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This is a list of selected November 30 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Ineligible

Blurb Reason
; Independence Day in Barbados (1966) unreferenced section
Bonifacio Day in the Philippines Andrés Bonifacio article has two uncited sections; also, that article is not primarily about the day so it's ineligible anyway
3340 BC – The oldest known record of a solar eclipse was carved into a stone in Ireland. refimprove section; fact not attributed to academic source
1786Peter Leopold Joseph, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgated a penal reform that made his country the first sovereign state to abolish the death penalty. refimprove section
1829 – The first Welland Canal opened, allowing ships to travel between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and bypass the Niagara Falls. refimprove section
1864American Civil War: The Confederate States Army suffered its worst disaster of the war as the Army of Tennessee conducted numerous unsuccessful frontal assaults against fortified positions at Franklin, Tennessee. refimprove section
1936The Crystal Palace, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, was destroyed by fire. refimprove section
1961 – Following the death of Dag Hammarskjöld, Burmese diplomat U Thant (pictured) was elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations. This needs a review. Different articles give different dates. In the U Thant bio, it says in the body that this happened on 3 November 1961. In that article's infobox, it says 30 November 1961 (i.e. 27 days later). In the Secretary-General of the United Nations article, it says that he was acting from 3 November 1961 to 30 November 1962 (i.e. for nearly 13 months). The 1961 United Nations Secretary-General selection says that he was elected on 3 November 1961.
1993 – U.S. president Bill Clinton signed the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act into law, requiring purchasers of handguns to pass a background check. lots of CN tags (7)
Kamehameha IV |d|1863 page numbers needed

Eligible

Day of Remembrance for All Victims of Chemical Warfare (usually on 30 November, but also on "first day of the regular session of the Conference" [of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention], in 2022 this was 28 November.

Notes

November 30: Saint Andrew's Day (Christianity)

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