# What happened on November 30 in history?

**Date:** November 30  
**Events recorded:** 41  
**Years spanned:** 883 – 2022  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/november/30/

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## Featured Event

**2022** — The AI chatbot ChatGPT is launched by OpenAI.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT)

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## Events on this date

- **883** — Abu al Abbas celebrates a victory parade in Bagdhad following the surpression of the Zanj Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the Arab world. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Mu'tadid))
- **978** — Franco-German war of 978–980: Holy Roman Emperor Otto II lifts the siege of Paris and withdraws. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-German_war_of_978%E2%80%93980))
- **1707** — Queen Anne's War: The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British Empire and their Creek allies to capture Pensacola, Spanish Florida. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Anne's_War))
- **1718** — Great Northern War: King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_War))
- **1782** — American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War))
- **1786** — The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Tuscany))
- **1803** — The Balmis Expedition starts in Spain with the aim of vaccinating millions against smallpox in Spanish America and Philippines. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmis_Expedition))
- **1803** — In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to the French First Republic. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Territory))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War))
- **1864** — American Civil War: The Confederate Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood suffers heavy losses in an attack on the Union Army of the Ohio under General John Schofield in the Battle of Franklin. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War))
- **1872** — The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1872_Scotland_v_England_football_match))
- **1916** — Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costa_Rica))
- **1936** — In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crystal_Palace))
- **1939** — World War II: The Soviet Red Army crosses the Finnish border in several places, bombing Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the Winter War. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1940** — World War II: Signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1940 between the Empire of Japan and the newly formed Wang Jingwei-led Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China. This treaty was considered so unfair to China that it was compared to the Twenty-One Demands. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Japan))
- **1941** — The Holocaust: The SS-Einsatzgruppen round up roughly 25,000 Jews from the Riga Ghetto and kill them in the Rumbula massacre. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust))
- **1942** — World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. Navy cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tassafaronga))
- **1947** — Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the State of Israel and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947%E2%80%931948_civil_war_in_Mandatory_Palestine))
- **1953** — Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutesa_II_of_Buganda))
- **1954** — In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylacauga%2C_Alabama))
- **1962** — Eastern Air Lines Flight 512 crashes at Idlewild Airport, killing 25 people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_512))
- **1966** — Decolonization: Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonization))
- **1967** — The People's Republic of Southern Yemen gains its independence from the United Kingdom ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Yemen))
- **1967** — The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_People's_Party))
- **1967** — Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partido_Komunista_ng_Pilipinas-1930))
- **1971** — Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahlavi_dynasty))
- **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 because troop levels are now down to 27,000. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War))
- **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.) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War))
- **1995** — Official end of Operation Desert Storm. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War))
- **1995** — U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favor of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall; he calls IRA fighters "yesterday's men". ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton))
- **1999** — Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Aerospace))
- **2000** — NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-97))
- **2004** — A McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Lion Air Flight 538, overran the runway at Adisoemarmo Airport and crashed, killing 25 people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_MD-80))
- **2005** — John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sentamu))
- **2007** — Atlasjet Flight 4203 crashes in Keçiborlu while on approach to Isparta Süleyman Demirel Airport, killing 57. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlasjet_Flight_4203))
- **2018** — A magnitude 7.1 earthquake with its epicenter only 24 km from Anchorage, Alaska causes significant property damage but no deaths. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Anchorage_earthquake))
- **2021** — Barbados becomes a republic. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbados))
- **2021** — A 15-year-old gunman murders four students and injures seven people, including a teacher, in a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_High_School_shooting))
- **2022** — The AI chatbot ChatGPT is launched by OpenAI. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT))

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## Notable births on November 30

- **2000** — **Jane Paknia** — American musician ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Paknia))
- **1998** — **Grant Williams** — American basketball player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Williams_(basketball)))
- **1995** — **Lancey Foux** — British rapper and singer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancey_Foux))
- **1994** — **Sofia Araújo** — Portuguese tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Ara%C3%BAjo))
- **1994** — **Marko Daňo** — Austrian-Slovak ice hockey player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko_Da%C5%88o))
- **1991** — **Agnatius Paasi** — Tongan rugby league player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnatius_Paasi))
- **1990** — **Magnus Carlsen** — Norwegian chess player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Carlsen))
- **1990** — **Antoine N'Gossan** — Ivorian footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_N'Gossan))
- **1989** — **Adelaide Clemens** — Australian actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelaide_Clemens))
- **1989** — **Vladimír Weiss** — Slovak footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladim%C3%ADr_Weiss_(footballer%2C_born_1989)))

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## Notable deaths on November 30

- **2024** — **Lou Carnesecca** — American basketball player and coach (born 1925) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Carnesecca))
- **2023** — **Alistair Darling** — British Politician and Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1953) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alistair_Darling))
- **2023** — **Shane MacGowan** — Irish singer-songwriter and frontman of The Pogues (born 1957) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_MacGowan))
- **2022** — **Jiang Zemin** — Chinese politician, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount leader) and President of China (born 1926) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiang_Zemin))
- **2022** — **Christine McVie** — English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (born 1943) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_McVie))
- **2020** — **Irina Antonova** — Russian art historian (born 1922) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina_Antonova))
- **2018** — **George H. W. Bush** — American politician, 41st President of the United States and 43rd Vice President of the United States (born 1924) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush))
- **2017** — **Jim Nabors** — American actor and comedian (born 1930) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Nabors))
- **2017** — **Surin Pitsuwan** — Thai politician and diplomat (born 1949) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surin_Pitsuwan))
- **2017** — **Marina Popovich** — Soviet pilot, engineer and military officer (born 1931) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Popovich))

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