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Facts
1016 Cnut the Great (Canute), King of Denmark, claims the English throne after the death of Edmund 'Ironside'
1648 English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I
1731 Beijing hit by an earthquake; about 100,000 die
1786 Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II promulgates a penal reform, making his the 1st state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 commemorated as Cities for Life Day.
1974 Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression
Deaths
1016 Edmund II, Ironsides, King of the Saxons (1016), dies at 27
1900 Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright and novelist (Importance of Being Earnest), dies in Paris at 46
1944 Albert B. Fall, New Mexico Senator (Teapot Dome Scandal), dies at 83
1987 James Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain), dies at 63
2004 Pierre Berton, Canadian author, dies of heart failure at 84
2007 Evel Knievel, American motorcycle daredevil (Snake River Canyon), dies of pulmonary disease at 69
2013 Paul Walker, American actor (The Fast and the Furious), dies in a car accident at 40
Born on this day
1960 Gary Lineker, English soccer player (World Cup 1986)
1965 Ben Stiller, American actor (Ben Stiller Show, Next of Kin, Cable Guy), born in NYC, New York
A Couple of Pics from those no longer with us
Oscar Wilde
Evel Knievel