1700 - Battle of Narva: A Swedish army of 8,500 men under Charles XII defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva.
1718 - Swedish King Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
1782 - American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris – In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as 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. Consequently, November 30 is commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
1853 - Crimean War: Battle of Sinop – The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.
1872 - The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
1939 - Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
1947 - 1947–1948 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins on this day, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.
1966 - Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1967 - The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
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 17th).
1982 - Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, is released.
1995 - Bill Clinton, then President of the United States, visited Northern Ireland, and spoke in favour of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall. He called terrorists "yesterday's men".
2005 - John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
Famous Birthdays:
1340 - John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France
1427 - Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland
1719 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales
1847 - Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena, 6th President of Brazil
1874 - Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1936 - Dmitri Victorovich Anosov, mathematician
1965 - HIH Prince Akishino of Japan, second in line to the Chrysanthemum throne.
1970 - Perrey Reeves, actress
1981 - Billy Lush, actor
1987 - Dougie Poynter, singer and bassist
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