Post by farmgal on Dec 1, 2012 4:57:33 GMT -5
November 30 is the 335th day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 31 days remaining until the end of the year.
Countdown until Obama should have been leaving Office
www.obamaclock.org/
Days until coming elections:
www.daysuntil.com/Election-Day/index.html
U.S. Debt Clock: www.usdebtclock.org/
374 Ambrose (340–397) was baptized.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose
Stained glass window of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.
1170 Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket (1118–1170) returned from a six-year exile in France for his opposition to the policies of Henry II. Four weeks after his return, four of Henry's knights murdered Thomas in the Canterbury Cathedral.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket
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). In Benjamin West's painting of the delegations at the Treaty of Paris: John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and William Temple Franklin, the British delegation refused to pose, and the painting was never completed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1783)
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_for_Life_Day
The modern United States, with Louisiana Purchase overlay (in green)
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase
1804 The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase
1824 First ground is broken at Allenburg for the building of the original Welland Canal in Canada which t extends 42 km (26 mi) from Port Weller, Ontario, on Lake Ontario, to Port Colborne, Ontario, on Lake Erie. As a part of the St. Lawrence Seaway, this canal enables ships to ascend and descend the Niagara Escarpment and to bypass Niagara Falls.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welland_Canal
1829 First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welland_Canal
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sinop
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Franklin The Confederate 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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Franklin_(1864)
1902 American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Logan
1916 Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires_Convention
1934 The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman, an express passenger train service that has been running between London and Edinburgh—the capitals of England and Scotland respectively, becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Scotsman_(train)
1936 In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Palace,_London#The_Crystal_Palace
A Finnish machine gun crew during the Winter War
1939 Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
1940 Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Ball#Desi_Arnaz
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tassafaronga
1947 1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins on this day, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodges_Meteorite
1966 Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados
1967 The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_South_Yemen#History
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulfiqar_Ali_Bhutto
1971 Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_and_Lesser_Tunbs
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Ziegler
1982 Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, is released.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(album)
1989 Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Herrhausen
1993 U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Handgun_Violence_Prevention_Act
1994 MS Achille Lauro catches fire off the coast of Somalia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Achille_Lauro
Clockwise from top: USAF F-15Es, F-16s, and a USAF F-15 flying over burning Kuwaiti oil wells; British troops from the Staffordshire Regiment in Operation Granby; Camera view from a Lockheed AC-130; Highway of Death; M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle
1995 Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Desert_Storm
1995 Bill Clinton, then President of the United States, visited Northern Ireland, and spoke in favour of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall. He called terrorists "yesterday's men".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton
1998 Exxon and Mobil sign a $73.7 billion USD agreement to merge, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the world's largest company.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon-Mobil
1999 In Seattle, Washington, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTO
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems
2001 In Renton, Washington, United States, Gary Ridgway aka The Green River Killer is arrested.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway
2004 Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700, television's biggest game show winnings.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jennings
2004 Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
2005 John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sentamu
Births
539 Gregory of Tours, French bishop and historian (d. 594)
1498 Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Augustinian friar, sail-captain and explorer (d. 1568)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_de_Urdaneta
1554 Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (d. 1586)
1594 John Cosin, English clergyman (d. 1672)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cosin
1667 Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist (d. 1745)
1723 William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Livingston
1810 Oliver Winchester, American gunsmith (d. 1880)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Winchester
1821 Frederick Temple, 95th Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
1835 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), American writer (d. 1910)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
1874 Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Winston_Churchill
1874 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author of Anne of Green Gables (d. 1942)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Maud_Montgomery
1889 Reuvein Margolies, Austrian-Hungarian-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar (d. 1971)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuvein_Margolies
1898 Firpo Marberry, American baseball player, pitcher for Washington Senators (d. 1976)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firpo_Marberry
1904 Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
1906 John Dickson Carr, American author (d. 1977)
1907 Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author (d. 2012)
1909 Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)
1912 Gordon Parks, American photographer and film director (d. 2006)
1915 Brownie McGhee, American blues musician (d. 1996)
1915 Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
1918 Efrem Zimbalist Jr., American actor
1920 Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
1922 Graham Crowden, Scottish actor (d. 2010)
1924 Shirley Chisholm, American politician, United States Representatives from New York (d. 2005)
1924 Allan Sherman, American comedian (d. 1973)
1924 Elliott Blackstone, American gay and lesbian rights activist (d. 2006)
1926 Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
1927 Robert Guillaume, American actor
1928 Joe B. Hall, American basketball coach
1929 Dick Clark, American television host (d. 2012)
1929 Joan Ganz Cooney, American children's television pioneer
1930 G. Gordon Liddy, American Watergate operative and talk radio host
1931 Jack Ging, American actor
1931 Bill Walsh, American football coach (d. 2007)
1932 Bob Moore, American bassist and orchestra leader
1936 Abbie Hoffman, American activist (d. 1989)
1940 Dan Tieman, American basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
1943 Terrence Malick, American director and screenwriter
1944 Dian Parkinson, American model
1947 David Mamet, American playwright
1947 Jude Ciccolella, American actor
1950 Chris Claremont, British-American comic book writer
1952 Keith Giffen, American comic book writer and artist
1952 Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer
1953 Shuggie Otis, American musician, composer and producer
1953 June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (d. 2006)
1954 Lawrence Summers, American economist and government official
1955 Michael Beschloss, American historian
1955 Richard Burr, American politician
1955 Kevin Conroy, American actor (Batman in the DC animated universe)
1955 Billy Idol (born William Michael Albert Broad), British musician
1957 Richard Barbieri, British keyboardist (Porcupine Tree)
1957 Andrew Calhoun, American musician
1957 Margaret Spellings, American politician and 8th United States Secretary of Education
1958 Stacey Q, American singer
1958 Iz the Wiz, NYC graffiti artist (d. 2009)
1959 Cherie Currie, American musician
1960 Rich Fields, American television personality
1960 Bill Halter, American politician
1960 Bob Tewksbury, American baseball player
1962 Bo Jackson, American football and baseball player
1962 Daniel Keys Moran, American writer
1964 Michael Cudlitz, American actor
1965 Lee Klein, American writer
1965 Ben Stiller, American actor
1966 David Berkoff, American swimmer
1966 Wil Mara, American author
1969 Amy Ryan, American actress
1969 Mike Stone, American musician (Queensryche)
1970 Robert Griffith, American football player
1970 Perrey Reeves, American actress
1971 Ray Durham, American baseball player
1971 Iván Rodríguez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1972 Christopher Fitzgerald, American stage actor
1973 John Moyer, American bassist (Disturbed)
1975 Mindy McCready, American musician
1976 Marco Castro, American film director
1976 Cypher Zero, American circus innovator (New York Circus Arts)
1977 Steve Aoki, American DJ
1978 Clay Aiken, American singer
1978 Emil Steiner, American writer
1980 Shane Victorino, American baseball player
1981 Zabiuddin Ansari, Indian national, Islamic fundamentalist and possible terrorist alias Abu Hamza
1981 Billy Lush, American actor
1982 Tony Giarratano, American baseball player
1985 Kaley Cuoco, American actress and model
1986 Jordan Farmar, American basketball player
1987 – Christel Khalil, American actress
1987 Naomi Knight, American wrestler, model, and dancer
Deaths
1675 Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial governor (b. 1605)
1765 George Glas, British merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
1864 Patrick Cleburne, Civil War General (b. 1828)
1900 Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
1901 Edward John Eyre, British explorer (b. 1815)
1920 Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)
1934 Roy Turk, American songwriter and lyricist (d. 1892)
1979 Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1901)
1988 Pannonica de Koenigswarter, jazz patroness and writer (b. 1913)
1993 David Houston, American country music singer (b. 1938)
1994 Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)
1995 Randy Walker, American musician (b. 1968)
1996 Tiny Tim, American entertainer (b. 1932)
1997 Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947)
1998 Margaret Walker, African-American poet (b. 1915)
1999 Charlie Byrd, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
2002 Tim Woods, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
2003 Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
2005 Jean Parker, American actress (b. 1915)
2007 Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (b. 1938)
2010 Garry Gross, American photographer (b. 1937)
2010 – Faye Wright, American spiritual figure (b. 1914)
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Andrew
November 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Holy and Glorious Apostle Andrew
Saint Frumentius, bishop of Axum
Gobron of Georgia (died 914)
www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih1130.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_30
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_30_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
There are 31 days remaining until the end of the year.
Countdown until Obama should have been leaving Office
www.obamaclock.org/
Days until coming elections:
www.daysuntil.com/Election-Day/index.html
U.S. Debt Clock: www.usdebtclock.org/
374 Ambrose (340–397) was baptized.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose
Stained glass window of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.
1170 Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket (1118–1170) returned from a six-year exile in France for his opposition to the policies of Henry II. Four weeks after his return, four of Henry's knights murdered Thomas in the Canterbury Cathedral.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket
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). In Benjamin West's painting of the delegations at the Treaty of Paris: John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and William Temple Franklin, the British delegation refused to pose, and the painting was never completed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris_(1783)
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_for_Life_Day
The modern United States, with Louisiana Purchase overlay (in green)
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase
1804 The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase
1824 First ground is broken at Allenburg for the building of the original Welland Canal in Canada which t extends 42 km (26 mi) from Port Weller, Ontario, on Lake Ontario, to Port Colborne, Ontario, on Lake Erie. As a part of the St. Lawrence Seaway, this canal enables ships to ascend and descend the Niagara Escarpment and to bypass Niagara Falls.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welland_Canal
1829 First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welland_Canal
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Sinop
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Franklin The Confederate 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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Franklin_(1864)
1902 American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Logan
1916 Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buenos_Aires_Convention
1934 The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman, an express passenger train service that has been running between London and Edinburgh—the capitals of England and Scotland respectively, becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Scotsman_(train)
1936 In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Palace,_London#The_Crystal_Palace
A Finnish machine gun crew during the Winter War
1939 Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War
1940 Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_Ball#Desi_Arnaz
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tassafaronga
1947 1947-1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins on this day, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_Palestine
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodges_Meteorite
1966 Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados
1967 The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_South_Yemen#History
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulfiqar_Ali_Bhutto
1971 Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_and_Lesser_Tunbs
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Ziegler
1982 Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, is released.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thriller_(album)
1989 Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Herrhausen
1993 U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Handgun_Violence_Prevention_Act
1994 MS Achille Lauro catches fire off the coast of Somalia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Achille_Lauro
Clockwise from top: USAF F-15Es, F-16s, and a USAF F-15 flying over burning Kuwaiti oil wells; British troops from the Staffordshire Regiment in Operation Granby; Camera view from a Lockheed AC-130; Highway of Death; M728 Combat Engineer Vehicle
1995 Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Desert_Storm
1995 Bill Clinton, then President of the United States, visited Northern Ireland, and spoke in favour of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall. He called terrorists "yesterday's men".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton
1998 Exxon and Mobil sign a $73.7 billion USD agreement to merge, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the world's largest company.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon-Mobil
1999 In Seattle, Washington, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTO
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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems
2001 In Renton, Washington, United States, Gary Ridgway aka The Green River Killer is arrested.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ridgway
2004 Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700, television's biggest game show winnings.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Jennings
2004 Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
2005 John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sentamu
Births
539 Gregory of Tours, French bishop and historian (d. 594)
1498 Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Augustinian friar, sail-captain and explorer (d. 1568)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_de_Urdaneta
1554 Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (d. 1586)
1594 John Cosin, English clergyman (d. 1672)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cosin
1667 Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist (d. 1745)
1723 William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Livingston
1810 Oliver Winchester, American gunsmith (d. 1880)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Winchester
1821 Frederick Temple, 95th Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)
1835 Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), American writer (d. 1910)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain
1874 Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Winston_Churchill
1874 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author of Anne of Green Gables (d. 1942)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Maud_Montgomery
1889 Reuvein Margolies, Austrian-Hungarian-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar (d. 1971)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuvein_Margolies
1898 Firpo Marberry, American baseball player, pitcher for Washington Senators (d. 1976)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firpo_Marberry
1904 Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
1906 John Dickson Carr, American author (d. 1977)
1907 Jacques Barzun, French-American historian and author (d. 2012)
1909 Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)
1912 Gordon Parks, American photographer and film director (d. 2006)
1915 Brownie McGhee, American blues musician (d. 1996)
1915 Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
1918 Efrem Zimbalist Jr., American actor
1920 Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
1922 Graham Crowden, Scottish actor (d. 2010)
1924 Shirley Chisholm, American politician, United States Representatives from New York (d. 2005)
1924 Allan Sherman, American comedian (d. 1973)
1924 Elliott Blackstone, American gay and lesbian rights activist (d. 2006)
1926 Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)
1927 Robert Guillaume, American actor
1928 Joe B. Hall, American basketball coach
1929 Dick Clark, American television host (d. 2012)
1929 Joan Ganz Cooney, American children's television pioneer
1930 G. Gordon Liddy, American Watergate operative and talk radio host
1931 Jack Ging, American actor
1931 Bill Walsh, American football coach (d. 2007)
1932 Bob Moore, American bassist and orchestra leader
1936 Abbie Hoffman, American activist (d. 1989)
1940 Dan Tieman, American basketball player and coach (d. 2012)
1943 Terrence Malick, American director and screenwriter
1944 Dian Parkinson, American model
1947 David Mamet, American playwright
1947 Jude Ciccolella, American actor
1950 Chris Claremont, British-American comic book writer
1952 Keith Giffen, American comic book writer and artist
1952 Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer
1953 Shuggie Otis, American musician, composer and producer
1953 June Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters) (d. 2006)
1954 Lawrence Summers, American economist and government official
1955 Michael Beschloss, American historian
1955 Richard Burr, American politician
1955 Kevin Conroy, American actor (Batman in the DC animated universe)
1955 Billy Idol (born William Michael Albert Broad), British musician
1957 Richard Barbieri, British keyboardist (Porcupine Tree)
1957 Andrew Calhoun, American musician
1957 Margaret Spellings, American politician and 8th United States Secretary of Education
1958 Stacey Q, American singer
1958 Iz the Wiz, NYC graffiti artist (d. 2009)
1959 Cherie Currie, American musician
1960 Rich Fields, American television personality
1960 Bill Halter, American politician
1960 Bob Tewksbury, American baseball player
1962 Bo Jackson, American football and baseball player
1962 Daniel Keys Moran, American writer
1964 Michael Cudlitz, American actor
1965 Lee Klein, American writer
1965 Ben Stiller, American actor
1966 David Berkoff, American swimmer
1966 Wil Mara, American author
1969 Amy Ryan, American actress
1969 Mike Stone, American musician (Queensryche)
1970 Robert Griffith, American football player
1970 Perrey Reeves, American actress
1971 Ray Durham, American baseball player
1971 Iván Rodríguez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1972 Christopher Fitzgerald, American stage actor
1973 John Moyer, American bassist (Disturbed)
1975 Mindy McCready, American musician
1976 Marco Castro, American film director
1976 Cypher Zero, American circus innovator (New York Circus Arts)
1977 Steve Aoki, American DJ
1978 Clay Aiken, American singer
1978 Emil Steiner, American writer
1980 Shane Victorino, American baseball player
1981 Zabiuddin Ansari, Indian national, Islamic fundamentalist and possible terrorist alias Abu Hamza
1981 Billy Lush, American actor
1982 Tony Giarratano, American baseball player
1985 Kaley Cuoco, American actress and model
1986 Jordan Farmar, American basketball player
1987 – Christel Khalil, American actress
1987 Naomi Knight, American wrestler, model, and dancer
Deaths
1675 Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial governor (b. 1605)
1765 George Glas, British merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
1864 Patrick Cleburne, Civil War General (b. 1828)
1900 Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)
1901 Edward John Eyre, British explorer (b. 1815)
1920 Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)
1934 Roy Turk, American songwriter and lyricist (d. 1892)
1979 Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1901)
1988 Pannonica de Koenigswarter, jazz patroness and writer (b. 1913)
1993 David Houston, American country music singer (b. 1938)
1994 Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)
1995 Randy Walker, American musician (b. 1968)
1996 Tiny Tim, American entertainer (b. 1932)
1997 Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947)
1998 Margaret Walker, African-American poet (b. 1915)
1999 Charlie Byrd, American jazz guitarist (b. 1925)
2002 Tim Woods, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
2003 Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
2005 Jean Parker, American actress (b. 1915)
2007 Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (b. 1938)
2010 Garry Gross, American photographer (b. 1937)
2010 – Faye Wright, American spiritual figure (b. 1914)
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Andrew
November 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Holy and Glorious Apostle Andrew
Saint Frumentius, bishop of Axum
Gobron of Georgia (died 914)
www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih1130.htm
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_30
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_30_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)