This day in #history 3011
NOVEMBER 30th
1782 – Britain signs agreement recognizing US
independence
1803 – Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France
1966 – Barbados gains independence from Britain
(National Day )
1966 – Barbados becomes independent from the
United Kingdom .
1967 – Democratic People ‘s republic of Yemen gains independence
1974 – Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy , Australopithecus) is discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb , Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia’ s Afar Depression.
1975 – Dahomey becomes Benin
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1874 – Winston Churchill, ( C ) British Prime Minister (1940 -45, 1951- 55, Nobel 1953)
FAMOUS DEATHS
1864 – John Adams , US Confederate brigadier
general, dies in the Battle of Franklin at about 39
1900 – Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46
.FAMOUS WEDDING
1996 – Multimillionaire and top – selling female
suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark (67) weds
Merrill Lynch Futures retired CEO John Conheeney
(67) in Saddle River, New Jersey
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