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

• 1783 –
  A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
• 1804 –
  The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
• 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.
• 1967 –
  The People’s Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1971 –
  Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
• 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.
• 1993 –
  U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
• 1994 –
  MS Achille Lauro fire off Somalia coast.
• 1999 –
  British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe’s largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
• 2005 –
  John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.

Who were born on November 30?

• 1667 –
  Jonathan Swift, Irish writer and satirist (d. 1745)
• 1756 –
  Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827)
• 1796 –
  Carl Loewe, German composer (d. 1869)
• 1869 –
  Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1937)
• 1927 –
  Robert Guillaume, American actor
• 1955 –
  Gordon Liu, Chinese actor
• 1959 –
  Cherie Currie, American musician
• 1968 –
  Laurent Jalabert, French cyclist
• 1986 –
  Jordan Farmar, American basketball player
• 1987 –
  Christel Khalil, American actress

Who died on November 30?

• 1718 –
  King Charles XII of Sweden (b. 1682)
• 1761 –
  John Dollond, British optician (b. 1706)
• 1886 –
  Dimitrios Valvis, Greek judge and politician (b. 1814)
• 1934 –
  Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (b. 1908)
• 1954 –
  Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886)
• 1956 –
  Viggo Wiehe, Danish actor (b. 1874)
• 1996 –
  Tiny Tim, American entertainer (b. 1932)
• 2004 –
  Pierre Berton, Canadian author (b. 1920)
• 2006 –
  Rafael Buenaventura, Filipino banker and politician (b. 1938)
• 2008 –
  Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese musician (Loudness) (b. 1958)