Today in History - History - November 30th

1956Floyd Patterson KOs Archie Moore in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

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.

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

1922Hitler speaks to 50,000 national-socialists in Munich

1952Jackie Robinson charges NY Yankees with racism

1928Test Cricket debut of Don Bradman, who scored 18 & 1 vs England

1993President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill

1753Benjamin Franklin receives Godfrey Copley-Penny

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.

1981NY Yankee Dave Righetti wins AL Rookie of Year Award

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

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

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

1924Shirley Chisholm, (Rep-D-NY) 1st black congresswoman/pres candidate

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

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

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

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

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

1940"I Love Lucy" actress Lucille Ball (28) weds actor Desi Arnaz (23) in Greenwich, Connecticut

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

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

2004Pierre Berton, Canadian author, dies of heart failure at 84

2007Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil, at 69