November 30th is

Cities for Life Day *

Computer Security Day *

Mousse Day

National Methamphetamine
Awareness Day *

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MORE! Jonathan Swift, Shirley Chisholm and Billy Idol, click

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Barbados – Independence Day

Bolivia – Taquiña:
San Andrés Festival

Iran – Martyrdom of Imam Reza

Norfolk Island – Thanksgiving Day

Philippines – Araw ni Bonifacio
(birth of Andrés Bonifacio)

Romania – Sfânful Andrei
(Saint Andrew, protector of Romania)

Scotland – St. Andrew’s Day
(patron saint of Scotland)

Yemen – Independence Day

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On This Day in HISTORY

3340 BC – Earliest known record of a solar eclipse, in Ireland

1508 – Andrea Palladio, Italian architect

1667 – Jonathan Swift born, Irish satirist and essayist, Gulliver’s Travels

1786 – The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern civil state to abolish the death penalty – commemorated as Cities for Life Day *

1803 – Spain completes the process of ceding Louisiana to France

1804 – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase is impeached by the House of Representatives, accused of political bias. He is later acquitted by the Senate

1829 – First Welland Canal trial run, five years to the day from breaking ground

1835 – Mark Twain born, American novelist and humorist, Huckleberry Finn

1838 – Three days after French occupation of Vera Cruz Mexico declares war on France

1874 – Winston Churchill born, English politician and writer, British Prime Minister, Noble Prize laureate

1874 – Lucy Maud Montgomery born, English-Canadian writer, Anne of Green Gables

1886 – The Folies Bergère stages its first revue

1916 –  Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty

1924 – Shirley Chisholm born, first African American woman elected to the U. S. Congress (D-NY 1969-1983) and first woman candidate to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination

1934 – The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman is the first steam locomotive authenticated as reaching 100 mph

1936 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire

1947 – David Mamet born, American playwright-screenwriter-director, American Buffalo

1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space

1955 – Billy Idol born, English singer-songwriter

1965 – The state government of Colorado declared this day to be Rolling Stones Day.

1966 – Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

1967 – The People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

1968 – Sly & The Family Stone release “Everyday People”

1970 – George Harrison releases his triple album All Things Must Pass in U.K.

1971 – Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs islands from the United Arab Emirates

1981 – In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe

1982 – Michael Jackson’s second solo album Thriller is released worldwide, becoming the best-selling record album in history

1988 – First Computer Security Day *

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 terrorists “yesterday’s men”.

1998 – Exxon and Mobil sign a $73.7 billion agreement to merge, creating ExxonMobil, the world’s largest company

1999 – Battle in Seattle: demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies

2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York

2006 – President George W. Bush signs the proclamation for the first National Methamphetamine Awareness Day *

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Visuals

• Lemon mousse
• International flags
• Palladio building designs
• Opening the First Welland Canal by JD Kelly
• First page of Huckleberry Finn
• Winston Churchill ‘continue’ quote
• Anne of Green Gables first edition cover plus first page
• Shirley Chisholm campaign poster
• The Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London, in 1851 – © RIBA Library Drawings
• “Battle in Seattle” 1999 protests of World Trade Organization policies
• John Sentamu, 97th Archbishop of York

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