Thursday, November 29, 2012

November 30 in history


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NOV 29      INDEX      DEC 01
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Events


3340 BC – Earliest believed record of an eclipse.

306 St Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope

722 Pope Gregory II names Boniface as missionary bishop

1016 Cnut the Great [Canute], King of Denmark, claims the English throne after the death of Edmund 'Ironside'

1215 Pope Innocent III closes 4th council of Lateranen

1406 Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII

1487 The first German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot), is promulgated in Munich by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria stating beer should be brewed from only three ingredients – water, malt and hops

1523 Amsterdam bans assembly of heretics

1554 England reconciles with Pope Julius III

1630 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague

1648 English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I

1700 Battle at Narva: Swedish force of King Charles XII defeats Russian army [NS]

1700 Utrecht, Overijssel, Buren, Leerdam and IJsselstein go on Gregoria calendar

1707 – The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.

1718 – King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway.

1731 Beijing hit by an earthquake; about 100,000 die

1735 States of Holland forbid Free Masonry

1747 Dutch State of Zealand declare governorship hereditary for women

1753 Benjamin Franklin receives the Godfrey Copley medal "on account of his curious Experiments and Observations on Electricity"

1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).

1786 – Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II promulgates a penal reform, making his the first modern state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is later commemorated as Cities for Life Day.

1787 Spanish governor leaves the Philippines

1803 – In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.

1804 – The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial of Federalist Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. The Senate voted to acquit Chase of all charges on March 1, 1805.

1813 Prince Willem Frederik returns to Netherlands

1824 – Ground is broken at Allanburg, Ontario, for the building of the first Welland Canal.

1829 – First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, five years to the day from the ground breaking.

1838 Mexico declares war on France

1853 – Crimean War: Battle of Sinop: The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.

1861 Harper's Weekly publishes EE Beers' "All quiet along the Potomac"

1863 Confederate troops vacate Fort Esperanza, Texas

1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Franklin: The once proud Confederate Army of Tennessee suffers a devastating defeat after its commander, General John Bell Hood, orders a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions commanded by John McAllister Schofield around Franklin, Tennessee. The loss cost Hood six of his finest generals and nearly a third of his force (7,700 casualties).

1864 Battle of Honey Hill, South Carolina (Broad River) 96 dead, 665 wounded

1866 – Construction begins on the first underwater highway tunnel in Chicago.

1868 – A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in Stockholm's Kungsträdgården.

1872 – The first-ever international football (soccer) match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.

1876 Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann finds the gold Mask of Agamemnon at Mycenae (modern Greece) "the Mona Lisa of prehistory"

1885 Opera "El Cid" premieres (Paris)

1886 First commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo, NY

1886 – The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

1891 Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum novarum" published

1900 A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles

1900 The First Isthmian Canal Commission, appointed by the President having examined possible routes for a canal, issues its report favoring that through Nicaragua over the Panama route

1902 – American Old West: Kid Curry Logan, second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.

1907 – The Pike Place Market is dedicated in Seattle.

1908 – A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154.

1909 British House of Lords rejects David Lloyd George's 'People's Budget', which tried to shift tax burden to the wealthy. Leads to the Parliament Act; intent to stop unelected house overruling will of the elected house.

1915 St John Ervine's "John Ferguson" premieres in Dublin

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

1917 – Foreign Minister Richard Von Kuhlmann stood before the German Reichstag government to deliver a speech applauding the recent rise to power in Russia of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and his radical socialist Bolshevik Party.

1922 First speed test of first genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho

1922 Adolf Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich, Germany

1923 Dutch Catholic minority government of Wilhelm Marx forms

1924 First photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)

1924 French and Belgium troops withdrawn from their occupation of the Rurh

1928 Vladimir K. Zworykin receives patent on Iconoscope TV system

1931 His Master's Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI

1933 CCC Camps are established in Cleveland Park District

1934 – The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100 mph.

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

1938 Fascist coup in Romania fails

1938 Germany bans Jews being lawyers

1939 – Winter War: The Red Army crossed the Soviet-Finnish border with 465,000 men and 1,000 aircraft.  Helsinki was bombed, and 61 Finns were killed in an air raid that steeled the Finns for resistance, not capitulation. Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim appointed Commander-in-Chief of all Finnish armed services.

1940 – Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.

1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada and Nagano

1941 The 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes its last run

1942 – World War II: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal; A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.

1942 German supply vessel Uckermark (formerly called the Altmark) explodes & sinks off Yokohama

1942 U-boats sink and damage 142 allied ships this month (877,774 tons)

1944 Biggest & last British battleship HMS Vanguard launched

1947 – Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked. 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.

1948 Baseball's Negro National League disbands

1948 Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin

1949 – Chinese communist troops captured Chongqing.

1949 New Zealand general election won by Sidney Holland's National party, ousting Peter Fraser's Labour government

1950 – President Harry S. Truman announced during a press conference that he was prepared to authorize the use of atomic weapons in order to achieve peace in Korea. At the time of Truman's announcement, communist China had joined North Korean forces in their attacks on United Nations troops, including U.S. soldiers, who were trying to prevent communist expansion into South Korea.

1953 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.

1953 French parachutist under Colonel De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu

1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, Ann Hodges is bruised by a meteor that crashes through a roof and hits her while taking an afternoon nap. This is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.

1954 John Strydom succeeds D. F. Malan as premier of South Africa

1955 "Pipe Dream" opens at Shubert Theater, NYC; runs for 245 performances

1955 Argentine government disbands Peronistic party

1955 Thriller novel "The Talented Mr Ripley" by Patricia Highsmith is published in the US

1956 1st use of videotape on TV (Douglas Edwards & the News)

1956 – Floyd Patterson becomes the youngest world heavyweight boxing champion at the age of 21 years, 10 months, 3 weeks, 5 days. Floyd defeated Archie Moore with a KO in round five.

1957 "Happy Hunting" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 413 performances

1957 Assassination attempt on Indonesian President Sukarno, kills 8

1958 1st US guided missile destroyer launched - the Dewey at Bath Iron Works, Maine

1960 French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons

1960 Tad Mosels "All the Way Home" premieres in NYC

1961 U Thant of Burma becomes the 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations

1961 USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership

1963 Martin Walser's "Überlebensgross Herr Krott" premieres in Stuttgart

1964 USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned

1965 – Vietnam War: Following a visit to South Vietnam, Defense Secretary McNamara reported in a memorandum to President Lyndon B. Johnson that the South Vietnamese government of Nguyen Cao Ky "is surviving, but not acquiring wide support or generating actions."  He said that Viet Cong recruiting successes coupled with a continuing heavy infiltration of North Vietnamese forces indicated that "the enemy can be expected to enlarge his present strength of 110 battalion equivalents to more than 150 battalion equivalents by the end of 1966."  McNamara said that U.S. policymakers faced two options: to seek a compromise settlement and keep further military commitments to a minimum, or to continue to press for a military solution, which would require substantial bombing of North Vietnam.  In conclusion, McNamara warned that there was no guarantee of U.S. military success and that there was a real possibility of a strategic stalemate, saying that "U.S. killed in action can be expected to reach 1,000 a month."  In essence, McNamara cautioned Johnson that sending additional troops was not likely to prevent the stalemate.  In the end, however, Johnson chose to seek a military solution. By 1969, there were more than 500,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam.

1966 – Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom (National Day).

1967 Kuria Muria Islands ceded by Britain to Oman

1967 – The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

1967 – The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.

1967 – Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing.

1967 Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower announce their engagement0

1967 Senator Eugene McCarthy announces he will run for the US presidency on an anti-Vietnam war platform

1968 A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Armagh is stopped by Royal Ulster Constabulary because of the presence of a Loyalist counter demonstration led by Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting.

1969 American singer-songwriter Neil Diamond makes his only appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show", singing "Sweet Caroline" and "Holly, Holy".

1969 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1971 Emmy and Peabody Award-winning TV movie "Brian's Song", about the friendship of Chicago Bears football teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers (based on Sayers' autobiography) premieres on ABC, starring James Caan and Billie Dee Williams

1971 The government of the Republic of Ireland states that it will take the allegations of brutality against the security forces in Northern Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights

1971 – Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.

1972 BBC bans Wings' "Hi, Hi, Hi"

1972 Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 in Rome, Italy

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.

1974 "Good Evening" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 438 performances

1974 "Mack & Mabel" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 66 performances

1975 Dahomey renamed People's Republic of Benin

1978 France performs nuclear test

1979 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks

1979 Ted Koppel becomes anchor of late nightly news on Iran "America Held Hostage" (ABC)

1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1980 "Banjo Dancing" closes at Century Theater NYC after 38 performances

1980 "Perfectly Frank" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 16 performances

1980 "West Side Story" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 341 performances

1980 Uruguay's new constitution rejected by referendum

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 end inconclusively on December 17.)

1981 Porn star John Holmes arrested on fugitive charges

1981 South Africa anti-apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested

1982 – Michael Jackson's 6th studio album (second solo album), "Thriller", is released worldwide. It will be Grammy Award Album of the Year 1984, best-selling album of all time, Billboard Album of the Year 1983.

1982 "Gandhi" directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Ben Kingsley and John Gielgud premieres in New Delhi (Best Picture 1983)

1982 Ottumwa, Iowa, declared "Video Game Capital of the World" by mayor Jerry Parker

1982 STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad

1982 US submarine Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in South China Sea

1982 USSR performs nuclear test

1983 Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam

1983 Radio Shack announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)

1983 Raúl Alfonsín wins Argentine presidential election

1983 Sam Shepards "Fool for love" premieres in NYC

1986 "Flamenco Puro" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 40 performances

1987 Afghanistan Constitution adopted

1988 Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed

1988 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island

1988 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion USD.

1988 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs

1988 UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO's Arafat visa

1989 – Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.

1990 US President George H. W. Bush offers to send Secretary of State James Baker to Baghdad to meet with Saddam Hussein

1992 The Hoofddorp train accident in the Dutch municipality Haarlemmermeer: Whilst en route to Vlissingen, InterCity 2127 from Amsterdam CS to Vlissingen derailed at about 7:12 AM near Hoofddorp. Five people were killed and 33 were injured in the accident.

1993 – "Schindler's List", American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes, premieres in Washington, D.C. (Academy Awards Best Picture 1994).

1993 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.

1994 – MS Achille Lauro cruise ship, carrying 1,000 passengers, catches fire off the coast of Somalia. Two people die and the Achille Lauro sinks to the bottom of the ocean.  The survivors in the lifeboats were picked up by the USS Gettysburg. The large luxury liner had a checkered history that included deaths and terrorism prior to its sinking. The Achille Lauro's two sister ships, the Lakonia and the Angelina Lauro, also fell victim to on-board fires.

1994 Beatles' 1st album in 25 years, "Live at the BBC", is released in Britain

1994 Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal

1995 – Official end of Operation Desert Storm.

1995 – U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favour of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall. He calls terrorists "yesterday's men".

1997 "Eugene Onegin" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC

1998 – Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.

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, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.

1999 – British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.

2001 – In Renton, Washington, United States, Gary Ridgway (aka The Green River Killer) is arrested.

2002 Ina Garten's cooking show "Barefoot Contessa" premieres on the Food Network

2004 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns

2004 – Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, finally loses, leaving him with US$2,520,700, television's biggest game show winnings.

2004 – Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.

2004 RCA releases "Breakaway", Kelly Clarkson's 2nd studio album; wins 2 Grammy Awards and becomes her best selling album to date with over 12 million units sold

2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.

2006 American folk artist "Grandma" Moses' 1943 painting "Sugaring Off" sells for a record $1.3 million for the artist, by Christie's in New York

2006 South Africa's Civil Union Act of 2006 legalizes same-sex marriage, becomes fifth country in the world and first in Africa to do so

2007 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg enters campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with suspected bomb and holds three people hostage for 5 hours

2009 Canada begins its recovery from the recession; economic growth is at 0.4% after 14 months of economic stagnation

2009 José Mujica announced as the winner of the run-off election in Uruguay the day before and president-elect

2012 – An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane belonging to Aéro-Service, crashes into houses near Maya-Maya Airport in the Congo during a thunderstorm, killing at least 32 people.

2014 Australia experiences its hottest spring and second-hottest November recorded

2014 Tabaré Vázquez is re-elected President of Uruguay

2015 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or COP21 begins in Paris

2015 Pope Francis urges peace while visiting controversial mosque in Bangui's PK5 district in Central African Republic

2016 UNESCO adds Belgian beer to its Cultural Heritage List

2017 Def Jam founder Russell Simmons steps down from his companies after allegations of sexual misconduct

2017 Disney announces it has cast Chinese actress Liu Yifei to play Mulan in up-coming live action film

2017 World's longest recorded rainbow - 8 hrs 58 min in Taipei's Yangmingshan mountain range

2018 7.0 magnitude earthquake near Anchorage, Alaska

2018 Marriot Hotels reveal massive data breach - 500 million guests affected in one of largest-ever company hacks

2019 Gun battle between suspected cartel and security forces at Villa Unión city hall, northern Mexico, kills 21

2020 Alphafold's DeepMind AI program announces it has achieved scientific breakthrough by being able to predict how proteins fold into 3D shapes.

2020 Australia condemns doctored photo of Australian soldier threatening Afghan child with knife on Chinese official's Twitter, marking new low in the two countries relationship.

2020 Joe Biden announces he is nominating Janet Yellen for US treasury secretary.

2020 Los Angeles County begins three-week stay at home order for 10 million people to combat COVID-19 surge.

2020 Newly discovered rock art announced found in the Serranía La Lindosa, Colombian Amazon, dated 12,600 and 11,800 years ago with thousands of paintings of now extinct Ice Age animals.

2021 15 year old student shoots four death and injures seven at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan.

2021 Barbados becomes a Republic, removing Queen Elizabeth II as head of state in a ceremony with Sandra Mason sworn in as the first President, with Rihanna declared a national hero.

2021 Drug Lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's wife Emma Coronel Aispuro sentenced to three years in the US for helping run her husband's drug cartel and aid his escape from prison.

2021 Josephine Baker becomes the first black woman to be honored at Paris’ Panthéon, France's highest honor.

2022 Chinese authorities ease some COVID-19 restrictions in cities including Guangzhou after days of protests.

2022 Harry Styles single "As It Was" is the most streamed song globally for Spotify in 2022 with Bad Bunny their most listened-to artist.

2022 UK Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Katherine arrive in Boston for a US royal visit the same day a former lady-in-waiting resigns in a racism row.

2022 UNESCO announces new additions to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, including the French Baguette, oral traditions of calling camels in the Middle East, and tea practices in China.

2022 US House Democrats elect Hakeem Jeffries as the first Black House Minority leader, replacing Nancy Pelosi.



Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

Andrew, Apostle.      Double of the Second Class.


Contemporary Western

Andrew
Joseph Marchand (one of Vietnamese Martyrs)


Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran



Eastern Orthodox

November 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Holy and All-Praised Apostle Andrew the First-Called (62)
Saint Frumentius, Archbishop of Abyssinia (380)
Saint Alexander of Methymna, Wonderworker, first Bishop of Methymna
      on Lesbos and a member of the First Ecumenical Council (c. 325)
Saints Peter I (5th century) and Samuel I (5th-6th centuries), Catholicoi of Georgia
Saint Vakhtang Gorgasali, King of Georgia (502)

Saints Castulus and Euprepis, martyrs in Rome
Saint Constantius, a priest in Rome who opposed the Pelagians
      and at whose hands he suffered a great deal (5th century)
Saint Trojanus of Saintes (Troyen), a priest in Saintes in France
      where he later became bishop after St Vivien (533

Saint Tudwal (Tugdual), Bishop in Wales and Brittany (c. 564)
Saint Andrew (Saguna), Metropolitan of Transylvania (1873)
Saint Elias, Schemamonk of Valaam and Verkhoturye (1900)

New Hieromartyr John Chestnov, Priest (1937)


Coptic Orthodox









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