Today's 30 November Major Events in History

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722 Boniface is consecrated bishop by Pope Gregory II

Cnut Claims Throne

1016 King of Denmark, Cnut the Great [Canute], claims the English throne after the death of Edmund Ironside

1215 Pope Innocent III formally closes the Fourth Council of the Lateran
1406 Angelo Corraro is elected Pope Gregory XII following the death of Pope Innocent VII

Order of the Golden Fleece

1431 The first chapter of the Order of the Golden Fleece, established by Philip the Good in 1430, meets at Saint-Pierre's Collegiate Church in Lille, Duchy of Burgundy

1487 The first German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot) is promulgated in Munich by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, stating that beer should be brewed from only three ingredients: water, malt, and hops

1523 Amsterdam bans the assembly of heretics

England Reconciles with the Catholic Church

1554 The Kingdom of England formally reconciles with Pope Julius III and the Roman Catholic Church

1630 An estimated 46,000 inhabitants of Venice die in November 1630 from the plague
1678 Roman Catholics are banned from the English Parliament

Battle at Narva

1700 Battle of Narva: Swedish forces under King Charles XII defeat the Russian army

1731 Beijing is hit by a major earthquake, causing an estimated 100,000 deaths
1735 States of Holland forbids Freemasonry

Copley Medal

1753 Benjamin Franklin receives the Godfrey Copley medal "on account of his curious Experiments and Observations on Electricity"

1782 The Treaty of Paris is drafted, a step towards US independence

Death Penalty First Abolished

1786 Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II promulgates a penal reform, making Tuscany the first state to abolish the death penalty; November 30 is now commemorated as Cities for Life Day

1787 Spanish Governor-General José Basco y Vargas resigns and leaves the Philippines
1803 Spain transfers its power over the Louisiana Territory to France
1804 The Senate begins preparations for an impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase
1813 Prince Willem Frederik returns to Netherlands after exile in Britain
1824 Ground is first broken at Allanburg for the building of the original Welland Canal
1829 First Welland Canal opens for a trial run five years to the day from the groundbreaking
1838 Mexico declares war on France
1854 Rebellion of miners at Eureka Stockade at Ballarat in Victoria who swear allegiance to the Southern Cross Flag, angry at the colonial government - landmark event in Australian labor relations [1]
1861 Harper's Weekly publishes a poem called "The Picket-Guard" attributed to 'E,B."; the poet is later identified as Ethel Beers, and the title "All quiet along the Potomac tonight" [1]
1863 Confederate troops vacate Fort Esperanza, Texas
1864 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee: Confederate attack fails, 7,700 casualties
1864 Battle of Honey Hill, South Carolina (Broad River) 96 dead, 665 wounded
1866 Work begins on the first US underwater highway tunnel in Chicago
1868 Statue of King Charles XII of Sweden dedicated at the King's garden in Stockholm
1872 First international soccer game, Scotland draws with England (0-0) in Glasgow

1876 Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovers the gold Mask of Agamemnon at Mycenae in modern Greece, known as "the Mona Lisa of prehistory"

1885 Opera "El Cid" premieres (Paris)
1886 First commercially successful AC electric power plant opens in Buffalo, New York
1886 The Folies Bergère stages its first revue
1887 1st indoor softball game in Chicago

Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor

1891 Pope Leo XIII puclishes encyclical "Rerum novarum" (Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor) addressing the condition of the working class

1900 A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles
1900 The First Isthmian Canal Commission, appointed by the President having examined possible routes for a canal, issues its report favoring that through Nicaragua over the Panama route
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
1907 Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
1908 The US Secretary of State and Japan's ambassador to the US exchange notes in what becomes known as the Root-Takahira Agreement: they affirm support for an independent China with an 'open door' policy and for the status quo in the Pacific

People's Budget

1909 British House of Lords rejects David Lloyd George's 'People's Budget', which tried to shift tax burden to the wealthy. Leads to the Parliament Act, designed to stop the unelected house from overruling the will of the elected house.

1915 St John Ervine's "John Ferguson" premieres in Dublin
1916 Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1922 First speed test of the first genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō
1923 Dutch Catholic minority government of Wilhelm Marx forms
1924 French and Belgium troops withdrawn from their occupation of the Rurh
1924 The first transatlantic radio photo facsimile is transmitted, when a photograph of President Calvin Coolidge is sent from New York to London via the Radio Corporation of America (RCA)

Bradman's Test Debut

1928 Australian cricket legend Don Bradman makes an inauspicious Test debut; scores 18 and 1 vs England in 1st Test in Brisbane; dropped to 12th man for 2nd Test

1931 His Master's Voice and 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

Mannerheim Defends Finland

1939 Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim appointed Commander-in-Chief of all Finnish armed services as Soviet forces invade and bomb Helsinki

1939 Paul Osborn's "Mornings at 7" premieres in NYC
1941 101-year-old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes its last run

Hirohito Discusses War Plans

1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada and Nagano

1942 -Dec 1st: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal
1942 Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of NY Giants minor league system
1942 German supply vessel Uckermark (formerly called the Altmark) explodes & sinks off Yokohama
1942 U-boats sink and damage 142 allied ships this month (877,774 tons)
1944 Biggest & last British battleship HMS Vanguard launched
1947 Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
1948 Baseball's Negro National League disbands
1948 Player-manager Lou Boudreau is selected American League MVP
1948 Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin
1949 Chinese Communists capture Chongqing
1949 KOTV TV channel 6 in Tulsa, Oklahoma (CBS) begins broadcasting

Grotewohl Urges Reunification

1950 East German Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl calls for German reunification in a letter to West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, stressing that details should be a German affair not guided by outside nations

1950 US President Harry Truman threatens China with atom bomb

Robinson Accuses Yankees of Bias

1952 Jackie Robinson accuses the NY Yankees of racial bias on national television

1953 Edward Mutesa II, kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda
1953 French parachutist under Colonel De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu
1954 20th Heisman Trophy Award: Alan Ameche, Wisconsin (FB)
1954 Ann Hodges is bruised by a meteor at Sylacauga, Alabama, in the first modern instance of a meteorite striking a human
1954 John Strydom succeeds D. F. Malan as premier of South Africa
1955 Argentine government disbands Peronistic party
1955 Thriller novel "The Talented Mr Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith is published in the US

Patterson vs. Moore

1956 At 21 years, 10 months, 3 weeks, and 5 days, Floyd Patterson becomes the youngest world heavyweight boxing champion by knocking out Archie Moore in the 5th round in Chicago, becoming the first Olympic gold medalist to win a professional heavyweight title

Cuthbert Wins Sprint Double

1956 Australian Betty Cuthbert takes Olympic sprint double when she runs OR equalling 23.4s to win the 200m gold medal at the Melbourne Games; beats Christa Stubnick in repeat of 100m final 4 days earlier

1956 Gert Fredriksson of Sweden wins his 2nd straight K-1 10,000m canoeing gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics; last time event held in the Summer Olympics; also wins 3rd consecutive K-1 1,000m gold
1956 Jon Henricks swims world record 55.4 to win the men's 100m at the Melbourne Olympics; rare Australian 1-2-3 with John Devitt and Gary Chapman taking the minor medals
1956 Milt Campbell sets Olympic record total of 7,937 points to upset fellow American and world record holder Rafer Johnson, and win the decathlon gold medal at the Melbourne Games
1956 The first use of videotape on TV for a broadcast of "Douglas Edwards with the News"

Assassination Attempt on President Sukarno

1957 Assassination attempt on Indonesian President Sukarno, kills 8

1958 1st US guided missile destroyer launched - the Dewey at Bath Iron Works, Maine
1958 WKBW TV channel 7 in Buffalo, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 1960 NFL Draft: Billy Cannon from LSU first pick by Los Angeles Rams
1959 Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL
1960 French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons
1960 Tad Mosels "All the Way Home" premieres in NYC
1961 Billy Williams of the Chicago Cubs is voted NL Rookie of Year

Secretary-General U Thant

1961 U Thant of Burma becomes the 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations

1961 USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership
1963 Martin Walser's "Überlebensgross Herr Krott" premieres in Stuttgart
1964 USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned
1966 Barbados gains independence from Great Britain (National Day)
1966 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland
1967 British troops leave Aden and the rest of the Federation of South Arabia (FSA) ending British colonial rule; National Liberation Front (NLF) assumes power and renames the state as the People's Republic of South Yemen
1967 Julie Nixon (daughter of former Vice-President Richard Nixon) and David Eisenhower (grandson of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower) publicly announce their engagement

McCarthy Runs for President

1967 Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-Minnesota) announces he will run for the US presidency on an anti-Vietnam War platform

1967 The Khuriya Muriya Islands are ceded by Britain to Oman
1967 The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who later becomes its first Chairman, as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War

Marches in Armagh

1968 A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Armagh is stopped by the Royal Ulster Constabulary due to the presence of a Loyalist counter-demonstration led by Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting

1969 American singer-songwriter Neil Diamond makes his only appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," singing "Sweet Caroline" and "Holly, Holy"
1969 USSR conducts a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

Brian's Song

1971 Emmy and Peabody Award-winning TV movie "Brian's Song," about the friendship of Chicago Bears football teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers (based on Sayers' autobiography), premieres on ABC, starring James Caan and Billy Dee Williams

1971 The government of the Republic of Ireland states that it will take the allegations of brutality against the security forces in Northern Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights
1972 An illegal fireworks factory explodes in Rome, Italy, killing 15 people
1972 The BBC bans Wings' song "Hi, Hi, Hi" for its sexually suggestive lyrics and potential drug references
1973 Firestone Professional Bowling World Tournament of Champions won by Jim Godman
1974 The New York Islanders are shut out for the 20th time in their franchise history, losing to the Vancouver Canucks 3-0
1975 The Republic of Dahomey is renamed the People's Republic of Benin
1976 42nd Heisman Trophy Award: Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh running back
1978 France conducts a nuclear test at Moruroa Atoll

The Wall

1979 Pink Floyd's album "The Wall" is released and sells six million copies in two weeks

1979 Ted Koppel becomes the anchor of the late-night news on ABC's "Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage"
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1980 Uruguay's new constitution is rejected by public referendum; however, some of its proposals are implemented anyway
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)
1981 New York Yankee Dave Righetti wins AL Rookie of the Year Award
1981 South Africa anti-apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested

1982 NASA STS-6 space shuttle vehicle moves to launch pad
1982 Ottumwa, Iowa, is declared the "Video Game Capital of the World" by Mayor Jerry Parker
1983 Denver Nuggets coach Doug Moe, hopelessly behind, advises the team to let the Blazers break their scoring record
1983 The police free the kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken and his driver in Amsterdam

Lendl First to Make $10m

1986 American-based Czech tennis star Ivan Lendl is the first player to make over $10 million in career earnings

1987 Afghanistan's Constitution is adopted by the Loya Jirga (Grand Assembly)
1988 A New York City furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non-payment of a purchase
1988 France performs a nuclear test on Fangataufa Island
1988 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25 billion
1988 One of the worst tropical cyclones in Bangladesh's history kills an estimated 6,240 people
1988 UN General Assembly votes 151-2 to censure the US for refusing Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat a visa
1989 Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb
1990 American actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed

Bush Offers to Meet Hussein

1990 US President George H.W. Bush offers to send Secretary of State James Baker to Baghdad to meet with Saddam Hussein

1991 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, Tianhe Stadium, Guangzhou, China: Michelle Akers scores twice as the US defeats Norway 2-1
1991 Rob Pilatus, 27, of the disgraced pop duo Milli Vanilli, attempts suicide
1991 San Diego State's Marshall Faulk is the first freshman to capture national rushing and scoring titles
1992 Passenger train derails near Hoofddorp, killing five and injuring 33

1993 NFL announces 30th franchise: Jacksonville Jaguars

Brady Gun Control Bill

1993 US President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Bill

1994 Cruise ship Achille Lauro is destroyed by fire off the coast of Somalia, killing four
1994 Man Mohan Adhikari is sworn in as the first communist Prime Minister of Nepal
1994 The Beatles release "Live at the BBC" in Britain, their first album in 23 years
1995 Official end of Operation Desert Storm
1996 South African cricket opening batsman Gary Kirsten follows his 1st innings 102 with 133 in the Proteas' 329 run 2nd Test win v India in Kolkata
1997 "Eugene Onegin" closes at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York City
1998 Deutsche Bank announces a US$10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world
1999 British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth-largest aerospace firm in the world
1999 In Seattle, Washington, protests against the World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of the opening ceremony

Barefoot Contessa

2002 Ina Garten's cooking TV show "Barefoot Contessa" premieres on the Food Network

2004 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns
2004 Lion Air Flight 538 crash-lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 25 people, including the captain

Jeopardy Champion Finally Loses

2004 Longtime "Jeopardy!" champion Ken Jennings from Salt Lake City, Utah, finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700, television's all-time biggest game show haul

Breakaway

2004 RCA releases "Breakaway," Kelly Clarkson's second studio album, which wins 2 Grammy Awards and becomes her best-selling album to date with over 12 million units sold

2005 John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York
2005 The Boston Bruins trade captain Joe Thornton to the San Jose Sharks

Grandma Moses

2006 American folk artist "Grandma" Moses' 1943 painting "Sugaring Off" sells for a record $1.3 million for the artist, by Christie's in New York

2006 South Africa's Civil Union Act of 2006 legalizes same-sex marriage, making it the fifth country in the world and the first in Africa to do so

Clinton Office Hostage Crisis

2007 Leeland Eisenberg enters the campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire, with a suspected bomb and holds three people hostage for five hours

2009 Canada begins its recovery from the recession; economic growth is at 0.4% after 14 months of economic stagnation

José Mujica Elected

2009 José Mujica is announced as the winner of the runoff election in Uruguay held the day before and named president-elect

2012 32 people are killed and 14 injured in an Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crash in Congo
2014 Australia experiences its hottest spring and second-hottest November recorded
2014 Tabaré Vázquez is re-elected President of Uruguay
2015 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP21, begins in Paris

Francis Urges Peace in Africa

2015 Pope Francis urges peace while visiting controversial mosque in Bangui's PK5 district in the Central African Republic

2016 UNESCO adds Belgian beer to its Cultural Heritage List
2017 Def Jam founder Russell Simmons steps down from his companies after allegations of sexual misconduct
2017 Disney announces it has cast Chinese actress Liu Yifei to play Mulan in the upcoming live-action film
2017 World's longest recorded rainbow lasts for 8 hours and 58 minutes in Taipei's Yangmingshan Mountain Range
2018 7.0 magnitude earthquake near Anchorage, Alaska
2018 Marriott Hotels reveals a massive data breach with 500 million guests affected in one of the largest-ever company hacks
2019 Australian cricket batsman David Warner smashes 335 not out in the 2nd Test against Pakistan; second-highest Test score by an Australian (Matt Hayden 380); highest Test score at Adelaide Oval
2019 Gun battle between suspected cartel and security forces at Villa Unión city hall, northern Mexico, kills 21
2019 On the way to 36 in the 2nd Test against Pakistan, Australian cricket batsman Steve Smith overtakes Don Bradman's run tally of 6,996 Test runs; he becomes the fastest batsman to 7,000 in terms of innings (126)
2020 Australia condemns a fabricated photo of an Australian soldier threatening an Afghan child with a knife on a Chinese official's Twitter, representing a new low in the two countries' relationship
2020 DeepMind's AlphaFold AI program achieves a scientific breakthrough by accurately predicting the 3D structures of proteins from their amino acid sequences, a task that had challenged scientists for 50 years

2020 Los Angeles County begins three-week stay-at-home order for 10 million people to combat COVID-19 surge
2020 Newly discovered rock art is announced in the Serranía La Lindosa, Colombian Amazon, dating back 12,600 to 11,800 years ago, with thousands of paintings of now-extinct Ice Age animals [1]
2021 15-year-old student shoots four dead and injures seven at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan

Barbados becomes a Republic

2021 Barbados becomes a republic, removing Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state in a ceremony where Sandra Mason is sworn in as the first president, with Rihanna declared a national hero

2021 El Chapo's wife, Emma Coronel Aispuro, is sentenced to three years in the US for helping run her husband's drug conglomerate and aiding his escape from prison

Josephine Baker Honored

2021 Josephine Baker becomes the first Black woman inducted into the Panthéon in Paris, France's highest honor

2022 Artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT prototype is released by AI lab OpenAI and is able to answer complex questions, write poetry, and mimic some human emotions [1]
2022 Chinese authorities ease some COVID-19 restrictions in cities, including Guangzhou, following days of protests [1]

Spotify Most Streamed

2022 Harry Styles' single "As It Was" is the most-streamed song globally on Spotify in 2022, with Bad Bunny as the most-listened-to artist [1]

2022 Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Catherine, arrive in Boston for a US royal visit the same day a former lady-in-waiting resigns amid a racism controversy [1]
2022 UNESCO announces new additions to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, including the French Baguette, oral traditions of calling camels in the Middle East, and tea practices in China [1] [2]

Hakeem Jeffries Replaces Pelosi

2022 US House Democrats elect Hakeem Jeffries as the first Black House Minority leader, replacing Nancy Pelosi [1]

2023 Russia's Supreme Court labels LGBTQ+ 'movement' an extremist organization, effectively outlawing it [1]
2023 The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) opens in Dubai with nations pledging a draft resolution for a $400 million fund to help countries most affected by climate change [1]