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30 November
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1908 Buddhadeb Bosu, Bengali versatile writer who wrote novels, short stories, plays and essays in addition to poetry, was born.
- 1909 Romesh Chunder Dutt, civil servant, economic historian, writer and translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata, died.
- 1931 Romila Thapar, Indian historian, was born. Her principal area of study is ancient India, a field in which she is pre-eminent.
- 1965 The International Dolls Museum, a large collection of dolls in New Delhi was set up by K. Shankar Pillai, a political cartoonist.
- 1974 India and Pakistan decide to end a 10-year trade ban.
- 1982 Gandhi directed by Richard Attenborough premieres in New Delhi.
- 2012 Former Prime Minister Indra Kumar Gujral died.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1835 Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer, was born. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature".
- 1874 British statesman, orator, and author Sir Winston Churchill, who as prime minister rallied the British people during World War II, was born.
- 1900 Irish author Oscar Wilde died in Paris at age 46.
- 1919 Women cast votes for the first time in French legislative elections.
- 1935 Non-belief in Nazism is proclaimed grounds for divorce in Germany.
- 1966 Barbados achieved its full independence from Britain.
- 1995 Operation Desert Storm, a US military operation to expel occupying Iraqi forces from Kuwait, officially comes to an end.
- 2017 World's longest recorded rainbow - 8 hrs 58 min in Taipei's Yangmingshan mountain range.
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