What are the important events that happened on November 30? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

November 30: Facts & Myths About This Day

November 30 is the 334^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 31 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 17, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,407,680 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatriacontatetragon’ day.

Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 79 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,727 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 30 Historical Events

• 1700 –
  Battle of Narva – A Swedish army of 8,500 men under Charles XII defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva.
• 1829 –
  First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking.
• 1872 –
  The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
• 1939 –
  Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the 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.
• 1982 –
  Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, is released.
• 1993 –
  U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
• 1995 –
  Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
• 1998 –
  Exxon and Mobil sign a $73.7 billion USD agreement to merge, thus creating Exxon-Mobil, the world’s largest company.
• 2001 –
  In Renton, Washington, United States, Gary Ridgway aka The Green River Killer is arrested.

Who were born on November 30?

• 1667 –
  Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist (d. 1745)
• 1817 –
  Theodor Mommsen, German historian, Nobel laureate (d. 1903)
• 1872 –
  Dr. John McCrae, Canadian physician and soldier (d. 1918)
• 1955 –
  Gordon Liu, Chinese actor
• 1958 –
  Juliette Bergmann, Dutch bodybuilder
• 1959 –
  Cherie Currie, American musician
• 1972 –
  Christopher Fitzgerald, American stage actor
• 1975 –
  Ben Thatcher, Welsh footballer
• 1979 –
  Andrés Nocioni, Argentine basketball player
• 1980 –
  Jamie Ashdown, English footballer

Who died on November 30?

• 1580 –
  Richard Farrant, English composer
• 1718 –
  King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
• 1916 –
  Dorrit Weixler, German actress (b. 1892)
• 1955 –
  Josip Štolcer-Slavenski, Croatian composer (b. 1896)
• 1967 –
  Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (b. 1904)
• 1994 –
  Guy Debord, French writer and filmmaker (b. 1931)
• 1994 –
  Lionel Stander, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1995 –
  Randy Walker, American musician (b. 1968)
• 2006 –
  Elhadi Adam, Sudanese poet and lyricist (b. 1927)
• 2007 –
  Engin Arık, Turkish nuclear physicist (b. 1948)