Reuters historical calendar - November 10

London, Nov 9 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 10 since 1900: 1928 - Hirohito was crowned Emperor of Japan. He had effectively become head of state and was named Regent when his father became ill in 1920 and he ruled until his death in 1989.

1938 - Mustapha Kemal Ataturk, the first president of Turkey from 1923 and founder of the modern secular state, died. He was 57.

1942 - Buoyant after the desert victory at El Alamein but still warning of hardships to come, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said: ''This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.'' 1960 - Britain and Romania signed a financial agreement providing for final settlement of British claims arising out of their 1947 peace treaty.

1964 - Kenya became a one-party state.

1982 - Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died at age 75; he had been leader of the Soviet Union from 1964 and state president from 1977.

1987 - Seyni Kountche, president of Niger, died in Paris. He became president in 1974, seizing power in a coup from President Hamani Diori, who had run Niger since independence from France in 1960.

1989 - Bulgarian leader Todor Zhivkov stepped down as Communist Party chief and head of state after 35 years in power.

1995 - President Alija Izetbegovic of Bosnia and Franjo Tudjman of Croatia initialled an agreement shoring up their federation in the first breakthrough of US-led talks aimed at ending four years of war in the former Yugoslav republic.

1995 - Minority rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his associates were hanged in a Nigerian prison after being convicted on murder charges.

1997 - Presidents Boris Yeltsin of Russia and Jiang Zemin of China signed a declaration ending a long-running border dispute between them.

2001 - American Ken Kesey, whose 1962 novel ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' celebrated rebellion against rigid authority and whose exploits inspired the '60s hippie movement, died. He was 66.

2001 - Members of the World Trade Organisation formally approved the terms of China's entry into the trade bloc.

2003 - Zimbabwe's first post-independence president, Canaan Banana, died in London. He was 67.

2003 - Iraq's central bank intervened in the foreign exchange market for the first time in 13 years, selling dollars from the country's oil revenue to strengthen the dinar.

2003 - South Africa became the first African country to join the International Anti-Doping Arrangement (IADA), which aims to help clean sports of drugs.

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