Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 30

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Day of Remembrance for All Victims of Chemical Warfare (usually on 30 November, but also on "first day of the regular session of the Conference" [of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention], in 2022 this was 28 November.


 * 1803 – An expedition led by Francisco Javier de Balmis departed A Coruña, Spain, with the aim of vaccinating millions in South America and Asia against smallpox.
 * 1853 – Russian warships led by Pavel Nakhimov destroyed an Ottoman fleet of frigates at the Battle of Sinop, prompting France and the United Kingdom to enter the Crimean War.
 * 1872 – The first international football match (pictured) took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
 * 1936 – English mathematician Alan Turing published the first details of the Turing machine (model pictured), an abstract device that can simulate the logic of any computer algorithm by manipulating symbols.
 * 1942 – World War II: Japanese warships defeated the U.S. Navy in a nighttime naval battle off Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal.
 * 1947 – After the United Nations voted to adopt a partition plan for Palestine, a civil war broke out between the region's Jewish and Arab communities.
 * 1953 – Mutesa II, Kabaka of Buganda, was temporarily deposed and exiled to London by Andrew Cohen, the British governor of Uganda.
 * 1954 – A meteorite crashed through a roof in Sylacauga, Alabama, and hit a sleeping woman in the first verified case of a human being injured by an extraterrestrial object.
 * 1979 – The Wall, a rock opera and concept album by the English band Pink Floyd, was first released.
 * 1999 – Marconi Electronic Systems and British Aerospace merged to form BAE Systems, one of the world's largest defence companies.
 * 2005 – John Sentamu was enthroned as Archbishop of York, becoming the first black archbishop in the Church of England.


 * 2018 – a magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Anchorage, Alaska (pictured) and caused over 100 injuries.


 * Born/died this day: | Emeric, King of Hungary |d|1204| William Gilbert |d|1603| Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha |b|1719| Alexander Berry |b|1781| Frederick Temple |b|1821| William-Adolphe Bouguereau |b|1825|  Liang Cheng  |b|1864| Henry Taube |b|1915| Mahmud Hasan Deobandi |d|1920| Joan Ganz Cooney |b|1929| Shawna Robinson  |b|1964|  Ahmadou Ahidjo |d|1989| Hildegard Temporini-Gräfin Vitzthum  |d|2004| Shane MacGowan  |d|2023|