usti-nad-Labem, Czechoslovakia; conductor (East Berlin Orchestra).
- 1931 - Birth of Jack Ging in Alva, Oklahoma, USA; actor (11th Hour, Ripcord, Tales of Wells Fargo, The A-Team).
- 1931 - Birth of Jack Sheldon in Jacksonville, Florida, USA; musician, actor (Run Buddy Run, Merv Griffin Show).
- 1933 - Birth of Linwood C Ivey in North Carolina, USA; American politician (Mayor-Garysburg, North Carolina).
- 1934 - The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
- 1936 - Birth of Abbie Hoffman aka Free; Yippie/activist/author (Steal this Book).
- 1936 - London's Crystal Palace (built 1851) is destroyed by fire.
- 1937 - Birth of Paul Stookey in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; singer (Peter, Paul and Mary - "Wedding Song").
- 1937 - Birth of Richard Threlkeld; newscaster (ABC-TV, CBS).
- 1938 - Italians demand Tunisia, Corsica, Nice, and Savoy from France.
- 1939 - Birth of Walter Weller in Vienna, Austria; conductor (Vienna Tonkusteler Orchestra).
- 1939 - Soviet Union military forces attack Finland, commencing with air raids on Helsinki.
- 1940 - First game of only two-game CFL Grey Cup (Ottawa 8, Toronto Balmy Beach 2).
- 1941 - 101-year-old Nyack-Tarrytown (New York) ferry makes its last run.
- 1943 - Birth of Rob Grill; singer (The Grassroots).
- 1945 - Birth of Roger Glover; rock musician (Deep Purple).
- 1945 - Birth of Radu Lupu in Galati, Romania; pianist (Enesco first prize-1967).
- 1946 - In Colford, Gloucestershire, UK, a meteorite fall knocks out telephones service, and knocks a boy off his bicycle.
- 1947 - Birth of David Mamet; US playwright/director (Speed the Plow, House of Games).
- 1947 - Day after United Nations decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked.
- 1948 - American Baseball's Negro National League disbands.
- 1948 - Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin.
- 1949 - Birth of Arthur Lee Washington Junior; one of FBI's most wanted.
- 1949 - Chinese Communists capture Chungking.
- 1950 - Birth of Kathryn Witt in Miami, Florida, USA; actress (Pam - Flying High, Lenny).
- 1950 - Birth of Margaret Whitton in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Cutters, Good and Evil, Barbara - Hometown, Major League).
- 1950 - Birth of Paul Westphal; NBA guard (Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns).
- 1951 - Birth of Dian Parkinson; TV model (Price is Right).
- 1952 - Birth of Mandy Patinkin; actor/singer (Yentl, Alien Nation, Criminal Minds, Dead Like Me, Chicago Hope).
- 1954 - First meteorite (8 pounds) known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges in Sylacauga, Alabama, USA).
- 1954 - Birth of June Pointer; singer (Pointer Sisters - "I'm so Excited").
- 1954 - Birth of Lawrence Summers; US Treasury Secretary.
- 1955 - Birth of Billy Idol [William Broad]; rocker ("White Wedding").
- 1957 - Birth of John Ashton; rock musician (The Psychedelic Furs).
- 1957 - Birth of Colin Mochrie; actor/comedian (Whose Line is it Anyway?).
- 1958 - First guided missile destroyer launched, the USS Dewey, in Bath, Maine, USA.
- 1959 - Birth of Sylvia Hanika in Munich, Federal Republic of Germany; tennis player (Avon-1982).
- 1959 - Joe Foss named first commissioner of AFL.
- 1961 - USSR vetoes Kuwait's application for United Nations membership.
- 1962 - Birth of Bo Jackson; baseball/football player (Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Raiders).
- 1962 - U Thant of Burma unanimously elected third Secretary-General of United Nations.
- 1963 - Birth of Jalil; rapper (Whodini).
- 1964 - Don Redman, orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at age 64.
- 1964 - USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned.
- 1965 - Birth of Ben Stiller; Actor-director (Ben Stiller Show, Arrested Development).
- 1966 - Barbados gains independence from Britain.
- 1967 - A magnitude 6.5 earthquake occurs centered along the Albania-Yugoslavia border in the vicinity of Debar, Yugoslavia, and Shupenze, Albania. Eighteen people killed, 204 injured, and 70 percent of the living quarters were left unsafe for habitation.
- 1967 - Kuria Muria islands ceded by Britain to Oman.
- 1967 - The Federation of South Arabia gains independence as the People's Republic of Southern Yemen.
- 1970 - Birth of Sandra Oh in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; actress (Grey's Anatomy, Arli$$).
- 1970 - The People's Republic of Southern Yemen changes its name to The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen.
- 1972 - Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome, Italy).
- 1973 - Bruce Yarnell of Los Angeles, California, actor (Outlaws), dies at age 35.
- 1974 - Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens, and Tim White discover Lucy (Australopithecus) in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
- 1974 - 20th time New York Islanders shut-out (3-0 versus Vancouver Canucks).
- 1975 - Former Republic of Dahomey proclaims itself People's Republic of Benin.
- 1976 - In Chile, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurs, about 550 kilometers north of Antofagasta near the Peruvian border.
- 1978 - Publication of The Times newspaper of the UK is suspended due to labor problems.
- 1978 - Birth of Clay Aiken; singer (American Idol, Celebrity Apprentice).
- 1981 - In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe.
- 1981 - Robert H Harris, actor (Jake - The Goldbergs), dies at age 72.
- 1982 - Birth of Elisha Cuthbert in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; actress (24 TV show).
- 1982 - US submarine Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in South China Sea.
- 1983 - In Chagos Archipelago Region, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurs.
- 1983 - Denver Nuggets' coach Doug Moe, hopelessly behind, advises team to let Portland Trail Blazers break their scoring record.
- 1983 - Radio Shack announces the Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip).
- 1984 - The Tamil Tigers begin the purge of the Sinhalese from North and East Sri Lanka; 127 are killed.
- 1985 - Birth of Kaley Cuoco; actress (Big Bang Theory, Charmed, Eight Simple Rules).
- 1987 - Birth of Dougie Poynter; English musician (McFly).
- 1987 - Birth of Ian Hecox; American comedian and co-founder of Smosh.
- 1987 - In the Gulf of Alaska, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurs.
- 1987 - Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to US President Franklin Roosevelt, dies at age 89.
- 1987 - Death of James Baldwin, American writer (Another Country), dies at age 63 (born 1924).
- 1988 - Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed.
- 1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for US$25.07 billion in the biggest leveraged buyout deal of all time.
- 1988 - Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; first time in 38 years.
- 1988 - United Nations General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing Palestinian Liberation Organization's Arafat visa.
- 1988 - The Disney Channel begins airing Good Morning, Miss Bliss.
- 1989 - In Bad Homburg, Germany, Deutsche Bank chairman Alfred Herrhausen is killed in his armoured Mercedes car by a 20kg roadside bomb. The Red Army Faction claims responsibility for the murder.
- 1990 - US President George Bush proposes US-Iraq meeting to avoid war.
- 1990 - Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at age 75.
- 1991 - 93 cars and 11 trucks in accident near San Francisco during a dust storm, 17 die.
- 1992 - The trial of 14 South Vietnamese accused of murdering 24 North Vietnamese begins in Hong Kong (ends November 29, 1994).
- 1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
- 1994 - Death of Lionel Stander of lung cancer at age 86; actor (Max - Hart to Hart TV show, Eddie Cantor Show radio show, Kraft Music Hall, The Fred Allen Show, It Takes a Thief, Dream On, Mayor of the Town, Stage Door Canteen, The Jack Paar Show, The Life of Riley (1941)).
- 1995 - Javier Solana becomes the new NATO General Secretary.
- 1995 - Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
- 1995 - Death of William Roerick at age 83 in a motor vehicle accident; actor (The Guiding Light TV show, Playhouse 90 TV show, Kraft TV Theatre TV show, Another World TV show, Law and Order TV show).
- 1996 - Herbert Khaury AKA Tiny Tim dies of a heart attack at age 64 while performing "Tiptoe Through The Tulips" at a Minneapolis fund raiser (born 1932).
- 1998 - Deutsche Bank announces a US$10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.
- 1999 - In Seattle, Washington, the first major mobilization of the anti-globalization movement catches police unprepared and forces the cancellation of the opening ceremonies of the WTO Meeting of 1999 (protests end on December 3).
- 1999 - Exxonmobil Corporation merger is completed, and forms the largest company in the world.
- 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.
- 2000 - Mike Mussina signs a US$88.5 million, six-year contract with the New York Yankees.
- 2000 - Death of Scott Smith at age 45 by drowning, swept off his sailboat near San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge; Loverboy bass guitarist (Loverboy - "Turn Me Loose", "Working for the Weekend").
- 2004 - Longtime Jeopardy! (TV show) champion Ken Jennings finally loses after 74 wins, leaving him with $2,520,700, television's all-time biggest game show haul.
- 2004 - Death of Pierre Berton of heart failure at age 84; Canadian author and broadcaster (Front Page Challenge).
- 2005 - Surgeons in France carry out the first partial human face transplant.
- 2006 - South Africa becomes the fifth nation to legalize gay marriage.
- 2006 - Typhoon Durian triggers a massive mudslide and kills hundreds of people in the Philippines.
- 2006 - Microsoft releases the Windows Vista operating system to corporate clients.
- 2007 - Atlasjet Flight 4203 crashes near Keçiborlu, Turkey, killing all 56 people on board.
- 2007 - The 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season officially ends.
- 2007 - Death of Robert Craig "Evel" Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil, of pulmonary fibrosis at age 69 (born 1938).
- 2008 - End of three days of destruction in Jos, Nigeria, following protests over local government elections. 300 killed, 7000 homeless, many businesses, churches, mosques destroyed.
- 2008 - About 150 pilot whales die after being stranded in a remote coastal area of the Australian island of Tasmania.
- 2008 - The space shuttle Endeavour lands in California after a 16-day mission to renovate parts of the International Space Station.
- 2008 - Robert Karlsson and Henrik Stenson score 63 to win golf's World Cup for Sweden at Mission Hills in China.
- 2012 - Death of I. K. Gujral, 12th Prime Minister of India (born 1919).
- 2015 - The 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) is held in Paris, attended by leaders from 147 nations.
- 2019 - 22 people (two civilians, four police officers and 16 drug dealers) are killed in a shootout in Villa Unión, Coahuila, Mexico, the largest such crime in the country's history.
- 2019 - (to December 11) The 2019 Southeast Asian Games are held in the Philippines.
- 2020 - Moderna in the USA announces completion of Phase 3 clinical trials of its mRNA-1273 Covid-19 vaccine, declaring it to be 94.1% effective.
- 2020 - Protein folding, one of the biggest mysteries in biology, is solved by AlphaFold, an artificial intelligence algorithm developed by DeepMind.
- 2020 - A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs; the last of four lunar eclipses in 2020.
- 2021 - Barbados becomes a republic on its 55th anniversary of independence while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 2021 - (to December 18) The 2021 FIFA Arab Cup is held in Qatar, and is won by Algeria.
- 2021 - Death of Chun Doo-hwan at age 90 home in Seoul, Republic of Korea; military dictator of country (1979-1990s).
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