Wikipedia:Main Page history/2015 November 30

Detail from A Boyar Wedding Feast

• ... that A Boyar Wedding Feast (detail pictured) by Konstantin Makovsky was once in the art collection of the creator of Ripley's Believe It or Not!?
• ... that towards the end of her life, biologist Mary Cynthia Dickerson had hallucinations of the Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson?
• ... that a review of
  Great Highland Bagpipe
  the orchestra's "real partner in this virile, rousing piece of music"?
• ... that the
  Lenape potato was withdrawn because it was toxic, but it is used to breed other varieties for potato chips
  ?
• ... that
  1936 United States Olympic Trials
  and failed to qualify for the Olympics?
• ... that Hanlin, Burma, was inscribed by the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites in October 1996 for its archaeological heritage traced to more than 1,000 years between 200 BC and 900 AD?
• ... that the quality of the embroidery of the Albanian xhamadan reflected social status?
• ... that one reviewer liked Shamus: Case II so much that they suggested rushing out and buying it to ensure there would be another sequel?

Kyle Busch

• A bomb attack on a bus kills 14 presidential security guards in Tunis, Tunisia.
• A Russian Su-24 warplane is shot down by a Turkish Air Force F-16 near the border between Turkey and Syria.
• American
  Allergan
  agree to a merger that will create the world's largest pharmaceutical company.
• More than 100 people are killed in a landslide at a jade mine in Kachin State, Myanmar.
• In motorsport, Kyle Busch (pictured) wins the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship.

November 30: Cities for Life Day; Independence Day in Barbados (1966)

King Charles XII of Sweden

• 1700 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII (pictured) defeated the Russian army of Tsar Peter the Great at the Battle of Narva.
• its worst disaster of the war as the Army of Tennessee conducted numerous unsuccessful frontal assaults against fortified positions at Franklin, Tennessee
  .
• 1934 – The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman became the first to officially exceed 100 miles per hour (161 km/h).
• 1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy warships defeated United States Navy forces during a nighttime naval battle near the Tassafaronga area on Guadalcanal.
• Thriller, the best-selling album of all time
  , was released.

• More anniversaries:
  • November 29
  • November 30
  • December 1

Morgan horse

Twelve U.S. states have designated a horse breed as the official