The Holocaust: The SS-Einsatzgruppen round up roughly 25,000 Jews from the Riga Ghetto and kill them in the Rumbula massacre. Date: November 30, 1941 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on November 30 π Events on this day in 1941 π On This Day (Today)
World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers led by RaizΕ Tanaka defeats a U.S. Navy cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright. Date: November 30, 1942 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on November 30 π Events on this day in 1942 π On This Day (Today)
Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the State of Israel and the 1948 ArabβIsraeli War. Date: November 30, 1947 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on November 30 π Events on this day in 1947 π On This Day (Today)
Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda. Date: November 30, 1953 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on November 30 π Events on this day in 1953 π On This Day (Today)
In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space. Date: November 30, 1954 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on November 30…
Eastern Air Lines Flight 512 crashes at Idlewild Airport, killing 25 people. Date: November 30, 1962 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on November 30 π Events on this day in 1962 π On This Day (Today)
Decolonization: Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom. Date: November 30, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on November 30 π Events on this day in 1966 π On This Day (Today)
Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing. Date: November 30, 1967 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on November 30 π Events on this day in 1967 π On This Day (Today)
The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman. Date: November 30, 1967 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on November 30 π Events on this day in 1967 π On This Day (Today)
The People's Republic of Southern Yemen gains its independence from the United Kingdom Date: November 30, 1967 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on November 30 π Events on this day in 1967 π On This Day (Today)