NOVEMBER 30
1887: Exuberant football fans celebrating the Yale Bulldogs' victory over the Harvard Crimson initiate the first known game of softball (then dubbed "indoor baseball"), using a broomstick as a bat and a boxing glove as a ball, at the Farragut Boat Club in Chicago.
1940: American comedienne Lucille Ball and Cuban bandleader Desi Arnaz, best known as the stars of the classic sitcom I Love Lucy, are married in Greenwich, Conn. The successful show-biz couple would divorce in May 1960 after a 20-year marriage, only two months after filming the final episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.
1993: President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Bill (formally known as the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) into law, enforcing background checks for firearm buyers. The legislation came about following the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan in March 1981, which left press secretary Jim Brady partially paralyzed.
1966:Barbados, an island country located in the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean, becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
1886:George Westinghouse's first successful US alternating current (AC) power plant opened in Buffalo, New York
1872:First international soccer game takes place - England & Scotland play to a 0-0 tie.
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