About November 30
November 30, 2021 is the 334th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 31 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Sagittarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 63 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 30
- 1718 –Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
- 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. Consequently, November 30 is commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
- 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.
- 1868 –The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden takes place in the King’s garden in Stockholm.
- 1886 –The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
- 1908 –A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania kills 154.
- 1916 –Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1936 –In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
- 1940 –Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
- 1942 –World War II: Guadalcanal Campaign: Battle of Tassafaronga – A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a US cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
- 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 in the only documented case of a human being hit by a rock from space.
- 1966 –Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 1998 –Exxon and Mobil sign a $73.7 billion USD agreement to merge, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the world’s largest company.
- 2001 –In Renton, Washington, United States, Gary Ridgway aka The Green River Killer is arrested.
- 2004 –Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
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