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30 November 2016 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 30 November 2016 was a Wednesday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Rockabye” by Clean Bandit ft. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie.
- Top Film of 2016
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2016 was Captain America: Civil War.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 30 November is Sagittarius.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 30 November 2016 fell in the Year of the Monkey.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for November is Topaz.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 30 November 2016 was New Moon.
On this day: 30 November
- 1999 Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
- 2000 NASA launches STS-97, the 101st Space Shuttle mission.
- 2005 John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.
- 2021 Barbados becomes a republic.
- 2022 The generative AI chatbot ChatGPT is launched by OpenAI.
Famous people born on 30 November
- Kaley Cuoco, American actress (born 1985)
- Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize laureate (1874–1965)
- Ridley Scott, English director, producer, and production designer (born 1937)
- Ben Stiller, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (born 1965)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2016 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2016 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 5 May – UK local and Police and crime commissioner elections, as well as elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly, Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parliament are held.
- 23 June – The 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum is held in the UK and Gibraltar, the first of its kind since the 1975 referendum on the UK's membership of the then European Economic Community.
- 11 July – Theresa May is announced as the Conservative Party leader, and Prime Minister-designate, after Andrea Leadsom withdraws from the leadership election.New Prime Minister and Conservative leader Theresa May
Life in 2016
Prime Minister
Theresa May
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£3.45
Loaf of Bread
£1.45
Average House
£214,578
Weekly Wage
£789.00
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