November 30 Historical Events

The following events took place on November 30. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 47 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 3340 BC
  Earliest believed record of an eclipse.
• 1707
  The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.
• 1718
  King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway.
• 1782
  American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris – 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).
• 1786
  The 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).
• 1803
  In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
• 1804
  The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial of Federalist Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase.
• 1824
  Ground is broken at Allanburg, Ontario, for the building of the first Welland Canal.
• 1829
  First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking.
• 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.
• 1864
  American Civil War: Battle of Franklin – The Confederate 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, with Hood losing six generals and almost a third of his troops.
• 1868
  A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in Stockholm’s Kungsträdgården.
• 1872
  The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
• 1886
  The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
• 1902
  American Old West: Kid Curry Logan, second-in-command of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.

• 1908
  A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154.
• 1916
  Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.
• 1934
  The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100 mph.
• 1936
  In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
• 1939
  Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
• 1940
  Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
• 1942
  World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
• 1947
  1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.
• 1953
  Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
• 1954
  In 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.
• 1966
  Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1967
  The People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1967
  The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman.
• 1967
  Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing.
• 1971
  Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.