What are the important events that happened on November 30? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

November 30: Facts & Myths About This Day

November 30 is the 335^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 31 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 17, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,732,924,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectatriacontapentagon’ day.

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.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 60 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,362 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 30 Historical Events

• 1700 –
  Battle of Narva – A Swedish army of 8,500 men under Charles XII defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva.
• 1783 –
  A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
• 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.
• 1902 –
  American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.
• 1939 –
  Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
• 1953 –
  Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
• 1971 –
  Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
• 1982 –
  Michael Jackson’s Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, is released.
• 1989 –
  Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
• 2004 –
  Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.

Who were born on November 30?

• 1791 –
  Count Franz Philipp von Lamberg, Austrian soldier and statesman (d. 1848)
• 1929 –
  Joan Ganz Cooney, American children’s television pioneer
• 1932 –
  Bob Moore, American bassist and orchestra leader
• 1955 –
  Muricy Ramalho, Brazilian manager and former football player
• 1957 –
  Andrew Calhoun, American musician
• 1957 –
  Joël Champetier, French Canadian author
• 1958 –
  Iz the Wiz, NYC graffiti artist (d. 2009)
• 1966 –
  John Bishop, British comedian
• 1979 –
  Andrés Nocioni, Argentine basketball player
• 1984 –
  Nigel de Jong, Dutch footballer

Who died on November 30?

• 1016 –
  Edmund II of England
• 1675 –
  Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, British colonial governor (b. 1605)
• 1761 –
  John Dollond, British optician (b. 1706)
• 1916 –
  Dorrit Weixler, German actress (b. 1892)
• 1923 –
  John Maclean MA, Scottish Socialist (b. 1879)
• 1953 –
  Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879)
• 1988 –
  Pannonica de Koenigswarter, jazz patroness and writer
• 2003 –
  Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (b. 1906)
• 2004 –
  Seung Sahn, Korean spiritual figure (b. 1927)
• 2008 –
  Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese musician (Loudness) (b. 1958)