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Death of Oscar Wilde in Paris
Oscar Fingal O’Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s.
Worlds first international football (soccer) match, Scotland V England at West of Scotland Cricket Ground
The 1872 association football match between the national teams of Scotland and England is officially recognised by FIFA as the sport’s first international. It took place on 30 November 1872 at Hamilton Crescent, the West of Scotland Cricket Club’s ground in Hamilton Crescent, Partick, Glasgow. The match was watched by 4,000 spectators and finished as a 0–0 draw.
James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn and first Governor of Northern Ireland
James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, was the first Governor of Northern Ireland. Born on January 30, 1869, in Hamilton Place, Piccadilly, London, he was the eldest son of James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, and godson of the Prince of Wales.
General Patrick Cleburne is killed in command of his division at a battle in Franklin, Tennessee
Major-General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne (March 16, 1828 – November 30, 1864) was a senior officer in the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
Jonathan Swift, poet, satirist and clergyman 1670, born in Dublin
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric was born on November 30, 1667, in Dublin, Ireland. He became Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, in 1713 hence his common sobriquet, “Dean Swift”.