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1782 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized in the 1783 Treaty of Paris).

1786 - Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.

1803 - In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.

1804 - The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.

1853 - Crimean War: The Russian navy destroys the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Sinop.

1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Franklin — The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops).

1868 - A statue of King Charles XII of Sweden is inaugurated in the King's garden in Stockholm.

1872 - The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.

1874 - Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace (the Duke of Marlborough's official seat).

1886 - The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

1902 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.

1916 - Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.

1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.

1939 - Winter War: Soviet forces invade Finland and reach the Mannerheim Line, starting the war.

1940 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are married in Greenwich, Connecticut.

1942 - World War II: A U.S. warship force is defeated by a smaller Japanese warship force in the Battle of Tassafaronga during the Guadalcanal Campaign.

1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord.

1953 - Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.

1954 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 lb (3.4 kg) sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise, in the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock.

1960 - Production of the DeSoto automobile brand ceases.

1962 - The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as the new UN Secretary-General.

1966 - Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

1967 - The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

1967 - The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Quaid-e-Awam whom becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.

1972 - Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.

1979 - Pink Floyd release the album The Wall.

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 ended inconclusively on December 17).

1982 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street.

1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion.

1989 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.

1989 - Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida becomes female serial killer Aileen Wuornos's first victim.

1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.

1994 - Hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur is robbed of $40,000 in jewelry and survives being shot five times in a New York music studio.

1998 - Deutsche Bank announces a $10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.

1999 - In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.

1999 - British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defence contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.

2000 - The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 comes into force in the UK.

2004 - Longtime Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700, television's all-time biggest game show haul.

2004 - Lion Air Flight 538 crashlands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.

2005 - John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England as Archbishop of York.

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539 - Gregory of Tours, French bishop and historian (d. 594)

1340 - John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (d. 1416)

1364 - John FitzAlan, 2nd Baron Arundel, English soldier (d. 1390)

1466 - Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (d. 1560)

1508 - Andrea Palladio, Italian architect (d. 1580)

1554 - Philip Sidney, English courtier, soldier, and writer (d. 1586)

1594 - John Cosin, English clergyman (d. 1672)

1625 - Jean Domat, French jurist (d. 1696)

1637 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (d. 1698)

1667 - Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist (d.1745)

1670 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (d. 1722)

1683 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (d. 1744)

1719 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (d. 1772)

1722 - Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (d. 1761)

1723 - William Livingston, revolutionary Governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)

1756 - Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827)

1768 - Jędrzej Śniadecki, Polish writer, physician, chemist and biologist (d. 1838)

1781 - Alexander Berry, British adventurer (d. 1873)

1796 - Carl Loewe, German composer (d. 1869)

1810 - Oliver Winchester, American gunsmith (d. 1880)

1813 - Louise-Victorine Ackermann, French poet (d. 1890)

1813 - Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (d. 1888)

1817 - Theodor Mommsen, German author and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1903)

1821 - Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1902)

1835 - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), American writer (d. 1910)

1836 - Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)

1847 - Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena, Brazilian president (d. 1909)

1857 - Bobby Abel, English test cricketer (d. 1936)

1858 - Jagdish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist (d. 1937)

1863 - Andres Bonifacio, head of the Philippine Revolutionary Movement Katipunan (KKK) (d. 1897)

1869 - Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937)

1874 - Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)

1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942)

1889 - Edgar Douglas Adrian, British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1977)

1898 - Firpo Marberry, American baseball player (d. 1976)

1904 - Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)

1907 - Jacques Barzun, French-born historian and author

1909 - Robert Nighthawk, American musician (d. 1967)

1912 - Gordon Parks, American photographer, film director, composer and writer

1915 - Brownie McGhee, American blues musician (d.1996)

1915 - Henry Taube, Canadian-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)

1918 - Efrem Zimbalist Jr., American actor

1920 - Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)

1924 - Shirley Chisholm, American politician (d. 2005)

1924 - Allan Sherman, American comedian (d. 1973)

1926 - Richard Crenna, American actor (d. 2003)

1927 - Robert Guillaume, American actor

1929 - Dick Clark, American television host

1929 - Joan Ganz Cooney, American children's television pioneer

1930 - G. Gordon Liddy, Watergate operative

1931 - Jack Ging, American actor

1931 - Bill Walsh, American football coach

1936 - Abbie Hoffman, American activist (d. 1989)

1936 - Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, Russian mathematician

1937 - Ridley Scott, British film director

1937 - Paul Stookey, American folk singer (Peter, Paul & Mary)

1937 - Frank Ifield, Australian/British singer

1943 - Terrence Malick, American director and screenwriter.

1945 - Roger Glover, British bassist (Deep Purple)

1947 - David Mamet, American playwright

1951 - Christian Bernard, mystic

1951 - June Chadwick, British actress

1952 - Keith Giffen, American comic book writer and artist

1952 - Mandy Patinkin, American actor and singer

1955 - Billy Idol, British musician

1957 - Colin Mochrie, British-born Canadian comedian

1957 - Andrew Calhoun, American musician

1958 - Juliette Bergmann, Dutch bodybuilder

1958 - Stacey Q, American dance-pop singer

1959 - Lorraine Kelly, British presenter and journalist

1960 - Gary Lineker, English international footballer

1960 - Rich Fields, TV personality

1962 - Bo Jackson, American football and baseball player

1962 - Daniel Keys Moran, American writer

1964 - Jushin Liger, Japanese professional wrestler

1965 - Ben Stiller, American actor and writer

1965 - Aldair, Brazilian international footballer

1966 - Ed Kemper, American actor

1966 - Mika Salo, Finnish Formula 1 Driver

1968 - Des'ree, British soul/pop singer

1968 - Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist

1969 - Marc Goossens, Belgian racing driver

1971 - Ivan "Pudge" Rodriguez, Puerto Rican baseball player

1971 - Ray Durham, American baseball player

1972 - Abel Xavier, Portuguese international footballer

1973 - John Moyer, American bassist (Disturbed)

1973 - Jason Reso, Canadian professional wrestler

1975 - Mindy McCready, American musican

1975 - Ben Thatcher, Welsh international footballer

1976 - Josh Lewsey, England national and London Wasps Rugby union player

1978 - Clay Aiken, American singer

1978 - Gael Garcia Bernal, Mexican Actor

1981 - Rich Harden, Canadian baseball player

1982 - Elisha Cuthbert, Canadian actress

1984 - Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer

1984 - Alan Hutton, Scottish footballer

1985 - Kaley Cuoco, American actress and model

1987 - Dougie Poynter, British singer and bassist (McFly)

1987 - Ian Hecox, American comedian and co-founder of Smosh

1990 - Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player

1991 - Carnell Breeding, of the boy band B5

1994 - Nyjah Huston, Skateboarder

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1016 - Edmund II of England

1580 - Richard Farrant, English composer

1626 - Thomas Weelkes, English composer

1654 - John Selden, English jurist and oriental scholar (b. 1584)

1675 - Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, colonial Governor of Maryland (b. 1605)

1703 - Nicolas de Grigny, French organist and composer (b. 1672)

1705 - Catherine of Braganza, wife of Charles II of England (b. 1638)

1718 - King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)

1761 - John Dollond, British optician (b. 1706)

1765 - George Glas, British merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)

1900 - Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)

1901 - Edward John Eyre, British explorer (b. 1815)

1920 - Vladimir May-Mayevsky, Russian counter-revolutionary (b. 1867)

1933 - Sir Arthur Currie, Canadian general (b. 1875)

1935 - Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese poet (b. 1888)

1943 - Etty Hillesum, Dutch diarist (executed) (b. 1914)

1953 - Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1857)

1954 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)

1955 - Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer (b. 1896)

1958 - Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (b. 1888)

1967 - Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (b. 1904)

1987 - Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer (b. 1913)

1993 - Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (b. 1924)

1994 - Guy Debord, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1931)

1996 - Tiny Tim, American entertainer (b. 1932)

1997 - Kathy Acker, American author (b. 1947)

1997 - Randy Walker (AKA Stretch), American musician (b. 1972)

2002 - Tim Woods, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)

2003 - Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)

2004 - Pierre Berton, Canadian author (b. 1920)

2005 - Jean Parker, American actress (b. 1915)

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R.C. Saints - Saint Andrew the apostle - St Andrew's day is the national day of Scotland

Also see November 30 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Barbados - Independence Day (from Britain, 1966)

Philippines - Andres Bonifacio Day

Official End of the Hurricane Season

Cities for Life Day; 300 cities around the world declare their opposition to the death penalty