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Notable Historical Events for November 30th

1990US President George H. W. Bush offers to send Secretary of State James Baker to Baghdad to meet with Saddam Hussein

2004Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700 USD, television's all-time biggest game show haul.

1753Benjamin Franklin receives Godfrey Copley-Penny

2005The Boston Bruins trade captain Joe Thornton to the San Jose Sharks

1981NY Yankee Dave Righetti wins AL Rookie of Year Award

1648English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I

1946Bradman scores 187 in 1st Test Cricket v England at the Gabba

1993President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill

2007Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg entered the campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with a device suspected of being a bomb and held three people hostage for 5 hours.

1986Ivan Lendl is 1st tennis player to earn over $10 million, lifetime

November 30th Historical Events
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Notable Birthdays on November 30th

1835Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], American author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn)

1872John McCrae, Guelph Ontario, Canadian physician, soldier and poet (In Flanders Fields)

1874Winston Churchill, (C) British Prime Minister (1940-45, 1951-55, Nobel 1953)

538St Gregory of Tours, Auvergne, Gaul, chronicler/bishop (Historia Francorum), (d. 594)

1667Jonathan Swift, Dublin, satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal), (d. 1745)

1959Sylvia Hanika, Munich West Germany, tennis player (Avon-1982)

1874Lucy Maud Montgomery, Clifton Prince Edward Island, Canadian author (Anne of Green Gables)

1931Bill Walsh, Los Angeles California, NFL coach (San Fransisco 49ers)

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Notable Weddings on November 30th

1945Actress Bette Davis (37) weds artist William Grant Sherry

1973Sci-fi author Isaac Asimov (53) weds author Janet Jeppson (47)

November 30th Weddings
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Notable Deaths on November 30th

2013Paul Walker, American actor (The Fast and the Furious), dies in a car accident at 40

2007Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil, at 69

1900Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46

1987James Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain), dies at 63

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