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What happened in history on this day: November 30?
On November 30 in ...
- 1988 - The Disney Channel begins airing Good Morning, Miss Bliss.
- 2004 - Longtime Jeopardy! (TV show) champion Ken Jennings finally loses after 74 wins, leaving him with $2,520,700, television's all-time biggest game show haul.
Births on November 30
- 1912 - Birth of Gordon Parks; film director/writer (Learning Tree).
- 1913 - Birth of John K.M. McCaffery in Moscow, Idaho, USA; TV host (One Minute Please).
- 1918 - Birth of Efrem Zimbalist Junior in New York City, New York, USA; actor (The FBI, 77 Sunset Strip, Scruples, voice of Alfred - Batman-the Animated Series).
- 1920 - Birth of Virginia Mayo in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; actress (Out of the Blue, White Heat).
- 1924 - Birth of Allan Sherman in Chicago, Illinois, USA; comedian and writer (I've Got a Secret TV show, "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh!" song).
- 1926 - Birth of Richard Crenna in Los Angeles, California, USA; radio actor (Our Miss Brooks, A Date with Judy, The Great Gildersleeve), TV actor (Our Miss Brooks, Rambo, Summer Rental, Sand Pebbles, The Real McCoys, Slattery's People, Judging Amy, The Rape of Richard Beck (Emmy award)).
- 1927 - Birth of Robert Guillaume in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; actor (Benson, Soap, Sports Night).
- 1929 - Birth of Joan Ganz Cooney in Phoenix, Arizona, USA; TV executive (Children's TV Workshop).
- 1929 - Birth of Dick Clark in Mount Vernon, New York, USA; TV host (American Bandstand).
- 1931 - Birth of Jack Ging in Alva, Oklahoma, USA; actor (11th Hour, Ripcord, Tales of Wells Fargo, The A-Team).
- 1931 - Birth of Jack Sheldon in Jacksonville, Florida, USA; musician, actor (Run Buddy Run, Merv Griffin Show).
- 1937 - Birth of Richard Threlkeld; newscaster (ABC-TV, CBS).
- 1950 - Birth of Kathryn Witt in Miami, Florida, USA; actress (Pam - Flying High, Lenny).
- 1950 - Birth of Margaret Whitton in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Cutters, Good and Evil, Barbara - Hometown, Major League).
- 1951 - Birth of Dian Parkinson; TV model (Price is Right).
- 1952 - Birth of Mandy Patinkin; actor/singer (Yentl, Alien Nation, Criminal Minds, Dead Like Me, Chicago Hope).
- 1957 - Birth of Colin Mochrie; actor/comedian (Whose Line is it Anyway?).
- 1965 - Birth of Ben Stiller; Actor-director (Ben Stiller Show, Arrested Development).
- 1970 - Birth of Sandra Oh in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; actress (Grey's Anatomy, Arli$$).
- 1978 - Birth of Clay Aiken; singer (American Idol, Celebrity Apprentice).
- 1982 - Birth of Elisha Cuthbert in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; actress (24 TV show).
- 1985 - Birth of Kaley Cuoco; actress (Big Bang Theory, Charmed, Eight Simple Rules).
Deaths on November 30
- 1973 - Bruce Yarnell of Los Angeles, California, actor (Outlaws), dies at age 35.
- 1981 - Robert H Harris, actor (Jake - The Goldbergs), dies at age 72.
- 1994 - Death of Lionel Stander of lung cancer at age 86; actor (Max - Hart to Hart TV show, Eddie Cantor Show radio show, Kraft Music Hall, The Fred Allen Show, It Takes a Thief, Dream On, Mayor of the Town, Stage Door Canteen, The Jack Paar Show, The Life of Riley (1941)).
- 1995 - Death of William Roerick at age 83 in a motor vehicle accident; actor (The Guiding Light TV show, Playhouse 90 TV show, Kraft TV Theatre TV show, Another World TV show, Law and Order TV show).
- 2004 - Death of Pierre Berton of heart failure at age 84; Canadian author and broadcaster (Front Page Challenge).
- 2015 - Death of Eldar Ryazanov, Russian film director (born 1927).
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