Reuters historical calendar - November 4

LONDON, Nov 3 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 4 since 1900: 1918 - Wilfred Owen, the British poet who wrote of his anger at the cruelty of war, was killed in action one week before the end of World War One.

1918 - The allied powers in World War One agreed on peace terms for Germany based on US President Woodrow Wilson's ''Fourteen Points''.

1921 - Japanese Prime Minister Takashi Hara was assassinated by a rightist fanatic.

1942 - British troops defeated the Germans under General Erwin Rommel at El Alamein in Egypt after a 12-day battle during World War Two.

1956 - Soviet troops moved in to crush an anti-Soviet uprising in Hungary. Imre Nagy was ousted as prime minister and replaced by Janos Kadar.

1979 - Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and captured 90 hostages; 52 were held captive for 444 days.

1980 - The Republican Ronald Reagan was elected US president, defeating the Democrat Jimmy Carter.

1983 - More than 40 Israeli soldiers were killed in Lebanon when an Arab suicide bomber drove a truck full of explosives into their camp.

1988 - Indian paratroopers thwarted an attempted coup by foreign mercenaries on the Maldive Islands.

1995 - Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated as he left a peace rally in Tel Aviv.

1997 - Jenny Shipley forced New Zealand Prime Minister Jim Bolger to retire, clearing the way for her to become National Party leader and the country's first woman prime minister.

1999 - Wezi Kaunda, son of Zambia's founding president Kenneth Kaunda, died after being shot in the head in what some of his father's officials said was an assassination.

2002 - China and the 10 member states of the ASEAN signed a deal to create the biggest free trade zone on earth, encompassing more than 1.7 billion people.

2003 - Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga declared a state of emergency, sacked three ministers and gave herself more powers in a political fight with the prime minister.

2004 - President Vladimir Putin approved Russia's ratification of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, aimed at curbing global warming.

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