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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1872 –The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
- 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.
- 1967 –The People’s Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 1994 –MS Achille Lauro fire off Somalia coast.
- 1995 –Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
- 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.
- 2004 –Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
- 2004 –Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with US$ 2,520,700, television’s biggest game show winnings.
- 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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