30 November

Andrea Palladio
30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580
Venetian (Italy) architect – a pioneer of European architecture.

Otto von Guericke
30 November 1602 – 21 May 1686
German scientist who researched vacuums.

Jonathan Swift
30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745
Irish poet and satarist who wrote ‘Gulliver’s Travels’.

Ernst Chladni
30 November 1756 – 3 April 1827
German scientist whose work established the science of acoustics.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau
30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905
French artist, paintings can be seen in the Musée d’Orsay & Louvre, Paris; Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; Chi-Mei Museum, Taiwan; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Mark Twain
30 November 1836 – 21 April 1910
American author, created ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’.

Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose
30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937
Indian scientist regarded as one of the pioneers of radio science.

Winston Churchill
30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965
English statesman, Prime Minister of England during WW II.

Lucy Montgomery
30 November 1874 – 24 April 1942
Canadian author of ‘Anne of Green Gables’.

Clyfford Still
30 November 1904 – 23 June 1980
American abstract artist, paintings can be seen in the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

Today’s National Days
30 November – Scotland and Barbados.

Today’s Quote
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
… Arthur Ashe

Today’s No.1 Hit
1998 – I’m Your Angel by R. Kelly & Celine Dion

Today’s events
30 November 1786 – Capital punishment abolished in Tuscany by its Grand Duke, Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine – leading the world in this reform. In many cities 30 November has since become ‘Cities for Life Day’.
30 November 1854 – Suez Canal proposal is given royal ascent by Sa’id Pasha, the viceroy of Egypt
30 November 1872 – England and Scotland play the first International football game.
30 November 1886 – Premiere of the Folies Bergère in Paris.
30 November 1907 – Lee DeForest announces his invention of the Audion (valve, vacuum tube) in ‘The Scientific American’ magazine.
30 November 1934 – The ‘Flying Scotsman’ train (London to Edinburgh) breaks the 100 mph (160 k/h) speed barrier for trains.