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30 November, 2005
John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
30 November, 2004
Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700, televisions all-time biggest game show haul.
30 November, 2004
Lion Air Flight 538 crashlands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
30 November, 2004
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns.
30 November, 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.
30 November, 1999
British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europes largest defence contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
30 November, 1998
Deutsche Bank announces a $10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.
30 November, 1995
Official end of Operation Desert Storm
30 November, 1993
U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
30 November, 1989
Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
30 November, 1989
Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida becomes serial killer Aileen Wuornoss first victim.
30 November, 1988
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion.
30 November, 1982
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street.
30 November, 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).
30 November, 1974
Lucy (Australopithecus) was discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopias Afar Depression.
30 November, 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.
30 November, 1971
Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
30 November, 1967
The Peoples Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
30 November, 1967
The Pakistan Peoples Party 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.
30 November, 1966
Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
30 November, 1964
The University of Patras is inaugurated.
30 November, 1962
The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as its 3rd UN Secretary-General.
30 November, 1954
In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 lb (3.86 kg) sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits 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.
30 November, 1953
Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
30 November, 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 the planned June 1944 invasion of Europe code named Operation Overlord.
30 November, 1942
World War II Guadalcanal Campaign: Battle of Tassafaronga — A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizo Tanaka defeats a a US cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
30 November, 1940
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz married in Greenwich, Connecticut.
30 November, 1939
Winter War: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
30 November, 1936
In London, the Crystal Palace destroyed by fire.
30 November, 1934
The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
30 November, 1916
Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
30 November, 1908
A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania killed 154.
30 November, 1902
American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidys Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
30 November, 1886
The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
30 November, 1872
The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
30 November, 1868
The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden in the Kings garden in Stockholm.
30 November, 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 commanded by John McAllister Schofield around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops).
30 November, 1853
Crimean 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.
30 November, 1829
First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day of the sod turning.
30 November, 1824
First soil broken at Allenburg for the building of the original Welland Canal.
30 November, 1804
The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
30 November, 1803
In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
30 November, 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. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
30 November, 1782
American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris (1783) — In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
30 November, 1718
The Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.

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