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Significance of 30th November:


On 30 November 1917,  Bose Institute was set up by Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, the founder of modern science in the Indian subcontinent. It is Asia's first modern research center devoted to interdisciplinary research and bears a century-old tradition of research excellence.



1872- The first-ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.


1936- In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.


1995- U.S. President Bill Clinton visits Northern Ireland and speaks in favor of the "Northern Ireland peace process" at a huge rally at Belfast City Hall.


2000- NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission.


2022- The AI chatbot ChatGPT is launched by OpenAI.




Famous people who had responded birthdays on this day:


1835- Samuel Langhorne Clemens known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.


1858- Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was a biologist, physicist, botanist, and an early writer of science fiction. He is considered the father of Bengali science fiction. He invented the crescograph, a device for measuring the growth of plants.


1903- Radharani Devi was one of the prominent Bengali women poets of the twentieth century.


1908- Buddhadev Bose was an Indian Bengali writer of the 20th century. 


1923- Janaki Ramachandran was the first woman Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.


1967- Rajiv Dixit was an Indian social activist, public speaker, and promoter of Ayurveda.


1990- Sven Magnus Oen Carlsen is a Norwegian chess grandmaster who is the reigning five-time World Chess Champion. 




Famous people who have death anniversaries on this day: 


1900-  Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright.


1909- Romesh Chunder Dutt was an Indian civil servant, economic historian, writer, and translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata.


1984- Indubala Devi, was a Bengali singer and actress. She received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1975.


2011- Pandit Vijay Raghav Rao was an Indian flutist, composer, choreographer, musicologist, poet and fiction writer.


2012- Inder Kumar Gujral was an Indian diplomat, politician, and freedom activist who served as the 12th prime minister of India from April 1997 to March 1998.

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