Today is Monday, November 30, 2020. 335th day of the year, 31 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
● 977 - Emperor Otto II removes the siege of Paris and returns. His rear guard was defeated by Frankish forces led by King Lothar III while crossing the Aisne River.
● 1707 - The second siege of Pensacola ends with the British failing to capture Pensacola, Florida.
● 1718 - King Charles XII of Sweden dies during the siege of Fredriksten Castle in Norway.
● 1782 - American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives of the United States and Great Britain sign the first articles on peace (later formalized as the Treaty of Paris of 1783).
● 1786 - The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later cities were commemorated for Life Day).
● 1803 - The Balmis Expedition begins in Spain to vaccinate millions of people against smallpox in Spain and the Philippines.
● 1803 - In New Orleans, Spanish officials formally hand over Louisiana to officials of the First French Republic. Just 20 days later, France will hand over the same land to the U.S. as the Louisiana Purchase Place.
● 1804 - The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins impeachment proceedings against Federalist Supreme Court Judge Samuel Chase.
● 1829 - The first Welland Canal is opened for testing, five years after the land was demolished.
● 1853 - Crimean War: Battle of Sinop: The Russian Empire's fleet, led by Pavel Nakhimov, destroys the Ottoman fleet, led by Osman Pasha, in Sinop, a seaport in northern Turkey.
● 1864 - American Civil War: Tennessee's Confederate Army suffered heavy casualties in an attack on the Union Army in Ohio at the Battle of Franklin.
● 1872 - The first international football match between Scotland and England is played at Hamilton Crescent in Glasgow.
● 1883 - Western calendar style, General Period delivered to Chusong (early-modern kingdom of Korea).
● 1916 - Costa Rica signs a copyright agreement at the Buenos Aires Convention.
● 1934 - The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman became the first steam locomotive to be proven to reach a speed of 100 miles per hour.
● 1936 - The Crystal Palace in London is destroyed by fire.
● 1939 - Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places, bombing Helsinki and several other Finnish cities and starting the war.
● 1942 - World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers, led by Rayzo Tanaka, defeated U.S. cruiser forces led by Carleton H. Wright.
● 1947 - Civil War begins in Palestine, until the establishment of the State of Israel.
● 1953 - Edward Mutesa II, King of Buganda, is exiled and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
● 1954 - A Hodges meteorite falls from a roof in Silakauga, Alabama, USA, hitting a sleeping woman in the afternoon; this is the only documented incident in the Western Hemisphere in which a man hits a rock from space.
● 1966 - Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
● 1967 - South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
● 1967 - The Pakistan People's Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and becomes its first chairman.
● 1967 - Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malaya Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as their new youth wing.
● 1971 - Iran seizes the Great and Small Tunbas from the emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah.
● 1972 - Vietnam War: White House spokesman Ron Ziegler will no longer make public announcements to the press about the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam, as the number of troops has now dropped to 27.
● 1981 - Cold War: In Geneva, representatives of the United States and the Soviet Union begin negotiations to reduce medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe. (Meetings will end indefinitely on December 17.)
● 1982 - Michael Jackson's sixth solo studio album, Thriller, is released worldwide, making it the best-selling recording album in history.
● 1994 - MS Achilles Lauro starts a fire off the coast of Somalia.
● 1995 - The official end of Operation Desert Storm.
● 1995 - US President Bill Clinton speaks in favor of the “Northern Ireland Peace Process” at a huge rally at the Northern Ireland and Belfast City Halls; he calls IRA fighters “yesterday’s people”.
● 1999 - Exxon and Mobil sign a $ 73,7 billion merger agreement, creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
● 1999 - Protests by anti-globalization protesters in Seattle, USA, against the World Trade Organization meeting arrest police unprepared and force them to cancel the opening ceremony.
● 1999 - British companies Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the world's fourth-largest aerospace firm.
● 2001 - Gary Ridgway is arrested and charged with four counts of Green River murder.
● 2004 - Lion Air Flight 583 overflows its runway during landing at Adisumarmo International Airport, killing 25 people. [1]
● 2005 - John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop of the Church of England with the enthronement of the 97th Archbishop of York.
● 2012 - An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane belonging to Aero-Service crashes into houses near Maya-Maya Airport during a thunderstorm, killing at least 32 people.
● 2018 - A magnitude 15 earthquake just 7.0 miles from the epicenter of Anchorage, Alaska, causes extensive property damage, but no deaths.
Those born on this date
● Gregory Tour, 539, French bishop and saint (probably; [2] 594)
● 1310 - Frederick II, Margraves of Maigren (died 1349).
● 1340 - John, Duke of Berry (died 1416) [3]
● 1364 - Alan John Fitz, 2nd Baron Arundel, Scottish soldier (died 1390).
● 1426 - Johann IV Roth, Roman Catholic bishop (died 1506).
● 1427 - Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (died 1492)
● 1459 - Mingyi Nyo, founder of the Toungoo dynasty of Burma (died 1530).
● 1466 - Andrea Darya, Italian admiral (died 1560).
● 1485 - Veronica Gambara, Italian poet and statesman (died 1550).
● 1498 - Andres de Urdaneta, Spanish captain and explorer (died 1568).
● 1508 - Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect and theorist, designed the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore and the Olympic Theater (died 1580).
● 1554 - Philip Sidney, English soldier, court official and poet (died 1586).
● 1573 - Aubert Miraeus, Belgian historian (died 1640).
● 1594 - John Cosin, English bishop and academic (died 1672).
● 1599 - Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter (died 1661).
● 1614 - William Howard, 1st Viscont Stafford (died 1680).
● 1625 - Jean Domat, French scholar and lawyer (died 1696).
● 1637 - Louis-Sebastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian and author (died 1698).
● 1642 - Andrea Pozzo, Jesuit brother, architect and painter (died 1709).
● 1645 - Andreas Verkmeister, German organist, composer and theorist (died 1706).
● 1667 - Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist and essayist (died 1745).
● 1670 - John Toland, Irish philosopher and author (died 1722).
● 1683 - Ludwig Andreas von Hevenwichuller, Austrian field marshal (died 1744)
● 1699 - King Christian VI of Denmark (died 1746)
● 1719 - Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gota (died 1772).
● 1723 - William Livingston, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of New Jersey (died 1790).
● 1748 - Joachim Albertini, Italian-Polish composer (died 1838)
● 1756 - Ernst Chladny, German physicist and author (died 1827).
● 1764 - Franz Javier Gerl, Austrian singer and composer (died 1827).