Today in History - History - November 30th

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

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

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

1952Jackie Robinson charges NY Yankees with racism

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

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

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

1981NY Yankee Dave Righetti wins AL Rookie of Year Award

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2007Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil, at 69

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