November 30

November 30

Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan, lead singer of the Pogues, died

November 30, 1996

Stone of Destiny, stolen by the English, returned to Scotland, 700 years later

November 30, 1944

HMS Vanguard, Britains biggest and last battleship, was launched at Clydebank

November 30, 1930

Mary G. Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones, died

November 30, 1923

John Maclean, political activist, Marxist, appointed Bolshevik consul for Scotland by Lenin, died

November 30, 1900

Death of Oscar Wilde in Paris

November 30, 1872

Worlds first international football (soccer) match, Scotland V England at West of Scotland Cricket Ground

November 30, 1869

James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn and first Governor of Northern Ireland

November 30, 1864

General Patrick Cleburne is killed in command of his division at a battle in Franklin, Tennessee

November 30, 1667

Jonathan Swift, poet, satirist and clergyman 1670, born in Dublin

November 30, 1292

John Balliol (Toom Tabard or Turncoat) crowned.

November 30

St. Andrew's Day Patron Saint of Scotland