30 November History


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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.