30 November
Notable Births
Grant Williams (basketball)
b. 1998
American basketball player (born 1998)
Lancey Foux
b. 1995
British rapper (born 1995)
Marko Daňo
b. 1994
Slovak ice hockey player (born 1994)
Agnatius Paasi
b. 1991
Tonga international rugby league footballer
Magnus Carlsen
b. 1990
Norwegian chess grandmaster (born 1990)
Adelaide Clemens
b. 1989
Australian actress (born 1989)
Vladimír Weiss (footballer, born 1989)
b. 1989
Slovak footballer
Phillip Hughes
b. 1988
Australian cricketer (1988–2014)
Rebecca Rittenhouse
b. 1988
American actress
Tomi Saarelma
b. 1988
Finnish footballer (born 1988)
Vasilisa Bardina
b. 1987
Russian tennis player
Naomi (wrestler)
b. 1987
American professional wrestler and dancer (born 1987)
Daniel Noboa
b. 1987
President of Ecuador since 2023
Dougie Poynter
b. 1987
English musician (born 1987)
Jordan Farmar
b. 1986
American basketball player (born 1986)
Kaley Cuoco
b. 1985
American actress (born 1985)
Hikari Mitsushima
b. 1985
Japanese actress, singer and model
Chrissy Teigen
b. 1985
American model (born 1985)
Luis Valbuena
b. 1985
Venezuelan baseball player (1985–2018)
Nigel de Jong
b. 1984
Dutch association football player
Notable Deaths
Lou Carnesecca
d. 2024
American basketball coach (1925–2024)
Alistair Darling
d. 2023
British politician (1953–2023)
Shane MacGowan
d. 2023
Irish singer-songwriter (1957–2023)
Jiang Zemin
d. 2022
Leader of China from 1989 to 2002
Christine McVie
d. 2022
British musician (1943–2022)
Irina Antonova
d. 2020
Soviet and Russian art historian (1922–2020)
George H. W. Bush
d. 2018
President of the United States from 1989 to 1993
Jim Nabors
d. 2017
American actor and singer (1930–2017)
Surin Pitsuwan
d. 2017
Thai politician (1949–2017)
Marina Popovich
d. 2017
Soviet Air Force colonel, engineer and test pilot
Alfie Curtis
d. 2017
British actor (1930–2017)
Marcus Klingberg
d. 2015
Israeli scientist and Soviet spy (1918–2015)
Fatema Mernissi
d. 2015
Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist (1940–2015)
Shigeru Mizuki
d. 2015
Japanese manga artist (1922–2015)
Eldar Ryazanov
d. 2015
Soviet and Russian filmmaker (1927–2015)
Qayyum Chowdhury
d. 2014
Bangladeshi painter (1932–2014)
Jarbom Gamlin
d. 2014
6th Chief Minister of Arunachal Pradesh
Martin Litton (environmentalist)
d. 2014
American conservationist (1917–2014)
Anthony Dryden Marshall
d. 2014
American diplomat (1924–2014)
Go Seigen
d. 2014
Chinese-Japanese Go player
On This Day in History
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2022
The AI chatbot ChatGPT is launched by OpenAI.
ChatGPT
2021
Barbados becomes a republic.
Barbados
2021
A 15-year-old gunman murders four students and injures seven people, including a teacher, in a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan.
Oxford High School shooting
2018
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake with its epicenter only 24 km from Anchorage, Alaska causes significant property damage but no deaths.
2018 Anchorage earthquake
2007
Atlasjet Flight 4203 crashes in Keçiborlu while on approach to Isparta Süleyman Demirel Airport, killing 57.
Atlasjet Flight 4203
2005
John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
John Sentamu
2004
A McDonnell Douglas MD-82, operating as Lion Air Flight 538, overran the runway at Adisoemarmo Airport and crashed, killing 25 people.
McDonnell Douglas MD-80
2000
NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission.
STS-97
1999
Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
ExxonMobil
1999
In Seattle, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
Seattle
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.
British Aerospace
1995
Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
Gulf War
1995
U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favor of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall; he calls IRA fighters "yesterday's men".
Bill Clinton
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 end inconclusively on December 17.)
Cold 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 because troop levels are now down to 27,000.
Vietnam War
1971
Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah.
Pahlavi dynasty
1967
The People's Republic of Southern Yemen gains its independence from the United Kingdom
South Yemen
1967
The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman.
Pakistan People's Party
1967
Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing.
Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930
1966
Decolonization: Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
Decolonization