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On this day...
306 St Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1782 Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence
1803 Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France
1804 Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins
1864 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee
1866 Work begins on first US underwater highway tunnel, Chicago
1885 The opera "Le Cid" is produced (Paris)
1886 First commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo
1887 First indoor softball game (Chicago)
1907 Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
1924 First photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio
1936 London's Crystal Palace (built 1851), destroyed by fire
1939 USSR invades Finland over a border dispute
1940 First game of only 2-game Grey Cup (Ottawa 8, Toronto Balmy Beach 2)
1941 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes it's last run
1947 Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
1948 Baseball's Negro National League disbands
1948 Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin
1949 Chinese Communists captured Chungking
1954 First meteorite ( 8 ib ) known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges)
1958 First guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Me
1959 Joe Foss named first commissioner of AFL
1961 USSR vetoes Kuwait's application for UN membership
1962 U Thant of Burma elected 3rd Secretary-General of UN unanimously
1964 USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned
1966 Barbados gains independence from Britain (Natl Day)
1966 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland
1967 Julie Nixon & David Eisenhower announce their engagement
1967 Kuria Muria islands ceded by Britain to Oman
1967 People's Republic of South Yemen (Aden) gains independence from Britain
1972 Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 (Rome Italy)
1975 Dahomey becomes Benin
1979 Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC)
1981 Porn star John Holmes arrested on fugitive charges
1982 US sub Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in South China Sea
1983 Radio Shack announces the Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)
1988 Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
1988 NYC furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase
1988 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; first time in 38 yrs
1988 UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO's Arafat visa
1990 Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke
1990 Bush proposes US-Iraq meeting to avoid war
1991 93 cars & 11 truck accident near SF during a dust storm, 17 die
1991 Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide
Birthdays which occurred on November 30th:
538 St. Gregory of Tours, chronicler/bishop
1466 Andrea Doria, Genoese statesman/admiral
1554 Philip Sidney, England, poet/statesman/soldier (Arcadia)
1667 Jonathan Swift, England, satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal)
1793 Johann Lukas Sch"nlein, helped establish scientific medicine
1810 Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker (Winchester)
1817 Theodor Mommsen, Germany, historian/writer (Nobel 1902)
1835 Samuel Clemens [Mark Twain], author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn)
1863 Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain
1874 Sir Winston Churchill, Brit PM (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953)
1898 Roy (Link) Lyman, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)
1907 Jacques Barzun, France, author (The House of Interlect)
1912 Gordon Parks, film director/writer (Learning Tree)
1913 John K.M. McCaffery, Moscow Idaho, TV host (One Minute Please)
1915 Angier Biddle Duke, NYC, US Ambassador (Spain)
1915 Henry Taube, chemist (Nobel 1983)
1918 Efren Zimbalist, Jr., NYC, actor (77 Sunset Strip, FBI, Scruples)
1920 Virginia Mayo, St Louis Mo, actress (Out of the Blue, White Heat)
1923 Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., actor (77 Sunset Strip)
1924 Allan Sherman, parody singer/songwriter (Hello Muddah, Hello Fardah)
1924 Shirley Chisholm, (D-Rep-NY), first black congresswoman/presidential candidate
1926 Richard Crenna, LA Cal, actor (Rambo, Summer Rental, Sand Pebbles)
1927 Robert Guillaume, St Louis Mo, actor (Benson, Soap)
1928 Chic Hecht, (Sen-R-Nev)
1928 Rex Reason, Berlin Germany, actor (This Island Earth)
1929 Joan Ganz Cooney, Phoenix, TV exec (Children's TV Workshop)
1930 G. Gordon Liddy, headed CIA, Watergate felon
1931 Jack Ging, Alva Ok, actor (11th Hour, Ripcord, Tales of Wells Fargo)
1931 Jack Sheldon, Jacksonville Florida, actor (Run Buddy Run, Merv Griffin)
1936 Abbie Hoffman, aka Free, Yippie/activist/author (Steal this Book)
1937 Paul Stookey, Baltimore, singer (Peter, Paul & Mary-Wedding Song)
1937 Richard Threlkeld, newscaster (ABC-TV)
1945 Radu Lupu, Galati Romania, pianist (Enesco first prize-1967)
1947 David Mamet, US playwright/director (Speed the Plow, House of Games)
1949 Arthur Lee Washington, Jr., one of FBI's most wanted
1950 Kathie Witt, Miami Fla, actress (Lenny, Flying High)
1950 Paul Westphal, NBA guard (Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns)
1951 Dian Parkinson, TV model (Price is Right)
1952 Mandy Patinkin, actor/singer (Yentl, Alien Nation)
1954 June Pointer, singer (Pointer Sisters-I'm So excited)
1955 Billy Idol, [William Broad], rocker (White Wedding)
1959 Sylvia Hanika, Munich West Germany, tennis player (Avon-1982)
1962 Bo Jackson, baseball/football player (KC Royals, LA Raiders)
1969 Carrie Jean Yazel, Huntington Beach Calif, playmate (May, 1991)
Deaths which occurred on November 30th:
30 -BC- Cleopatra, Egyptian queen commits suicide
1016 Edmund II, Ironsides, King of the Saxons (1016), dies at 27
1694 Marcello Malpighi, father of microscopic anatomy, dies
1900 Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris
1964 Don Redman, orch leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64
1973 Bruce Yarnell, LA Calif, actor (Outlaws), dies at 35
1979 Zeppo Marx, dies at 78
1981 Robert H. Harris, actor (Jake-The Goldbergs), dies at 72
1987 Arthur H. Dean, lawyer/advisor to FDR, dies at 89
1990 Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review), dies at 75
1996 Tiny Tim, singer with the falsetto warble and ukulele ("Tiptoe Through the
Tulips" ), dies at 64
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