November 30Birthdays & History

On this day: November 30 in history

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1. 883Abu al Abbas celebrates a victory parade in Bagdhad following the suppression of the Zanj Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the Arab world.Middle East
2. 978Franco-German war of 978–980: Holy Roman Emperor Otto II lifts the siege of Paris and withdraws.Europe
3. 1707Queen Anne's War: The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British Empire and their Creek allies to capture Pensacola, Spanish Florida.EuropeNorth America
4. 1718Great Northern War: King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway.Europe
5. 1782American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).North AmericaEurope
6. 1786The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).Europe
7. 1803In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to the French First Republic.North AmericaEurope
8. 1803The Balmis Expedition starts in Spain with the aim of vaccinating millions against smallpox in Spanish America and Philippines.EuropeNorth AmericaAsia
9. 1853Crimean 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.EuropeMiddle East
10. 1864American Civil War: The Confederate Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood suffers heavy losses in an attack on the Union Army of the Ohio under General John Schofield in the Battle of Franklin.North America
11. 1872The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.Europe
12. 1916Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.Latin America
13. 1936In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.Europe
14. 1939World War II: The Soviet Red Army crosses the Finnish border in several places, bombing Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the Winter War.Europe
15. 1940World War II: Signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1940 between the Empire of Japan and the newly formed Wang Jingwei-led Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China. This treaty was considered so unfair to China that it was compared to the Twenty-One Demands.AsiaAsia
16. 1941The Holocaust: The SS-Einsatzgruppen round up roughly 25,000 Jews from the Riga Ghetto and kill them in the Rumbula massacre.Europe
17. 1942World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. Navy cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.AsiaNorth America
18. 1947Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the State of Israel and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.Middle East
19. 1953Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.EuropeAfrica
20. 1954In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.North America
21. 1962Eastern Air Lines Flight 512 crashes at Idlewild Airport, killing 25 people.North America
22. 1966Decolonization: Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.Latin AmericaEurope
23. 1967The People's Republic of Southern Yemen gains its independence from the United KingdomMiddle EastEurope
24. 1967The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman.Asia
25. 1967Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing.EuropeAsia
26. 1971Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah.Middle East
27. 1972Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels are now down to 27,000.AsiaNorth America
28. 1981Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe. (The meetings end inconclusively on December 17.)EuropeNorth America
29. 1995U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favor of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall; he calls IRA fighters "yesterday's men".North AmericaEurope
30. 1995Official end of Operation Desert Storm.Middle East
31. 1999In Seattle, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.North America
32. 1999Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.North America
33. 1999British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.Europe
34. 2000NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission.North America
35. 2004A McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Lion Air Flight 538, overran the runway at Adisoemarmo Airport and crashed, killing 25 people.Asia
36. 2005John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.Europe
37. 2007Atlasjet Flight 4203 crashes in Keçiborlu while on approach to Isparta Süleyman Demirel Airport, killing 57.Middle East
38. 2018A magnitude 7.1 earthquake with its epicenter only 24 km from Anchorage, Alaska causes significant property damage but no deaths.North America
39. 2021A 15-year-old gunman murders four students and injures seven people, including a teacher, in a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan.North America
40. 2021Barbados becomes a republic.Latin America
41. 2022The generative AI chatbot ChatGPT is launched by OpenAI.North America

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