30 November History
- 1782 - The British sign a preliminary agreement in Paris, recognizing American independence.
- 1838 - Mexico declares war on France.
- 1861 - The British Parliament sends to Queen Victoria an ultimatum for the United States, demanding the release of two Confederate diplomats who were seized on the British ship Trent.
- 1864 - The Union wins the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee.
- 1900 - The French government denounces British actions in South Africa, declaring sympathy for the Boers.
- 1900 - Oscar Wilde dies in a Paris hotel room after saying of the room's wallpaper: "One of us had to go."
- 1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt publicly denounces segregation of Japanese schoolchildren in San Francisco.
- 1919 - Women cast votes for the first time in French legislative elections.
- 1935 - Non-belief in Nazism is proclaimed grounds for divorce in Germany.
- 1945 - Russian forces take Danzig in Poland and invade Austria.
- 1948 - The Soviet Union complete the division of Berlin, installing the government in the Soviet sector.
- 1950 - President Truman declares that the United States will use the A-bomb to get peace in Korea.
- 1956 - The United States offers emergency oil to Europe to counter the Arab ban.
- 1961 - The Soviet Union vetoes a UN seat for Kuwait, pleasing Iraq.
- 1974 - India and Pakistan decide to end a 10-year trade ban.
- 1974 - Pioneer II sends photos back to NASA as it nears Jupiter.
- 1979 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope in 1,000 years to attend an Orthodox mass.
30 November Birthdays
- 1667 - Jonathan Swift, English satirist who wrote Gulliver's Travels.
- 1835 - Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), American writer best remembered for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
- 1874 - Winston Churchill, British prime minister during and after World War II.
- 1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables.
- 1912 - Gordon Parks, photographer.
- 1915 - Brownie McGhee, singer and guitarist.
- 1924 - Shirley Chisholm, first African-American congresswoman, a representative for New York.
- 1929 - Joan Ganz Cooney, television executive, founder of the Children's Television Workshop and mastermind behind Sesame Street.