Notable Historical Events on November 30th
November 30th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
306 |
St Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
722 |
Pope Gregory II names Boniface as missionary bishop |
1016 |
Cnut the Great (or Canute), King of Denmark, claims the English throne after the death of Edmund 'Ironside'. |
1215 |
Pope Innocent III closes 4th council of Lateranen |
1406 |
Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII |
1523 |
Amsterdam bans assembly of heretics |
1554 |
England reconciles with Pope Julius III |
1630 |
16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague |
1648 |
English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I |
1678 |
Roman Catholics banned from English parliament |
1700 |
King Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russia at Narva [NS] |
1700 |
Turkey declares war on Russia |
1700 |
Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/IJsselstein go on Gregoria calendar |
1731 |
Beijing hit by Earthquake; about 100,000 die |
1735 |
States of Holland forbid Free Masonry |
1747 |
Dutch State of Zealand declare governorship hereditary for women |
1753 |
Benjamin Franklin receives Godfrey Copley-Penny |
1776 |
Captain Cook begins 3rd & last trip to Pacific (South Sea) |
1782 |
Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence |
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. |
1787 |
Spanish governor leaves Philippines |
1803 |
Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France |
1804 |
Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins |
1813 |
Prince Willem Frederik returns to Netherlands |
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 from the ground breaking. |
1838 |
Mexico declares war on France |
1861 |
Harper's Weekly publishes EE Beers' "All quiet along the Potomac" |
1863 |
Confederate troops vacate Fort Esperanza, Texas |
1864 |
Battle of Franklin Tennessee: Confederate attack fails, 7,700 casualities |
1864 |
Battle of Honey Hill SC (Broad River) 96 dead/665 wounded |
1866 |
Work begins on 1st US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago |
1868 |
The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden takes place in the King's garden in Stockholm. |
1872 |
First international soccer game, Scotland-England 0-0 (Glasgow) |
1885 |
Opera "El Cid" premieres (Paris) |
1886 |
First commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo, NY |
1886 |
The Folies Bergère stages its first revue. |
1887 |
1st indoor softball game (Chicago) |
1891 |
Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum novarum" published |
1900 |
A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles |
1900 |
The First Isthmian Canal Commission, appointed by the President having examined possible routes for a canal, issues its report favoring that through Nicaragua over the Panama route |
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. |
1907 |
Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle |
1908 |
8th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in Melbourne (3-2) |
1908 |
The US Secretary of State and Japan's ambassador to the US exchange notes in what becomes known as the Root-Takahira Agreement: they affirm support for an independent China with an 'open door' policy and for the status quo in the Pacific |
1909 |
9th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in Sydney (5-0) |
1909 |
The British House of Lords rejects the 'People's Budget' prepared by David Loyd George; the budget tries to shift the tax burden to the wealthy |
1912 |
4th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Alerts defeats Toronto Argonauts, 11-4 |
1912 |
11th Davis Cup: British Isles beats Australasia in Melbourne (3-2) |
1915 |
St John Ervine's "John Ferguson" premieres in Dublin |
1916 |
Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
1922 |
1st speed test of 1st genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho |
1922 |
Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich |
1923 |
Dutch Catholic minority government of Wilhelm Marx forms |
1924 |
1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC) |
1924 |
Last French/Belgian troops leave Ruhrgebied |
1924 |
French/Belgium troops completely withdrawn from the Rurh |
1928 |
Test Cricket debut of Don Bradman, who scored 18 & 1 vs England |
1929 |
17th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Regina Roughriders, 14-3 |
1931 |
His Master's Voice & Columbia Records merge into EMI |
1933 |
CCC Camps are established in Cleveland Park District |
1936 |
London's Crystal Palace (built 1851) destroyed by fire |
1937 |
3rd Heisman Trophy Award: Clint Frank, Yale (HB) |
1938 |
Fascist coup in Romania, fails |
1938 |
Germany bans Jews being lawyers |
1939 |
21 U boats sunk this month (52,000 ton) |
1939 |
Paul Osborn's "Mornings at 7" premieres in NYC |
1939 |
USSR invades Finland, bombs Helsinki |
1940 |
28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 1): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 8-2 |
1940 |
32 U boats sunk this month (147,000 ton) |
1941 |
101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes its last run |
1941 |
13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton) |
1941 |
Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada & Nagano |
1942 |
-Dec 1st: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal |
1942 |
109 U boats sunk this month (729,000 ton) |
1942 |
30th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Hurricanes defeats Winnipeg Bombers, 8-5 |
1942 |
Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of NY Giants minor league system |
1942 |
German scout ship Altmark explode & sinks off Yokohama |
1944 |
Biggest & last British Battleship HMS Vanguard runs aground |
1945 |
33rd CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 35-0 |
1946 |
Bradman scores 187 in 1st Test Cricket v England at the Gabba |
1947 |
Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked |
1948 |
Baseball's Negro National League disbands |
1948 |
Player-manager Lou Boudreau is selected AL MVP |
1948 |
Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin |
1949 |
Chinese Communists captured Chungking |
1949 |
KOTV TV channel 6 in Tulsa, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1950 |
US President Harry Truman threatens China with atom bomb |
1952 |
Jackie Robinson charges NY Yankees with racism |
1953 |
French parachutist under Col De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu |
1953 |
Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda. |
1954 |
1st meteorite known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga Ala) |
1954 |
20th Heisman Trophy Award: Alan Ameche, Wisconsin (FB) |
1954 |
John Strydom succeeds Malan as premier of South Africa |
1955 |
"Pipe Dream" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 245 performances |
1955 |
Argentine government disbands Peronistic party |
1956 |
1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards & the News) |
1956 |
Floyd Patterson KOs Archie Moore in 5 for heavyweight boxing title |
1957 |
"Happy Hunting" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 413 performances |
1957 |
45th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 32-7 |
1957 |
Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8 |
1958 |
1st guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me |
1958 |
WKBW TV channel 7 in Buffalo, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1959 |
Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL |
1960 |
French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons |
1960 |
Tad Mosels "All the Way Home" premieres in NYC |
1961 |
Billy Williams of the Cubs is voted NL Rookie of Year |
1961 |
USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership |
1962 |
U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of UN unanimously |
1963 |
51st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats BC Lions, 21-10 |
1963 |
Martin Walser's "Überlebensgross Herr Krott" premieres in Stuttgart |
1964 |
USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned |
1966 |
Barbados gains independence from Great Britain (National Day) |
1966 |
Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland |
1967 |
Julie Nixon & David Eisenhower announce their engagement |
1967 |
Kuria Muria Islands ceded by Britain to Oman |
1967 |
People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from the UK |
1967 |
Senenator Eugene McCarthy begins run for US presidency |
1967 |
The 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. |
1968 |
56th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeat Calgary Stampeder, 24-21 |
1968 |
A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Armagh is stopped by Royal Ulster Constabulary because of the presence of a Loyalist counter demonstration led by Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting |
1969 |
57th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 29-11 |
1969 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1970 |
George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass" |
1971 |
TV movie "Brian's Song" airs for 1st time on ABC-TV |
1971 |
The government of the Republic of Ireland states that it will take the allegations of brutality against the security forces in Northern Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights |
1972 |
BBC bans Wings' "Hi, Hi, Hi" |
1972 |
Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy) |
1973 |
M T Ghani scores 104 on FC debut for Commerce Bank (Pak) age 44 |
1973 |
Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Jim Godman |
1974 |
"Good Evening" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 438 performances |
1974 |
"Mack & Mabel" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 66 performances |
1974 |
20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks) |
1974 |
Miss Teenage America Pageant |
1974 |
Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) is discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. |
1975 |
Dahomey becomes Benin |
1976 |
42nd Heisman Trophy Award: Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh (RB) |
1978 |
France performs nuclear test |
1979 |
Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC) |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980 |
"Banjo Dancing" closes at Century Theater NYC after 38 performances |
1980 |
"Perfectly Frank" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 16 performances |
1980 |
"West Side Story" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 341 perfs |
1980 |
Uruguay's new constitution rejected by referendum |
1981 |
NY Yankee Dave Righetti wins AL Rookie of Year Award |
1981 |
Porn star John Holmes arrested on fugitive charges |
1981 |
South Africa anti-apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested |
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 |
STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad |
1982 |
US sub Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in So China Sea |
1982 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1983 |
6th Emmy Sports Award presentation |
1983 |
Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam |
1983 |
Radio Shack announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip) |
1983 |
Raúl Alfonsín wins Argentine presidential election |
1983 |
Sam Shepards "Fool for love" premieres in NYC |
1983 |
Denver Nugget coach Doug Moe, hoplessly behind, advise team to let Blazers break their scoring record |
1986 |
"Flamenco Puro" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 40 perfs |
1986 |
74th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 39-15 |
1986 |
Ivan Lendl is 1st tennis player to earn over $10 million, lifetime |
1987 |
Afghanistan Constitution adopted |
1988 |
Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed |
1988 |
France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
1988 |
NYC furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase |
1988 |
Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs |
1988 |
UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO's Arafat visa |
1988 |
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion USD. |
1989 |
Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb. |
1990 |
Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke |
1990 |
US President George H. W. Bush offers to send Secretary of State James Baker to Baghdad to meet with Saddam Hussein |
1991 |
1st world championship of women's soccer, US defeats Norway 2-1 |
1991 |
93 cars & 11 truck accident near SF during a dust storm, 17 die |
1991 |
Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide |
1991 |
San Diego State's Marshall Faulk is 1st freshman to capture national rushing & scoring titles |
1992 |
David Boon's 14th Test Cricket century, 111 v WI at Brisbane |
1992 |
Intercity-train derailed at Village chief, 5 die |
1993 |
NFL announces 30th franchise - Jacksonville Jaguars |
1993 |
President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill |
1994 |
Beatles' 1st album in 25 years, "Live at the BBC", is released in Britain |
1994 |
Cruiser Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die |
1994 |
Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal |
1995 |
Official end of Operation Desert Storm. |
1997 |
"Eugene Onegin" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC |
1997 |
86th Davis Cup: Sweden sweeps US in Gothenburg (5-0) |
1998 |
Deutsche Bank announces a $10 billion USDdeal 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 catch police unprepared and force 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. |
2003 |
92nd Davis Cup: Australia beats Spain in Melbourne (3-1) |
2004 |
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns. |
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. |
2004 |
Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26. |
2005 |
John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York. |
2005 |
The Boston Bruins trade captain Joe Thornton to the San Jose Sharks |
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. |
2009 |
Canada begins its recovery from the recession; economic growth is at 0.4% after 14 months of economic stagnation |
2012 |
At least 32 people are killed in a Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crash in the Congo |
2013 |
Australia defeats New Zealand to win the Rugby League World Cup |
2015 |
Ghostly ships filled with dead bodies arrive on Japan's shores |
2015 |
NBA star Kobe Bryant of the LA Lakers announces he will retire at the end of the 2015-16 season. |
2016 |
Canada PM Approves Controversial Pipeline to Pacific Coast |
2016 |
Cuba returning Castro's ashes to birthplace of the Revolution |
2016 |
Saudi Arabia asks Opec to cut world oil supply |
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