• 1718 - Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
• 1782 - American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris (1783) — In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
• 1786 - Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
• 1803 - In New Orleans, Louisiana, Spanish representatives officially transfer Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
• 1804 - The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
• 1824 - First ground is broken at Allenburg for the building of the original Welland Canal.
• 1829 - First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking.
• 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.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Franklin — The Army of Tennessee led by General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions commanded by John McAllister Schofield around Franklin, Tennessee (Hood lost six generals and almost a third of his troops).
• 1868 - The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden takes place in the King's garden in Stockholm.
• 1872 - The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
• 1886 - The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
• 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.
• 1908 - A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania kills 154.
• 1916 - Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1934 - The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
• 1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
• 1939 - Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
• 1940 - Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.
• 1942 - World War II Guadalcanal Campaign: Battle of Tassafaronga — A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizo Tanaka defeats a US cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
• 1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin agree to the planned June 1944 invasion of Europe code-named Operation Overlord.
• 1953 - Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
• 1954 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, an 8.5 lb (3.86 kg) sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise, in the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a rock from space.
• 1962 - The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as its 3rd UN Secretary-General.
• 1966 - Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1967 - The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
• 1967 - The 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.
• 1971 - Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
• 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 due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.
• 1974 - Lucy (Australopithecus) is discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.
• 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 ended inconclusively on December 17).
• 1982 - A parcel bomb is delivered to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street.
• 1982 - Michael Jackson releases his sensational hit, "Thriller".
• 1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion USD.
• 1989 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
• 1989 - Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida becomes serial killer Aileen Wuornos's first victim.
• 1993 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.
• 1995 - Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
• 1998 - Deutsche Bank announces a $10 billion USDdeal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world.
• 1999 - In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
• 1999 - British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.
• 2004 - Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700 USD, television's all-time biggest game show haul.
• 2004 - Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
• 2004 - Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns.
• 2005 - John Sentamu becomes the first African American archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
• 2007 - Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg entered the campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with a device suspected of being a bomb and held three people hostage for 5 hours.

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