30 Nov 1874
  • Winston Churchill was born in the Blenheim Palace at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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30 Nov 1880
30 Nov 1910
  • General Katsusaburo Shiba was named the chief of staff of the Japanese Chosen Army in occupied Korea.
30 Nov 1918
30 Nov 1929
  • Isoroku Yamamoto was promoted to the rank of rear admiral.
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  • Hiroaki Abe became a staff officer with Japanese Navy Destroyer Squadron 2.
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30 Nov 1937
  • The Spanish Republican government moved from Valencia to Barcelona.
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30 Nov 1938
  • The Czechoslovakian National Assembly elected Dr. Emil Hacha as the president of the republic. The official name of the country was changed by adding a dash, becoming Czecho-Slovak Republic, or Czecho-Slovakia for short.
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30 Nov 1939
  • 21 Soviet divisions crossed the border into Finland at 0800 hours after about one hour of artillery bombardment, starting what was to be known as the Winter War. Soviet aircraft bombed Helsinki.
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  • Photos dated 30 Nov 1939
    Japanese heavy cruiser Atago at the Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, 30 Nov 1939A building in Helsinki, Finland on fire from aerial bombing, 30 Nov 1939Civilian wounded by aerial bombing, Lönnrothkatu Street, Helsinki, Finland, 30 Nov 1939Finnish civilians escaping from a building damaged by aerial bombing, Lönnrothkatu Street, Helsinki, Finland, 30 Nov 1939
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30 Nov 1940
  • German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin attacked British ship Port Wellington in the southern Indian Ocean overnight. 2 were killed and 87 were captured. Seeing some of the female captives were shivering in their nightgowns, Pinguin's First Officer personally returned to the burning wreck and retrieved clothes for the women.
  • German submarine U-101 sank British ship Aracataca 400 miles northwest of Ireland at 0204 hours. 36 were killed and 34 survived.
  • British motor torpedo boats MTB.30 and MTB.31 attacked an anchored German convoy off the mouth of the Scheldt River off the Netherlands. German ship Santos was damaged by a depth charge from MTB.31, while MTB.30 was damaged by gunfire.
  • British minesweeping trawler HMT Chestnut hit a mine and sank in the Thames Estuary in southern England, United Kingdom. The entire crew survived.
  • Chinese troops halted the offensive launched by the Japanese 11th Army five days prior.
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  • The Japanese-sponsored puppet government in Nanjing, China established diplomatic relationship with fellow puppet state Manchukuo.
30 Nov 1941
  • Japanese submarine I-10 launched a scout aircraft for a reconnaissance mission over Suva Bay, Fiji.
  • Japanese destroyers Akembono and Ushio departed Tokyo Bay, Japan for Midway, where they were to bombard US military facilities when hostilities would begin.
  • Emperor Showa ordered Prime Minister Hideki Tojo to proceed with plans to start the Pacific War, and subsequently Tojo rejected US proposals to de-escalate tension in the Far East.
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  • Passenger liner President Madison, chartered by the US Navy, arrived at Olongapo, Philippine Islands, disembarking the 2nd Battalion of the US 4th Marine Regiment before continuing on to Singapore.
  • Latvian and German Jews were massacred near Riga, Latvia.
  • New Zealand 24th and 26th Battalions were battered by Axis attacks at Sidi Rezegh, Libya. German forces launched a fresh attack on Tobruk, Libya. Out at sea, British aircraft from Malta sank Italian ship Capo Faro and damaged Italian ship Iseo, which were en route from Brindisi, Italy to Benghazi, Libya; they were carrying fuel and other supplies that were very much needed for the Axis campaign in North Africa.
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  • The United States Marine Corps reported the strength of 65,881 personnel.
  • The Japanese ambassador in Germany Hiroshi Oshima was informed by his superiors that war with the United States was near, and he was to inform Adolf Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop of such news.
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  • A Soviet force consisted of two destroyers, a troop ship, and other minor vessels arrived at Hanko, Finland to evacuate troops, while another force consisted of troop ship Maya, 3 minesweepers, 2 submarine chasters, and 1 gunboat departed Kronstadt, Russia for Hanko.
  • Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau replaced Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt as the commanding officer of German Army Group South in the Caucasus region of southern Russia.
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  • German armed merchant cruiser Komet arrived at Hamburg, Germany after a 516-day, 87,000-mile, circumnavigating journey. She sank 5 ships, captured 1 ship, and shared credit for another two sinkings on this mission.
  • German submarine U-206 became missing in the Bay of Biscay west of France, possibly lost in a British minefield. All 46 men aboard were lost.
  • Whitley bombers of No. 502 Squadron RAF based in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom attacked German submarines U-71 and U-563 with depth charges in the Bay of Biscay, damaging U-71. This attack marked the first successful use of air-to-surface vessel radar.
  • The warming of temperature in the region around Leningrad, Russia meant a decrease in the ice thickness over Lake Ladoga, which led to the decrease of supplies delivered by ground vehicles driving over ice; only 61 tons of food made its way into the city on this date.
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  • Elements of German 2nd Panzer Division captured the railway station at Lobnya 19 miles north of Moscow, Russia. Meanwhile, Georgi Zhukov was ordered by Joseph Stalin to organize a counterattack.
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  • German submarine U-96 dove to evade attacks by a British Swordfish aircraft off Gibraltar at 2235 hours.
  • German submarine U-43 sank British ship Ashby 170 miles south of the Azores islands at 1926 hours; 17 were killed, some survived and were rescued by Portuguese destroyer Lima. U-43 survived the subsequent depth charging without any damage.
  • Winston Churchill sent Franklin Roosevelt a message requesting a conference on the impending war with Japan. Roosevelt would reject the request to avoid appearing like he was taking the United States toward war for the defense of the British Empire.
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  • Shoho was commissioned into service.
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30 Nov 1942
  • Battle of Tassafaronga: Near Guadalcanal, American cruisers ambushed a Tokyo Express convoy, but the Japanese came out victorious.
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  • HMCS Iroquois (G89) was commissioned into service with Commander W. B. L. Holms in command.
  • Submarine Mingo was launched, sponsored by Mrs. Henry L. Pence.
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  • Submarine tender Taigei completed her conversion work and was recommissioned into service as light aircraft carrier Ryuho with Captain Nobishiro Soma in command.
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  • Irako transited the Bungo Strait between Shikoku and Kyushu, Japan.
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  • Photos dated 30 Nov 1942
    Patton next to a M2 tank, Tunisia, Nov-Dec 1942
30 Nov 1943
30 Nov 1944
  • Former commandant and guards of Majdanek Concentration Camp were put on trial in Poland.
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  • German V-2 rocket at Shooters Hill, London, England, United Kingdom at 0100 hours, killing 23.
  • At a cost of £9,000,000 (excluding the cost of her guns and their mountings), Britain's last Battleship, HMS Vanguard, was launched at Clydebank, Scotland, United Kingdom. Too late to see service in World War II, Vanguard would eventually be completed in Apr 1946.
  • USS Gar arrived at Mios Woendi, Biak Islands, ending her fourtheenth war patrol.
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  • Destroyer Yuzuki arrived at Manila, Luzon, Philippine Islands.
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  • Sakawa was commissioned into service.
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  • U-869 was detached from the German Navy 4th Submarine Flotilla.
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  • Photos dated 30 Nov 1944
    Admiral William Halsey having Thanksgiving dinner with the crew of battleship USS New Jersey, his flagship, 30 Nov 1944Oil being unloaded from the SS Fort Cataraqui in the Belgian port of Antwerp, 30 Nov 1944; this was the first ship to berth at the port following the opening of the Scheldt Estuary
30 Nov 1945
30 Nov 1953
  • USS Cassin Young completed its service in the Mediterranean Sea.
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30 Nov 1960
  • Santa Fe arrived at Base Naval de Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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30 Nov 1965
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Timeline Section Founder: Thomas Houlihan
Contributors: Alan Chanter, C. Peter Chen, Thomas Houlihan, David Stubblebine
Special Thanks: Rory Curtis

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