On This Day: 30 November

30 November in world history

• 2004A McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Lion Air Flight 538, overran the runway at Adisoemarmo Airport and crashed, killing 25 people.
• 1995U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favor of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall; he calls IRA fighters "yesterday's men".
• 1981Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe. (The meetings end inconclusively on December 17.)
• 1979The Wall, a rock opera and concept album by the English band Pink Floyd, was first released.
• 1972Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels are now down to 27,000.
• 1953Mutesa II, Kabaka of Buganda, was temporarily deposed and exiled to London by Andrew Cohen, the British governor of Uganda.
• 1947After the United Nations voted to adopt a partition plan for Palestine, a civil war broke out between the region's Jewish and Arab communities.
• 1942World War II: Japanese warships defeated the U.S. Navy in a nighttime naval battle off Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal.
• 1941The Holocaust: The SS-Einsatzgruppen round up roughly 25,000 Jews from the Riga Ghetto and kill them in the Rumbula massacre.
• 1940World War II: Signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1940 between the Empire of Japan and the newly formed Wang Jingwei-led Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China. This treaty was considered so unfair to China that it was compared to the Twen
• 1939World War II: The Soviet Red Army crosses the Finnish border in several places, bombing Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the Winter War.
• 1936English mathematician Alan Turing published the first details of the Turing machine, an abstract device that can simulate the logic of any computer algorithm by manipulating symbols.
• 1935A college football game between the SMU Mustangs and the TCU Horned Frogs became the first game in Texas to be broadcast nationally on radio.
• 1872The first international football match took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
• 1864American Civil War: The Confederate Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood suffers heavy losses in an attack on the Union Army of the Ohio under General John Schofield in the Battle of Franklin.
• 1853Crimean War: Battle of Sinop: The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.
• 1782American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
• 1700Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII defeated the Russian army at the Battle of Narva.

Born on 30 November

• 1945Vani Jairam, Indian playback singer (died 2023)India
• 1937Praveen Chaudhari, Indian-American physicist and academic (died 2010)India
• 1929Joan Ganz Cooney, American screenwriter and producer, co-created Sesame Street
• 1874Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)
• 1858Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist, biologist, botanist, and archaeologist (died 1937)India
• 1847Afonso Pena, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 6th President of Brazil (died 1909)

Died on 30 November

• 2014Jarbom Gamlin, Indian lawyer and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh (born 1961)India
• 2012Rogelio Álvarez, Cuban-American baseball player (born 1938)
• 2010Rajiv Dixit, Indian author and activist (born 1967)India
• 1694Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician and biologist (born 1628)

Frequently asked questions

What happened on 30 November in history?

2004: A McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Lion Air Flight 538, overran the runway at Adisoemarmo Airport and crashed, killing 25 people. 1995: U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favor of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall; he calls IRA fighters "yesterday's men". 1981: Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe. (The meetings end inconclusively on December 17.). 1979: The Wall, a rock opera and concept album by the English band Pink Floyd, was first released.

Which famous people were born on 30 November?

Vani Jairam, Indian playback singer (died 2023) (1945); Praveen Chaudhari, Indian-American physicist and academic (died 2010) (1937); Joan Ganz Cooney, American screenwriter and producer, co-created Sesame Street (1929); Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965) (1874).

Which day is observed on 30 November?

Bonifacio Day (Philippines); Commemoration Day (United Arab Emirates); Day to Mark the Departure and Expulsion of Jews from the Arab Countries and Iran (Israel); Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Barbados from the United Kingdom in 1966; National Day (Benin).