November 30

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November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 31 days remaining, as the final day of November.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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Events

1782 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized in the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
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.
1803 - At the Cabildo building in New Orleans, Spanish representatives Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo, officially transfer Louisiana Territory to French representative Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
1804 - The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
1853 - Crimean War: The Russian fleet destroys the Turkish fleet at the Battle of Sinope.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Franklin - The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops).
1872 - First-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Scotland.
1886 - Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
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.
1916 - Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace, built for the 1851 Great Exhibition, is destroyed in a fire.
1939 - Winter War begins: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
1940 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are married in Greenwich, Connecticut.
1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord.
1954 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 pound sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise, in the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock.
1960 - Production of the De Soto automobile brand ceases.
1962 - The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as the new UN Secretary-General.
1966 - Barbados becomes independent.
1967 - The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1972 - Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.
1974 - The skeleton of "Lucy", a 3.18 million years old female hominid, of the genus Australopithecus, was discovered in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia.
1979 - Rock band Pink Floyd release the mega-selling rock opera The Wall.
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).
1982 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street.
1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion.
1989 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
1989 - Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida, takes a ride with Aileen Wuornos before becoming the female serial killer's first victim.
1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
1994 - Hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur is robbed of $40,000 in jewelry and survives being shot five times in a New York music studio. He believes he was set up by The Notorious B.I.G. and Puff Daddy.
1998 - Deutsche Bank announces a US$10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.
1999 - In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catches police unprepared and forces the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
1999 - British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defence contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
2000 - The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 came into force in the UK.
2004 - Broadcast of the episode in which longtime Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700, television's all-time biggest game show winner.
2004 - Lion Air Flight 538 crash landed in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.