November 30

Events

• 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 Treaty of Paris (1783)).
• 1803 - At the Cabildo building in New Orleans, Spanish representatives Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo, officially transfer Louisiana Territory to French representative Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat (just 20 days later, France transferred the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase).
• 1804 - The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate begin an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase (he was charged with political bias but was acquitted by the Senate of all charges on March 1, 1805).
• 1853 - Crimean War: Battle of Sinope - The Russian fleet destroys the Turkish fleet.
• 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).
• 1886 - Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
• 1902 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years hard labor.
• 1916 - The Hellenic Holocaust enters its last phase, when Turkish Minister of the Interior Rafet Bey is reported of saying "we must finish off the Greeks as we did with the Armenians … on 28 November."
• 1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire (it had been built for the 1851 Great Exhibition).
• 1939 - Winter War begins: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
• 1943 - World War II: Teheran Conference - US 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.
• 1954 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, an 8.5 pound sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise (this is the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock).
• 1960 - Production of the De Soto automobile brand ceases.
• 1961 - The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as the new UN Secretary-General.
• 1966 - Barbados becomes independent.
• 1967 - The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1972 - Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Zeigler 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.
• 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).
• 1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for US$25.07 billion.
• 1989 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a terrorist's bomb (the Red Army Faction claimed responsibility for the murder).
• 1989 - A storeowner in Palm Harbor, Florida named Richard Mallory takes a ride with Aileen Wuornos and is seen for the last time (Mallory became the first of seven people killed by female serial killer over the next year).
• 1993 - US President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
• 1998 - Deutsche Bank announces that 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 opening ceremonies of a World Trade Organization meeting (protests ended on December 3).

Births

• 539 - Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian (d. 594)
• 1466 - Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (d. 1560)
• 1508 - Andrea Palladio, master builder (d. 1580)
• 1667 - Jonathan Swift, writer, satirist (d.1745)
• 1670 - John Toland, philosopher (d. 1722)
• 1723 - William Livingston, revolutionary governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
• 1781 - Alexander Berry (d. 1873), Scotish Adventurer, founder of Berry, Australia
• 1796 - Carl Loewe, composer (d. 1869)
• 1810 - Oliver Winchester, developer of the Winchester rifle (d. 1880)
• 1817 - Theodor Mommsen, author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1902 (d. 1903)
• 1835 - Mark Twain, writer (d. 1910)
• 1836 - Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
• 1874 - Sir Winston Churchill , British political leader, writer (d. 1965)
• 1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, author (d. 1942)
• 1904 - Clyfford Still, painter (d. 1980)
• 1906 - Princess Marina of the United Kingdom (d. 1968)
• 1912 - Gordon Parks, director, writer
• 1915 - Brownie McGhee, musician (d.1996)
• 1918 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr., actor
• 1920 - Virginia Mayo, actress
• 1924 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician
• 1924 - Allan Sherman, comedian (d. 1973)
• 1927 - Richard Crenna, actor (d. 2003)
• 1927 - Robert Guillaume, actor
• 1929 - Joan Ganz Cooney, children's television pioneer
• 1929 - Dick Clark, television host
• 1930 - G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate scandal figure
• 1936 - Abbie Hoffman, U.S. anti-war activist
• 1937 - Ridley Scott, director
• 1943 - Terrence Malick, writer, producer
• 1947 - David Mamet, playwright
• 1952 - Mandy Patinkin, actor, singer
• 1955 - Billy Idol, musician
• 1962 - Bo Jackson, American football and baseball star
• 1962 - Daniel Keys Moran, science fiction writer
• 1965 - Ben Stiller, actor, director, producer, writer
• 1978 - Clay Aiken, singer

Deaths

• 1016 - King Ethelred the Unready
• 1718 - King Charles XII of Sweden
• 1900 - Oscar Wilde, writer
• 1901 - Edward John Eyre, explorer
• 1953 - Francis Picabia, painter, poet
• 1954 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor
• 1955 - Josip Stolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer (b. 1896)
• 1957 - Beniamino Gigli, tenor
• 1977 - Terrence Rattigan, writer
• 1979 - Zeppo Marx, actor
• 1996 - Tiny Tim, musician
• 2001 - Robert Tools, first person to receive a fully self-contained artificial heart
• 2002 - Hans Hartz, musician
• 2003 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer

Holidays and observances

• Saint Andrew's day
• Feast of the Incarnate Babalon
• Philippines: Bonifacio Day

See also

November 29 - December 1 - October 30 - December 30 -- listing of all days

January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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