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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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526 A possible date for the Antioch earthquake in present-day Syria (then the Byzantine Empire) which killed 200,000 people

561 – King Chlothar I dies at Compiègne. The Merovingian dynasty is continued by his four sons — Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I — who divide the Frankish Kingdom.

799 Pope Leo III, aided by Charles the Great, returns to Rome

800 – Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.

903 – The Abbasid army under Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib deals a crushing defeat on the Qarmatians at the Battle of Hama.

1349 Jews of Augsburg, Germany massacred

1394 – The Korean king Yi Seong-gye, founder of the Joseon dynasty, moves the capital from Kaesŏng to Hanyang, today known as Seoul.

1516 Treaty of Freiburg: French/Swiss "eternal" peace treaty

1549 – The papal conclave of 1549–50 begins.

1561 Lofland subjects himself on Sigismund August II of Poland

1573 Don Luis de Requesensy Zuniga succeeds duke of Alva as land guardian of Netherlands

1581 Doornik (Tournai) surrenders to Duke of Parma

1596 King Philip II devalues Spanish currency

1612 – The Battle of Swally takes place, which loosens the Portuguese Empire's hold on India.

1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into Manchester and occupies Carlisle

1760 French commandant Beletre surrenders Detroit to Major R. Rogers

1775 Sir James Jay invents invisible ink

1775:  The Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, established a Committee of Secret Correspondence. The committee's goal was to provide European nations with a Patriot interpretation of events in Britain's North American colonies, in the hope of soliciting aid for the American war effort.

1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.

1777 – San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe by José Joaquín Moraga. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.

1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.

1783 – A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.

1791 Chatham Islands sighted by HMS Chatham commanded by William Broughton

1803 Dessalines & Christophe declare St Domingue (Haiti) independent

1807 – Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil: John VI of Portugal flees Lisbon from advancing Napoleonic forces during the Peninsular War, transferring the Portuguese court to Brazil.

1812 Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia

1813 Dutch politician Elias Canneman (Lib) becomes Minister of Finance

1825 Gioachino Rossini's comic opera "Il barbiere di Siviglia" (The Barber of Seville) become 1st opera performed in Italian in US, staged at New York City's Park Theater

1830 – November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.

1845 – The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.

1847 – Whitman massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.

1850 – The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austria, which will take over the leadership of the German Confederation.

1863 Battle of Fort Sanders, Tennessee: Confederate troops fail to break through Union defenses with 8-900 causalities

1864 – Sand Creek massacre: A band of Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 peaceful Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado Territory.

1864 – Battle of Spring Hill, Tennessee (Thomason's Station): A Confederate advance into Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Union Army. General John Bell Hood is angered, which leads to the Battle of Franklin.

1870 Compulsory education proclaimed in England.

1872 – The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.

1877 – US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time.

1885 – End of Third Anglo-Burmese War, and end of Burmese monarchy

1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii

1890 – The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.

1890 – The first football game between Army and Navy is played at West Point with Navy prevailing 24-0.

1893 – The Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing dynasty China, after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.

1897 1st motorcycle race in Surrey, England

1900 General Horatio Kitchener assumes command of the British forces in South Africa from General Lord Roberts

1901 East 182nd Street in the Bronx is paved & opened

1902 – The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0, at the Pittsburgh Coliseum, to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.

1902 Gerhart Hauptmann's play "Der arme Heinrich" premieres in Vienna

1910 The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine

1915 Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island, California

1916 US declares martial law in Dominican Republic

1917 A Supreme Allied War Council meets at Versailles to define war aims

1918 Serbia annexes Montenegro

1921 Coldest day in November in Netherlands -14.0°C

1921 Z Parenteau & Schuyler Green's musical "Kiki" premieres in NYC

1923 The Dawes Commission, chaired by the American Banker Charles G. Dawes, is set up to look into the German economic situation and make recommendations that the US can accept

1924 NHL's Montreal Forum opens

1926 W Somerset Maughams "Constant Wife" premieres in NYC

1929 – American explorer Admiral Richard E. Byrd, with three companions, makes the first flight over the South Pole, flying from a base on the Ross Ice Shelf to the pole and back in 18 hours and 41 minutes. Richard E. Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole" (He was wrong)

1932 Cole Porter's musical "Gay Divorcee" opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC, later transferred to the Schubert Theater; runs for 248 performances

1932 France & USSR sign non-aggression pact

1933 1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)

1933 Japan begins persecution of communists

1935 Michael Joseph Savage becomes the first Labour party Prime Minister of New Zealand

1937 Dutch Prince Bernhard injured in auto accident in Netherlands

1938 Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Netherlands and Germany

1939 USSR drops diplomatic relations with Finland

1941 Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet

1942 – Coffee joined the list of items rationed in the United States. Despite record coffee production in Latin American countries, the growing demand for the bean from both military and civilian sources, and the demands placed on shipping, which was needed for other purposes, required the limiting of its availability. US Office of Price Administration rations coffee for everyone, 10 pound a year.

1943 – World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina. Partisan Tito forms temporary government in Jajce, Bosnia

1943 U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean

1943 US aircraft carrier Hornet launched

1944 – The first open heart surgery on a human to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas at John Hopkins hospital. 

1944 – World War II: Albania is liberated by partisan forces.

1945 "The Lost Weekend", based on Charles R. Jackson's novel, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Best Picture 1946)

1945 – The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia (Yugoslavian Socialist Republic) is declared.

1946 Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities

1946 – The All Indonesia Centre of Labour Organizations (SOBSI) is founded in Jakarta.

1947 – Partition Plan: Despite strong Arab opposition, the United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine and the creation of an independent Jewish state. Anti-Jewish riots erupt in Aleppo, with cost of 75 lives and the disappearance of medieval manuscript the Aleppo Codex,

1947 – First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.

1948 First opera to be televised, "Othello", broadcast from the Met (NYC)

1948 Puppet TV show"Kukla, Fran, & Ollie" starring Fran Allison debuts on NBC

1949 Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa

1949 Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700

1950 National Council of Church of Christ in US forms.

1950 – Korean War: Three weeks after U.S. General Douglas MacArthur first reported Chinese communist troops in action in North Korea, North Korean and Chinese troops force U.S.-led United Nations forces to begin a desperate retreat out of North Korea under heavy fire from the Chinese.

1951 First underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat in Nevada

1952 – Korean War: Making good on his most dramatic presidential campaign promise, U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower travels to Korea to find out whether he can find the key to ending the bitter and frustrating conflict.

1953 American Airlines begins 1st regular commercial NY-LA air service

1955 Turkish government of Menderes resigns

1956 Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green's musical "Bells Are Ringing", starring Judy Holiday, opens at Shubert Theater, NYC; runs for 924 performances, wins 2 Tony Awards

1961 Following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion CIA Director Allen Dulles resigns and is replaced by John McCone as 6th director of CIA.

1961 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss

1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.

1962 Great Britain & France decide to jointly build the Concorde supersonic airliner

1963 "I Want to Hold Your Hand" single released by the Beatles in the United Kingdom

1963 –  Warren Commission: One week after President John F. Kennedy is fatally shot while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes a special commission, headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, to investigate the assassination.

1963 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831, a  Douglas DC-8, crashes shortly after takeoff from Montreal-Dorval International Airport, killing all 118 people on board.

1964 Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English

1965 "Anya" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 16 performances

1965 – The Canadian Space Agency launches the satellite Alouette 2.

1966 SS Daniel J Morrell sinks in a storm on Lake Huron, 28 die, 1 survivor.

1967 British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen

1967 – Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara announces that he is resigning as Secretary of Defense and would become president of the World Bank.

1968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in UK

1969 The Beatles' single "Something / Come Together" reaches #1

1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1972 – Co-founder of Atari Nolan Bushnell releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game, in Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California

1974 Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff] special memorial service held at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England

1975 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii

1975 – Graham Hill and Tony Brise, along with four other members of the Embassy Hill F1 team, were killed when their plane crashed at Arkley golf course, England, in thick fog.

1975 New Zealand general election won by the National Party headed by Robert Muldoon

1975 US President Gerald Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped

1978 UN observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," boycotted by US & about 20 other countries

1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1981 Major Iranian offensive mounted on central front

1981 Revival of musical "My Fair Lady" closes at Uris Theater, NYC, after 119 performances

1982 USSR performs underground nuclear test

1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1986 – The Surinamese military attacks the village of Moiwana during the Suriname Guerrilla War, killing at least 39 civilians, mostly women and children.

1987 – Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai–Burmese border, killing 115.

1987 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll

1987 Revival of Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen's musical ."Dreamgirls" closes at Ambassador Theater, NYC, after 177 performances

1989 Rajiv Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India after losing national elections

1990 "Shogun - The Musical" opens at Marquis Theater, NYC; runs for 72 performances

1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes two resolutions authorizing the use of force in the Persian Gulf to restore international peace and security if Iraq does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.

1992 "Sea Gull" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 48 performances

1992 "Solitary Confinement" closes at Nederlander NYC after 25 performances

1993 "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 40 performances

1994 "My Life" second studio album by Mary J. Blige is released (Billboard Music Award Top R&B Album 1995)

1994 Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding

1995 "Garden District" closes at Circle in the Square Theater, NYC

1995 CNNfn, a financial network by Turner Enterprises is launched

1995 US President Bill Clinton lifts ban on exports of oil from the Alaskan North Slope; the ban was imposed after the oil embargo by Arab oil producers in 1973

1997 OPEC agrees to an increase in its production ceiling. OPEC has raised the ceiling to 27.5 million barrels per day for the first half of 1998

2001 UN Security Council unanimously approves a resolution extending the Oil-for-Food program in Iraq for another six-month period

2002 "The Concert for George", a benefit memorial to George Harrison held at the Royal Albert Hall, London, features Eric Clapton; Paul McCartney; Ringo Starr; Jeff Lynne; Tom Petty; Joe Brown; Anoushka Shankar; Billy Preston; and members of Monty Python

2003 The first of Nelson Mandela's 46664 AIDS benefit concerts held at Green Point Stadium, Capetown

2005 The new Croatian Communist Party (KPH) is founded in Vukovar.

2007 – The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.

2007 – A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affects the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as far south as Trinidad.

2009 – Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington.

2010 "Rolling in the Deep" single is released by Adele (Billboard Song of the Year 2011, Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year 2012)

2012 30 people are killed and 100 are wounded by bombs in Hillah and Karbala, Iraq

2012 The UN votes to approve Palestine’s status change from an observer to an observer state

2013 – LAM Mozambique Airlines Flight 470 crashes in Namibia, killing 33 people.

2014 – Taiwan local elections: The Democratic Progressive Party wins a landslide victory.

2017 American TV host Matt Lauer is fired from NBC's "Today" show after an allegation of sexual misconduct

2017 Bosnian war criminal Slobodan Praljak commits suicide by poison in court at The Hague after 20 year prison term read out

2018 Tens of thousands Indian farmers protest the agrarian crisis at parliament in Delhi

2019 K-pop stars Jung Joon-young and Choi Jong-hoon sentenced to prison for gang-raping unconscious fans and distributing footage of it (Jung)

2019 Terrorist knife attack at Fishmongers Hall by London Bridge, kills two and injures three, attacker who was previously imprisoned for 2012 terror offence is shot dead

2019 Wood fragment believed to be from Jesus' manger returned to Bethlehem after 1400 years by Pope Francis

2020 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris announce the first all-female Communications team for the White House

2021 British socialite and former girlfriend of Jeffery Epstein Ghislaine Maxwell found guilty of sex trafficking in a federal court in Manhattan

2021 Jack Dorsey announces he is stepping down as CEO of Twitter, to be replaced by Parag Agrawal

2022 Canadian scientists announce discovery of two new minerals elaliite and elkinstantonite, never seen on earth before from 'Nightfall' meteorite found in Somalia

2022 For the first time fewer than half of people in England and Wales call themselves Christian according to the 2021 Census

2022 Malawi begins historic campaign against malaria by vaccinating children under five using the RTS,S vaccine (thought to provide 30% protection)

2022 Singapore's parliament repeals British-era Section 377A decriminalising gay sex, but introduces amendments to protect current definition of marriage

2022 Three stowaways rescued by Spanish coastguard after 11 days at sea balancing on a ships' rudder from Nigeria to the Canary islands

Saints' Days and Holy Days

Traditional Western

Willibrord, Archbishop of Utrecht, Confessor      Double

Commemoration of the Eve of St Andrew (if out of Advent)

Commemoration of St. Saturninus, Martyr

Contemporary Western

Blessed Bernardo de Hoyos
Brendan of Birr
Cuthbert Mayne
Radboud of Utrecht
Saturnin

Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran

Eastern Orthodox

November 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Venerable Nicholas, Archbishop of Thessaloniki (c. 160)
Hieromartyr Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth (182)
Martyrs Paramon and 370 others, at Bithynia (250)
Martyr Philoumenos of Ancyra (274)
Martyr Valerian, by the sword (274)
Martyr Phaedrus, by pouring hot resin over him (274)
Hieromartyr John, in Persia (4th century)
Holy 6 Martyrs
Venerable Pitirim of Egypt (4th century), disciple of St. Anthony the Great
Saint Tiridates, King of Armenia (4th century)
Saint Acacius of Sinai (6th century), mentioned by John of the Ladder
Hieromartyr Abibus, Bishop of Nekresi, Georgia (6th century)
Bishop Urban of Macedonia
Venerable Pankosmios
Venerable Mark.

Hieromartyr Saturninus, venerated as the first Bishop of Toulouse (c. 257)
Saint Blaise and Demetrius, martyrs in Veroli in central Italy
Hieromartyrs Saturninus and Sisinius (c. 309)
Saint Illuminata, a virgin in Todi in Italy (c. 320)
Saint Brendan of Birr (571)
Saint Sadwrn (Sadwen), hermit, brother of St Illtyd
      and disciple of St Cadfan (6th century)
Saint Hardoin, Bishop of St Pol-de-Léon in Brittany (7th century)
Saint Æthelwine of Athelney (Egelwine, Aylwine), a prince of the house of Wessex
      who lived as a hermit at Athelney in Somerset, England (7th century)
Saint Walderic, founder of the monastery of Murrhardt in Germany (c. 817)
Saint Radboud of Utrecht, Bishop of Utrecht (917)
Saint Gulstan (Gustan, Constans), a monk at St Gildas of Rhuys in Brittany (c. 1010)

Saint Nectarius the Obedient, of the Kiev Caves (12th century)
Saint Mardarije (Uskokovich) of Libertyville, Illinois,
      Enlightener and Apostle of the Church in America (1935)

New Hieromartyr Sergius Kochurov, Priest (1941)
New Hieromartyr Philoumenos (Hasapis) of Jacob's Well (1979)

Consecration of the Church of the Holy Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus
Repose of Blessed Abel "the Prophet", of Valaam Monastery (1831)

Coptic Orthodox