November 30

1707 – The 2nd Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida from the Spanish during Queen Anne’s War.

1782 – In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles, later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris.

1803 – In New Orleans, Spain officially transfers the Louisiana Territory to the French First Republic.

1804 – The Senate begins an impeachment trial of Federalist Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase on the charge of partisan political court decisions

1864 – Near Franklin Tennessee, the Confederate Army of Tennessee, under Lieutenant General John Bell Hood, suffers heavy losses in numerous frontal assaults against fortified positions occupied by the the Union Army of the Ohio under Major General John Schofield while his troops stage an orderly retreat to Nashville.

1941 – The SS-Einsatzgruppen begin to round up some 25,000 Jews from the Riga, Latvia Ghetto and kill them in the Rumbula forest over the following week.

1947 – War breaks out in Mandatory Palestine between Jewish and Arab forces.

1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, a Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.

1962 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 512, a Douglas DC-7, crashes during an aborted landing  due to extremely heavy fog, at Idlewild Airport in New York, killing 25 of the 51 passengers and crew aboard.

1982 – Michael Jackson’s sixth solo studio album, Thriller, is released worldwide, ultimately becoming the best selling record album in history.

1995 – Operation Desert Storm officially ends.

1999 – Exxon and Mobil sign a $73.7 billion agreement to merge, creating ExxonMobil, the largest company in the world

2001 – Gary Ridgway is apprehended in Renton Washington, and charged with four murders. He is eventually convicted of a total of 49 murders as the Green River Killer and sentenced to 49 consecutive terms of life imprisonment, plus 10 years.

2007 – Robert ‘Evel’ Knievel dies, age 69, on the way from his home to the hospital in Clearwater, Florida.

2018 – Former President George H. W. Bush dies, age 94 at his home in Houston, Texas.

2021 – A 15 year old student shoots and murders 4 students and wounds 7 more people, including a teacher, at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan.