Today is Friday, November 30, the 334th day of 2007. There are 31 days left in the year.
306 _ St. Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic pope
1782 _ Britain signs agreement recognizing U.S. independence
1803 _ Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France
1804 _ Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins
1924 _ The first photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio
1939 _ The USSR invades Finland over a border dispute
1947 _ Day after a U.N. decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
1948 _ Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin
1949 _ Chinese Communists captured Chungking
1962 _ U Thant of Myanmar (Burma) elected the third secretary-general of the U.N. unanimously
1979 _ Ted Koppel becomes anchor of nightly news on Iranian Hostages (ABC)
1988 _ Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; first time in 38 years
1990 _ Bush proposes a U.S.-Iraq meeting to avoid war