SomeFacts | November 30

On this day - November 30

883 — Abu al Abbas celebrates a victory parade in Bagdhad following ...

978 — Franco-German war of 978–980: Holy Roman Emperor Otto II lifts ...

1707 — Queen Anne's War: The second Siege of Pensacola comes to ...

1718 — Great Northern War: King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a ...

1782 — American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, ...

1786 — The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes ...

1803 — In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer ...

1803 — The Balmis Expedition starts in Spain with the aim of ...

1853 — Crimean War: Battle of Sinop: The Imperial Russian Navy under ...

1864 — American Civil War: The Confederate Army of Tennessee led by ...

1872 — The first-ever international football match takes place at ...

1916 — Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright ...

1936 — In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.

1939 — World War II: The Soviet Red Army crosses the Finnish border ...

1940 — World War II: Signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1940 ...

1941 — The Holocaust: The SS-Einsatzgruppen round up roughly 25,000 ...

1942 — World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of ...

1947 — Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the ...

1953 — Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and ...

1954 — In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite ...

1962 — Eastern Air Lines Flight 512 crashes at Idlewild Airport, ...

1966 — Decolonization: Barbados becomes independent from the United ...

1967 — Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang ...

1967 — The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, ...

1967 — The People's Republic of Southern Yemen gains its ...

1971 — Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of ...

1972 — Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the ...

1981 — Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States ...

1995 — U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks ...

1995 — Official end of Operation Desert Storm.

1999 — British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form ...

1999 — In Seattle, United States, demonstrations against a World ...

1999 — Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, ...

2000 — NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission.

2004 — A McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Lion Air Flight 538, ...

2005 — John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church ...

2007 — Atlasjet Flight 4203 crashes in Keçiborlu while on approach to ...

2018 — A magnitude 7.1 earthquake with its epicenter only 24 km from ...

2021 — A 15-year-old gunman murders four students and injures seven ...

2021 — Barbados becomes a republic.

2022 — The AI chatbot ChatGPT is launched by OpenAI.