November 30

Tuesday 30, 2004:

Lion Air Flight 538 crash landed in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26 passengers out of 146.

Thursday 30, 2000:

The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 came into force in the UK.

Tuesday 30, 1999:

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

Monday 30, 1998:

Deutsche Bank announces a US$10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.

Wednesday 30, 1994:

Hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur is robbed of $40,000 in jewelry and survives being shot five times in a New York music studio. He believes he was set up by The Notorious B.I.G. and Puff Daddy.

Tuesday 30, 1993:

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

Thursday 30, 1989:

Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida, takes a ride with Aileen Wuornos before becoming the female serial killer's first victim.

Wednesday 30, 1988:

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

Tuesday 30, 1982:

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street.

Monday 30, 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 ended inconclusively on December 17).

Friday 30, 1979:

Rock band Pink Floyd release the mega-selling rock opera The Wall.

Saturday 30, 1974:

The skeleton of "Lucy", a 3.18 million years old female hominid, of the genus Australopithecus, was discovered in the Afar Triangle of Ethiopia.

Thursday 30, 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.

Thursday 30, 1967:

The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

Wednesday 30, 1966:

Barbados becomes independent.

Friday 30, 1962:

The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as the new UN Secretary-General.

Wednesday 30, 1960:

Production of the De Soto automobile brand ceases.

Tuesday 30, 1954:

In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 pound sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise, in the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock.

Tuesday 30, 1943:

U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord.

Saturday 30, 1940:

Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are married in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Thursday 30, 1939:

Winter War begins: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.

Monday 30, 1936:

In London, the Crystal Palace, built for the 1851 Great Exhibition, is destroyed in a fire.

Sunday 30, 1902:

Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

Tuesday 30, 1886:

Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

Saturday 30, 1872:

First-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Scotland.

Wednesday 30, 1864:

The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops).

Wednesday 30, 1853:

Crimean War: The Russian fleet destroys the Turkish fleet at the Battle of Sinope.

Friday 30, 1804:

The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.

Wednesday 30, 1803:

At the Cabildo building in New Orleans, Spanish representatives Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo, officially transfer Louisiana Territory to French representative Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.

Thursday 30, 1786:

Grand Duke Leopold II von Hausburg of Tuscany promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty.

Saturday 30, 1782:

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

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