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Today in History: Friday, November 30, 2012
On Nov. 30, 1874, British statesman Winston Churchill was born at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
1782 The United States and Britain signed preliminary peace articles in Paris, ending the Revolutionary War.
1804 Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase went on trial, accused of political bias. (He was acquitted by the Senate.)
1835 Author Mark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Mo.
1929 Producer and "American Bandstand" host Dick Clark was born in Mount Vernon, N.Y.
1962 U Thant of Burma was elected secretary-general of the United Nations, succeeding the late Dag Hammarskjold.
1966 The former British colony of Barbados became independent.
1979 The album "The Wall" by Pink Floyd was released.
1982 Michael Jackson's "Thriller," the best-selling album of all time, was released by Epic Records.
1993 President Bill Clinton signed into law the Brady bill, which requires a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases and background checks of prospective buyers.
1993 Authorities in California arrested Richard Allen Davis, who confessed to abducting and killing 12 year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma.
1995 President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. chief executive to visit Northern Ireland.
1999 The opening of a 135-nation trade gathering in Seattle was disrupted by at least 40,000 demonstrators, some of whom clashed with police.
2010 Pentagon leaders called for scrapping the 17-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" ban after releasing a survey about the prospect of openly gay troops.
