Historical Events
1406 - Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII
1908 - 8th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in Melbourne (3-2)
1963 - 51st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats BC Lions, 21-10
1975 - Dahomey becomes Benin
1990 - US President George H. W. Bush offers to send Secretary of State James Baker to Baghdad to meet with Saddam Hussein
2004 - Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26.
Famous Birthdays
1764 - Franz Xaver Gerl, composer
1836 - Lord Frederick Cavendish, British politician (d. 1882)
1920 - Virginia Mayo, St Louis Mo, actress (Out of the Blue, White Heat)
1954 - June Pointer, singer (Pointer Sisters-I'm So excited)
1972 - Spence Fischer, WLAF quarterback (Scotland Claymores)
1977 - Kazumi Saitoh, Japanese baseball player
Famous Deaths
1016 - Edmund II, Ironsides, King of the Saxons (1016), dies at 27
1718 - Charles XII, king of Sweden (1697-1718), dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway at 36
1931 - Marc-Jean-Baptiste Delmas, composer, dies at 46
1986 - Cary Grant, Brit/US actor (Awful Truth, Charade, Father Goose), dies
1997 - Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian, dies at 37
2007 - Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil, at 69
from Today in History | HistoryOrb.com http://www.historyorb.com/day/november/30
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