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What happened on November 30
On November 30 history recorded 41 notable events. 160 people who left a mark were born on this day, and 114 died. Here is the full almanac.
- 41events
- 160births
- 114deaths
- 13observances
Highlights
Highlights
1700Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII defeated the Russian army at the Battle of Narva.
In the Great Northern War (1700–1721) a coalition led by Russia successfully contested the supremacy of Sweden in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swedish alliance were Peter I of Russia, Frederick IV of Denmark–Norway and
1803An expedition led by Francisco Javier de Balmis departed A Coruña, Spain, with the aim of vaccinating millions in South America and Asia against smallpox.
The Royal Philanthropic Vaccine Expedition, commonly referred to as the Balmis Expedition, was a Spanish healthcare mission that lasted from 1803 to 1806, led by Dr Francisco Javier de Balmis, which vaccinated hundreds of thousands against smallpox in Spanish
1853Russian warships led by Pavel Nakhimov destroyed an Ottoman fleet of frigates at the Battle of Sinop, prompting France and the United Kingdom to enter the Crimean War.
Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov was a Russian admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy known for his victory in the Battle of Sinop and his leadership in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) during the Crimean War.
November 30
On this day
IX century
- 883
883Abu al Abbas celebrates a victory parade in Bagdhad following the surpression of the Zanj Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the Arab world.
X century
XVIII century
- 1707
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. - 1718
1718Great Northern War: King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway. - 1782
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). - 1786
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).
XIX century
- 1803
1803The Balmis Expedition starts in Spain with the aim of vaccinating millions against smallpox in Spanish America and Philippines. - 1803
1803In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to the French First Republic. - 1853
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. - 1864
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. - 1872
1872The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
XX century
- 1916
1916Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty. - 1936
1936In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire. - 1939
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. - 1940
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. - 1941
1941The Holocaust: The SS-Einsatzgruppen round up roughly 25,000 Jews from the Riga Ghetto and kill them in the Rumbula massacre. - 1942
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. - 1947
1947Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the State of Israel and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. - 1953
1953Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda. - 1954
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. - 1962
1962Eastern Air Lines Flight 512 crashes at Idlewild Airport, killing 25 people. - 1966
1966Decolonization: Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom. - 1967
1967The People's Republic of Southern Yemen gains its independence from the United Kingdom - 1967
1967The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman. - 1967
1967Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing. - 1971
1971Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah. - 1972
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. - 1981
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.) - 1995
1995Official end of Operation Desert Storm. - 1995
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". - 1999
1999Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company. - 1999
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. - 1999
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. - 2000
2000NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission.
XXI century
- 2004
2004A McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Lion Air Flight 538, overran the runway at Adisoemarmo Airport and crashed, killing 25 people. - 2005
2005John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York. - 2007
2007Atlasjet Flight 4203 crashes in Keçiborlu while on approach to Isparta Süleyman Demirel Airport, killing 57. - 2018
2018A magnitude 7.1 earthquake with its epicenter only 24 km from Anchorage, Alaska causes significant property damage but no deaths. - 2021
2021Barbados becomes a republic. - 2021
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. - 2022
2022The generative AI chatbot ChatGPT is launched by OpenAI.
Best known
Born on November 30
1929Dick Clark
American radio and television personality
1929Joan Ganz Cooney
American television writer and producer (born 1929)
1930G. Gordon Liddy
American FBI agent, lawyer and Watergate criminal
1931Bill Walsh
American football coach
1932Bob Moore (musician)
American session musician
1933Sam Gilliam
American painter
Best known
Died on November 30
1016Edmund Ironside
King of England in 1016
1204Emeric, King of Hungary
King of Hungary and Croatia from 1196 to 1204
1378Andrew Stratford
Medieval English landowner of the Stratford family
1525Guillaume Crétin
French poet
1526Giovanni delle Bande Nere
Italian condottiero
1603William Gilbert (physicist)
English physician and natural philosopher (1544?-1603)
Holidays and observances
- Bonifacio Day (Philippines)
- Christian feast day: Andrew and its related observances.
- Christian feast day: Joseph Marchand (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)
- Christian feast day: Cuthbert Mayne
- Christian feast day: Thaddeus Liu
- Christian feast day: November 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Commemoration Day (United Arab Emirates)
- Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran (Israel)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Barbados from the United Kingdom in 1966
- National Day (Benin)
- Regina Mundi Day (South Africa)
- Saint Andrew's Day (Scotland)
- Day of Remembrance for All Victims of Chemical Warfare (United Nations)
Frequently asked questions
What happened on November 30?
41 documented historical events happened on November 30, from antiquity to the present day. The best known is this: Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII defeated the Russian army at the Battle of Narva. On the same day, in another year: An expedition led by Francisco Javier de Balmis departed A Coruña, Spain, with the aim of vaccinating millions in South America and Asia against smallpox. On Almanaccolo every event is listed in chronological order, grouped by century, and links to the Wikipedia article it comes from, so you can always read further or check the source. Alongside the events you find who was born and who died on this date, and which observances are celebrated around the world.
Who was born on November 30?
160 people with a Wikipedia article were born on November 30, including Dick Clark, Joan Ganz Cooney, G. Gordon Liddy. The list spans every era and every field — art, science, politics, sport, entertainment — ordered by year of birth, from the earliest to the most recent. The six featured people are those most has been written about: the ordering uses the length of their Wikipedia article as an indicator of prominence. For each one you find their occupation, year of birth and a link to the full biography.
Who died on November 30?
114 people with a Wikipedia article died on November 30, including Edmund Ironside, Emeric, King of Hungary, Andrew Stratford. The list is in chronological order by year of death and spans all of documented history, from antiquity to the present day. For each person you find their occupation, the year and a link to the Wikipedia biography, where the full story and its sources can be read.
What is celebrated on November 30?
13 observances are celebrated on November 30 around the world: Bonifacio Day (Philippines), Christian feast day: Andrew and its related observances., Christian feast day: Joseph Marchand (one of Vietnamese Martyrs), Christian feast day: Cuthbert Mayne, Christian feast day: Thaddeus Liu, Christian feast day: November 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics). The list gathers national holidays, international days and religious or civil observances falling on this date in different countries, as recorded on Wikipedia. Some are fixed and recur on the same day every year; others depend on the local calendar. Each links to the article explaining its origin and meaning.
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