On this day: November 30

Events on November 30

• 883 Abu al Abbas celebrates a victory parade in Bagdhad following the suppression of the Zanj Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the Arab world. Wikipedia
• 978 Franco-German war of 978–980: Holy Roman Emperor Otto II lifts the siege of Paris and withdraws. Wikipedia
• 1718 Great Northern War: King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway. Wikipedia
• 1782 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). Wikipedia
• 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). Wikipedia
• 1803 The Balmis Expedition starts in Spain with the aim of vaccinating millions against smallpox in Spanish America and Philippines. Wikipedia
• 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. Wikipedia
• 1853 Russian warships led by Pavel Nakhimov destroyed an Ottoman fleet of frigates at the Battle of Sinop, prompting France and the United Kingdom to enter the Crimean War. Wikipedia
• 1872 The first international football match took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England. Wikipedia
• 1916 Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty. Wikipedia
• 1935 A college football game between the SMU Mustangs and the TCU Horned Frogs became the first game in Texas to be broadcast nationally on radio. Wikipedia
• 1936 English mathematician Alan Turing published the first details of the Turing machine (model pictured), an abstract device that can simulate the logic of any computer algorithm by manipulating symbols. Wikipedia
• 1939 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. Wikipedia
• 1941 The Holocaust: The SS-Einsatzgruppen round up roughly 25,000 Jews from the Riga Ghetto and kill them in the Rumbula massacre. Wikipedia
• 1942 World War II: Japanese warships defeated the U.S. Navy in a nighttime naval battle off Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal. Wikipedia
• 1947 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the State of Israel and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Wikipedia
• 1953 Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda. Wikipedia
• 1954 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. Wikipedia
• 1966 Decolonization: Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom. Wikipedia
• 1967 The People's Republic of Southern Yemen gains its independence from the United Kingdom Wikipedia
• 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 because troop levels are now down to 27,000. Wikipedia
• 1981 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.) Wikipedia
• 1995 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". Wikipedia
• 1999 A series of protests by anti-globalization activists against the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 in Seattle forced the cancellation of the opening ceremonies. Wikipedia
• 1999 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. Wikipedia
• 2021 Barbados becomes a republic. Wikipedia

Born on November 30

• 1508 Andrea Palladio, Italian architect and theoretician, designed the Church of San Giorgio Maggiore and Teatro Olimpico (died 1580) Wikipedia
• 1667 Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist and essayist (died 1745) Wikipedia
• 1817 Theodor Mommsen, German jurist, historian, and scholar, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1903) Wikipedia
• 1825 William-Adolphe Bouguereau, French painter and educator (died 1905) Wikipedia
• 1835 Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (died 1910) Wikipedia
• 1858 Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (died 1937) Wikipedia
• 1869 Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1937) Wikipedia
• 1874 Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965) Wikipedia
• 1874 Lucy Maud Montgomery, English-Canadian author and poet (died 1942) Wikipedia
• 1889 Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian, English physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1977) Wikipedia
• 1915 Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005) Wikipedia
• 1924 Shirley Chisholm, American activist, educator and politician (died 2005) Wikipedia
• 1929 Joan Ganz Cooney, American screenwriter and producer, co-created Sesame Street Wikipedia
• 1932 Cho Nam-chul, South Korean Go player (died 2006) Wikipedia
• 1935 Woody Allen, American actor, director, and screenwriter Wikipedia
• 1937 Ridley Scott, English director, producer, and production designer Wikipedia
• 1960 Gary Lineker, English footballer and sportscaster Wikipedia
• 1965 Fumihito, Prince Akishino, Japanese royal (younger brother of Emperor Naruhito and first in line to the Chrysanthemum Throne) Wikipedia
• 1965 Ben Stiller, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter Wikipedia
• 1982 Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress Wikipedia
• 1985 Kaley Cuoco, American actress Wikipedia
• 1990 Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player Wikipedia

Died on November 30

• 1283 John of Vercelli, Master General of the Dominican Order (born c. 1205) Wikipedia
• 1603 William Gilbert, English scientist (born 1544) Wikipedia
• 1694 Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician and biologist (born 1628) Wikipedia
• 1718 Charles XII of Sweden (born 1682) Wikipedia
• 1900 Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, novelist, and poet (born 1854) Wikipedia
• 1907 Ludwig Levy, German architect (born 1854) Wikipedia
• 1930 Mary Harris Jones, American Labor organizer (born 1837) Wikipedia
• 1935 Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet, philosopher, and critic (born 1888) Wikipedia
• 2012 I. K. Gujral, Indian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of India (born 1919) Wikipedia
• 2013 Paul Walker, American actor (born 1973) Wikipedia
• 2014 Go Seigen, Chinese-Japanese Go player (born 1914) Wikipedia
• 2014 Anthony Dryden Marshall, American CIA officer and diplomat (born 1924) Wikipedia
• 2018 George H. W. Bush, American politician, 41st President of the United States and 43rd Vice President of the United States (born 1924) Wikipedia
• 2022 Jiang Zemin, Chinese politician, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount leader) and President of China (born 1926) Wikipedia

Holidays and observances

• Bonifacio Day (Philippines) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Andrew and its related observances. Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Joseph Marchand (one of Vietnamese Martyrs) Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Cuthbert Mayne Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: Thaddeus Liu Wikipedia
• Christian feast day: November 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Wikipedia
• Commemoration Day (United Arab Emirates) Wikipedia
• Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran (Israel) Wikipedia
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Barbados from the United Kingdom in 1966 Wikipedia
• National Day (Benin) Wikipedia
• Regina Mundi Day (South Africa) Wikipedia
• Saint Andrew's Day (Scotland) Wikipedia
• Day of Remembrance for All Victims of Chemical Warfare (United Nations) Wikipedia

The events, births, deaths and observances above are from the English Wikipedia article “November 30” and the articles it links to (authors and history), retrieved 2026-10-09 through the Wikimedia “On this day” feed. They are licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; this selection is shared under the same licence. We picked the 26 events, 22 births and 14 deaths with the widest coverage across Wikipedia's language editions (counted from Wikidata) and sorted them by year; the wording is unchanged apart from removing references to pictures.