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November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 31 days remaining.
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- 1782 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized in the Treaty of Paris (1783)).
- 1803 - At the Cabildo building in New Orleans, Spanish representatives Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo , officially transfer Louisiana Territory to French representative Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat (just 20 days later, France transferred the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase).
- 1804 - The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States SenateThe United States Senate is the upper house of the United States Congress, smaller than the U. House of Representatives. Together, they compose the legislative branch of the United States government. Seal of the Senate Each state elects two senators throu begin an impeachmentImpeachment is the process by which a legislative body formally levels charges against a high official of government. Impeachment does not necessarily mean removal from office; it comprises only a formal statement of charges, akin to an indictment in crim trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United StatesThe Supreme Court of the United States located in Washington, D. is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States to interpret and decide questions of federal law. It is he Justice Samuel ChaseSamuel Chase ( April 14, 1741 June 19, 1811), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland. He was well-known as a Federalist-partisan. He was born in Maryland and educated in Baltimore. He studied law and (he was charged with political bias but was acquitted by the Senate of all charges on March 1March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). There are 305 days remaining. Events BC 29 BC Horace writes the ode Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen''. AD First thousand years 286 Maximian proclaimed junior Roman emperor., 1805Events January 11 Michigan Territory is created. February 15 Harmony Society officially formed March 1 Justice Samuel Chase acquitted of impeachment charges by the U. Senate April 27 United States Marines and Berbers attack the Tripolitan city of Derna (T).
- 1853Events January 19 Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres in Rome January 21 Russell L. Hawes patents the envelope folding machine January 29 Napoleon III marries the Spanish Countess Eugenie at the Tuileries March 4 Inauguration of US president Fra - Crimean War: Battle of Sinope - The Russian fleet destroys the Turkish fleet.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Franklin - The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops).
- 1872 - First ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Scotland.
- 1886 - Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
- 1902 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan , is sentenced to 20 years hard labor.
- 1916 - The Hellenic Holocaust enters its last phase, when Turkish Minister of the Interior Rafet Bey is reported of saying "we must finish off the Greeks as we did with the Armenians … on 28 November."
- 1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire (it had been built for the 1851 Great Exhibition).
- 1939 - Winter War begins: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.
- 1940 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are married in Greenwich, Connecticut.
- 1943 - World War II: Teheran Conference - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord.
- 1954 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, an 8.5 pound sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise (this is the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock).
- 1960 - Production of the De Soto automobile brand ceases.
- 1962 - The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as the new UN Secretary-General.
- 1966 - Barbados becomes independent.
- 1967 - The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 1979 - Rock band Pink Floyd release the mega-selling rock opera The Wall.
- 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 ended inconclusively on December 17).
- 1982 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street.
- 1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for US$25.07 billion.
- 1989 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb .
- 1989 - Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida takes a ride with Aileen Wuornos before becoming the female serial killer's first victim.
- 1993 - US President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
- 1998 - Deutsche Bank announces a US$10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust , thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.
- 1999 - In Seattle, Washington, the first major mobilization of the anti-globalization movement catches police unprepared and forces the cancellation of opening ceremonies of a World Trade Organization meeting (protests ended on December 3).
- 1999 - British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merged to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defence contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
