| Year | Event | Artist | Song | Album |
| 1718 | Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway. | Lee Hazlewood | No Train to Stockholm | Cowboy in Sweden |
| 1786 | Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. Consequently, November 30 is commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day. | The Byrds | Life in Prison | Sweetheart of the Rodeo |
| 1804 | The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase. | Reach the Sky | The Chase Is On | So Far From Home |
| 1902 | American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor. | Logan's Loss | Rites of Spring | Rites of Spring |
| 1934 | The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph. | My Morning Jacket | Steam Engine | It Still Moves |
| 1954 | In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges Meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap in the only documented case of ahuman being hit by a rock from space. | The Gerbils | Meteoroid From the Sun Strikes a Dead Wierdo | The Battle of Electricity |
| 2004 | Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with US$2,520,700, television's biggest game show winnings. | The Descendents | I'm Not a Loser | Milo Goes to College |
(Historical facts about November 30 are from Wikipedia.)
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