Reuters historical calendar - November 27

LONDON, Nov 26 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 27 since 1900: 1919 - The Treaty of Neuilly was signed, under which Bulgaria was forced to cede territory to Yugoslavia and Greece.

1940 - In Romania, the pro-Nazi Iron Guard slaughtered over 60 aides of the exiled king, including former prime minister Nicolae Jorga.

1941 - The last Italian forces in Ethiopia under General Nasi surrendered at Gondar. Over 23,000 prisoners were taken.

1942 - In World War Two, the German army entered Toulon and the French fleet anchored there was scuttled by its own crews.

1953 - US playwright Eugene O'Neill died. Author of ''Long Day's Journey Into Night'', in 1936 he became the first American winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. He was 65.

1975 - Ross McWhirter, co-editor and compiler of the Guinness Book of World Records, was shot dead by Irish Republican Army gunmen at his home.

1983 - A Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Barajas Airport in Madrid, killing 181 people.

1989 - A Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 727 on a flight from Bogota to Cali was destroyed by an explosion possibly caused by a bomb. All 107 people on board were killed.

1992 - Venezuela's government said it had put down a coup attempt by rebel soldiers in which up to 50 people were killed, hundreds wounded and the presidential palace was bombed.

2000 - The Laerdal Tunnel in West Norway was opened by King arald. It is the world's longest road tunnel at 16.9 km (10.6 miles), beating the St Gotthard tunnel in Switzerland.

2001 - National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) nnounced that the Hubble Space Telescope had spied the atmosphere of a planet 150 light-years from Earth, the first time the at 1836020592 2002 - US President George W Bush appointed Henry Kissinger to lead an independent investigation of the government's failure to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks.

2002 - The EU, its cod stocks on the brink of collapse after years of overfishing, called for cuts of 80 per cent in cod and haddock catches and 75 percent for whiting in EU fishing areas.

2003 - Taiwan's parliament approved a landmark bill that allowed the island to hold referenda on sovereignty and other issues, despite warnings from China.

2004 - Pope John Paul, attempting to mend relations with Orthodox Christians, returned to Istanbul the remains of fourth-century church leaders St. Gregory Nazianzen and St. John Chrysostom, 800 years after Crusaders snatched sacred relics from Constantinople.

**2005 - An explosion ripped through state-owned Dongfeng coal mine in China's northeastern Heilongjiang province, killing 171 miners.

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