At A Glance

30 November 2017 at a glance

Day of the week
30 November 2017 was a Thursday.
Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Rockstar” by Post Malone featuring 21 Savage.
Top Film of 2017
The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2017 was Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Top-Rated TV Show
“The Big Bang Theory” (CBS) was No. 1 in the Nielsen ratings for the 2017–18 season.
Star sign
The star sign for 30 November is Sagittarius.
Chinese zodiac
In the Chinese zodiac, 30 November 2017 fell in the Year of the Rooster.
Birthstone
The birthstone for November is Topaz.
Moon phase
The moon phase on 30 November 2017 was Waxing 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)

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Events of 2017 in the United States

A selection from Wikipedia's '2017 in the United States'. Not a complete list.

  • January 24 – The nominees for the 89th Academy Awards are announced. The nominees for Best Picture are Arrival, Fences, Hacksaw Ridge, Hell or High Water, Hidden Figures, La La Land, Lion, Manchester by the Sea, and Moonlight.
  • February 26 – The 89th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, are held at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Barry Jenkins' Moonlight winning Best Picture.
  • May 5 – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, directed by James Gunn, is released by Marvel Studios as the 15th film of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the sequel to 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy.

Life in the US in 2017

President

Donald Trump

Gas (per gallon)

$2.42

Loaf of Bread

$2.08

Average House

$323,100

Weekly Wage

$869

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