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* 30 November - The British and French
governments announce their intention
to seek private promoters for the
construction of the Channel Tunnel in
order to build and operate it without
public funding. The tunnel, for which
proposals were first made as long ago
as 1802, is expected to be open in the
early 1990s.
* 30 November - The Tamil Tigers begin
the purge of the Sinhalese people from
North and East Sri Lanka; 127 are
killed.
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