📜 This Day in History

November 30

• 1700Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII defeated the Russian army at the Battle of Narva.
• 1872The first international football match took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
• 1936English mathematician Alan Turing published the first details of the Turing machine, an abstract device that can simulate the logic of any computer algorithm by manipulating symbols.
• 1953Mutesa II, Kabaka of Buganda, was temporarily deposed and exiled to London by Andrew Cohen, the British governor of Uganda.
• 1979The Wall, a rock opera and concept album by the English band Pink Floyd, was first released.
• 2018A magnitude-7.1 earthquake hit Anchorage, Alaska, causing 117 injuries.

Born on this day

• 1667Jonathan Swift, Irish satirist and essayist (died 1745)
• 1835Mark Twain, American novelist, humorist, and critic (died 1910)
• 1874Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965)
• 1935Woody Allen, American actor, director, and screenwriter