November 30: Day of the Week
November 30, 2023 is the 334th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 31 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is jueves.
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Here’s the November calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
Sagittarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
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November 30 Historical Event(s)
- 1786Peter 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.
- 1853Crimean 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.
- 1902American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
- 1939Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
- 1940Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
- 1967The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War.
- 1981Cold 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 17).
- 1994MS Achille Lauro fire off Somalia coast.
- 2004Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
- 2005John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
Who were born on November 30?
- 1722Theodore Gardelle, Swiss painter and enameler (d. 1761)
- 1836Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
- 1840Henry Birks, Canadian businessman (d. 1928)
- 1930G. Gordon Liddy, American Watergate operative and talk radio host
- 1947Sergio Badilla Castillo, Chilean poet
- 1955Gordon Liu, Chinese actor
- 1958Iz the Wiz, NYC graffiti artist (d. 2009)
- 1981Billy Lush, American actor
- 1983Andy Akinwolere, English television presenter
- 1994William Melling, English actor
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