November

• November 1, 1625 - Birth near Oldcastle, Co. Meath of St. Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh who was canonized in 1975

• November 1, 1695 - Bank of Scotland founded by an Act of the Scottish Parliament.

• November 1, 1790 - Edmund Burkes Reflections on the Revolution in France is published

• November 1, 1798 - Sir Benjamin Guinness, owner of the Guinness brewery from 1855, is born in Dublin

• November 1, 1838 - Birth in Ballylough, Co. Antrim of Anthony Traill, provost of Trinity College, Dublin

• November 1, 1857 - John Joly, geologist and physicist, is born in Co. Offaly

• November 1, 1884 - Founding of the Gaelic Athletic Association

• November 1, 1897 - Novelist and politician Naomi Mitchison born in Edinburgh. Her best known novels are The Conquered (1923), When the Bough Breaks (1924) and Cloud Cuckoo Land.

• November 1, 1920 - Following a mutiny in India by soldiers of the Connaught Rangers in protest at events in Ireland, Private James Daly is court-martialled and executed by firing squad; he is the last member of the British army to be executed for mutiny

• November 1, 1920 - The enrolment of the Ulster Special Constabulary begins

• November 1, 1920 - Kevin Barry, is hanged in Dublin

• November 1, 1945 - Demobilisation of the Irish Army begins

• November 1 - Samhain - Celtic New Year

• November 2, 1719 - The Toleration Act for Protestant Dissenters is passed

• November 2, 1752 - Philip Twisden, Bishop of Raphoe and son-in-law of the politician Thomas Carter, dies bankrupt on this date, having been shot while allegedly masquerading as a highwayman

• November 2, 1797 - Tyrone Power, actor and great-grandfather of the Hollywood movie star of the same name, is born near Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford

• November 2, 1800 - Thomas (Buck) Whaley, MP for Enniscorthy, dies at Knutsford.

• November 2, 1826 - Birth of Henry Smith, mathematician, in Dublin

• November 2, 1853 - Association for Vindication of Scottish Rights (Home Rule organization) founded in Edinburgh

• November 2, 1881 - Tom Johnston, one of Scotland’s best known Secretaries of State, born.

• November 3, 1380 - Edmund Mortimer, 6th Earl of Ulster, holds a parliament at Dublin, which confirms the Statutes of Kilkenny

• November 3, 1692 - The only session of the exclusively Protestant Irish parliament of William III and Mary ends on this date

• November 3, 1698 - The Darien Expedition landed at Caledonia in Panama.

• November 3, 1717 - Henry Luttrell, soldier and suspected betrayer of the Jacobites, is assassinated in Dublin

• November 3, 1788 - Thomas Steele, landlord and supporter of Daniel OConnell is born in Derrymore, Co. Clare

• November 3, 1815 - Birth in Dungiven, Co. Derry of John Mitchel, patriot and founder of the newspaper the United Irishman

• November 3, 1825 - Potato Riots on Mann

• November 3, 1854 - The Catholic University of Ireland is opened with J. H. Newman as its first rector

• November 3, 1903 - Tomas O Fiaich, Irish language author and Cardinal-Archbishop of Armagh is born

• November 3, 1917 - Birth of Conor Cruise OBrien, diplomat, political commentator and writer

• November 3, 1932 - Birth in Rooskey, Co. Roscommon of Albert Reynolds, politician and businessman, Fianna Fáil leader and Taoiseach from 1992-1994

• November 3, 1975 - Queen Elizabeth officially opened an underwater pipeline to bring the first North Sea oil ashore.

• November 3, 1991 - Liz McColgan won her first marathon in a record time.

• November 4, 1650 - Birth of King William III.

• November 4, 1698 - Foundation of Scotlands only New World colony New Caledonia at Darien Imus of Panama

• November 4, 1774 - Poet and song writer Robert Allan was born in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire.

• November 4, 1802 - Birth of novelist Lady Rosina Lytton, née Wheeler, in Co. Limerick

• November 4, 1884 - Birth in Hillsborough, Co. Down of Harry Ferguson, engineer, inventor, and pioneer of the modern tractor

• November 4, 1908 - Six women meet at the home of womens activists Hanna and Francis Sheehy-Skeffington to establish the Irish Womens Franchise League

• November 4, 1927 - Birth in Waterford of comedian, Hal Roach

• November 5, 1688 - William of Orange arrives in England with 15,000 men

• November 5, 1839 - Chartist march on Newport Wales ends as militia fires on Chartists killing nine.

• November 5, 1877 - Opening of the original Mitchell Library, Glasgow, now the largest public reference library in Europe.

• November 5, 1879 - Death of Edinburgh-born mathematician and physicist James Clerk Maxwell.

• November 6, 1282 - Invading English army destroyed by Llywelen II at Battle of Moel-y-don

• November 6, 1628 - Founding of the Irish College in Rome.

• November 6, 1649 - Owen Roe ONeill - Catholic military leader against Cromwell - dies

• November 6, 1887 - Celtic Football Club formally constituted in Calton, Glasgow

• November 6, 1887 - Birth at sea of Edward McLysaght, genealogist and writer

• November 6, 1929 - The Gaelic League announces expulsion for anyone who attends foreign jazz dances

• November 6, 1979 - Bagpiper John Wilson dies, Willowdale, Ontario

• November 6, 1986 - Ireland elects its first woman President Mary Robinson

• November 7, 1366 - Lionel of Clarence, leaves Ireland

• November 7, 1771 - Funeral of Charles Lucas in Dublin attracts large crowds

• November 7, 1791 - The Customs House opens in Dublin

• November 7, 1864 - The first public performance of Arrah-na-pogue at Dublins Theatre Royal

• November 7, 1878 - Margaret Cousins, née Gillespie, suffragist and Indias first female magistrate, is born in Boyle, Co. Roscommon

• November 7, 1881 - Birth Peadar Ó Dubhda, teacher of Irish and translator or the Bible into Irish

• November 7, 1900 - George Wyndham becomes Chief Secretary for Ireland

• November 7, 1974 - Writer Eric Linklater dies in Orkney

• November 7, 1975 - The Scottish Daily News ceased publication only six months after launch.

• November 7, 1990 - Captain Ian C. Cameron, a bagpiper, composer, and author dies, Edinburgh

• November 8, 1308 - John Duns Scotus, scholar and philosopher, died

• November 8, 1736 - Allan Ramsay's First regular public theatre in Scotland opened in Carrubbers Close, Edinburgh

• November 8, 1745 - Charles Stuart invades England at the head of the Jacobite Army

• November 8, 1847 - Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, born in Dublin

• November 8, 1887 - Birth of Sir Arnold Bax, composer, writer and Hibernophile

• November 8, 1891 - Author Neil M Gunn, born in Caithness Scotland

• November 8, 2001 - Henry McLeish resigned as Scotlands First Minister

• November 9, 1791 - James Napper Tandy convenes the first meeting of Dublins United Irishmen

• November 9, 1841 - King Edward VII, was born

• November 9, 1847 - Sir James Young Simpson helps delivers first child to be born with the aid of anesthesia

• November 9, 1875 - Sir Hugh Lane, art collector and critic, is born in Ballybrack, Co. Cork

• November 9, 1926 - Birth in Dublin of Hugh Leonard, pseudonym of John Keyes Byrne, playwright

• November 9, 1937 - Ramsay MacDonald, first UK Labour Prime Minister, died aboard Reina del Pacifico

• November 9, 1949 - Dylan Marlais Thomas Welsh poet died

• November 10, 1728 - Oliver Goldsmith, playwright, novelist and poet, born

• November 10, 1783 - National Volunteer convention on parliamentary reform begins at the Rotunda in Dublin

• November 10, 1798 - Theobald Wolfe Tone tried and convicted of treason in the aftermath of the Irish Rebellion of 1798

• November 10, 1813 - Thomas Lloyd, son of John Lloyd, former MP for Kings County and Innistiogue, is killed at the head of his regiment at the passage of Nivelle in south-west France

• November 10, 1832 - Charles Russell, 1st Baron Russell of Killowen, lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of England, is born in Newry, Co. Down

• November 10, 1861 - Thousands turn out to view the coffin of Terence Bellew MacManus

• November 10, 1871 - Henry Morton Stanley finds the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone in Africa.

• November 10, 1879 - Padraig Pearse, Irish revolutionary and one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rebellion, is born

• November 10, 1896 - Lady Mary Heath, pioneer aviator and athlete, is born

• November 10, 1902 - Leon Ó Broin, writer and public servant, is born in Dublin

• November 10, 1957 - Bagpiper Pipe Major Willie MacLean, 5th Cameron (Lochiel) Highlanders, dies at Kilcreggan, Scotlandage 80

• November 10, 1971 - Kenny Dalglish made his international debut for Scotlands football (soccer) team in a match against Belgium.

• November 11, 1171 - Henry II holds his court in Dublin from this date to 2 February 1172

• November 11, 1718 - Birth of Thomas Waite, MP and Under Secretary for the Civil Department

• November 11, 1841 - Death of Sister Catherine McAuley, founder of the order of the Sisters of Mercy

• November 11, 1873 - Birth of Daniel Daly, double Medal of Honor winner in Glen Cove, NY

• November 11, 1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger and son of Tipperary transportee, is hanged in Melbourne

• November 11, 1887 - Birth of John M. Hayes in Murroe, Co. Limerick; priest and founder of Muintir na Tíre

• November 11, 1918 - Armistice Day, World War I ends on the, 11th hour of the, 11th day of the, 11th month.

• November 11, 1919 - The first edition of the Irish Bulletin is published

• November 11, 1923 - Birth of F.S.L. Lyons, historian and biographer

• November 11th - Closing of Samhain - with animal sacrifices to exclude evil sprits (later Christianized as Martinmas)

• November 12, 2005 - St Machar Day, patron saint of Aberdeen

• November 12, 1094 - King Duncan II of Scotland, died

• November 12 , 1276 - Edward 1 of England rejects peace offers and launches war on Llywelen ap Gruffydd

• November 12, 1798 - Hours before his execution, Irish Rebel, Wolf Tone suffers a deep wound in his neck

• November 12, 1869 - The Edinburgh Seven, Edinburgh University became the first in Britain to allow women to study medicine

• November 12, 1934 - Birth of John McGahern, known primarily for his novel, The Dark

• November 13, 1093 - King Malcolm III (Canmore), last of the Celtic kings was killed at the Battle of Alnwick

• November 13, 1643 - Charles I appoints James Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormond as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

• November 13, 1647 - Battle of Cnoc na nOs Alasdair MacColla Scottish military leaderdies fighting on Irish side against Cromwells Troops

• November 13, 1715 - Battle of Sheriffmuir

• November 13, 1850 - Novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson born Edinburgh

• November 13, 1923 - Leonard Boyle, priest and palaeographer, is born in Ballintra, County Donegal

• November 13, 1939 - The first bombs in WW2 dropped on British soil was in the Shetland Islands

• November 13, 1968 - Joe Corrie, author died in Edinburgh

• November 13, 1977 - Start of firemens strike which lasted for two months; cover was provided by the army with their out of date green goddess fire engines.

• November 14, 1669 - St. Oliver Plunkett becomes Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland

• November 15, 1715 - The Glasgow Courant, the citys first newspaper first printed

• November 14, 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie, accompanied by bagpipers, enters Carlisle Castle after their surrender

• November 14, 1770 - James Bruce discovers the source of the Blue Nile, Lake Tana in north-west Ethiopia.

• November 14, 1832 - Stopford Brooke, born near Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, a chaplain-in-ordinary to Queen Victoria, writer and literary critic

• November 14, 1873 - Michael Healy, stained-glass artist, illustrator and painter, is born in Dublin

• November 14, 1903 - Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, British naval officer and explorer, died.

• November 14, 1910 - Poet Norman MacCaig born Edinburgh, Scotland

• November 14, 1916 - Author Hector Munro died in action in France

• November 14, 1918 - Seumas O'Kelly, playwright, novelist , short story writer , and journalist, dies

• November 14, 1921 - Roy McFadden, poet, is born in Belfast, Ireland

• November 15, 1824 - Edinburghs Great Fire began destroying High Street, Parliament Square and the Tron Kirk

• November 15, 1873 - Statue to Greyfriars Bobby

• November 15, 1881 - William Pearse, brother of Patrick, is born in Dublin

• November 15, 1897 - Aneurin Bevan Welsh Labor Party Leader is born

• November 15, 1923 - Birth of Tom Clifford, rugby player, in Ballyporeen, Co. Tipperary

• November 15, 1978 - Muirhead & Sons Pipe Band officially disbands on their 50th anniversary, 1978

• November 16, 1272 - Henry III, the King of England, Lord of Ireland, and Duke of Aquitaine dies

• November 16, 1745 - Scottish Jacobite rising of 1745 begins invasion of England

• November 16, 1754 - William Marsden, orientalist, scholar and numismatist, born in Wicklow

• November 16, 1793 - Francis Danby, landscape painter, is born near Killinick, Co. Wexford

• November 16, 1795 - Edward King, Viscount Kingsborough, student and promoter of Mexican antiquities, is born in Cork

• November 16, 1814 - US General Michael Kelly Lawler, Union army, is born in Co. Kildare

• November 16, 1816 - Benjamin Woodward, architect, is born in Tullamore, Co. Offaly

• November 16, 1891 - Buffalo Bills Wild West Show opened in the East End Exhibition Buildings, Duke Street, Glasgow.

• November 16, 1893 - George Alexander Osborne, Irish composer, died

• November 17, 1292 - John Balliol acceded to Scottish throne

• November 17, 1814 - U.S. Confederte General, Joseph Finegan, is born in Clones, Co. Monaghhan

• November 17, 1852 - Donegal-born Brigadier Michael Corcorans Irish Legion is mustered into the Federal service; it is involved in the defense of Washington D.C.

• November 17, 1855 - David Livingstone reached Victoria Falls in Africa

• November 17, 1858 - Robert Owen, Welsh-Scottish industrialist and social reformer, founder of New Lanark community, died

• November 17, 1922 - The Irish Free State begins the executions of seventy seven anti Treaty republican prisoners

• November 17, 1930 - Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake

• November 17, 1939 - Birth of Luke Kelly of the Dubliners

• November 18, 1709 - Birth of Henry Loftus, Earl of Ely and 4th Viscount born

• November 18, 1785 - Sir David Wilkie who later became a well-known painter of historical and religious works as well as portraits, was born near Pitlessie, Fife

• November 18, 1873 - Home Rule League meets in Dublin becomes a political party

• November 18, 1880 - Irish Football Assocation formed in Belfast

• November 18, 1899 - Death of William Allingham, poet

• November 18, 1922 - Court martial of Erskine Childers begins

• November 19, 1600 - King Charles I, of England, was born

• November 19, 1783 - The Volunteers parliamentary reform bill is rejected by the Irish House of Commons, 157 to 77

• November 19, 1798 - Theobald Wolfe Tone, dies before his scheduled execution

• November 19, 1821 - 17 people are burned to death in a house in Tubber, Co. Tipperary, probably by Rockite agitators

• November 19, 1871 - Margaret Emmeline Conway Dobbs, Irish historian, is born

• November 19, 1900 - Pamela Hinkson, born

• November 19, 1924 - Cardinal Michael Logue, Primate of All Ireland, died in Armagh, Ireland

• November 19, 1960 - Conscription in the United Kingdom, was brought to an end

• November 20, 1762 - Francis Andrews is appointed first professor of history at the University of Dublin

• November 20, 1800 - Richard Rothwell, painter, is born in Athlone, Co. Westmeath

• November 20, 1830 - Patrick Henry Jones, Union General from Co. Meath, born

• November 20, 1840 - John Russell Young, journalist in American Civil War, from Co. Tyrone, born

• November 20, 1889 - Donn Byrne, novelist and short-story writer, is born

• November 20, 1908 - Alistair Cooke, journalist, is born

• November 20, 1917 - The 16th Irish Division of the British army assaults an area of the German lines known as Tunnel Trench

• November 20, 1925 - Eoin MacNeill, resigns from the Boundary Commission

• November 21, 1218 - A Bull of Pope Honorius III affirmed the independence of the Catholic Church in Scotland

• November 21, 1281 - Stephen de Fulbourne, bishop of Waterford and treasurer, replaces the infirm Robert de Ufford as justiciar and establishes a mint at Waterford

• November 21, 1673 - King James VII married Mary of Modena

• November 21, 1759 - Henry Flood enters parliament and becomes leader of the opposition

• November 21, 1767 - Thomas Russell, the United Irishman, is born in Kilshanick, Co. Cork

• November 21, 1835 - James Hogg, poet, died in Ettrick

• November 21, 1887 - Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish patriot and poet, is born in Dublin

• November 21, 1918 - German battle fleet surrendered to the allies at Scapa Flow in Orkney

• November 21, 1918 - Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918

• November 21, 1920 - Bloody Sunday, Dublin Ireland, 1920

• November 22, 1773 - Lord John Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, is born in Dublin

• November 22, 1830 - Justin McCarthy, politician, novelist and historian, is born in Cork

• November 22, 1869 - Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Fenian, contests and wins a Tipperary by-election in abstentia, but is declared ineligible as a convicted felon

• November 22, 1869 - Clipper ship Cutty Sark was launched

• November 22, 1912 - Donagh MacDonagh, son of Thomas MacDonagh, born in Dublin

• November 22, 1919 - Birth of Máire Drumm, Irish Republican, in Newry, Co. Armagh

• November 22, 1942 - Actor Tom Conti born

• November 22, 2001 - Jack McConnell elected First Minister of Scotland, succeeding Henry McLeish who had resigned

• November 22, 845 - Victory of Nomenoe over the Franks at Ballon, Brittany

• November 23, 1332 - Edward Balliol formally acknowledged King Edward III of England as his feudal superior

• November 23, 1702 - Birth of Sir Richard Cox, politician and pamphleteer

• November 23, 1719 - Spranger Barry, actor, is born in Dublin

• November 23, 1810 - Margaret Aylward, founder of the Sisters of the Holy Faith, born in Waterford

• November 23, 1841 - Richard Croker, Boss of Tammany Hall, NY, born in Cork

• November 23, 1845 - Charlotte Grace O'Brien, social reformer who campaigned against conditions on emigrant ships, is born

• November 23, 1847 - Historian Walter Biggar Blaikie born.

• November 23, 1865 - Herbert Trench, poet, dramatist and theatre producer, in Avonmore, Co. Cork, is born

• November 23, 1867 - Manchester Martyrs, 3 Fenians are executed - Michael Larkin, William Philip Allen, and Michael O'Brien

• November 23, 1876 - Sir Richard Dawson Bates, unionist politician and minister in Northern Ireland is born in Belfast

• November 23, 1913 - Irish Citizen Army is formed

• November 23, 1927 - Birth of journalist and BBC political editor, John Cole

• November 24, 1265 - Magnus, the last King of the Isle of Man died

• November 24, 1331 - David II (aged, 7) crowned at Scone.

• November 24, 1542 - Rout of Solway Moss

• November 24, 1572 - John Knox, leading reformer of Church of Scotland, died

• November 24, 1713 - Lawrence Sterne, clergyman, humorist, and author, is born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary

• November 24, 1807 - Henry Blosse Lynch, soldier and explorer, is born in Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo

• November 24, 1820 - Arthur French, MP for Co. Roscommon, dies of excessive fox-hunting

• November 24, 1865 - James Stephens, Fenian, escapes from Richmond prison, Dublin

• November 24, 1922 - Irish republican Erskine Childers is executed by the Free State government

• November 24, 1942 - Comedian and actor Billy Connolly born

• November 24, 1996 - Sorley MacLean, poet, died

• November 25, 1681 - General Tam Dalyell raises a regiment to suppress Covenanters which later became the Royal Scots Greys

• November 25, 1713 - The second Irish parliament of Queen Anne sits from this date to 24 December

• November 25, 1764 - Birth of Henry Sirr, Dublin town head of police

• November 25, 1784 - James Napper Tandy leading radicals asks for Parliamentary reform for Ireland

• November 25, 1835 - Andrew Carnegie, Steel magnate and philanthropist, born in Dunfermline Scotland

• November 25, 1853 - John Gibson Lockhart, biographer and critic, editor Blackwoods magazine, died

• November 25, 1906 - Saidie Paterson, trade unionist and peace activist, born in Belfast

• November 25, 1913 - Official founding date of the Provisional Committee of the Irish Volunteers

• November 26, 1624 - John Stearne, founder and first president of the College of Physicians, born

• November 26, 1836 - John Loudon McAdam Scottish engineer who developed the macadam road died

• November 26, 1852 - Aeneas Coffey, inventor of the Coffey Still, dies

• November 26, 1873 - Osborn Joseph Bergin, Celtic Scholar, born in Cork

• November 26, 1885 - Thomas Andrews, chemist and physicist, born in Belfast

• November 26, 1926 - Rugby player Karl Mullen is born in Courtown Harbour, Co. Wexford

• November 26, 1955 - Saor Uladh (Free Ulster) a splinter group of the IRA, attacks the police barracks in Rosslea, Co. Fermanagh

• November 26, 1972 - RTÉ Journalist Kevin O'Kelly is imprisoned for contempt of court

• November 27, 1612 - Dungannon, Co. Tyrone, is the first of 40 new boroughs to be incorporated

• November 27, 1703 - The Great Storm of 1703 hits Britain, 8,000 people die in 24 hours

• November 27, 1774 - John Kyan, inventor, is born in Dublin

• November 27, 1857 - Thomas Heazle Parke, surgeon, military officer and author, born

• November 27, 1871 - The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, opens with a performance of She Stoops to Conquer

• November 27, 1876 - Henry Robinson Allen, tenor and composer, dies

• November 27, 1878 - Sir William Orpen, painter, in Stillorgan, Co. Dublin, born

• November 27, 1906 - Michael Cusack, one of the founders of the GAA, died

• November 27, 1996 - First deaths from E-coli outbreak in Lanarkshire, Scotland

• November 27, 784 - St. Vergilius or Ferghil, the Geometer, died

• November 28, 1489 - Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland, born

• November 28, 1666 - Battle of Rullion Green, peasant uprising supporting the Convenant suppressed by Charles II

• November 28, 1727 - William Connolly is unanimously re-elected Speaker of the Irish House of Commons

• November 28, 1856 - Cardinal Patrick O'Donnell, born near Glenties, Co. Donegal

• November 28, 1863 - Foundation of the Fenian newspaper, Irish People

• November 28, 1899 - Irish units in the Boer army fight in the battle of Modder River

• November 28, 1905 - The Irish political party Sinn Féin is founded in Dublin by Arthur Griffith

• November 28, 1920 - Tom Barry and his Cork Flying Column ambush a convoy in Kilmichael

• November 29, 1330 - Edward III, on attaining his majority, executes Mortimer on this date and banishes his own mother, Isabella

• November 29, 1521 - William Rokeby, Archbishop of Dublin, dies

• November 29, 1599 - Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow granted its charter by King James VI

• November 29, 1641 - Battle of Julianstown

• November 29, 1740 - Rev. Edward Sewell, a couple-beggar, is hanged at Stephen's Green

• November 29, 1895 - Denny Lane, Young Irelander, author and poet, died

• November 29, 1898 - C.S. Lewis, Irish writer, literary and religious scholar, is born

• November 29, 1933 - Eamon Campbell of the Dubliners, born

• November 3, 1923 - Tomás Ó Fiaich, cardinal, historian and Catholic Primate of All Ireland, is born in Cullyhanna, Co. Armagh

• November 30, 1292 - John Balliol (Toom Tabard or Turncoat) crowned.

• November 30, 1667 - Jonathan Swift, poet, satirist and clergyman 1670, born in Dublin

• November 30, 1864 - General Patrick Cleburne is killed in command of his division at a battle in Franklin, Tennessee

• November 30, 1869 - James Albert Edward Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn and first Governor of Northern Ireland

• November 30, 1872 - Worlds first international football (soccer) match, Scotland V England at West of Scotland Cricket Ground

• November 30, 1900 - Death of Oscar Wilde in Paris

• November 30, 1923 - John Maclean, political activist, Marxist, appointed Bolshevik consul for Scotland by Lenin, died

• November 30, 1930 - Mary G. Harris Jones, known as Mother Jones, died

• November 30, 1944 - HMS Vanguard, Britains biggest and last battleship, was launched at Clydebank

• November 30, 1996 - Stone of Destiny, stolen by the English, returned to Scotland, 700 years later

• November 30 - St. Andrews Day Patron Saint of Scotland