This Day in History for 30th November

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 191

306 - St Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
722 - Pope Gregory II names Boniface as missionary bishop
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 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 - Capt 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.
United States founding father Benjamin Franklin 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 - 1st intl soccer game, Scotland-England 0-0 (Glasgow)
1885 - Opera "El Cid" premieres (Paris)
1886 - 1st commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo
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
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
1912 - 4th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Alerts defeats Toronto Argonauts, 11-4
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 - Crystal Palace in Hyde Park London destroyed by fire
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 it's 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 - Arab terrorist campaign opens in Palestine
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 Pres 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)
Boxing Champ Archie Moore 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

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 254

538 - St Gregory of Tours, Auvergne, Gaul, chronicler/bishop (Historia Francorum), (d. 594)
1340 - John duke of Berry, captain of Paris/art collector
1364 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (d. 1390)
1373 - Ferdinand I, the Righteous, king of Aragon/Sicily
1427 - Kazimierz IV, king of Poland (1447-92)
1466 - Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman/admiral
1485 - Veronica Gambara, Italian poetess
1498 - Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Augustinian friar, sail-captain and explorer (d. 1568)
1508 - Andrea Palladio, [Andrea di Pietro della Gondola], architect
1554 - Philip Sidney, England, poet/statesman/soldier (Arcadia)
1593 - Johann Dilliger, composer
1594 - John Cosin, English clergyman (d. 1672)
1622 - Thomas of Apshoven, Flemish painter, baptized
1625 - Jean Domat, French jurist (d. 1696)
1634 - Andres de Sola, composer
1637 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (d. 1698)
1645 - Andreas Werkmeister, composer
1667 - Jonathan Swift, Dublin, satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal), (d. 1745)
1670 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)
Satirist Jonathan Swift (1667) 1683 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)
1693 - Christoph Forster, composer
1699 - Christian VI, king of Denmark/Norway
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)
1726 - Jacques Aliamet, French etcher/engraver
1753 - Johann Baptist Schenk, composer
1756 - Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827)
1764 - Franz Xaver Gerl, composer
1768 - Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)
1781 - Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)
1796 - Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe, composer
1809 - Thomas Molleson Mudie, composer
1810 - Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker (Winchester)
1813 - Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan, composer
1813 - Hermann Kurz, German author/poet
1813 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)
1817 - Theodor Mommsen, Germ, historian/author (Imperial Lives, Nobel 1902)
1821 - Gustavus Woodson Smith, Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1896
1821 - Frederick Temple, 95th Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
1826 - George Washington Deitzler, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1827 - Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary lawyer/senator
1827 - Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants)
1828 - Jedediah Hotchkiss, Engineer (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1835 - Mark Twain, [Samuel L Clemens], author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn)
1836 - Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
1840 - Henry Birks, Canadian businessman (d. 1928)
1843 - Jozsef Kiss, Hungarian literary (Zsido Dalok)
1847 - August Friedrich Martin Klughardt, composer
1855 - Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of Agriculture/Finance
1857 - Robert Abel, cricketer (The Guv'nor Surrey & England batsman)
1858 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)
1859 - Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer
1861 - French Gailliard, Belgian painter (Zeustempel in Athens)
1861 - Ludwig Thuille, composer
1863 - Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain
1863 - Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro, composer
1869 - Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
1870 - Cecil Forsyth, composer
1870 - Princess Henriette, Duchess of Vendôme and Alençon (d. 1948)
1872 - Dr. John McCrae, Canadian physician and soldier (d. 1918)
British war time Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1874) 1874 - Winston Churchill, (C) Brit PM (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953)
1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942)
1885 - Albrecht (von) Kesselring, German fieldmarshal (Poland/Netherland)
1889 - Edgar D Adrian, English physiologist (Nobel 1932)
1890 - John Tasker Howard, composer
1890 - Oege Bakker, Dutch economist
1895 - Johann Nepomuk David, composer
1897 - Andreas Nezertis, composer
1897 - Quinto Maganini, composer
1898 - Roy "Link" Lyman, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
1900 - Korneel Goossens, Flemish literature/art historian
1903 - Germaine Emilie Madame Gres Krebs, haute Couturist
1904 - Clyfford Still, US, abstract painter
1904 - Philip Burton, teacher/writer/dramatist
1904 - Philip H Burton, Welsh director/acting teacher (Richard Burton)
1906 - Marina, princess of Greece/Denmark/husband of English prince George
1907 - Gyorgy Ranki, composer
1907 - Jacques Barzun, France, author (The House of Interlect), (d. 2012)
1909 - Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)
1910 - Paul Cerutti, Monaco, trap shooter, disqualified for drugs in 76 oly
1911 - Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (d. 1953)
1912 - Constant Stotijn, Dutch oboist (Residence Orchestra)
1912 - Gordon Parks, Ft Scott KS, film director/author (Learning Tree)
1913 - John K M McCaffery, Moscow Idaho, TV host (One Minute Please)
1915 - Angier Biddle Duke, NYC, US Ambassador (Spain)
1915 - Henry Taube, chemist (Nobel 1983)
1915 - Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee, Knoxville Tennessee, American blues singer/guitarist
1916 - Michael Gwynn, Bath England, actor (Village of Damned, Question 7)
1918 - Efren Zimbalist Jr, NYC, actor (77 Sunset Strip, FBI, Scruples)
1919 - Anne S Wadman, Frisian literary (Fioele & faem, Smearlappen)
1919 - Jan Elburg, [Joannes G], Dutch poet (Through the Night)
1920 - Virginia Mayo, St Louis Mo, actress (Out of the Blue, White Heat)
1922 - Robert Evett, composer
1924 - Allan Sherman, parody singer/songwriter (Hello Muddah, Hello Fardah)
1924 - Klaus Huber, composer
Shirley Chisholm (1924) 1924 - Shirley Chisholm, (Rep-D-NY) 1st black congresswoman/pres candidate
1925 - Maxwell Street Jimmy Charles Davis Thomas, blues musician
1926 - Richard Crenna, LA Cal, actor (Rambo, Summer Rental, Sand Pebbles)
1927 - Robert Guillaume, [Williams], St Louis Mo, actor (Benson, Soap)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 5 of 5

1940 - "I Love Lucy" actress Lucille Ball (28) weds actor Desi Arnaz (23) in Greenwich, Connecticut
1973 - Science fiction author Issac Asimov marries 2nd wife psychoanalyst and science fiction author Janet Jeppson
1996 - Multimillionaire and top-selling female suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark (67) weds Merrill Lynch Futures retired CEO John Conheeney (67) in Saddle River, New Jersey
1996 - "All My Children" actress-model Eva LaRue (29) weds John Callahan (42) under a 500-year-old banyan tree at Koele in Lanai, Hawaii
2005 - "Only Fools and Horses" actor David Jason (65) weds Gill Hinchcliffe at Buckingham Palace in London

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 106

1016 - Edmund II, Ironsides, King of the Saxons (1016), dies at 27
1519 - Michael Wolgemut, German painter (Weltchronik), dies at about 85
1528 - Great Wierd, Dutch Gelderland army commander, beheaded
1580 - Richard Farrant, English composer
1626 - Thomas Weelkes, English composer
1631 - Rabbi Samuel Eliezer ben Judah ha-levi Edels, dies
1646 - John C Lichthart, admiral (Cape Augustine), dies at about 45
1654 - John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (b. 1584)
1675 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605)
1678 - Andries de Graeff, mayor of Amsterdam (1657..71), dies at 67
1679 - Pieter van Schooten, Dutch mathematician/fort architect, dies at 45
1694 - Marcello Malpighi, father of microscopic anatomy, dies
1700 - Artus II Quellinus [Quellien/"the Young], Flemish sculptor, dies at 75
1703 - Nicolas de Grigny, composer, dies at 31
1705 - Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England (b. 1638)
1718 - Charles XII, king of Sweden (1697-1718), dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway at 36
1761 - John Dollond, British optician (b. 1706)
1764 - Dieudonne Raick, composer, dies at 61
1765 - George Glas, British merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
1777 - Jean-Marie Leclair, composer, dies at 74
1792 - Ernst William Wolf, composer, dies at 57
1798 - Friedrich Fleischmann, composer, dies at 32
1813 - Friedrich August Baumbach, composer, dies at 60
1824 - Johann Georg Christoph Schetky, composer, dies at 87
1830 - Pius VIII, [Francesco S Castiglioni], Ital Pope (1829-30), dies at 69
1841 - Charles Louis W J van Keverberg, Dutch government official, dies at 73
1864 - Hiram Bronson Granbury, Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at 33
1864 - John Adams, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at about 39
1864 - Otto French Strahl, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at 33
1864 - Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, US Confederate brigadier general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at 33
1893 - Jacobus J Backer, German sea historian, dies at 68
1897 - Abraham C Wertheim, Dutch banker/MP (Lib), dies at 64
Writer/Poet Oscar Wilde (1900) 1900 - Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46
1901 - Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica), dies at 86
1904 - Aldine Sillman Kieffer, composer, dies at 64
1909 - Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/translator, dies at 53 [NS=Dec 13]
1931 - John Hyatt Brewer, composer, dies at 75
1931 - Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer, dies at 46
1933 - Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian general (b. 1875)
1934 - Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (b. 1908)
1935 - Fernando A N Pessoa, Portuguese poet (Book of Disquiet), dies at 47
1938 - Corneliu Codreanu, Romania fascist/putschist (Iron Guard), dies
1940 - Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer, dies at 78
1944 - Max Halbe, writer, dies at 79
1947 - Earnest Lubitsch, actor/director (Anna Boleyn, Ninotchka), dies
1948 - Franco Vittadini, composer, dies at 64
1954 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)
1955 - Josip Slavenski, composer, dies at 59
1957 - Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890)
1958 - Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (b. 1888)
1961 - Stanislaw Kazuro, composer, dies at 80
1964 - Don Redman, orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64
1967 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish screenwriterr (Great Hunger), dies
1972 - Hans-Erich Apostel, Austrian composer (Kubiniana, Requiem), dies at 71
1972 - Neil H McElroy, soap manufacturer/minister of Defense (1957-59), dies
1972 - Valentin Ruiz Azner, composer, dies at 70
1973 - Bruce Yarnell, LA California, actor (Outlaws), dies at 35
1976 - Fritz Rasp, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl), dies at 85
1977 - Terrence Rattigan, British writer and playwright (b. 1911)
1979 - Joyce Grenfell (Adventure for Two), actress, dies at 69
1979 - Zeppo Marx, [Herbert], US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 78
1981 - Robert H Harris, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 72
1983 - George Headley, cricket (10 tons in 22 Tests, 1st black WI capt), dies
1986 - Cary Grant, Brit/US actor (Awful Truth, Charade, Father Goose), dies
1987 - Arthur H Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR, dies at 89
Author James Baldwin (1987) 1987 - James Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain), dies at 63
1987 - Simon Carmiggelt, journalist/literary (Kronkel), dies at 74
1989 - Alfred Herrhausen, German CEO (Deutsche Bank), murdered at 59
1990 - Hilde Spiel, writer, dies at 78
1990 - Horst Bienek, German author, dies
1990 - Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75
1991 - P G Z (Zin) Harris, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ 1962-65), dies
1992 - Jorge Donn, dancer, dies after long illness at 45
1993 - Bob Wolf, agent (New Kids on the Block, Larry Bird), dies
1993 - Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (b. 1924)
1994 - Connie Conrad Henry Kirnon Kay, jazz Drummer, dies at 67
1994 - Guy Debord, situationist, dies at 63
1994 - Irwin Kostal, US arranger/conductor (Sound of Music), dies at 83
1994 - Lionel Stander, US blacklisted actor (Hart to Hart), dies at 86
1995 - Hopper Levett, Kent cricket wicketkeeper (1930-47, Test 1934), dies
1995 - June Rosemary Fisher, teacher/trade unionist, dies at 66
1995 - William Roerick, actor (Guiding Light), dies in car crash at 83
1995 - Randy Walker (AKA Stretch), American musician (b. 1972)
1996 - Dan Flavin, minimalist sculptor, dies at 63
1996 - Koji Kobayashi, industrialist, dies at 89
1996 - Paul Derrick, co-operator/Christian socialist, dies at 80
1996 - Tiny Tim, [Herbert Khaury], entertainer (Tip Toe), dies at 71
1997 - Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian, dies at 37
1997 - Kathy Acker, writer, dead Cancer Died, dies at 54
1997 - Ron Gulliford, educationalist, dies at 76
1999 - Charlie Byrd, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
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)
Motorcycle Daredevil Robert (2007) 2007 - Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil, at 69
2007 - Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (b. 1948)
2008 - Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer (Loudness) (b. 1958)