Events
1718 - The 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).
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.
1803 - In
New Orleans,
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 soil 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 of the sod turning.
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 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, sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
1908 - A mine explosion in the mining town of
Marianna, Pennsylvania killed 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 destroyed by fire.
1939 -
Winter War:
Soviet forces invade
Finland and reach the
Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
1940 -
Lucille Ball and
Desi Arnaz married in
Greenwich, Connecticut.
1942 -
World War II Guadalcanal Campaign:
Battle of Tassafaronga — A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by
Raizo Tanaka defeats a 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
Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning 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, 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, giving her a bad bruise, in the only unequivocally known case of a
human being hit by a space rock.
1960 - Production of the
DeSoto automobile brand ceases.
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 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) was discovered by
Donald Johanson,
Maurice Taieb,
Yves Coppens and
Tim White in the
Middle Awash of
Ethiopia's
Afar Depression.
1979 -
Pink Floyd release the album
The Wall.
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 - British Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher receives a
parcel bomb at
10 Downing Street.
1988 -
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys
RJR Nabisco for
$25.07 billion.
1989 -
Deutsche Bank board member
Alfred Herrhausen 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.
1994 - Hip-hop artist
Tupac Shakur robbed of $40,000 in jewelry and survives being shot five times in a New York music studio.
1998 -
Deutsche Bank announces a $10 billion deal 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.
2000 - The
Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 comes into force in the
UK.
2000 -
Seussical opens o
Broadway.
2004 - Longtime
Jeopardy! champion
Ken Jennings finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700, television's all-time biggest
game show haul.2004 -
Lion Air Flight 538 crashlands 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.
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