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 335^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 31 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 17, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,732,924,800 seconds 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 ‘trihectatriacontapentagon’ 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 60 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 4,362 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 30 Historical Events

• 1804 –
  The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
• 1824 –
  First ground is broken at Allenburg for the building of the original Welland Canal.
• 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 commanded by John McAllister Schofield around Franklin, Tennessee, with Hood losing six generals and almost a third of his troops.
• 1868 –
  The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden takes place in the King’s garden in Stockholm.
• 1908 –
  A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania kills 154.
• 1939 –
  Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
• 1966 –
  Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 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.
• 1989 –
  Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
• 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.

Who were born on November 30?

• 1810 –
  Oliver Winchester, American gunsmith (d. 1880)
• 1904 –
  Clyfford Still, American painter (d. 1980)
• 1920 –
  Virginia Mayo, American actress (d. 2005)
• 1922 –
  Graham Crowden, Scottish actor (d. 2010)
• 1924 –
  Shirley Chisholm, American politician, United States Representatives from New York (d. 2005)
• 1938 –
  Jean Eustache, French filmmaker
• 1955 –
  Richard Burr, American politician
• 1964 –
  Jushin Liger, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1973 –
  Jason Reso (aka “Christian Cage”), Canadian professional wrestler
• 1990 –
  Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player

Who died on November 30?

• 1580 –
  Richard Farrant, English composer
• 1934 –
  Hélène Boucher, French aviatrix (b. 1908)
• 1958 –
  Hubert Wilkins, Australian polar explorer (b. 1888)
• 1967 –
  Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (b. 1904)
• 1979 –
  Zeppo Marx, American actor and comedian (b. 1901)
• 2003 –
  Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
• 2004 –
  Pierre Berton, Canadian author (b. 1920)
• 2006 –
  Elhadi Adam, Sudanese poet and lyricist (b. 1927)
• 2008 –
  Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese musician (Loudness) (b. 1958)
• 2010 –
  Garry Gross, American photographer (b. 1937)