Battle of Tassafaronga happened on 1942-11-30.

Russell Sydnor Crenshaw has written:

'Naval shiphandling' -- subject(s): Warships, Handling

'The Battle of Tassafaronga' -- subject(s): American Naval operations, Naval operations, American, Tassafaronga, Battle of, Solomon Islands, 1942, World War, 1939-1945

Battle of Friday the 13th (the only US Navy admirals killed in surface combat during WWII; Admirals Callaghan & Scott); Battle of Tassafaronga; Battle of Savo Island; Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands; Battles at Iron Bottom Sound.

On November 30, 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Finland during the Winter War. However, during World War II specifically on November 30, there are no notable events.

1. Battle of HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse against Japanese airplanes on 10 December 1941; both the British battleship and the battlecruiser were sunk. The first time in history that a battleship succumbed to aircraft while at sea and fighting back.

2. Battle of the Java Sea in February 1942; greatest clash of cruisers in WWII.

3. Battle of the Coral Sea; history's first clash of aircraft carriers.

4. Battle of Midway; history's first decisive clash of aircraft carriers.

5. Battle of Savo Island; the US Navy's worst defeat "at sea" in it's history.

6. Battle of Guadalcanal; nearly a dozen sea battles fought around those islands: From Iron Bottom Sound, to Friday the 13th, to Santa Cruz, to Tassafaronga.

7. Battle of the Atlantic; Germany's "Guerre de Course" (sinking of merchant vessels) against allied shipping.