Reuters historical calendar - November 15

London, Nov 14 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 15 since 1900: 1904 - King Camp Gillette received a patent for the first safety razor, which had a double-edged disposable blade.

1920 - The first meeting of the Assembly of the League of Nations was held in Geneva.

1923 - Rampant inflation in Germany reached a peak, and its currency was standing at four trillion marks to the dollar.

1935 - Manuel Quezon was inaugurated as first president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.

1971 - A delegation from the People's Republic of China was seated at the U.N. General Assembly for the first time.

1983 - Northern Cyprus was declared independent by Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash.

1990 - NATO and the Warsaw Pact agreed in principle on a treaty drastically slashing stocks of conventional weapons, the first treaty to cover conventional arms since World War Two.

1994 - Austrian President Thomas Klestil told Israel's parliament his country had failed to acknowledge its role in the Nazi Holocaust or do enough to help Jewish survivors.

1999 - A U N report on the 1995 fall of the Bosnian enclave of Srebrenica blamed itself and key governments for failing to use force and for appeasing Bosnian Serb leaders.

2004 - A Cuban troupe of 44 dancers, singers and musicians appearing in Las Vegas sought asylum in the United States, in one of the largest mass defections by Cubans.

**2005 - Senegal arrested Chad's former president Hissene Habre to face an extradition request from Belgium over charges of atrocities during his eight-year rule.

African Union leaders later decided to try him in Senegal.

**2005 - Italy's parliament approved a radical overhaul of the constitution, strengthening the powers of the prime minister and handing more decision-making power to the regions.

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