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30 November 2012 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 30 November 2012 was a Friday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “One More Night” by Maroon 5.
- Top Film of 2012
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2012 was The Avengers.
- Bestselling Novel of 2012
- “Fifty Shades of Grey” by E. L. James was No. 1 on Publishers Weekly's US fiction list for 2012.
- Top-Rated TV Show
- “NCIS” (CBS) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 2012–13 season.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 30 November is Sagittarius.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 30 November 2012 fell in the Year of the Dragon.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for November is Topaz.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 30 November 2012 was Waning Gibbous.
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 November 30
- 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 2012 in the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '2012 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- March 2 – Dr. Seuss' The Lorax is released in theaters.
- March 20 – John Carter records one of the biggest losses in cinema history, forcing Disney to take a $200 million writedown and chairman Rich Ross to resign.
- May 4 – The Avengers, directed by Joss Whedon, is released by Marvel Studios as the sixth film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the final film in its "Phase One" slate.
Life in the US in 2012
President
Barack Obama
Gas (per gallon)
$3.68
Loaf of Bread
$1.84
Average House
$256,900
Weekly Wage
$757
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