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On November 30, 883: Abu al Abbas celebrates a victory parade in Bagdhad following the surpression of the Zanj Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the Arab world.

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Abu al Abbas celebrates a victory parade in Bagdhad following the surpression of the Zanj Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the Arab world.

Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ṭalḥa ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn, better known by his regnal name al-Muʿtaḍid bi-llāh, was the caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from 892 until his death in 902.

People

Born on November 30

Jane Paknia 2000– American synthesizer player and composer
Grant Williams 1998– American basketball player (born 1998)
Lancey Foux 1995– British rapper (born 1995)
Sofia Araújo 1994– Portuguese tennis and padel player (born 1994)
Marko Daňo 1994– Slovak ice hockey player (born 1994)
Agnatius Paasi 1991– Tonga international rugby league footballer
Magnus Carlsen 1990– Norwegian chess grandmaster (born 1990)
Antoine N'Gossan 1990– Ivorian footballer
Adelaide Clemens 1989– Australian actress (born November 30, 1989)
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Vladimír Weiss 1989– Slovak footballer
Phillip Hughes 1988– Australian cricketer (1988–2014)
Vitaliy Polyanskyi 1988– Ukrainian footballer (born 1988)
Rebecca Rittenhouse 1988– American actress
Tomi Saarelma 1988– Finnish footballer (born 1988)
Vasilisa Bardina 1987– Russian tennis player
Christel Khalil 1987– American actress (born 1987)
Naomi 1987– American professional wrestler and dancer (born 1987)
Daniel Noboa 1987– President of Ecuador since 2023

People

Died on November 30

Lou Carnesecca American basketball coach (1925–2024)
Alistair Darling British politician (1953–2023)
Shane MacGowan Irish singer-songwriter (1957–2023)
Jiang Zemin Leader of China from 1989 to 2002
Christine McVie British musician (1943–2022)
Irina Antonova Soviet and Russian art historian (1922–2020)
George H. W. Bush President of the United States from 1989 to 1993
Jim Nabors American actor and singer (1930–2017)
Surin Pitsuwan Thai politician (1949–2017)
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Marina Popovich Soviet Air Force colonel, engineer and test pilot
Alfie Curtis British actor (1930–2017)
Pío Caro Baroja Spanish film director (1928–2015)
Minas Hatzisavvas Greek actor
Marcus Klingberg Israeli scientist and Soviet spy (1918–2015)
Fatema Mernissi Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist (1940–2015)
Shigeru Mizuki Japanese manga artist (1922–2015)
Eldar Ryazanov Soviet and Russian filmmaker (1927–2015)
Nigel Buxton British travel writer and wine critic

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  1. 883 Abu al Abbas celebrates a victory parade in Bagdhad following the surpression of the Zanj Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the Arab world.

    16th Abbasid Caliph (r. 892–902)

    Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ṭalḥa ibn Jaʿfar ibn Muḥammad ibn Hārūn, better known by his regnal name al-Muʿtaḍid bi-llāh, was the caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate from 892 until his death in 902.

  2. 978 Franco-German war of 978–980: Holy Roman Emperor Otto II lifts the siege of Paris and withdraws.

    West Francia vs. Holy Roman Empire

    The Franco-German war of 978–980 was fought over possession of Lotharingia and over personal honour. In the summer of 978, King Lothair of West Francia (France) launched a surprise attack on Aachen, almost capturing the Emperor Otto II, king of East Francia (Germany) and of Italy. By autumn Lothair had returned to West Francia, while Otto had convoked a diet and assembled an army.

  3. 1707 Queen Anne's War: The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British Empire and their Creek allies to capture Pensacola, Spanish Florida.

    North American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession (1702–1713)

    Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought in North America involving the colonial empires of Great Britain, France, and Spain. In the United States, it is regarded as a standalone conflict. Elsewhere it is viewed as the American theater of the War of the Spanish Succession.

  4. 1718 Great Northern War: King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway.

    Swedish-Russian conflict (1700–1721)

    In the Great Northern War (1700–1721) a coalition led by Russia successfully contested the supremacy of Sweden in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swedish alliance were Peter I of Russia, Frederick IV of Denmark–Norway and Augustus II the Strong of Saxony-Poland-Lithuania. Frederick IV and Augustus II were defeated by Sweden, under Charles XII, and forced out of the alliance in 1700 and 1706, respectively, but rejoined it in 1709 after the defeat of Charles XII at the Battle of Poltava.

  5. 1782 American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).

    1775–1783 conflict in North America

    The American Revolutionary War, also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was the armed conflict that comprised the final eight years of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army. The conflict was fought in North America, the Caribbean, and the Atlantic Ocean. The war's outcome seemed uncertain for most of the war, but Washington and the Continental Army's decisive victory in the Siege of Yorktown in 1781 led King George III and the Kingdom of Great Britain to negotiate an end to the war.

  6. 1786 The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day).
  7. 1803 The Balmis Expedition starts in Spain with the aim of vaccinating millions against smallpox in Spanish America and Philippines.
  8. 1803 In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to the French First Republic.
  9. 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.
  10. 1864 American Civil War: The Confederate Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood suffers heavy losses in an attack on the Union Army of the Ohio under General John Schofield in the Battle of Franklin.
  11. 1872 The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
  12. 1916 Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.
  13. 1936 In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
  14. 1939 World War II: The Soviet Red Army crosses the Finnish border in several places, bombing Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the Winter War.
  15. 1940 World War II: Signing of the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1940 between the Empire of Japan and the newly formed Wang Jingwei-led Reorganized National Government of the Republic of China. This treaty was considered so unfair to China that it was compared to the Twenty-One Demands.
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  1. 1941 The Holocaust: The SS-Einsatzgruppen round up roughly 25,000 Jews from the Riga Ghetto and kill them in the Rumbula massacre.
  2. 1942 World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. Navy cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
  3. 1947 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the State of Israel and the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
  4. 1953 Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
  5. 1954 In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.
  6. 1962 Eastern Air Lines Flight 512 crashes at Idlewild Airport, killing 25 people.
  7. 1966 Decolonization: Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
  8. 1967 The People's Republic of Southern Yemen gains its independence from the United Kingdom
  9. 1967 The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman.
  10. 1967 Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing.
  11. 1971 Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.)
  14. 1995 Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
  15. 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".

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