BITS OF HISTORY

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.

2016: A plane carrying Brazilian Chapecoense soccer team crashes in the Colombian jungle.f