Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 30
November 30: Independence Day in Barbados (1966), Saint Andrew's Day in Scotland, Bonifacio Day in the Philippines, Cities for Life Day.
- 1786 – Peter Leopold Joseph, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgated a penal reform that made his country the first sovereign state to abolish the death penalty.
- 1853 – Russian battleships led by Pavel Nakhimov destroyed an Ottoman fleet of frigates at the Battle of Sinop in Sinop, Turkey, precipitating the Crimean War.
- 1936 – The Crystal Palace (pictured), built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in London, was destroyed by fire.
- 1939 – The Winter War broke out as the Soviet Red Army invaded Finland and quickly advanced to the Mannerheim Line, an action judged as illegal by the League of Nations.
- 2005 – John Sentamu was enthroned as Archbishop of York, becoming the first member of an ethnic minority to serve as an archbishop in the Church of England.
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