Historical Events on November 30

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• 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

• 1630 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague
• 1678 Roman Catholics banned from English parliament

• 1700 Utrecht, Overijssel, Buren, Leerdam and IJsselstein go on Gregoria calendar
• 1731 Beijing hit by an earthquake; about 100,000 die
• 1735 States of Holland forbid Free Masonry
• 1747 Dutch State of Zealand declare governorship hereditary for women

• 1782 Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence

• 1787 Spanish governor leaves the 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 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 EE Beers' "All quiet along the Potomac"
• 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 1st 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

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

• 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

• 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

• 1923 Dutch Catholic minority government of Wilhelm Marx forms
• 1924 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)
• 1924 French and Belgium troops withdrawn from their occupation of the Rurh

• 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

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

• 1942 -Dec 1st: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal

• 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
• 1946 Bradman scores 187 on first day of the Ashes 1st Test Australia v England at the Gabba, Brisbane
• 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 capture Chongqing
• 1949 KOTV TV channel 6 in Tulsa, Oklahoma (CBS) begins broadcasting

• 1950 US President Harry Truman threatens China with atom bomb

• 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
• 1956 1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards & the News)

• 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

• 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 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 Cubs is voted NL Rookie of Year

• 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), announce their engagement
• 1967 Kuria Muria Islands ceded by Britain to Oman

• 1967 The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War

• 1969 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan

• 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 BBC bans Wings' "Hi, Hi, Hi"
• 1972 Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 in Rome, Italy
• 1973 Firestone Professional Bowling World Tournament of Champions won by Jim Godman
• 1974 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks)
• 1975 Dahomey renamed People's Republic of Benin
• 1976 42nd Heisman Trophy Award: Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh (RB)
• 1978 France performs nuclear test

• 1979 Ted Koppel becomes anchor of late nightly news on Iran "America Held Hostage" (ABC)
• 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1980 Uruguay's new constitution rejected by referendum
• 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 Porn star John Holmes arrested on fugitive charges
• 1981 South Africa anti-apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested

• 1982 Ottumwa, Iowa, declared "Video Game Capital of the World" by mayor Jerry Parker
• 1982 STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad
• 1982 US submarine Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in South China Sea
• 1982 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1983 Denver Nuggets coach Doug Moe, hoplessly behind, advises team to let Blazers break their scoring record
• 1983 Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam
• 1983 Radio Shack announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)
• 1983 Raúl Alfonsín wins Argentine presidential election
• 1983 Sam Shepards "Fool for love" premieres in NYC

• 1987 Afghanistan's Constitution adopted
• 1988 Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
• 1988 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
• 1988 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion USD.

• 1988 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs
• 1988 UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO's Arafat visa
• 1989 Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb

• 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup Final, Tianhe Stadium, Guangzhou, China: Michelle Akers scores twice as US beats Norway, 2-1
• 1991 Rob Pilatus, 27, of disgraced pop duo Milli Vanilli attempts suicide
• 1991 San Diego State's Marshall Faulk is 1st freshman to capture national rushing and scoring titles

• 1992 Intercity-train derailed at Village chief, 5 die

• 1993 NFL announces 30th franchise - Jacksonville Jaguars

• 1994 Beatles' 1st album in 25 years, "Live at the BBC", is released in Britain
• 1994 Cruise ship Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die
• 1994 Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal
• 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 Martin Beck Theater NYC
• 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 defence contractor and fourth largest aerospace firm in the world
• 1999 In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies

• 2004 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns
• 2004 Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26

• 2005 John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York

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

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

• 2012 At least 32 people are killed in a Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crash in the 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

• 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 up-coming 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 Marriot Hotels reveal massive data breach - 500 million guests affected in one of 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 2nd Test v Pakistan, Australian cricket batsman Steve Smith overtakes Don Bradman’s run-tally of 6,996 Test runs; becomes fastest batsman to 7000, in terms of innings (126)
• 2020 Alphafold's DeepMind AI program announces it has achieved scientific breakthrough by being able to predict how proteins fold into 3D shapes
• 2020 Australia condemns doctored photo of Australian soldier threatening Afghan child with knife on Chinese official's Twitter, marking new low in the two countries relationship

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