Today in History

November 28

1893 - New Zealand becomes the first country in the world to allow women to vote in a national election.

1922 - Six former ministers of Greece are executed.

1958 - Chad becomes an autonomous republic within the French community.

1971 - Jordan’s Prime Minister Wasfi Tell is assassinated while attending an Arab conference in Cairo, Egypt.

1975 - East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.

1994 - Norwegians reject European Union membership.

1996 - UAE signs a defence cooperation agreement with Britain.

2012 - Khalid Al Enizi, a military attache at the Saudi embassy, is killed in Sana’a, Yemen.