November 30: Cities for Life Day; Independence Day in Barbados (1966)
King Charles XII of Sweden
- 3340 BC – The oldest known record of a solar eclipse was carved into a stone in Ireland.
- 1700 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII (pictured) defeated the Russian army of Tsar Peter the Great at the Battle of Narva.
- 1864 – American Civil War: The Confederate States Army suffered its worst disaster of the war as the Army of Tennessee conducted numerous unsuccessful frontal assaults against fortified positions at Franklin, Tennessee.
- 1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy warships defeated United States Navy forces during a nighttime naval battle near the Tassafaronga area on Guadalcanal.
- 1982 – Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, was released.
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