1667 - Birth of Jonathan Swift, Irish writer, satirist and pamphleteer. He is famous for his work "Gulliver's Travels".
1830 - Turkish Sultan Mahmud II confirms the autonomy of Serbia with the hatisherif, guarantees freedom of trade, the right to build churches and monasteries and abolish spahiluk. The Turks also had to sell their property to the Serbs at a "fair price" and leave Belgrade, and the sultan recognized the Serbian prince and the borders of Serbia from 1812.
1835 - Samuel Langhorn Clemens is born, an American humorist who wrote under the pseudonym Mark Twain. He was an officer of river navigation on the Mississippi until the outbreak of the Civil War (1861-1865), and then a journalist and lecturer. His literary work is extensive, but unequal, but his best works are those that describe life on the Mississippi River and its banks: "The Experiences of Tom Sawyer", "Life on the Mississippi", "The Experiences of Huckleberry Finn". His humor, especially in later works, is not always cheerful: "The secret source of humor is not joy, but sorrow" - he wrote. Beneath the surface of his humorous stories lies reality, a strong pursuit of equality and social justice, faith in human values, and condemnation of the tyranny of the privileged. He died in 1910.
1870 - Born Frano Supilo, Croatian politician and publicist
1872 - The first international football match is played at Hamilton Crescent near Glasgow, where the anthems of England and Scotland are sung. The national teams of England and Scotland played 0: 0.
1874 - Sir Winston Churchill, British politician, statesman and writer, is born. After Hitler came to power in Germany (1933), Churchill warned England and called on her to arm herself as soon as possible. After the declaration of war on Germany (September 3, 1939), he entered the Chamberlain government as the first Lord of the Admiralty, president and leader of the Conservative Party after the Allied collapse in Norway. During the war, he was in the closest relationship with Roosevelt and cooperated with Stalin (conference in Tehran, Yalta in Potsdam). In line with his view that war was waged by statesmen and politicians, not soldiers, he was the creator of many of the strategic endeavors of the Allies in World War II. In the 1945 parliamentary elections, Labor won and took power, but in October
In 1951, the Conservative Party won a majority and Churchill became prime minister again. In April 1955, he withdrew and ceded the post and party leadership to his closest associate, A. Idn. He wrote several works: "My African Journey", "History of the World War", "Memoirs from the Second World War", "Lord Randolph Churchill" ... He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. He died in 1965.
1886 - Born Đuro Đaković, metal worker and revolutionary, organizational secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, from April 1928 to April 1929, one of the most prominent fighters of the working class of Yugoslavia.
1919 - The Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra is officially founded
1928 - Born Dragan Lukić, Serbian children's writer.
1940 - Born Jovan "Jova" Radovanović, Serbian musician, comedian and actor.
1955 - Died Serbian composer Josip Slavenski, professor at the Music Academy in Belgrade, who, striving to shape national expression, combined the musical folklore of certain Balkan nations with modern European musical technique. Works: "Balkanofinija" for orchestra, "Symphony of the Orient" for choir and orchestra, "Songs of my mother" for voice and string quartet, four string quartets, violin concerto, choirs, sonata for violin and piano.
1955 - William Michael Albert Broad, British singer, is born.
1955 - Born Vladimir Petrovic, Serbian actor and director, he acted in Zika's dynasty
1957 - Serbian painter Paja Jovanović, a representative of academic realism, dies, the first Serbian painter to gain a European reputation. He spent most of his life in Vienna, where he died. He mastered the art of painting and was inspired by Serbian history. He painted large iconostasis in the Cathedral Church in Novi Sad and in the church in Dolovo and portrayed several rulers and church dignitaries. He also performed historical and folklore compositions, among which "Migration of Serbs", "Proclamation of Dušan's Code", "Takovo Uprising", "Fencing", "Bridesmaid" stand out.
1965 - Birth of Benjamin Edward Stiller, an American actor,he acted in Meet the Parents,Night at the Museum...
1977 - Serbian writer Milos Crnjanski dies, perhaps the greatest "magician of the word" in our literature. He studied art history and philosophy in Vienna and Paris, and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. He worked as a professor and journalist, and from 1928 he was in the diplomatic service where he was found in Rome during the Second World War. He later left Rome for London. He returned to Belgrade in 1965, after which he published his last work "Embahade". In the novel "Migration", the first part of which he wrote in 1929 and the second in 1962, he managed to poetize a historical vision inspired by the tragic dispersion of Serbs, without depriving it of a factual basis. The novel is a great historical fresco and a poem about wandering and homelessness. Other works: novels "Diary of Čarnojević", "Drop of Spanish Blood", "At the Hyperborean", "Novel about London", poems "Lyrics of Ithaca", "Lament over Belgrade", short story "The Story of a Man", dramas "Mask" , "Konak", "Nikola Tesla", travelogues "Love in Tuscany", "Book about Germany", "Our Heavens", "Our Beaches on the Adriatic".
1985 - Birth of Kaley Cuoco, an American actress.
1990 - Born Sven Magnus Jen Carlsen, Norwegian chess grandmaster.
1996 - Around 150,000 people demonstrate in Belgrade, protesting the annulment of the "Together" opposition coalition's election victory in local elections.
2009 - Milorad Pavić, Serbian prose writer, historian of Serbian literature 17-19, dies. century, an expert on baroque and symbolism, translator of Pushkin and Byron, university professor. He was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts from 1991 until his death. Pavić was a novelist, narrator, poet and playwright. To date, Pavić's works have over 80 translations in separate books into various languages around the world. Milorad Pavić was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature by experts from Europe, the USA and Brazil. He was married to Jasmina Mihajlović, who is a writer and literary critic. In the period from 1974 to 1990, he was a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, he became a full professor at this faculty in 1977, and in the period 1977-1979. he was dean. At the beginning of his literary and professorial career, Pavić published a book of poems "Palimpsests" in 1967, then "History of Serbian Literature of the Baroque Age" in 1970, then "Vojislav Ilić and European Poetry" in 1971. He published the second book of poems "Moonstone" in 1971, and the first collection of stories "Iron Curtain" in 1973. The following books of stories: "Horses of St. Mark" (1976), "Russian Greyhound" (1979), "New Belgrade Stories" (1981), "Souls Bathe for the Last Time" (1982). Pavić gained domestic and world fame with the novel "Khazar Dictionary", which he published in 1984. This kind of lexicon in 100,000 words was quickly declared by critics and audiences as an unavoidable read of the new century. Many critics have noted that Pavić is a writer of miraculous imagination and a leader of European postmodernism. In the second novel "Landscape Painted with Tea" (1988), the author offers an exciting work for lovers of crossword puzzles. In 1991, he published his third novel, The Inner Side of the Wind, and then The Last Love in Constantinople (divination manual). In 1994, in addition to this quartet of novels that are key to Pavić's versatile work, "Fish Skin Hat" appeared. ) 1996, "Glass Snail" (stories from the Internet) 1998, "Writing Box" 1999, and the novels "Star Cloak" (astrological guide for the uninitiated) 2000 and "Unique" in 2004. In 2005, he published the comedy Wedding in the Bathroom. He was an honorary doctor of Sofia University and the president of the Serbian-Ukrainian Society, a member of the European Association for Culture, a member of the Serbian PEN Center, a member of the Crown Council. His legacy is in the National Library of Serbia, which was presented to the public for the first time in August 2013.
2013 - Paul William Walker IV American actor dies.
2018 - George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the United States (1989-1993), dies.
And a lot of events I didn't know what happened on November 30th😅😅😅