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John McGraw (1873–1934) was a Major League Baseball (MLB) player and manager who managed the New York Giants for almost thirty years (1902–1932). He was also the third baseman of the 1890s Baltimore Orioles. The Orioles, who won three National League (NL) pennants, were noted for their innovative, aggressive play, perfecting the hit and run and popularizing the Baltimore chop. They also sought to win by intimidating the opposing team and the umpire. After one season with the St. Louis Cardinals (1900), McGraw returned to Baltimore as player and manager of the new Orioles of the American League (AL). He jumped to the Giants in 1902, taking several Orioles players with him. Through his many years managing the Giants, McGraw exerted control on players and team, and saw great success, winning ten pennants (tied for most by a manager) and three World Series; his total of 2,763 victories ranks third among MLB managers. McGraw has been called one of the greatest managers in baseball history. (Full article...)

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Barbados becomes a republic, with Sandra Mason (pictured) replacing Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state.
In baseball, the Tokyo Yakult Swallows defeat the Orix Buffaloes to win the Japan Series.
American musical theatre composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim dies at the age of 91.
A coalition government, led by Prime Minister Nicolae Ciucă, takes office in Romania, ending a nearly three-month-long political crisis.

On this day

November 30: Day of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare; Saint Andrew's Day (Christianity)

Model of a Turing machine

1853 – Crimean War: Russian warships led by Pavel Nakhimov destroyed an Ottoman fleet of frigates at the Battle of Sinop, prompting France and Britain to enter the war.
1936 – English mathematician Alan Turing published details of the Turing machine (model pictured), a basic abstract symbol-manipulating hypothetical device that can simulate the logic of any computer algorithm.
1954 – The first verified case of a human being injured by an extraterrestrial object took place in Sylacauga, Alabama, when a meteorite crashed through a roof and hit a sleeping woman.
2005 – John Sentamu was enthroned as Archbishop of York, becoming the first black person to serve as an archbishop in the Church of England.

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Henry Taube (November 30, 1915 – November 16, 2005) was a Canadian-born American chemist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "his work in the mechanisms of electron-transfer reactions, especially in metal complexes". He was the second Canadian-born chemist to win the Nobel Prize, and remains the only Saskatchewanian-born Nobel laureate. Taube also received many other major scientific awards, including the Priestley Medal in 1985 and two Guggenheim Fellowships early in his career (1949 and 1955), as well as numerous honorary doctorates.

Photograph credit: United States Department of Energy; restored by Bammesk

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