11-30-2006, 06:44 AM
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November 30th
1667 ~ Birthday of Jonathan Swift, Writer & Satirist.
1835 ~ Birthday of Mark Twain, Writer (Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court).
1872 ~ First international soccer 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.
1993 ~ President Bill Clinton signed into law the Brady bill, which requires a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of prospective buyers.
1999 ~ The anti-globalization movement caught police unprepared and forced the cancellation of opening ceremonies of a WTO meeting.
2004 ~ Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings lost, having won more than $2,500,000.
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