November 30

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 3340 BC &ndash; Earliest believed record of an eclipse.
* 1700 &ndash; Battle of Narva: A Swedish army of 8,500 men under Charles XII of Sweden defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva (present-day Estonia, next to Russian border).
* 1707 &ndash; The Second Siege of Pensacola comes to an end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.
* 1718 &ndash; Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten, Norway.
* 1731 &ndash; An earthquake in Beijing kills thousands of people.
* 1782 &ndash; American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris – In Paris, representatives of the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace agreements – they later become official in the 1783 Treaty of Paris.
* 1786 &ndash; The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under the future Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes the first modern state to ban the death penalty. 
* 1803 &ndash; 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.
* 1853 &ndash; Crimean War: Battle of Sinop – The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman Empire fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, present-day Turkey.
* 1864 &ndash; American Civil War: Battle of Franklin, Tennessee.
* 1872 &ndash; The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow on Saint Andrew's Day, between Scotland and England. It ends 0–0.
* 1886 &ndash; The Folies Bergere in Paris stages its first performance.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1908 &ndash; 154 miners are killed in a mining explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania.
* 1916 &ndash; Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Copyright Convention.
* 1920 &ndash; Liberato Ribeiro Pinto becomes Prime Minister of Portugal.
* 1934 &ndash; The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive known to have reached a speed of 100 miles per hour.
* 1936 &ndash; In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
* 1939 &ndash; Winter War: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
* 1940 &ndash; Actress Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
* 1942 &ndash; World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga – A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizo Tanaka defeats a US cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
* 1943 &ndash; World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin agree to the planned June 1944 invasion of Europe code-named Operation Overlord.
* 1953 &ndash; Edward Mutesa II, the last King of Buganda, is deposed and exiled to London by Andrew Cohen, British Governor of Uganda.
* 1954 &ndash; In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5&nbsp;lb (3.86&nbsp;kg) sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio. She got a bad bruise. This is the only known case of a human being hit by a rock from space.
* 1956 &ndash; Floyd Patterson becomes heavyweight world boxing champion against Archie Moore.
* 1958 &ndash; French Equatorial Africa splits up into the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Chad and the Central African Republic, all of which becomes fully independent in 1960.
* 1966 &ndash; Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
* 1967 &ndash; The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
* 1967 &ndash; Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
* 1975 &ndash; Dahomey is renamed the "People's Republic of Benin".
* 1981 &ndash; 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 &ndash; A parcel bomb is delivered to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street.
* 1982 &ndash; Michael Jackson releases his hit, "Thriller".
* 1989 &ndash; Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida becomes serial killer Aileen Wuornos's first victim.
* 1989 &ndash; German banker Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction bomb. He was a board member at Deutsche Bank.
* 1993 &ndash; Steven Spielberg's movie ''Schindler's List* is first shown, in Washington, DC.
* 1994 &ndash; The ship MS *Achille Lauro* catches fire off Somalia.
* 1995 &ndash; Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
* 1995 &ndash; Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland, as the first US president to do so.
* 1996 &ndash; The Stone of Scone is installed at Edinburgh Castle on its official return to Scotland from England.
* 1998 &ndash; Exxon and Mobil sign an agreement to merge.
* 1999 &ndash; British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Green River Killer Gary Ridgway is arrested in Renton, Washington, ending a killing spree in which 49 people were murdered.
* 2004 &ndash; Lion Air Flight 538 crash-lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26 people.
* 2004 &ndash; 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.
* 2005 &ndash; John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England when he becomes Archbishop of York.
* 2006 &ndash; Typhoon Durian causes a mud avalanche from the Mount Mayon volcano on Luzon, Philippines, killing 300 people.
* 2013 &ndash; Actor Paul Walker, star of the "Fast and Furious", is killed in a car crash.
* 2015 &ndash; Climate change talks begin in Paris.
* 2017 &ndash; Katrín Jakobsdóttir becomes Prime Minister of Iceland, leading a three-party coalition.

## Births 
### Up to 1800 
* 539 &ndash; Gregory of Tours, French bishop and historian (d. 594)
* 1327 &ndash; Andrew, Duke of Calabria (d. 1345)
* 1340 &ndash; John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (d. 1416)
* 1427 &ndash; Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (d. 1492)
* 1466 &ndash; Andrea Doria, Genoese naval officer (d. 1560)
* 1498 &ndash; Andres de Urdaneta, Spanish friar, sail-captain and explorer (d. 1568)
* 1508 &ndash; Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (d. 1580)
* 1554 &ndash; Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier and writer (d. 1586)
* 1602 &ndash; Otto von Guericke, German politician, jurist, physicist and inventor (d. 1686)
* 1642 &ndash; Andrea Pozzo, Italian painter and architect (d. 1709)
* 1645 &ndash; Andreas Werckmeister, German organist, theorist and composer (d. 1706)
* 1667 &ndash; Jonathan Swift, Irish writer (d. 1745)
* 1670 &ndash; John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)
* 1719 &ndash; Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
* 1723 &ndash; William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
* 1761 &ndash; Smithson Tennant, English chemist (d. 1815)
* 1768 &ndash; Jedrzej Sniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)
* 1781 &ndash; Alexander Berry, Scottish surgeon, merchant and explorer (d. 1873)
* 1791 &ndash; Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg, Austrian soldier and statesman (d. 1848)
* 1796 &ndash; Carl Loewe, German composer (d. 1869)

### 1801 &ndash; 1900 
* 1813 &ndash; Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)
* 1813 &ndash; Claude-Valentin Alkan, French composer (d. 1888)
* 1817 &ndash; Theodor Mommsen, German historian and writer (d. 1903)
* 1821 &ndash; Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
* 1825 &ndash; William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French painter (d. 1905)
* 1835 &ndash; Mark Twain, American writer (d. 1910)
* 1836 &ndash; Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
* 1847 &ndash; Afonso Augusto Moreira, 6th President of Brazil (d. 1909)
* 1858 &ndash; Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
* 1866 &ndash; Andrey Lyapchev, Bulgarian politician (d. 1933)
* 1869 &ndash; Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist (d. 1937)
* 1872 &ndash; John McCrae, Canadian poet (d. 1918)
* 1874 &ndash; Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
* 1874 &ndash; Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian writer (d. 1942)
* 1875 &ndash; Otto Strandman, 2nd Prime Minister of Estonia (d. 1941)
* 1887 &ndash; Andrej Gosar, Slovenian–Yugoslavian politician, economist and theorist (d. 1970)
* 1887 &ndash; Beatrice Kerr, Australian swimmer, diver and aquatic performer (d. 1971)
* 1889 &ndash; Edgar Douglas Adrian, English doctor, won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1977)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1904 &ndash; Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
* 1906 &ndash; John Dickson Carr, American author (d. 1977)
* 1907 &ndash; Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author (d. 2012)
* 1909 &ndash; Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)
* 1911 &ndash; Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953)
* 1912 &ndash; Gordon Parks, American photographer, musician, writer and movie director (d. 2006)
* 1915 &ndash; Henry Taube, Canadian-American physicist (d. 2005)
* 1918 &ndash; Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., American actor (d. 2014)
* 1920 &ndash; Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
* 1924 &ndash; Klaus Huber, Swiss composer (d. 2017)
* 1924 &ndash; Shirley Chisholm, American politician (d. 2005)
* 1926 &ndash; Andrew W. Schally, Polish–Canadian Nobel Prize winner in medicine
* 1927 &ndash; Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
* 1928 &ndash; Takako Doi, Japanese scholar and politician (d. 2014)
* 1928 &ndash; Karin Söder, Swedish politician (d. 2015)
* 1929 &ndash; Dick Clark, American entertainer (d. 2012)
* 1929 &ndash; Joan Ganz Cooney, American television presenter
* 1930 &ndash; G. Gordon Liddy, American Watergate scandal operative and talk show host
* 1930 &ndash; Jacques Hamel, French priest (d. 2016)
* 1931 &ndash; Bruce C. Murray, American geologist (d. 2013)
* 1933 &ndash; Tsai Chin, Chinese-English actress
* 1935 &ndash; Woody Allen, American director and actor
* 1936 &ndash; Dmitri Anosov, Russian mathematician (d. 2014)
* 1936 &ndash; Abbie Hoffman, American political and social activist (d. 1989)
* 1937 &ndash; Tom Simpson, English cyclist (d. 1967)
* 1937 &ndash; Ridley Scott, English movie director
* 1937 &ndash; Frank Ifield, English-Australian singer
* 1938 &ndash; Margarita Salas, Spanish biochemist and molecular geneticist (d. 2019)
* 1939 &ndash; Chandra Bahadur Dangi, Nepalese shortest-man-ever record holder (d. 2015)
* 1943 &ndash; Terrence Malick, American movie producer
* 1944 &ndash; George Graham, Scottish footballer
* 1945 &ndash; Hilary Armstrong, English politician
* 1945 &ndash; Roger Glover, Welsh bassist (Deep Purple)
* 1945 &ndash; Radu Lupu, Romanian pianist
* 1945 &ndash; Pita Paraone, New Zealand politician (d. 2019)
* 1947 &ndash; Stuart Baird, English movie editor, producer and director
* 1947 &ndash; David Mamet, American director and writer
* 1950 &ndash; Wolfgang Niersbach, German journalist and football official

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1952 &ndash; Mandy Patinkin, American actor and musician
* 1952 &ndash; Keith Griffen, American comic book writer and artist
* 1953 &ndash; Shuggie Otis, American musician, composer and producer
* 1953 &ndash; June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (d. 2006)
* 1954 &ndash; Simonetta Stefanelli, Italian actress
* 1954 &ndash; Lawrence Summers, American economist and academic
* 1955 &ndash; Billy Idol, English musician
* 1955 &ndash; Richard Burr, American politician
* 1955 &ndash; Andy Gray, Scottish footballer
* 1957 &ndash; Richard Barbieri, English keyboardist and composer
* 1957 &ndash; Patrick McLoughlin, English politician
* 1957 &ndash; Colin Mochrie, Scottish-Canadian actor and comedian
* 1957 &ndash; Margaret Spellings, American politician
* 1957 &ndash; Gary Lewis, Scottish actor
* 1958 &ndash; Stacey Q, American singer, actress and dancer
* 1959 &ndash; Cherie Currie, American musician, singer, songwriter and actress
* 1959 &ndash; Lorraine Kelly, Scottish television presenter
* 1960 &ndash; Gary Lineker, English footballer
* 1960 &ndash; Bob Tewksbury, American baseball player
* 1961 &ndash; Innocent Egbunike, Nigerian sprinter and coach
* 1962 &ndash; Daniel Keys Moran, American computer programmer and author
* 1965 &ndash; Ben Stiller, American actor and comedian
* 1965 &ndash; Prince Akishino of Japan
* 1965 &ndash; Aldair, Brazilian footballer
* 1965 &ndash; David Laws, British politician
* 1966 &ndash; David Berkoff, American swimmer
* 1966 &ndash; John Bishop, English comedian
* 1966 &ndash; Mika Salo, Finnish racing driver
* 1968 &ndash; Des'ree, English R&B singer
* 1968 &ndash; Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist
* 1969 &ndash; Amy Ryan, American actress
* 1973 &ndash; Kate Fischer, Australian model and actress
* 1974 &ndash; Sébastien Tellier, French singer
* 1975 &ndash; Ben Thatcher, English-Welsh footballer
* 1975 &ndash; Mindy McCready, American country music singer (d. 2013)

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Josh Lewsey, English rugby player
* 1976 &ndash; Paul Nuttall, English politician, former leader of UKIP
* 1977 &ndash; Kozumi Saito, Japanese baseball player
* 1978 &ndash; Clay Aiken, American singer
* 1978 &ndash; Gael García Bernal, Mexican actor
* 1981 &ndash; Otto Fredrikson, Finnish footballer
* 1982 &ndash; Jason Pominville, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1983 &ndash; David Carney, Australian footballer
* 1983 &ndash; Adrian Cristea, Romanian footballer
* 1984 &ndash; Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer
* 1984 &ndash; Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer
* 1984 &ndash; Francisco Sandaza, Spanish footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Kaley Cuoco, American actress
* 1985 &ndash; Chrissy Teigen, American model
* 1985 &ndash; Luis Valbuena, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2018)
* 1986 &ndash; Jordan Farmar, American basketball player
* 1987 &ndash; Dougie Poynter, English singer and musician (McFly)
* 1987 &ndash; Ian Hecox, American comedian
* 1987 &ndash; Naomi, American dancer, model, singer and professional wrestler
* 1987 &ndash; Victoria Thornley, Welsh cyclist
* 1988 &ndash; Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (d. 2014)
* 1988 &ndash; Vitaliy Polyanskyi, Ukrainian footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Vladimir Weiss, Slovakian footballer
* 1990 &ndash; Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player
* 1993 &ndash; Yuri Chinen, Japanese actor and singer
* 1994 &ndash; William Melling, English actor

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 30 BC &ndash; Cleopatra VII, Queen of Egypt (b. 69 BC)
* 1016 &ndash; Edmund II, King of England (b. 989)
* 1580 &ndash; Richard Farrant, English composer and playwright (b. 1530)
* 1600 &ndash; Nanda Bayin, King of Burma (b. 1535)
* 1626 &ndash; Thomas Weelkes, English organist and composer (b. 1576)
* 1703 &ndash; Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (b. 1672)
* 1705 &ndash; Catherine of Braganza, Queen-Consort of King Charles II of England and Scotland (b. 1638)
* 1718 &ndash; King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
* 1873 &ndash; Alexander Berry, Scottish surgeon, merchant and explorer (b. 1781)
* 1892 &ndash; Dimitrios Valvis, 69th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1814)
* 1894 &ndash; Joseph E. Brown, American politician, Governor of Georgia (b. 1821)
* 1900 &ndash; Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1901 &ndash; Edward John Eyre, English explorer (b. 1815)
* 1908 &ndash; Nishinoumi Kajiro I, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1855)
* 1920 &ndash; Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian general (b. 1867)
* 1930 &ndash; Pannambalam Ramanathan, Ceylonese Tamil statesman (b. 1851)
* 1934 &ndash; Helene Boucher, French pilot (b. 1908)
* 1934 &ndash; Roy Turk, American songwriter (b. 1892)
* 1935 &ndash; Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (b. 1888)
* 1938 &ndash; Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Romanian leader of the far-right Iron Guard (b. 1898)
* 1939 &ndash; Bela Kun, Hungarian politician (b. 1886)
* 1944 &ndash; Paul Masson, French cyclist (b. 1876)
* 1947 &ndash; Ernst Lubitsch, German actor and director (b. 1892)
* 1953 &ndash; Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879)
* 1954 &ndash; Wilhelm Furtwangler, German conductor (b. 1886)
* 1957 &ndash; Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890)
* 1958 &ndash; Hubert Wilkins, Australian soldier, explorer and photographer (b. 1888)
* 1970 &ndash; Nina Ricci, Italian-French fashion designer (b. 1883)
* 1972 &ndash; Compton Mackenzie, Scottish novelist, actor and political activist (b. 1883)
* 1977 &ndash; Terence Rattigan, English playwright (b. 1911)
* 1979 &ndash; Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1901)
* 1989 &ndash; Alfred Herrhausen, German banker (b. 1930)
* 1989 &ndash; Ahmadou Ahidjo, 1st President of Cameroon (b. 1924)
* 1994 &ndash; Guy Debord, French theorist and author (b. 1931)
* 1994 &ndash; Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)
* 1995 &ndash; Stretch, American rapper, producer and actor (b. 1968)
* 1996 &ndash; Tiny Tim, American entertainer (b. 1932)
* 1999 &ndash; Charlie Byrd, American guitarist (b. 1925)

### From 2001 
* 2003 &ndash; Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
* 2004 &ndash; Seung Sahn, South Korean spiritual leader (b. 1927)
* 2005 &ndash; Jean Parker, American actress (b. 1915)
* 2005 &ndash; Nora Denney, American actress (b. 1927)
* 2007 &ndash; Evel Knievel, American daredevil and stuntman (b. 1938)
* 2008 &ndash; Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer and producer (b. 1958)
* 2009 &ndash; Milorad Pavic, Serbian writer (b. 1929)
* 2009 &ndash; Paul Naschy, Spanish actor, screenwriter and director (b. 1934)
* 2011 &ndash; Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, Albanian royal and pretender (b. 1939)
* 2011 &ndash; Zdenek Miler, Czech animator (b. 1921)
* 2012 &ndash; I. K. Gujral, Prime Minister of India (b. 1919)
* 2013 &ndash; Jean Kent, English actress (b. 1921)
* 2013 &ndash; Yury Yakovlev, Russian actor (b. 1928)
* 2013 &ndash; Paul Walker, American actor (b. 1973)
* 2014 &ndash; Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (b. 1914)
* 2014 &ndash; Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter (b. 1932)
* 2014 &ndash; Fred Catherwood, English politician and writer (b. 1925)
* 2014 &ndash; Martin Litton, American environmentalist (b. 1917)
* 2014 &ndash; Jarbom Gamlin, Indian politician (b. 1950)
* 2015 &ndash; Eldar Ryazanov, Russian movie director (b. 1927)
* 2015 &ndash; Gerrit Holdijk, Dutch politician (b. 1944)
* 2015 &ndash; Greg Fisk, American politician (b. 1945)
* 2017 &ndash; Alfie Curtis, British actor (b. 1930)
* 2017 &ndash; Dick Gernert, American baseball player (b. 1928)
* 2017 &ndash; Colin Groves, British-Australian biologist and professor (b. 1942)
* 2017 &ndash; Jim Nabors, American actor, singer and comedian (b. 1930)
* 2017 &ndash; Surin Pitsuwan, Thai politician and diplomat (b. 1949)
* 2017 &ndash; Marina Popovich, Soviet-Russian air force colonel, engineer and test pilot (b. 1931)
* 2017 &ndash; Vincent Scully, American architecture historian (b. 1920)
* 2018 &ndash; Palden Gyatso, Tibetan Buddhist monk (b. 1933)
* 2018 &ndash; George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States (b. 1924)
* 2019 &ndash; Michael Howard, English historian (b. 1922)
* 2019 &ndash; Mariss Jansons, Latvian conductor (b. 1943)
* 2019 &ndash; Petr Málek, Czech sport shooter (b. 1961)
* 2019 &ndash; Harold Rahm, American-Brazilian Roman Catholic priest and humanitarian (b. 1919)
* 2019 &ndash; Milagrosa Tan, Filipina politician (b. 1958)
* 2019 &ndash; Brian Tierney, English historian (b. 1922)

## Holidays and observances 
* Barbados – Independence Day (from the United Kingdom, 1966)
* Official end of the North Atlantic hurricane season
* Saint Andrew's Day – Christian apostle, and patron saint (several countries including Scotland and Barbados)
* Cities for Life Day
* National Day (Benin)
* Regina Mundi Day (South Africa)