November 30 Wikipedia featured article

Scotland players in 1882 The Scotland national football team has represented Scotland in association football since the world's first international football match on St. Andrew's Day (Scotland's National Day), 30 November 1872. Controlled by the Scottish Football Association, the team competes in the two major professional tournaments, the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA European Championship, but not the Olympic Games. Most of their home matches...

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On this day: November 30

November 30: Cities for Life Day; Independence Day in Barbados (1966) UN Secretary-General U Thant 1700 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII defeated the Russian army of Tsar Peter the Great at the Battle of Narva. 1853 – Russian warships led by Pavel Nakhimov destroyed an Ottoman fleet of frigates at the Battle of Sinop, precipitating the Crimean War. 1962 – Burmese diplomat U Thant (pictured) became United Nations Secretary-General,...

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November 29 Wikipedia featured article

SMS Lützow was the second Derfflinger-class battlecruiser built by the German Imperial Navy before World War I. Launched on 29 November 1913, the ship was named in honor of the Prussian general Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. Due to engine damage during trials, Lützow did not join the I Scouting Group until March 1916. She missed most of the major actions conducted by the German battlecruiser force, taking part...

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On this day: November 29

November 29 Richard E. Byrd 1549 – After the death of Pope Paul III, a papal conclave with an unprecedented number of cardinal electors convened to determine his successor. 1899 – FC Barcelona, one of the most successful clubs in Spanish football, was founded by Swiss football pioneer Joan Gamper. 1929 – American explorer Richard E. Byrd (pictured) and three others completed the first flight over the South Pole. 1963 – Five minutes after takeoff...

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On this day: November 28

November 28: Navy Day in Iran (1980) Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill at Tehran 936 – Shi Jingtang was enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang. 1443 – Having deserted the army of the Ottoman Empire, Skanderbeg went to Krujë in Middle Albania and using a forged letter from Sultan Murad II to the Governor of Krujë, became lord of the city. 1905 – Irish nationalist...

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November 28 Wikipedia featured article

The Australian cricketer Keith Miller toured England in 1948 as a member of The Invincibles, a team that went undefeated in their 34 tour matches. Miller (28 November 1919 – 11 October 2004) was an all-rounder: a fast bowler and a right-handed middle-order batsman. Don Bradman, the team captain, typically used him and Ray Lindwall in short bursts with the new ball. Miller took 13 wickets at an average of 26.28, playing a key role in subduing England's...

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November 27 Wikipedia featured article

Banksia canei (mountain banksia) is a shrub of the subalpine areas of the Great Dividing Range between Melbourne and Canberra in southeastern Australia. First collected on 27 November 1962, it superficially resembles B. marginata, but is more closely related to another subalpine species, B. saxicola. Although no subspecies are recognised, four geographically isolated populations have been described, as there is significant variation in the shape...

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On this day: November 27

November 27 Alfred Nobel 1856 – King-Grand Duke William III unilaterally revised the constitution of Luxembourg, greatly expanding his powers. 1895 – Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel (pictured) signed his last will and testament, setting aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death. 1944 – Between 3,500 and 4,000 tonnes of ordnance exploded at the RAF Fauld underground munitions storage depot in the...

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November 26 Wikipedia featured article

Warlugulong (1977) is an acrylic painting by Indigenous Australian artist Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri. In 2007 it was purchased by the National Gallery of Australia for A$2.4 million, a record auction price for a contemporary Indigenous Australian art work. The painting illustrates eight dreamings of traditional locations the artist had knowledge of, and depicts the story of an ancestral creature called Lungkata or the Blue-Tongue Lizard Man, who created bushfire. The painting portrays the aftermath of a fire caused by Lungkata to punish...

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On this day: November 26

November 26: Feast day of Sylvester Gozzolini and John Berchmans (Roman Catholic Church); Constitution Day in India (1949); Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine (2016) University of Notre Dame main building 1161 – A Song dynasty fleet defeated Jin dynasty ships in a naval engagement on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars. 1842 – The University of Notre Dame (main administration building pictured) was founded by Rev. Edward Sorin, of the...

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November 25 Wikipedia featured article

Killer Instinct Gold is a fighting video game based on the arcade game Killer Instinct 2. It was developed by Rare and initially released on November 25, 1996, by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 video game console. As in other series entries, players press buttons to punch and kick their opponent in chains of successive hits, known as combos. Large combo chains lead to stronger attacks and brutal, stylistic finisher moves. Characters—including a gargoyle, a ninja, and a femme fatale—fight in settings including a jungle and a spaceship. The...

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On this day: November 25

November 25: Evacuation Day in New York (1783) Yukio Mishima 1120 – William Adelin, the only legitimate son of King Henry I of England, drowned in the White Ship Disaster, leading to eighteen years of civil war, a period later known as the Anarchy. 1491 – Reconquista: The Granada War was effectively brought to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Granada between Castile-Aragon and the Emirate of Granada. 1795 – Stanisław August Poniatowski,...

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November 24 Wikipedia featured article

Alben W. Barkley (November 24, 1877 – April 30, 1956) was the 35th Vice President of the United States, from 1949 to 1953. He was elected U.S. Representative from Kentucky's First District in 1912 as a liberal Democrat, supporting President Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom domestic agenda and foreign policy. In 1926 he entered the U.S. Senate, where he supported the New Deal, and was elected to succeed Senate Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson...

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On this day: November 24

November 24: Feast day of Vietnamese Martyrs (Roman Catholicism); Thanksgiving in the United States (2016) Charles Darwin 1542 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: England captured about 1,200 Scottish prisoners with its victory in the Battle of Solway Moss. 1859 – On the Origin of Species by British naturalist Charles Darwin (pictured) was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day. 1906 – A local newspaper accused members of two...

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On this day: November 23

November 23: National Sovereignty Day in Argentina; St George's Day in Georgia; Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan Perkin Warbeck 1499 – Perkin Warbeck (pictured), a pretender to the English throne during the reign of King Henry VII, was hanged after allegedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. 1733 – African slaves from Akwamu in the Danish West Indies revolted against their owners, one of the earliest and longest slave revolts in...

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November 23 Wikipedia featured article

Evelyn Waugh The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a novel by the British writer Evelyn Waugh (pictured), his next-to-last full-length work of fiction, first published in July 1957. He called it his "mad book"—a largely autobiographical account concerning the early months of 1954 when he was hallucinating as a result of his addictions. In search of a peaceful environment in which he could resume writing, he had embarked on a sea voyage, but was driven...

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November 22 Wikipedia featured article

Star Trek: First Contact is an American science fiction film, released on November 22, 1996. It is the eighth in the Star Trek film franchise and the first without any characters from the original series. On mid-21st century Earth, characters from the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation struggle to save their future from the cybernetic Borg. After the seventh film, Star Trek Generations (1994), Paramount tasked writers Brannon Braga...

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On this day: November 22

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November 21 Wikipedia featured article

La Máscara, the current champion The CMLL World Light Heavyweight Championship (Campeonato Mundial Semi Completo de CMLL in Spanish) is a professional wrestling world heavyweight championship promoted by Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) since 1991. As with other professional wrestling championships, it is not an actual competition, but is won according to a scripted ending to a match, and sometimes awarded to a wrestler because of a storyline....

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On this day: November 21

November 21: World Hello Day; Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh Pierre Amine Gemayel 1386 – Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur captured and sacked the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, forcing King Bagrat V to convert to Islam. 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the city of Lüshunkou, the Japanese Second Army killed more than 1,000 Chinese servicemen and civilians. 1950 – Two trains collided near Valemount, British Columbia, Canada; the subsequent...

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November 20 Wikipedia featured article

The Divisional Cavalry Regiment, New Zealand's first armoured unit, was formed in September 1939 after the country entered the Second World War. After being sent to Egypt with the 2nd New Zealand Division, the regiment deployed to Greece as part of W Force, the British contingent sent to defend the country from Nazi Germany in March 1941. The regiment was scattered during the retreat from Greece; most of it ended up in Crete, but had to evacuate...

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On this day: November 20

November 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance; Arba'een/Arba'een Pilgrimage (Shia Islam, 2016); Feast of Christ the King (Roman Catholic Church, 2016) Philip Mountbatten and Elizabeth II 1739 – War of Jenkins' Ear: A British naval force captured the settlement of Portobello in the Spanish Main (modern Panama). 1845 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: The Argentine Confederation were defeated in the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado, but...

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November 19 Wikipedia featured article

The Columbian half dollar is the first US commemorative coin, struck at the Mint from November 19, 1892, until early 1893. It was issued both to raise funds for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and to mark the quadricentennial of the first voyage to the Americas of Christopher Columbus, the first historical person to be depicted on an American coin (pictured). Fair official James Ellsworth wanted the new half dollar to be based on a 16th-century...

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