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Today November 30th 2009 this day in history Read more below to view events, deaths, births, Holidays observances and video clips. Last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009
Events
1700 – Battle of Narva — A Swedish army of 8,500 men under Charles XII defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva.
1718 – Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris (1783) — 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).
1783 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck New Jersey.
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. For this, November 30 is commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
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.
1804 – The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
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.
1853 – Crimean 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.
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 commanded by John McAllister Schofield around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops).
1868 – The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden takes place in the King s garden in Stockholm.
1872 – The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
1886 – The 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 imprisonment with hard labor.
1908 – A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania kills 154.
1916 – Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1934 – The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
1936 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
1939 – Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
1940 – Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
1942 – World War II Guadalcanal Campaign: 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: Tehran Conference — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin agree to the planned June 1944 invasion of Europe code-named Operation Overlord.
1953 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
1954 – In 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.
1962 – The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as its 3rd UN Secretary-General.
1966 – Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1967 – The People s Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
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.
1971 – Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
1972 – Vietnam 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.
1974 – Lucy (Australopithecus) is discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia s Afar Depression.
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 $25.07 billion USD.
1989 – Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
1989 – Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida becomes serial killer Aileen Wuornos s first victim.
1993 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
1995 – Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
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 defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
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.
2004 – Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns.
2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
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.
Births
539 – Gregory of Tours, French bishop and historian (d. 594)
1340 – John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (d. 1416)
1364 – John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (d. 1390)
1466 – Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (d. 1560)
1498 – Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Augustinian friar, sail-captain and explorer (d. 1568)
1508 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (d. 1580)
1554 – Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (d. 1586)
1594 – John Cosin, English clergyman (d. 1672)
1625 – Jean Domat, French jurist (d. 1696)
1637 – Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (d. 1698)
1667 – Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist (d. 1745)
1670 – John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)
1683 – Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)
1719 – Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
1722 – Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (d. 1761)
1723 – William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
1756 – Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827)
1768 – Jedrzej Sniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)
1781 – Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)
1796 – Carl Loewe, German composer (d. 1869)
1810 – Oliver Winchester, American gunsmith (d. 1880)
1813 – Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)
1813 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (d. 1888)
1817 – Theodor Mommsen, German historian, Nobel laureate (d. 1903)
1821 – Frederick Temple, 95th Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
1825 – William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French academic painter (d. 1905)
1835 – Mark Twain, American writer (d. 1910)
1836 – Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
1840 – Henry Birks, Canadian businessman (d. 1928)
1847 – Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena, 6th President of Brazil (d. 1909)
1857 – Bobby Abel, English cricketer (d. 1936)
1858 – Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
1863 – Andres Bonifacio, head of the Philippine Revolutionary Movement Katipunan (KKK) (d. 1897)
1869 – Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
1870 – Princess Henriette, Duchess of Vendôme and Alençon (d. 1948)
1872 – Dr. John McCrae, Canadian physician and soldier (d. 1918)
1874 – Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
1874 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942)
1889 – Edgar Douglas Adrian, British physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1977)
1898 – Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1904 – Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
1906 – Andrés Henestrosa, Mexican writer (d. 2008)
1907 – Jacques Barzun, French-born historian and author
1909 – Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)
1911 – Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953)
1912 – Gordon Parks, American photographer and film director (d. 2006)
1915 – Brownie McGhee, American blues musician (d. 1996)
1915 – Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
1918 – Efrem Zimbalist Jr., American actor
1920 – Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
1924 – Shirley Chisholm, American politician, United States Representatives from New York (d. 2005)
1924 – Allan Sherman, American comedian (d. 1973)
1924 – Elliott Blackstone, American gay and lesbian rights activist (d. 2006)
1926 – Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
1927 – Robert Guillaume, American actor
1928 – Joe B. Hall, American basketball coach
1929 – Dick Clark, American television host
1929 – Joan Ganz Cooney, American children s television pioneer
1930 – G. Gordon Liddy, American Watergate operative and talk radio host
1931 – Jack Ging, American actor
1931 – Bill Walsh, American football coach (d. 2007)
1932 – Bob Moore, American bassist and orchestra leader
1932 – Cho Namchul, South Korean professional Go player (d. 2006)
1933 – Norman Deeley, English footballer (d. 2007)
1936 – Abbie Hoffman, American activist (d. 1989)
1936 – Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, Russian mathematician
1937 – Ridley Scott, British film director
1937 – Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Writer
1937 – Frank Ifield, Australian/British singer
1937 – Tom Simpson, British cyclist (d. 1967)
1938 – Jean Eustache, French filmmaker
1943 – Terrence Malick, American director and screenwriter.
1945 – Roger Glover, British bassist (Deep Purple)
1945 – Radu Lupu, Romanian concert pianist
1947 – David Mamet, American playwright
1947 – Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet
1950 – Chris Claremont, British comic book writer
1951 – Christian Bernard, mystic
1951 – June Chadwick, British actress
1952 – Keith Giffen, American comic book writer and artist
1952 – Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer
1953 – June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)
1954 – Simonetta Stefanelli, Italian Actress (The Godfather)
1955 – Kevin Conroy, American Actor (Batman in the DC animated universe)
1955 – Billy Idol, British musician
1955 – Richard Burr, American politician
1955 – Gordon Liu, Chinese actor
1955 – Muricy Ramalho, Brazilian manager and former football player
1957 – John Ashton, English guitarist (Psychedelic Furs)
1957 – Richard Barbieri, British keyboardist (Porcupine Tree)
1957 – Andrew Calhoun, American musician
1957 – Margaret Spellings, current US Secretary of Education
1957 – Joël Champetier, French Canadian author
1957 – Colin Mochrie, Scottish-born Canadian comedian
1958 – Juliette Bergmann, Dutch bodybuilder
1958 – Stacey Q, American singer
1959 – Lorraine Kelly, British presenter and journalist
1960 – Gary Lineker, English footballer
1960 – Rich Fields, American television personality
1962 – Bo Jackson, American football and baseball player
1962 – Daniel Keys Moran, American writer
1964 – Jushin Liger, Japanese professional wrestler
1964 – Michael Cudlitz, American actor
1965 – Ben Stiller, American actor
1965 – Lee Klein, American Writer
1965 – Aldair, Brazilian footballer
1965 – Prince Akishino of Japan
1966 – Wil Mara, American author
1966 – David Nicholls, English novelist and screenwriter
1966 – Mika Salo, Finnish Formula 1 Driver
1968 – Des ree, English singer
1968 – Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist
1969 – Marc Goossens, Belgian racing driver
1969 – Amy Ryan, American actress
1969 – Mike Stone, American musician (Queensryche)
1970 – Robert Griffith, American football player
1971 – Iván Rodríguez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1971 – Ray Durham, American baseball player
1972 – Christopher Fitzgerald, American stage actor
1972 – Abel Xavier, Portuguese footballer
1973 – Lim Chang-jung, South Korean actor
1973 – John Moyer, American bassist (Disturbed)
1973 – Jason Reso (aka Christian Cage), Canadian professional wrestler
1975 – Mindy McCready, American musician
1975 – Ben Thatcher, Welsh footballer
1976 – Josh Lewsey, English rugby union footballer
1976 – Cypher Zero, American circus innovator (New York Circus Arts)
1977 – Iván Guerrero, Honduran footballer
1977 – Kazumi Saitoh, Japanese baseball player
1977 – Olivier Schoenfelder, French ice dancer
1978 – Clay Aiken, American singer
1978 – Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor
1978 – Emil Steiner, American writer
1979 – Chris Atkinson, Australian rally driver
1979 – Andrés Nocioni, Argentine basketball player
1980 – Jamie Ashdown, English footballer
1981 – Rich Harden, Canadian baseball player
1982 – Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress
1982 – Tony Giarratano, American baseball player
1982 – Clémence Poésy, French actress
1982 – Jason Pominville, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress
1983 – Adrian Cristea, Romanian footballer
1983 – Andy Akinwolere, English television presenter
1984 – Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer
1984 – Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer
1984 – Omahyra Mota, Dominican model/actress
1984 – Francisco Sandaza, Spanish Footballer
1985 – Kaley Cuoco, American actress and model
1986 – Jordan Farmar, American basketball player
1987 – Dougie Poynter, British singer and bassist (McFly)
1987 – Vasilisa Bardina, Russian tennis player
1989 – Chanel Iman, American supermodel
1989 – Margaret Nales Wilson, Filipino model
1990 – Antoine N Gossan, Ivory Coast footballer
1990 – Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess Grandmaster
1993 – Yuuri Chinen, Japanese Actor and Singer
1994 – Nyjah Huston, American skateboarder
Deaths
30 BC – Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (b. 69 BC)
1016 – Edmund II of England
1580 – Richard Farrant, English composer
1626 – Thomas Weelkes, English composer
1654 – John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (b. 1584)
1675 – Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605)
1703 – Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (b. 1672)
1705 – Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England (b. 1638)
1718 – King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
1761 – John Dollond, British optician (b. 1706)
1765 – George Glas, British merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
1900 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
1901 – Edward John Eyre, British explorer (b. 1815)
1920 – Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)
1933 – Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian general (b. 1875)
1934 – Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (b. 1908)
1935 – Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (b. 1888)
1943 – Etty Hillesum, Dutch diarist (executed) (b. 1914)
1953 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1857)
1954 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)
1955 – Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer (b. 1896)
1957 – Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890)
1958 – Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (b. 1888)
1967 – Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (b. 1904)
1977 – Terrence Rattigan, British writer and playwright (b. 1911)
1987 – Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1913)
1989 – Alfred Herrhausen, German banker, murdered (Deutsche Bank) (b. 1930)]
1993 – Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (b. 1924)
1993 – David Houston, American country music singer (b. 1938)
1994 – Guy Debord, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1931)
1994 – Harry Saltzman, American film producer (b. 1915)
1994 – Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)
1995 – Randy Walker (AKA Stretch), American musician (b. 1972)
1996 – Tiny Tim, American entertainer (b. 1932)
1997 – Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947)
1999 – Charlie Byrd, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
2000 – Scott Smith, Canadian musician (Loverboy) (b. 1955)
2002 – Tim Woods, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
2003 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
2004 – Pierre Berton, Canadian author (b. 1920)
2005 – Jean Parker, American actress (b. 1915)
2006 – Elhadi Adam, Sudanese poet and lyricist (b. 1927)
2006 – Rafael Buenaventura, Former BSP Governor (b. 1938)
2007 – Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (b. 1938)
2007 – Engin Arik, Turkish nuclear physicist (b. 1948)
2008 – Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer (Loudness) (b. 1958)
Holidays and observances
Calendar of Saints – Saint Andrew the apostle – St Andrew s Day is the national day of Scotland, and as of 2007, a bank holiday
St Andrew s Day in Eastern Orthodox Church – November 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Barbados – Independence Day (from Britain, 1966)
Philippines – Andres Bonifacio Day
Official end of the Hurricane season
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