Reuters historical calendar - November 26

LONDON, Nov 25 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November. 26 since 1900: 1922 - The English egyptologists Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first people to enter the tomb of King Tutankhamun since it was sealed more than 3,000 years earlier.

1940 - The Nazi German occupiers began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw, sealing in its 400,000 inhabitants.

1949 - India's Constituent Assembly passed the country's constitution; it came into force two months later.

1966 - French President Charles de Gaulle opened the world's first tidal power station at the Rance estuary in Brittany.

1967 - The birth of the People's Republic of South Yemen was proclaimed in Aden by the National Liberation Front.

1970 - Pope Paul VI was attacked by a Bolivian artist dressed as a priest and wielding a dagger at Manila airport.

1979 - A Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 707 crashed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; all 156 passengers and crew died.

1988 - The United States denied a request by Palestinian Liberation Organisation leader Yasser Arafat for a visa so he could address a session of the United Nations in New York.

1989 - President Ahmed Abdallah of the Comoros Islands was assassinated and the presidential guard under the French mercenary Bob Denard seized effective control.

1990 - Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigned, ending his rule as the world's longest-serving prime minister and giving way to the man he picked to succeed him, Goh Chok Tong.

1993 - Iraq agreed to long-term monitoring of its arms potential, hoping to persuade the United Nations to lift sanctions imposed after its invasion of Kuwait.

1998 - Japan expressed deep remorse for its actions in China during World War Two in a joint declaration during a visit by Chinese President Jiang Zemin.

2000 - Republican George W Bush was certified the winner of Florida's decisive 25 Electoral College votes. The next day he declared himself victor of the disputed presidential election.

2001 - Nepal's King Gyanendra imposed a state of emergency after at least 100 people were killed in three days of violence by Maoist guerrillas fighting to topple the monarchy.

2002 - Ninety-three countries met in the Netherlands to try to limit the spread of ballistic missiles, but North Korea, Iran, India, Pakistan, China and Israel were among the countries which chose not to sign an International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation signed on November. 25.

2003 - Concorde, the world's only supersonic airliner, returned to its birthplace near Bristol on its last flight. The sleek needle-nose of the Concorde was sold to an anonymous buyer at an auction in Paris.

2003 - Australia's Steve Waugh, cricket's most successful captain, said he would retire from the international sport. Waugh, 38, was the most capped player in the sport's history with 164 test appearances and the second-highest run scorer with 10,660 runs.

2004 - A court in Equatorial Guinea sentenced South African Nick du Toit to 34 years in prison and handed down jail terms to 12 others it said were involved in a plot to topple the president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

**2005 - A Japanese space probe Hayabusa, Japanese for ''falcon'', made history when it landed on the surface of an asteroid and collected rock samples that could give clues to the origin of the solar system.

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