On this Day - 30 Nov

Highlight

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

1988 NYC furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase

1993 President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill

1993 "Schindler's List", American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes, premieres in Washington, D.C. (Academy Awards Best Picture 1994)

Birthday

538 St Gregory of Tours, Gallo-Roman chronicler and bishop (Historia Francorum), born in Auvergne, Gaul (d. 594)

1667 Jonathan Swift, satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1745)

1835 Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], American author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn), born in Florida, Missouri (d. 1910)

1869 [Nils] Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and industrialist (AGA, Nobel Prize in Physics 1912), born in Stenstorp, Sweden (d. 1937)

1872 John McCrae, Canadian physician, soldier and poet (In Flanders Fields), born in Guelph, Ontario (d. 1918)

1874 Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1940-45, 1951-55) during World War II and winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature, born in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England (d. 1965)

1874 Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (Anne of Green Gables), born in Clifton, Prince Edward Island (d. 1942)

1924 Shirley Chisholm, 1st African American congresswoman (Rep-D-NY) and presidential candidate, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2005)

1929 Dick Clark [Richard Wagstaff Clark], American radio and television personality (American Bandstand), born in Mount Vernon, New York (d. 2012)

1931 Bill Walsh, NFL coach (San Francisco 49ers), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2007)

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

Deaths

1900 Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright and novelist (Importance of Being Earnest), dies in Paris at 46

1944 Albert B. Fall, New Mexico Senator (Teapot Dome Scandal), dies at 83

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

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

2007 Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (Snake River Canyon), dies of pulmonary disease at 69

Historical Events

1487 The German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot), is promulgated by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria stating beer should be brewed from only three ingredients – water, malt and hops

1648 English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I

1753 Benjamin Franklin receives the Godfrey Copley medal "on account of his curious Experiments and Observations on Electricity"

1776 Captain James Cook begins 3rd & last trip to the Pacific

1786 Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II promulgates a penal reform, making his the 1st state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 commemorated as Cities for Life Day.

1909 British House of Lords rejects David Lloyd George's 'People's Budget', which tried to shift tax burden to the wealthy. Leads to the Parliament Act; intent to stop unelected house overruling will of the elected house.

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

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

1928 Vladimir K. Zworykin receives patent on Iconoscope TV system

1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada & Nagano

1952 Jackie Robinson charges NY Yankees with racism

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

1957 Assassination attempt on Indonesian president Sukarno, kills 8

1967 Senator Eugene McCarthy announces he will run for the US presidency on an anti-Vietnam war platform

1981 NY Yankee Dave Righetti wins AL Rookie of Year Award

1982 "Gandhi" directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Ben Kingsley and John Gielgud premieres in New Delhi (Best Picture 1983)

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

1990 Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke

1990 US President George H. W. Bush offers to send Secretary of State James Baker to Baghdad to meet with Saddam Hussein

2004 Longtime "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.

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

2007 Hillary 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.