Today in History - History - November 30th

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

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

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.

1952Jackie Robinson charges NY Yankees with racism

1753Benjamin Franklin receives Godfrey Copley-Penny

1981NY Yankee Dave Righetti wins AL Rookie of Year Award

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

1970George Harrison releases his triple album set "All Things Must Pass"

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

1648English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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