Talk:November 30

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Selected anniversaries for this day

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November 30: Independence Day in Barbados (1966); Saint Andrew's Day in Scotland; Bonifacio Day in the Philippines; Cities for Life Day

1786 – Peter Leopold Joseph, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgated a penal reform that made his country the first sovereign state to abolish the death penalty.
1853 – Russian battleships led by Pavel Nakhimov destroyed an Ottoman fleet of frigates at the Battle of Sinop in Sinop, Turkey, precipitating the Crimean War.
1936 – The Crystal Palace (pictured), built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, was destroyed by fire.
1939 – The Winter War broke out as the Soviet Red Army invaded Finland and quickly advanced to the Mannerheim Line, an action judged as illegal by the League of Nations.
2005 – John Sentamu was enthroned as Archbishop of York, becoming the first member of an ethnic minority to serve as an archbishop in the Church of England.

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Trivial. --mav 00:20, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Removed:

Not on this day. Best date I could find is "probably sometime in May 306". --mav 00:20, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Moved:

Nope - happened on November 17. --mav 00:20, 30 Nov 2003 (UTC)