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Today In History - November 30 |
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1866 Work begins on the first U.S. underwater highway tunnel: Chicago… |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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538 St. Gregory of Tours 1340 John duke of Berry 1373 Ferdinand the Righteous 1466 Andrea Doria (Genoese statesman & admiral) 1485 Veronica Gambara 1508 Andrea Palladio 1554 Philip Sidney 1593 Johann Dilliger 1622 Thomas of Apshoven 1634 Andres de Sola 1645 Andreas Werkmeister 1667 Jonathan Swift 1693 Christoph Forster 1726 Jacques Aliamet 1753 Johann Baptist Schenk 1764 Franz Xaver Gerl 1793 Johann Lukas Schonlein 1796 Johann Carl Gottfried Loewe 1809 Thomas Molleson Mudie 1810 Oliver Fisher Winchester (rifle maker) 1813 Charles-Henri Valentin Alkan 1813 Hermann Kurz 1813 Louise Ackermann-Choquet 1817 Theodor Mommsen 1821 Gustavus Woodson Smith 1826 George Washington Deitzler 1827 Ernest H. Baillon 1828 Jedediah Hotchkiss 1835 Mark Twain (aka Samuel L. Clemens) 1843 Jozsef Kiss 1863 Andres Bonifacio 1863 Gellio Benevenuto Coronaro 1870 Cecil Forsyth 1874 Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 Winston Churchill 1889 Edgar D. Adrian 1890 John Tasker Howard 1890 Oege Bakker 1895 Johann Nepomuk David 1897 Andreas Nezertis 1897 Quinto Maganini 1898 Millicent Carey McIntosh 1898 Roy "Link" Lyman 1899 Hans Krasa 1900 Korneel Goossens 1903 Germaine Emilie Madame Gres Krebs 1904 Clyfford Still 1904 Philip Burton 1912 Gordon Parks 1913 John K. M. McCaffery 1914 Brownie McGhee 1915 Angier Biddle Duke 1915 Henry Taube 1915 Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee 1916 Michael Gwynn 1918 Efren Zimbalist 1919 Anne S. Wadman 1920 Virginia Mayo 1922 Robert Evett 1924 Allan Sherman 1924 Klaus Huber 1924 Shirley Chisholm 1926 Richard Crenna 1927 Robert Guillaume 1928 Chic Hecht 1929 Dick Clark 1929 G. Gordon Liddy 1929 Joan Ganz Cooney 1930 James Felton Boyd 1931 Jack Ging 1931 Jack Sheldon 1932 David Lincoln Lightbown 1933 Linwood C. Ivey 1936 Abbie Hoffman 1936 Michael Jinks 1937 Jimmy Bowen 1937 Paul Stookey 1937 Richard Threlkeld 1937 Ridley Scott 1939 Walter Weller 1940 Glenn English 1943 Leo Lyons 1943 Terrence Malick 1944 Dian Parkinson 1944 Luther T. Ingram 1944 Rob Grill 1945 Michael Joyce 1945 Radu Lupu 1945 Roger Glover 1946 Ken Wadsworth 1947 David Mamet 1949 Arthur Lee Washington, Jr. 1950 Greg Gordon 1950 Kathryn Witt 1950 Margaret Whitton 1950 Paul Westphal 1952 Mandy Patinkin 1953 Mike Espy 1953 Shuggie Otis 1954 George McArdle 1954 June Pointer 1955 Andy Gray 1955 Billy Idol (aka William Broad) 1955 Kevin Conroy 1959 Sylvia Hanika 1960 Bob Tewksbury 1960 Dan Rashovich 1960 Danny Briggs 1960 Gary Lineker 1961 Innocent Egbunike 1962 Bo Jackson 1964 David Wood 1965 Ben Stiller 1965 Mike Zandofsky 1966 Phillipe Bozon 1967 Gary Jones 1967 Margaret Platt 1969 Carrie Jean Yazel 1969 Larry Brown 1969 Mark Lewis 1970 Corrina Kennedy 1970 James Brown 1970 Natalie Williams 1970 Ricky Powers 1970 Robert Griffith 1970 Yayuk Basuki 1971 Bryan Proby 1971 Ray Durham 1972 Adeline Ong 1972 Spence Fischer 1975 Mindy McCready 1976 Shaneika Lightbourne 1978 Clay Aiken |
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306 St. Marcellus I begins his reign as the Catholic Pope 722 Pope Gregory II names Boniface as the Missionary Bishop 1215 Pope Innocent III closes the 4th Council of Lateranen 1406 Angelo Correr is elected Pope Gregory XII 1523 Amsterdam bans the assembly of heretics 1554 England reconciles with Pope Julius III 1630 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died in November of plague 1648 The English army captures King Charles I 1678 Roman Catholics are banned from the English parliament 1700 King Charles XII of Sweden defeats Russia at Narva 1700 Turkey declares war on Russia 1731 Beijing is hit by an Earthquake and roughly 100,000 people die 1735 The States of Holland forbid Free Masonry 1747 Dutch State of Zealand declares governorship is hereditary for women 1753 Benjamin Franklin receives Godfrey Copley-Penny 1782 Britain signs an agreement recognizing the United States' independence 1787 The Spanish governor leaves the Philippines 1803 Spain cedes her claims to the Louisiana Territory to France 1804 The impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins 1813 Prince Willem Frederik returns to the Netherlands 1838 Mexico declares war on France 1863 Confederate troops vacate Fort Esperanza, Texas 1864 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee: 7,700 causalities 1864 Battle of Honey Hill, South Carolina 1866 Work begins on the first U.S. underwater highway tunnel: Chicago 1872 The first International soccer game 1886 The first commercially successful AC electric power plant opens in Buffalo, NY 1887 The first indoor softball game is played: Chicago 1891 Pope Leo XIII's "Rerum novarum" published 1900 A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles 1922 The first speed test of the first Japanese aircraft carrier, the Hosho 1922 Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich 1923 The Dutch Catholic minority government of Wilhelm Marx forms 1924 The first photo facsimile is transmitted across the Atlantic Ocean by radio waves from London to NYC 1924 The last French/Belgian troops leave Ruhrgebied 1931 The Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London is destroyed by fire 1931 His Master's Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI 1938 A Fascist coup in Romania fails 1938 Germany bans Jews from being lawyers 1939 21 U boats are sunk this month 1939 The U.S.S.R. invaded Finland and bombed Helsinki 1940 32 U boats are sunk this month 1940 Lucille Ball weds Desi Arnaz 1941 13 U boats are sunk this month 1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada and Nagano 1942 109 U boats are sunk this month 1942 The German scout ship Altmark explodes and sinks off Yokohama 1944 The biggest and last British Battleship, the HMS Vanguard, runs aground 1947 Arab terrorist campaign begins in Palestine 1947 The day after the United Nations decree for Israel, Jewish settlements are attacked 1948 Baseball's Negro National League disbands 1948 Player-manager Lou Boudreau is selected the AL MVP 1948 The Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin 1949 The Chinese Communists captured Chungking 1950 US President Truman threatens China with the Atom Bomb 1952 Jackie Robinson charges New York Yankees with racism 1953 French parachutists, under Col De Castries, attacks Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam 1954 The first meteorite known to strike a woman hits Liz Hodges of Sylacauga, AL) 1956 The first use of videotape on TV: Douglas Edwards and the News 1956 Floyd Patterson KOs Archie Moore in 5 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title 1959 Joe Foss is named the first commissioner of the AFL 1960 The French Senate condemns the building of their own nuclear weapons 1961 The U.S.S.R. vetoes Kuwaits application for United Nations membership 1962 U Thant, of Burma, is elected the 3rd Secretary-General of United Nations: unanimously 1966 Barbados gains its independence from Britain 1967 The Democratic People's republic of Yemen gains its independence 1967 Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower announce their engagement 1967 Kuria Muria Islands ceded by Britain to Oman 1967 Senator Eugene McCarthy begins his race for the U.S. presidency 1969 The U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. 1972 The BBC bans Wings "Hi, Hi, Hi" 1972 An illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 people in Rome, Italy 1974 The Miss Teenage America Pageant 1974 The most complete early man skeleton is found in Ethiopia 1978 France performs a nuclear test 1979 The U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. 1980 Uruguay's new constitution is rejected by referendum 1981 South Africa anti apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka is arrested 1982 U.S. submarine Thomas Edison collides with U.S. Navy destroyer in the South China Sea 1982 The U.S.S.R. performs a nuclear test 1983 Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam 1983 Radio Shack announces its Tandy Model 2000 computer: the 80186 chip 1983 Raul Alfonsin wins the Argentine presidential election 1986 Ivan Lendl is first tennis player to earn over $10 million in a lifetime 1987 The Afghanistan Constitution adopted 1988 France performs a nuclear test at Fangataufa Island 1988 A New York City furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase 1988 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty for the first time in 38 years 1988 The U.N. General Assembly, with a vote of 151-2, censures the U.S. for refusing PLO Arafat's visa 1990 Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke 1990 Bush proposes a U.S. - Iraq meeting to avoid a war 1993 President Clinton signs the controversial Brady Gun Control Bill 1994 The Beatles' first album in 25 years, Live at BBC, is released in Britain 1994 Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as the first communist premier of Nepal |
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