Today in History - History - November 30th

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

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

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

1648English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I

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

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.

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

1753Benjamin Franklin receives Godfrey Copley-Penny

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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