11-29-2013, 07:43 PM
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November 30th
1667 ~ Birthday of Jonathan Swift, Writer & Satirist.
1835 ~ Birthday of Mark Twain, Writer (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court).
1872 ~ First international soccer match played at Hamilton Crescent, Scotland.
1874 ~ Birthday of Sir Winston Churchill, British political leader & Writer.
1900 ~ Death of Oscar Wilde, Writer.
1936 ~ In London, the Crystal Palace was destroyed in a fire. It had been built for the 1851 Great Exhibition.
1939 ~ Soviet forces crossed the Finnish border in several places and bombed Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the Winter War.
1994 ~ The burning Achille Lauro abandoned off east Africa.
1995 ~ President Clinton became the first U.S. chief executive to visit Northern Ireland.
1999 ~ The anti-globalization movement caught police unprepared and forced the cancellation of opening ceremonies of a WTO meeting.
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