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Wikiquote (Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, Hon. RA (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British politician, best known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, he served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55).)
● Never was so much owed by so many to so few - Winston Churchill Speeches, Youtube 
November 30th, 1700
Great Northern War:
1700 - Battle of Narva; a Swedish army of 8,500 men under Charles XII defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva.
1718 - Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
Wikipedia Painting: Great Northern War (1700–1721); Narva (1700), by Gustaf Cederström 1905 (1845–1933).
November 30th, 1782
American Revolutionary War:
1782 - Treaty of Paris; in Paris representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
Wikipedia Paintings: Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Leutz; Battle of the Chesapeake, French (left) and British (right) lines; Battle of Bunker Hill, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill by John Trumbull; The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 13, 1782, by John Singleton Copley; Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, 1781; "The surrender at Saratoga" shows General Daniel Morgan in front of a French de Vallière 4-pounder; Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown by (John Trumbull, 1797).
Benjamin West's painting of the delegations at the Treaty of Paris: John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens and William Temple Franklin. The British delegation refused to pose, and the painting was never completed.
November 30th, 1803
New Orleans, Louisiana: Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to a French. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
Wikipedia Image: Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States, Rembrandt Peale (1805). - Coronation of Napoleon I on his Imperial Throne by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1806. Louisiana Territory purchased by the United States from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation.
November 30th, 1804
Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.
Wikipedia Painting: Samuel Chase; Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
November 30th, 1853
Crimean War: Battle of Sinop; The Imperial Russian Navy under Pavel Nakhimov destroys the Ottoman fleet under Osman Pasha at Sinop, a sea port in northern Turkey.
Wikipedia Painting: Crimean War; Battle of Sinop, by Ivan Aivazovsky.
November 30th, 1864
American Civil War:
1864 - Battle of Franklin; The Army of Tennessee led by Confederate General John Bell Hood mounts a dramatically unsuccessful frontal assault on Union positions commanded by John McAllister Schofield around Franklin, Tennessee, with Hood losing six generals and almost a third of his troops.
Wikipedia Image: ● Lincoln Memorial; an American national monument built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln - located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. across from the Washington Monument.
● The northern army led by George McClellan and the southern army led by Robert E. Lee met at Antietam Creek, Maryland in September, 1862. It was a bloody battle where 13,000 Confederates and 12,000 Union troops died in just one day. McClellan had hesitated to attack before the battle thus letting the southern troops regroup. Also, he had saved reserves and refused to use them at the end of the battle thinking that Lee was holding reserves for a counterattack, even though those reserves didn't exist. The Union victory stopped Lee's northward advance and was a turning point in the war.
● Battle of Antietam / Stone Bridge at Antietam Battlefield - Sharpsburg, Maryland
● First Battle Between Ironclads: CSS Virginia/Merrimac (left) vs. USS Monitor, in 1862 at the Battle of Hampton Roads.
● Although photography was still in its infancy, war correspondents produced thousands of images, bringing the harsh realities of the frontlines to those on the home front in a new and visceral way. The Atlantic.
November 30th, 1872
Scotland vs England football match: First-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
Wikipedia Photo: Football Association announce 2013 England - Scotland (England will play Scotland at Wembley in a friendly to mark the Football Association's 150th anniversary) credit BBC, Getty Images.
November 30th, 1886
Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
Wikipedia Image: Jules Cheret, Folies Bergère, Fleur de Lotus, 1893 Art Nouveau poster for the Ballet Pantomime; Josephine Baker in a banana skirt from the Folies Bergère production Un Vent de Folie; A Bar at the Folies-Bergere (Un bar aux Folies Bergère), by Edouard Manet, 1882, Paris, France.
November 30th, 1902
American Old West:
1902 - Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor..
Wikipedia Image: Butch Cassidy, Fort Worth, Texas, 1900; Sundance Kid and Place before they headed to South America; Sitting (l to r): Harry A. Longabaugh, alias the Sundance Kid, Ben Kilpatrick, alias the Tall Texan, Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy; Standing (l to r): Will Carver, alias News Carver and Harvey Logan, alias Kid Curry; Fort Worth, Texas, 1900. Click a person for more information.
November 30th, 1934
Flying Scotsman (steam locomotive), becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.
Wikipedia Photo: Flying Scotsman (train), credit Peter Tandy UK.
November 30th, 1936
London: The Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
Wikipedia Photo: The Crystal Palace; Crystal Palace High Level Station 1908 © John Alsop; Last train to leave Crystal Palace September 19th, 1954 © Brian Halford; Crystal Palace High Level Station © John L. Smith; credit Disused-Stations.org.
November 30th, 1939
World War II: Eastern Front (World War II);
1939 - Winter War; Russian forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war.
Wikipedia Photo: Germans race towards Stalingrad. August 1942; Soviet children during a German air raid in the first days of the war, June 1941, by RIA Novosti archive; Soviet sniper Roza Shanina in 1944. About 400,000 Soviet women served in front-line duty units Caucasus Mountains, winter 1942/43; Finnish ski patrol: the invisible enemy of the Soviet Army with an unlimited supply of skis; Men of the German Engineers Corps cross a river which is swollen after the first autumn rains, to strengthen bridges linking the German positions on the central front in Russia. by Keystone / Getty Images. October 1942; Russian snipers fighting on the Leningrad front during a blizzard. Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images, 1943; German soldiers surrendering to the Russians in Stalingrad, the soldier holding the white flag of surrender is dressed in white so that there could be no doubt of his intentions, a Russian soldier is on the right of the photograph. by Keystone / Getty Images, January 1943.
November 30th, 1942
World War II:
1942 - Guadalcanal Campaign; Battle of Tassafaronga, a smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a United States cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright.
Wikipedia Photo: Bombing of Dresden in World War II; August Schreitmüller's sculpture 'Goodness' surveys Dresden after a firestorm started by Allied bombers in 1945.
USS Bunker Hill was hit by kamikazes piloted by Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa and another airman on 11 May 1945. 389 personnel were killed or missing from a crew of 2,600; Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa, who flew his aircraft into the USS Bunker Hill during a Kamikaze mission on 11 May 1945; Kamikaze Missions - Lt Yoshinori Yamaguchi's Yokosuka D4Y3 (Type 33 Suisei) "Judy" in a suicide dive against USS Essex. The dive brakes are extended and the non-self-sealing port wing tank is trailing fuel vapor and/or smoke 25 November 1944.
German V1 flying-bomb and V2 Rockets - Preparations for a Salvo Launch of V-2 Rockets in the Heidelager near Blizna (Poland) (1944), credit German History in Documents and Images GHDI.
November 30th, 1947
Civil War in Mandatory Palestine: (1947 - 1948)
1947 - Begins on this day, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.
Wikipedia Photo: Potsdam Conference; Clement Attlee, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945. (The Potsdam Conference: held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm Hohenzollern, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945)
Civil War in Mandatory Palestine; Arab volunteers fighting in Palestine in 1947; Jewish soldiers at Katamon, Jerusalem; Jerusalem convoy, 1948.
November 30th, 1971
Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates.
Wikipedia Image: Strait of Hormuz; The Strait of Hormuz is only 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, credit ALAMY.
November 30th, 1972
Vietnam War:
1972 - White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.
Wikipedia Photo: Vietnam War: Hovering U.S. Army helicopters pour machine gun fire into a tree line to cover the advance of South Vietnamese ground troops in an attack on a Viet Cong camp 18 miles north of Tay Ninh, northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border, in Vietnam on March 1965. (AP Photo / Horst Faas) / Boston Globe
November 30th, 1981
Post Cold War:
1981 - In Geneva, representatives from the United States and Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17).
Wikipedia Photo: Lockheed C-130 Hercules; RAF Menwith Hill, a large site in the United Kingdom, part of ECHELON and the UKUSA Agreement; New Zealand nuclear test, British nuclear tests near the Malden and Christmas Islands in the mid-Pacific in 1957 and 1958; Nevada nuclear tests, Nevada Division of Environmental Protection Bureau of Federal Facilities.
November 30th, 1982
Michael Jackson's Thriller the best-selling album of all time is released.
Wikipedia Photo: Thriller Studio album by Michael Jackson.
November 30th, 1995
Gulf War - Iraq War:
1995 - Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
Wikipedia Photo: USAF F-15Es, F-16s, and a USAF F-15 flying over burning Kuwaiti oil wells; Iraqi Army T-72 main battle tanks. The T-72 tank was a common Iraqi battle tank used in the Gulf War; F-15Es parked during Operation Desert Shield; The oil fires caused were a result of the scorched earth policy of Iraqi military forces retreating from Kuwait; Aerial view of destroyed Iraqi T-72 tank, BMP-1 and Type 63 armored personnel carriers and trucks on Highway 8 in March 1991.
November 30th, 1998
Exxon and Mobil sign a $73.7 billion USD agreement to merge, thus creating Exxon-Mobil the world's largest company.
Wikipedia Logo: Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE: XOM) or ExxonMobil, is an American multinational oil and gas corporation.
November 30th, 2004
Jeopardy! - Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with US $2,520,700, television's biggest game show winnings.
Wikipedia Photo: Jeopardy! with host Alex Trebek; In 2004, Ken Jennings, a software engineer, dominated television sets across the country when he won 74 consecutive Jeopardy! games, earning $2.52 million, credit Jeopardy Productions, Inc.