About November 30
November 30, 2024 is the 335th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 31 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 60 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 30
- 1700 –Battle of Narva – A Swedish army of 8,500 men under Charles XII defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva.
- 1718 –Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress 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).
- 1783 –A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
- 1804 –The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1908 –A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania kills 154.
- 1934 –The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
- 1940 –Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
- 1966 –Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1971 –Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
- 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).
- 1993 –U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
- 1995 –Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
- 1998 –Exxon and Mobil sign a $73.7 billion USD agreement to merge, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the world’s largest company.
- 1999 –British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe’s largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
- 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.
- 2005 –John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
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