Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 30
This is a list of selected November 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| ; 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 |
| 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 |d|1863 | page numbers needed |
| Henry Taube |b|1915 | POTD for 2011 |
Eligible
- 1700 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII defeated the Russian army at the Battle of Narva.
- 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.
- 1872 – The first international football match took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
- 1934 – Flying Scotsman became the first steam locomotive to officially exceed 100 miles per hour (161 km/h).
- 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, Kabaka of Buganda, was temporarily deposed and exiled to London by Andrew Cohen, the British governor of Uganda.
- 1962 – Following the death of Dag Hammarskjöld, Burmese diplomat U Thant was elected secretary-general of the United Nations.
- 1979 – The Wall, a rock opera and concept album by the English band Pink Floyd, was first released.
- 1982 – Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, was released.
- 1999 – Protests by anti-globalization activists (pictured) against the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Seattle forced the cancellation of its opening ceremonies.
- 1999 – Marconi Electronic Systems and British Aerospace merged to form BAE Systems, one of the world's largest defence companies.
- 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| William-Adolphe Bouguereau |b|1825| Jagadish Chandra Bose |b|1858| Joan Ganz Cooney |b|1929| Shawna Robinson |b|1964| Ahmadou Ahidjo |d|1989
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
November 30: Day of Remembrance for All Victims of Chemical Warfare; Saint Andrew's Day (Christianity)
- 1853 – Crimean War: Russian warships led by Pavel Nakhimov destroyed an Ottoman fleet of frigates at the Battle of Sinop, prompting France and Britain to enter the war.
- 1936 – English mathematician Alan Turing published details of the Turing machine (model pictured), a basic abstract symbol-manipulating hypothetical device that can simulate the logic of any computer algorithm.
- 1954 – The first verified case of a human being injured by an extraterrestrial object took place in Sylacauga, Alabama, when a meteorite crashed through a roof and hit a sleeping woman.
- 2005 – John Sentamu was enthroned as Archbishop of York, becoming the first black person to serve as an archbishop in the Church of England.
- Alexander Berry (b. 1781)
- Frederick Temple (b. 1821)
- Mahmud Hasan Deobandi (d. 1920)