Computer Security Day
Independence Day in Barbados (1966)
National Day in Benin
Cities for Life Day
ROYAL BIRTHDAY
Prince Fumihito of Japan, The Prince Akishino {1965} (son of Emperor Akihito of Japan)
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENTS
1700 Battle of Narva - A Swedish army of 8,500 men under King Carl XII of Sweden defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva.
1718 King Carl XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
1786 Grand Duke Peter Leopold Joseph of Tuscany, Archduke of Austria (the future Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II, King of the Romans, King in Germany, King of Hungary, Croatia + Bohemia), promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. Consequently, November 30 is commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.
1868 The inauguration of a statue of King Carl XII of Sweden takes place in the King's garden in Stockholm.
1953 Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
1340 Jean of Valois "the Magnificent", Duke of Berry + Auvergne, Count of Poitiers + Montpensier, son of King Jean II of France & brother of King Charles V of France (d.1416)
1719 Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, [Dowager] Princess of Wales, mother of King George III of the United Kingdom (d.1772)
1870 Princess Henriette of Belgium, Princess of Orleans, Duchess of Vendome (d.1948)
DEATHS
1016 King Edmund II "Ironside" of England
1718 King Carl XII of Sweden, Grand Prince of Finland, Duke of Bremen + Verden, Duke of Palatinate Zweibrucken, Duke of Estonia + Karelia, Count Palatine by the Rhine, Duke of Bavaria
2011 King/Crown Prince Leka I of Albania (or "of the Albanians")
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