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Reuters historical calendar - November 28
LONDON, Nov 27 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 28 since 1900: 1905 - The Irish political party Sinn Fein was founded in Dublin by Arthur Griffith.
1912 - Albania declared its independence after more than 400 years of Turkish rule.
1919 - Nancy Astor was elected as the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons.
1943 - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met in Tehran to chart the future Allied course for World War Two and decide a post-war future.
1962 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands died. She won admiration for her conduct during World War Two and abdicated in 1948 in favour of her daughter. She was 82.
1971 - Black September agents assassinated Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tell outside a hotel in Cairo during an official visit.
1975 - After a civil war, the left-wing Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (Fretilin) declared East Timor independent from Indonesia.
1979 - An Air Zealand DC-10 on a flight from Auckland to the South Pole hit Mount Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 257 people aboard.
1987 - All 160 aboard a South African Airways Boeing 747 died after it plunged into the Indian Ocean off Mauritius.
1989 - Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, who captivated the world at the 1976 Montreal Olympics with the first perfect 10 score, fled to Hungary.
1989 - Czechoslovakia's parliament voted to strip the Communist Party of its guaranteed monopoly on power.
1996 - Former South Yemen president Ali Nasser Mohammed returned to Aden for the first time since he was ousted in a 1986 coup.
1996 - Algerians voted overwhelmingly for constitutional changes banning Islamic political parties.
2000 - The Dutch lower house voted to legalise euthanasia. The upper house followed suit in April 2001.
2001 - Hundreds of captured al Qaeda fighters die in Afghanistan after Northern Alliance troops took back control of a fortress near Mazar-i-Sharif at the end of a bloody revolt.
2001 - Detectives arrested more than 130 people around the globe in an unprecedented crackdown on child pornography in the world's largest collaborative policing operation.
2002 - Three suicide car bombers blew up the Mombasa Paradise resort hotel full of Israelis, killing 13 other people, 10 Kenyans and three Israelis. Also two missiles narrowly miss an Israeli aircraft carrying 261 passengers as it took off from Mombasa's airport.
2004 - Jordan's King Abdullah relieved his half-brother Prince Hamza of his duties as crown prince saying his job as heir to the throne impeded his ability to undertake wider functions.
**2005 - US Rep Randy ''Duke'' Cunningham, a California Republican, resigned after pleading guilty to taking LONDON, Nov 27 (Reuters) Following are some of the major events to have occurred on November 28 since 1900: 1905 - The Irish political party Sinn Fein was founded in Dublin by Arthur Griffith.
1912 - Albania declared its independence after more than 400 years of Turkish rule.
1919 - Nancy Astor was elected as the first woman to sit in the British House of Commons.
1943 - Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met in Tehran to chart the future Allied course for World War Two and decide a post-war future.
1962 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands died. She won admiration for her conduct during World War Two and abdicated in 1948 in favour of her daughter. She was 82.
1971 - Black September agents assassinated Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi Tell outside a hotel in Cairo during an official visit.
1975 - After a civil war, the left-wing Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor (Fretilin) declared East Timor independent from Indonesia.
1979 - An Air Zealand DC-10 on a flight from Auckland to the South Pole hit Mount Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 257 people aboard.
1987 - All 160 aboard a South African Airways Boeing 747 died after it plunged into the Indian Ocean off Mauritius.
1989 - Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci, who captivated the world at the 1976 Montreal Olympics with the first perfect 10 score, fled to Hungary.
1989 - Czechoslovakia's parliament voted to strip the Communist Party of its guaranteed monopoly on power.
1996 - Former South Yemen president Ali Nasser Mohammed returned to Aden for the first time since he was ousted in a 1986 coup.
1996 - Algerians voted overwhelmingly for constitutional changes banning Islamic political parties.
2000 - The Dutch lower house voted to legalise euthanasia. The upper house followed suit in April 2001.
2001 - Hundreds of captured al Qaeda fighters die in Afghanistan after Northern Alliance troops took back control of a fortress near Mazar-i-Sharif at the end of a bloody revolt.
2001 - Detectives arrested more than 130 people around the globe in an unprecedented crackdown on child pornography in the world's largest collaborative policing operation.
2002 - Three suicide car bombers blew up the Mombasa Paradise resort hotel full of Israelis, killing 13 other people, 10 Kenyans and three Israelis. Also two missiles narrowly miss an Israeli aircraft carrying 261 passengers as it took off from Mombasa's airport.
2004 - Jordan's King Abdullah relieved his half-brother Prince Hamza of his duties as crown prince saying his job as heir to the throne impeded his ability to undertake wider functions.
**2005 - US Rep Randy ''Duke'' Cunningham, a California Republican, resigned after pleading guilty to taking $2.4 million in bribes in exchange for help in securing Defense Department contracts.
REUTERS BDP PM1025 .4 million in bribes in exchange for help in securing Defense Department contracts.
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