On this day — November 30

including a teacher, in a mass shooting at Oxford High School in Oxford Township, Michigan.

Alaska causes significant property damage but no deaths.

killing 57.

operating as Lion Air Flight 538, overran the runway at Adisoemarmo Airport and crashed, killing 25 people.

the 101st Space Shuttle mission.

thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.

demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.

Europe's largest defense contractor and the fourth largest aerospace firm in the world.

representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe. (The meetings end inconclusively on December 17.)