Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 30

This is a list of selected November 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Meteorite
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  The Crystal Palace
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  Peter Leopold Joseph
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  King Charles XII of Sweden
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  Pavel Nakhimov
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  Model of a Turing machine
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  Live performance of The Wall in 2011
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  WTO protestors in Seattle
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  Damage from the 2018 earthquake
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  A print of the first international football match, in 1872

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Independence Day in Barbados (1966)	unreferenced section
Bonifacio Day in the Philippines	Andrés Bonifacio article has two uncited sections; also, that article is not primarily about the day so it's ineligible anyway
3340 BC – The oldest known record of a solar eclipse was carved into a stone in Ireland.	refimprove section; fact not attributed to academic source
1786 – Peter Leopold Joseph, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgated a penal reform that made his country the first sovereign state to abolish the death penalty.	refimprove section
1829 – The first Welland Canal opened, allowing ships to travel between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and bypass the Niagara Falls.	refimprove section
1864 – American Civil War: The Confederate States Army suffered its worst disaster of the war as the Army of Tennessee conducted numerous unsuccessful frontal assaults against fortified positions at Franklin, Tennessee.	refimprove section
1936 – The Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, was destroyed by fire.	refimprove section
1961 – Following the death of Dag Hammarskjöld, Burmese diplomat U Thant (pictured) was elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations.	This needs a review. Different articles give different dates. In the U Thant bio, it says in the body that this happened on 3 November 1961. In that article's infobox, it says 30 November 1961 (i.e. 27 days later). In the Secretary-General of the United Nations article, it says that he was acting from 3 November 1961 to 30 November 1962 (i.e. for nearly 13 months). The 1961 United Nations Secretary-General selection says that he was elected on 3 November 1961.
1993 – U.S. president Bill Clinton signed the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act into law, requiring purchasers of handguns to pass a background check.	lots of CN tags (7)
Kamehameha IV |d|1863	page numbers needed

Eligible

Day of Remembrance for All Victims of Chemical Warfare (usually on 30 November, but also on "first day of the regular session of the Conference" [of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention], in 2022 this was 28 November.

• 1803 – An expedition led by Francisco Javier de Balmis departed A Coruña, Spain, with the aim of vaccinating millions in South America and Asia against smallpox.
• 1853 – Russian warships led by Pavel Nakhimov destroyed an Ottoman fleet of frigates at the Battle of Sinop, prompting France and the United Kingdom to enter the Crimean War.
• 1872 – The first international football match (pictured) took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
• 1936 – English mathematician Alan Turing published the first details of the Turing machine (model pictured), an abstract device that can simulate the logic of any computer algorithm by manipulating symbols.
• 1942 – World War II: Japanese warships defeated the U.S. Navy in a nighttime naval battle off Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal.
• 1947 – After the United Nations voted to adopt a partition plan for Palestine, a civil war broke out between the region's Jewish and Arab communities.
• 1953 – Mutesa II, Kabaka of Buganda, was temporarily deposed and exiled to London by Andrew Cohen, the British governor of Uganda.
• 1954 – A meteorite crashed through a roof in Sylacauga, Alabama, and hit a sleeping woman in the first verified case of a human being injured by an extraterrestrial object.
• 1979 – The Wall, a rock opera and concept album by the English band Pink Floyd, was first released.
• 1999 – Marconi Electronic Systems and British Aerospace merged to form BAE Systems, one of the world's largest defence companies.
• 2005 – John Sentamu was enthroned as Archbishop of York, becoming the first black archbishop in the Church of England.

• 2018 – a magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Anchorage, Alaska (pictured) and caused over 100 injuries.

• Born/died this day: | Emeric, King of Hungary |d|1204| William Gilbert |d|1603| Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha |b|1719| Alexander Berry |b|1781| Frederick Temple |b|1821| William-Adolphe Bouguereau |b|1825| Liang Cheng |b|1864| Henry Taube |b|1915| Mahmud Hasan Deobandi |d|1920| Joan Ganz Cooney |b|1929| Shawna Robinson |b|1964| Ahmadou Ahidjo |d|1989| Hildegard Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum |d|2004| Shane MacGowan |d|2023|

Notes

• United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19 and United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine both appear on November 29, so Civil War in Mandatory Palestine should not appear in the same year

November 30: Saint Andrew's Day (Christianity)

U Thant

• 1700 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII defeated the Russian army at the Battle of Narva.
• 1934 – Flying Scotsman became the first steam locomotive officially to exceed 100 miles per hour (161 km/h).
• 1999 – A series of protests by anti-globalization activists against the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 in Seattle forced the cancellation of the opening ceremonies.

• Richard Farrant (d. 1580)
• Jagadish Chandra Bose (b. 1858)
• Eir Aoi (b. 1988)
• Cherry Valentine (b. 1993)

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