11-30-2004, 09:22 AM
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November 30th
1667 ~ Birthday of Jonathan Swift, Writer & Satirist.
1782 ~ American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain signed preliminary peace articles which were later formalized in the Treaty of Paris in 1783.
1835 ~ Birthday of Mark Twain, Writer.
1872 ~ First ever international football match played at Hamilton Crescent, Scotland.
1874 ~ Birthday of Sir Winston Churchill , British political leader & Writer.
1936 ~ In London, the Crystal Palace was destroyed in a fire (it had been built for the 1851 Great Exhibition).
1900 ~ Death of Oscar Wilde, Writer.
1954 ~ In Sylacauga, Alabama, an 8.5 pound meteorite crashed through her roof and hit Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio. This is the only documented case of anyone being hit by a meteorite.
1989 ~ Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen was killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb.
1999 ~ In Seattle, Washington, the first major mobilization, in the United States, of the anti-globalization movement caught police unprepared and forced the cancellation of opening ceremonies of a World Trade Organization meeting.
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