30 November in history

6 events that happened on 30 November, from 1016 to 1995.

  1. ✦ Anniversary of the day

    1016 CE 1,010 years ago

    Edmund Ironside dies, leaving Cnut king of all England

    Edmund II died weeks after agreeing to divide England with the Danish king Cnut. Cnut became sole king, later also ruling Denmark and Norway in a North Sea empire.

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  2. 1667 CE 359 years ago

    Jonathan Swift is born in Dublin

    Jonathan Swift, later Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, was born. His Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal made him one of the great satirists in English.

  3. 1835 CE 191 years ago

    Samuel Clemens, later Mark Twain, is born

    Samuel Langhorne Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri. As Mark Twain he wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, drawing on his boyhood on the Mississippi.

  4. 1872 CE 154 years ago

    Scotland and England play the first international football match

    Scotland and England drew 0-0 at Hamilton Crescent in Partick, Glasgow, before about 4,000 spectators. It is recognised by FIFA as the first official international football match.

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  5. 1939 CE 87 years ago

    The Soviet Union invades Finland

    Soviet forces attacked Finland, starting the Winter War. Fierce Finnish resistance inflicted heavy losses before Finland ceded territory in March 1940, and the Red Army's poor showing was noted in Berlin.

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  6. 1995 CE 31 years ago

    Bill Clinton becomes the first US president to visit Northern Ireland

    Bill Clinton addressed crowds in Belfast and Derry in support of the peace process. The visit added momentum to the talks that produced the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.

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