 11/30/1782 - American Revolutionary War: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized in the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
The American Continental Congress ratified the treaty on January 14, 1784. British ratification occurred on April 9, 1784 and ratifications exchanged on 12 May 1784.
External Link:
Peace Treaty of Paris
Generational Link:
Revolutionary War Cycle - The American Revolution Era - Fourth Turning, Crisis (1774-1787)
Also,
Biography:
b. 11/30/1835 - Samuel Clemens (aka Mark Twain), American writer (d. April 21, 1910)
Generational Link:
Civil War Cycle - Gilded Generation - Nomad (Reactive) (1822-1842)
Beyond America:
11/30/1943 - World War II: Tehran Conference — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord.
b. 11/30/1874 - Sir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Nobel Prize laureate (d. January 24, 1965)
Recent News on This Day / Future History:
(11/30/2005)The US Military has been covertly paying to run news stories written by US Military "information operations" troops. The stories, usually praising the work of the U.S. Military, appeared in Baghdad newspapers
(11/29/2006)Speaker-designate of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi announces that controversial Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings will not be the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the 110th Congress.
11/30/2007 - Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg entered the campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with a device suspected of being a bomb and held three people hostage for 5 hours.
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