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
- 1803 –In New Orleans, Louisiana, 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.
- 1829 –First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking.
- 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, with Hood losing six generals and almost a third of his troops.
- 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.
- 1916 –Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1934 –The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1967 –The People’s Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1989 –Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
- 1994 –MS Achille Lauro fire off Somalia coast.
- 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.
- 2004 –Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
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