Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 30
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Meteorite
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The Crystal Palace
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Peter Leopold Joseph
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King Charles XII of Sweden
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Pavel Nakhimov
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Model of a Turing machine
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Live performance of The Wall in 2011
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WTO protestors in Seattle
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Flying Scotsman
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A print of the first international football match, in 1872
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| ; Independence Day in Barbados (1966) | unreferenced section |
| Bonifacio Day in the Philippines | Andrés Bonifacio article has two uncited sections; also, that article is not primarily about the day so it's ineligible anyway |
| 3340 BC – The oldest known record of a solar eclipse was carved into a stone in Ireland. | refimprove section; fact not attributed to academic source |
| 1786 – Peter Leopold Joseph, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgated a penal reform that made his country the first sovereign state to abolish the death penalty. | refimprove section |
| 1829 – The first Welland Canal opened, allowing ships to travel between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and bypass the Niagara Falls. | refimprove section |
| 1864 – American Civil War: The Confederate States Army suffered its worst disaster of the war as the Army of Tennessee conducted numerous unsuccessful frontal assaults against fortified positions at Franklin, Tennessee. | refimprove section |
| 1936 – The Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, was destroyed by fire. | refimprove section |
| 1961 – Following the death of Dag Hammarskjöld, Burmese diplomat U Thant (pictured) was elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations. | Multiple dates given in the article |
| 1993 – U.S. president Bill Clinton signed the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act into law, requiring purchasers of handguns to pass a background check. | lots of CN tags (7) |
| [[Kamehameha IV|Template:Nowrap]] |d|1863 | page numbers needed |
| Ben Stiller|b|1965| | large language model |
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Day of Remembrance for All Victims of Chemical Warfare (usually on 30 November, but also on "first day of the regular session of the Conference" [of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention], in 2022 this was 28 November.
- 1700 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII defeated the Russian army at the Battle of Narva.
- 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.
- 1872 – The first international football match (pictured) took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
- 1934 – Flying Scotsman (pictured) became the first steam locomotive officially to exceed 100 miles per hour (161 km/h).
- 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.
- 1942 – World War II: Japanese warships defeated the U.S. Navy in a nighttime naval battle off Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal.
- 1947 – After the United Nations voted to adopt a partition plan for Palestine, a civil war broke out between the region's Jewish and Arab communities.
- 1953 – [[Mutesa II of Buganda|Template:Nowrap]], Kabaka of Buganda, was temporarily deposed and exiled to London by Andrew Cohen, the British governor of Uganda.
- 1954 – A meteorite crashed through a roof in Sylacauga, Alabama, and hit a sleeping woman in the first verified case of a human being injured by an extraterrestrial object.
- 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.
- Born/died this day: | Emeric, King of Hungary |d|1204| Richard Farrant |d|1580| William Gilbert |d|1603| Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha |b|1719| Alexander Berry |b|1781| Frederick Temple |b|1821| William Henry Flower |b|1831| Jagadish Chandra Bose |b|1858| Liang Cheng |b|1864| Mahmud Hasan Deobandi |d|1920| Shirley Chisholm |b|1924| Elmira Nazirova |b|1928| Joan Ganz Cooney |b|1929| Shawna Robinson |b|1964| Eir Aoi |b|1988| Ahmadou Ahidjo |d|1989| Hildegard Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum |d|2004|
Notes
- United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19 and United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine both appear on November 29, so Civil War in Mandatory Palestine should not appear in the same year
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- 1803 – An expedition led by Francisco Javier de Balmis departed A Coruña, Spain, with the aim of vaccinating millions in South America and Asia against smallpox.
- 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.
- 1979 – The Wall, a rock opera and concept album by the English band Pink Floyd, was first released.
- 2005 – John Sentamu was enthroned as Archbishop of York, becoming the first black archbishop in the Church of England.
- 2018 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Anchorage, Alaska (pictured), causing 117 injuries.