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Events on November 30

• 1609 Galileo Galilei observes the Moon for the first time through his telescope and makes drawings of mountains, craters and oceans.
• 1676 In Hamburg, the world's first fire insurance company, the Hamburg Fire Insurance Fund, is founded.
• 1872 The world's first international football match is played at Hamilton Crescent Stadium in Partick, near Glasgow. Scotland and England draw 0:0.
• 1939 The Winter War begins with the invasion of Finland by Soviet troops. It lasts until March 13, 1940, and approximately 127,000 Soviet soldiers and 25,000 Finns are killed.
• 1956 The 21-year-old American Floyd Patterson becomes the youngest heavyweight boxing world champion at that time with a knockout victory over his compatriot Archie Moore.
• 1982 Michael Jackson's album Thriller is released. It becomes the best-selling album in the history of music.
• 1984 At the inner German border, soldiers of the East German border troops dismantle the last tripwire booby traps.
• 1989 The banker Alfred Herrhausen is killed in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in a bombing attack.
• 1990 The demolition of the Berlin Wall is officially completed. Six small sections remain as a memorial.
• 1990 The video game console Sega Mega Drive is released in Europe. It is the first video game console based on a 16-bit architecture.
• 2022 The American chatbot ChatGPT is released to the public for the first time.
• 2022 The German Bundestag classifies the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 as genocide.

Born on November 30

• 1874 Winston Churchill, British author and politician, Nobel Prize winner
• 1912 Gordon Parks, American film director, photographer, actor, writer and composer
• 1920 Virginia Mayo, American film actress
• 1924 Shirley Chisholm, American politician
• 1950 Wolfgang Niersbach, German journalist and sports official
• 1950 Claudia Rieschel, German actress
• 1960 Gary Lineker, English football player
• 1980 Sido, German rapper
• 1990 Magnus Carlsen, Norwegian chess player
• 2000 Pashanim, German rapper

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „30. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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