This Day In European History

30th November

Events
1016: King Cnut of Denmark becomes sole King of England.
1031: Caliph Hisham III is deposed, marking the end of the Caliphate of Cordoba (in the Iberian peninsular).
1609: Galileo first views the moon through a telescope.
1700: The Battle of Narva; Charles XII of Sweden shatters Peter I's Russian army.
1872: England and Scotland play in the world's first international football match; they draw.
1936: The Crystal Palace of London is destroyed by fire.
1995: Ireland receives its first visit from a US president, Bill Clinton.

Births
1427: King Casimir IV of Poland, also Grand Duke of Lithuania.
1466: Andrea Doria, Genoese commander and statesman.
1508: Andrea Palladio, Italian architect.
1667: Jonathan Swift, Irish writer.
1817: Theodor Mommsen, German historian.
1874: Winston Churchill, English politician.
1889: Edgar Adrian, English physiologist.

Deaths
1016: King Edmund II Ironside of England.
1526: Giovanni de' Medici, Italian soldier.
1700: Armande Bejart, French actress.
1750: Maurice comte de Saxe, French field marshal.
1830: Pope Pius VIII.
1900: Oscar Wilde, Irish writer.

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