Today in history

(Sources: Peace Buttons and War Resisters League Calendar)

November 30

1999:
1999 WTO Protests in Seattle

1216
Pope Innocent II
orders Jews to wear a special badge.
And so the Jewish badge had been created — that dishonoring sign which for six centuries was to expose the Jews to public contempt everywhere they went in Europe. To be more effective, legislators of each country were to execute this decree as they saw fit. In England, for example, the tablets with the 10 commandments were used.

1967
Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-Minnesota) announces that he will run on an anti-war platform against President Lyndon Johnson for the nomination of the Democratic Party.