Iraq disarmament crisis: UNSCOM inspectors uncover buried prohibited missile parts. Iraq refuses to allow UNSCOM teams to remove remnants of missile engines for analysis outside of the country
November 5 - U.S. presidential election, 1996: Democratic incumbent Bill Clinton defeats Republican challenger Bob Dole to win his second term.
November 5 - Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto's government is dismissed by President Farooq Leghari after widespread allegations of corruption.
November 7 - A devastating category 4 Cyclone strikes Andhra Pradesh, India. The storm surge sweeps fishing villages out to sea, over 2,000 people die. 95 percent of the crops are completely destroyed.
November 7 - NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
November 8 - All 141 people on board a Nigerian-owned Boeing 727 die when the aircraft crashes into the Atlantic Ocean while approaching Lagos airport.
November 12 - Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 collides in mid-air with Kazakhstan Airlines Il-76, resulting in the loss of 349 lives.
November 15 - State Street in Chicago is re-opened to pedestrian traffic.
November 16 - Mother Teresa receives honorary U.S. citizenship.
November 17 - A bomb explosion in Kaspiysk, Russia kills 32 people.
November 17 - Emil Constantinescu is elected president of Romania.
November 18 - World-renowned bird expert Tony Silva is sentenced to 7 years in prison without parole, for leading an illegal parrot smuggling ring.
November 18 - Martyn Bryant is sentenced to life imprisonment, 2 weeks after confessing to murdering 35 people in Tasmania earlier this year.
November 18 - Frederick Chiluba is reelected president of Zambia.
November 19 - STS-80: Space Shuttle Columbia conducts the longest mission of the Space Shuttle program.
November 21 - A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.
November 21 - Demonstrators in Zagreb demand the survival of Radio 101.
November 22 - Martin Bryant is convicted of the shooting of 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania and is given 35 life sentences by a court in Sydney.
November 23 - The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Angola.
November 23 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
November 25 - An ice storm strikes the U.S., killing 26 directly, hundreds more from accidents. A powerful windstorm blasts Florida; winds gust to 90 mph.
November 25 - The U.S. stock market, especially the Dow Jones Industrial Average, gains at an incredibly fast pace following the 1996 Presidential election. It gains 10 days in a row during the month.
November 25 - The APEC Summit opens in the Philippines.
November 26 - The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas is imploded to make way for the Venetian Hotel.
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