November 30

Today in History
• 1523 - Amsterdam bans assembly of heretics
• 1630 - 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague
• 1678 - Roman Catholics banned from English parliament
• 1700 - Utrecht/Overijssel/Buren/Leerdam/IJsselstein go on Gregoria calendar
• 1731 - Beijing hit by Earthquake; about 100,000 die
• 1782 - Britain signs agreement recognizing U.S. independence
• 1886 - 1st commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo
• 1924 - 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• Barbados Independence Day
• Bonifacio Day
• Guru Nanak Jayanti
• National Mississippi Day
• National Mousse Day
• National Personal Space Day
• Native Women's Equal Pay Day
• St. Andrew's Day

Birthdays
• 1373 - Ferdinand I, the Righteous, king of Aragon/Sicily
• 1427 - Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (1447-92
• 1602 - Otto von Guericke, German scientist, inventor
• 1723 - William Livingston, American politician and 1st revolutionary Governor of New Jersey
• 1793 - Johann Lukas Schonlein, helped establish scientific medicine
• 1810 - Oliver Winchester, American politician and rifle maker
• 1835 - Mark Twain, Samuel L Clemens, author, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn
• 1874 - Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister