| 135543 | November 30 | Event | 1942 – World War II: Battle of Tassafaronga A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright. |
| 135544 | November 30 | Event | 1947 – 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel. |
| 135545 | November 30 | Event | 1953 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda. |
| 135546 | November 30 | Event | 1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap. This is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space. |
| 135547 | November 30 | Event | 1966 – Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom. |
| 135548 | November 30 | Event | 1967 – The People's Democratic Republic of Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom. |
| 135549 | November 30 | Event | 1967 – The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who becomes its first chairman. |
| 135550 | November 30 | Event | 1967 – Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing. |
| 135551 | November 30 | Event | 1971 – Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the United Arab Emirates. |
| 135552 | November 30 | Event | 1972 – Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam because troop levels are now down to 27,000. |
| 135553 | November 30 | Event | 1981 – Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe. (The meetings end inconclusively on December 17.) |
| 135554 | November 30 | Event | 1982 – Michael Jackson's second solo album, Thriller is released worldwide. It will become the best-selling record album in history. |
| 135555 | November 30 | Event | 1989 – Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb. |
| 135556 | November 30 | Event | 1993 – American National Football League awards 30th franchise to the Jacksonville Jaguars. |
| 135557 | November 30 | Event | 1993 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law. |
| 135558 | November 30 | Event | 1994 – MS Achille Lauro catches fire off the coast of Somalia. |
| 135559 | November 30 | Event | 1995 – Official end of Operation Desert Storm. |
| 135560 | November 30 | Event | 1995 – U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favour of the "Northern Ireland peace process" to a huge rally at Belfast City Hall. He calls terrorists "yesterday's men". |
| 135561 | November 30 | Event | 1998 – Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company. |
| 135562 | November 30 | Event | 1999 – In Seattle, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies. |
| 135563 | November 30 | Event | 1999 – British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world. |
| 135564 | November 30 | Event | 2001 – In Renton, Washington, United States, Gary Ridgway (aka The Green River Killer) is arrested. |
| 135565 | November 30 | Event | 2004 – Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, finally loses, leaving him with US$2,520,700, television's biggest game show winnings. |
| 135566 | November 30 | Event | 2004 – Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26. |
| 135567 | November 30 | Event | 2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York. |
| 135568 | November 30 | Event | 2012 – An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane belonging to Aéro-Service, crashes into houses near Maya-Maya Airport during a thunderstorm, killing at least 32 people. |
| 135569 | November 30 | Birth | 539 – Gregory of Tours, French bishop and saint (d. 594) |
| 135570 | November 30 | Birth | 1340 – John, Duke of Berry (d. 1416) |
| 135541 | November 30 | Event | 1939 – Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war. |
| 135542 | November 30 | Event | 1940 – Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut. |