Today in History - History - November 30th

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.

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

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

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

1952Jackie Robinson charges NY Yankees with racism

1993President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill

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

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

1648English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2007Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil, at 69

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