Today in History - History - November 30th

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

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

1981NY Yankee Dave Righetti wins AL Rookie of Year Award

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

2015NBA star Kobe Bryant of the LA Lakers announces he will retire at the end of the 2015-16 season.

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

1952Jackie Robinson charges NY Yankees with racism

1648English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2007Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil, at 69

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