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2022
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November-30
Historical Events on November 30
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Barbados
Barbados becomes a republic.
2021
Oxford High School shooting
A 15-year-old gunman murders four students and injures seven people, including a teacher, in a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan.
2021
2018 Anchorage earthquake
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake with its epicenter only 24 km from Anchorage, Alaska causes significant property damage but no deaths.
2018
Atlasjet Flight 4203
Atlasjet Flight 4203 crashes in Keçiborlu while on approach to Isparta Süleyman Demirel Airport, killing 57.
2007
John Sentamu
2005
John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York..
McDonnell Douglas MD-80
A McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Lion Air Flight 538, overran the runway at Adisoemarmo Airport and crashed, killing 25 people.
2004
STS-97
NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission.
2000
ExxonMobil
Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
1999
Seattle
In Seattle, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
1999
British Aerospace
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..
Gulf War
Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
1995
Bill Clinton
U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favor of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall; he calls IRA fighters "yesterday's men".
1995
Cold War
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 end inconclusively on December 17.)
1981
Vietnam War
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 because troop levels are now down to 27,000.
1972
Pahlavi dynasty
1971
Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah..
South Yemen
The People's Republic of Southern Yemen gains its independence from the United Kingdom
1967
Pakistan People's Party
The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman.
1967
Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930
Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing.
1967
Decolonization
Decolonization: Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1966
Eastern Air Lines Flight 512
1962
Eastern Air Lines Flight 512 crashes at Idlewild Airport, killing 25 people..
Sylacauga, Alabama
In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.
1954
Mutesa II of Buganda
Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
1953
1947–1948 civil war in Mandatory Palestine
Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the State of Israel and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
1947
Battle of Tassafaronga
World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. Navy cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
1942
The Holocaust
1941
The Holocaust: The SS-Einsatzgruppen round up roughly 25,000 Jews from the Riga Ghetto and kill them in the Rumbula massacre..
Empire of Japan
World War II: Signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1940 between the Empire of Japan and the newly formed Wang Jingwei-led Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China. This treaty was considered so unfair to China that it was compared to the Twenty-One Demands.
1940
World War II
World War II: The Soviet Red Army crosses the Finnish border in several places, bombing Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the Winter War.
1939
The Crystal Palace
In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
1936
Costa Rica
Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.
1916
1872 Scotland v England football match
1872
The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England..
American Civil War
American Civil War: The Confederate Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood suffers heavy losses in an attack on the Union Army of the Ohio under General John Schofield in the Battle of Franklin.
1864
Crimean War
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.
1853
Balmis Expedition
The Balmis Expedition starts in Spain with the aim of vaccinating millions against smallpox in Spanish America and Philippines.
1803
Louisiana Territory
In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to the French First Republic.
1803
Grand Duchy of Tuscany
1786
The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day)..
American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
1782
Great Northern War
Great Northern War: King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway.
1718
Queen Anne's War
Queen Anne's War: The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British Empire and their Creek allies to capture Pensacola, Spanish Florida.
1707
Franco-German war of 978–980
Franco-German war of 978–980: Holy Roman Emperor Otto II lifts the siege of Paris and withdraws.
978
Al-Mu'tadid
883
Abu al Abbas celebrates a victory parade in Bagdhad following the surpression of the Zanj Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the Arab world..