Reuters historical calendar - November 6

London, Nov 5 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 6 since 1900: 1911 - After leading Mexico's revolution against dictator Porfirio Diaz, Francisco Madero assumed the office of president.

1917 - The third battle of Ypres ended when Canadian and Australian forces took Passchendaele in World War One.

1928 - Jacob Schick got a patent for his ''shaving implement'' - the first electric razor.

1945 - A Fireball FR-1 piloted by Jake West made the first jet plane landing on an aircraft carrier when it touched down on the Wake Island off San Diego, California.

1962 - The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning South Africa for its apartheid policies and recommending that member states apply economic sanctions.

1975 - King Hassan launched the ''Green March'' when 350,000 unarmed Moroccans waving flags and copies of the Koran crossed into Western Sahara. Days later, Spain agreed to transfer the territory's administration to Morocco and Mauritania.

1990 - Nawaz Sharif was sworn in as Pakistan's prime minister amid charges of vote-rigging from ousted Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

1995 - Israel buried Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with the Palestinians.

1996 - More than 2,000 people were killed or lost at sea when a cyclone struck India's major crop-growing state of Andhra Pradesh.

1998 - The first talks between India and Pakistan since 1992 over the disputed Siachen glacier ended when Pakistan rejected an Indian proposal for a ceasefire.

1999 - Australians voted by 55 to 45 per cent to reject a constitutional referendum to set up a republic and replace the British monarch as head of state.

2001 - In New York, voters picked Republican media mogul Michael Bloomberg as the new mayor to lead the recovery from the September 11 attacks, succeeding Rudolph Giuliani.

2002 - A Luxair twin-engine Fokker 50 plane en route from Berlin crashed near Luxembourg airport killing 20 of the 22 passengers and crew aboard. It was the first crash in Luxair's 40-year history.

2003 - Scientists published the first protein map of a complex organism, a fly, taking steps beyond just what the DNA looks like and beginning to chart out what it does.

2003 - German media giant Bertelsmann agreed with Japan's Sony to merge their music units in a 50-50 joint venture. The new company would combine the fifth and second largest record labels.

2004 - Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf became the first head of state to visit Afghanistan to congratulate President Hamid Karzai on a successful election.

2005 - An Iraqi Airways Boeing 737, the first Iraqi passenger flight for 25 years, landed in the Iranian capital Tehran.

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