November 2000

Events

November 1, 2000 (Wednesday)

• Died: Kjell Holler, 75, Norwegian politician and former government minister

November 2, 2000 (Thursday)

• A mutiny takes place at the Queen Elizabeth Barracks in Suva, Fiji. Four soldiers are killed.

November 3, 2000 (Friday)

• Widespread flooding throughout England and Wales after days of heavy rain.

November 4, 2000 (Saturday)

• Died: Stephanie Lawrence, 50, English musical theatre actress (liver disease)

November 5, 2000 (Sunday)

• Phil Goff, Foreign Minister of New Zealand, openly accuses Lieutenant Colonel Filipo Tarakinikini of involvement in the mutiny of November 2.
• Died: Roger Peyrefitte, 93, French diplomat and author

November 6, 2000 (Monday)

• Died: L. Sprague de Camp, 92, US science fiction and fantasy author

November 7, 2000 (Tuesday)

• U.S. presidential election, 2000: Republican challenger George W. Bush defeats Democrat Vice President Al Gore, but the final outcome is not known for over a month because of disputed votes in Florida.
• A criminal gang raids the Millennium Dome to steal The Millennium Star diamond but police surveillance catches them in the act.
• Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first First Lady of the United States to win public office.
• Died: Former Queen Ingrid of Sweden, 90; Chidambaram Subramaniam, 90, Indian statesman

November 8, 2000 (Wednesday)

• The third and final stage of the Egyptian parliamentary election, 2000, ends in victory for the ruling National Democratic Party.

November 9, 2000 (Thursday)

• Died: Michel Demaret, 60, Belgian politician; Eric Morley, 82, English businessman and founder of the Miss World pageant

November 11, 2000 (Saturday)

• Kaprun disaster, Austria, where 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.

November 13, 2000 (Monday)

• Richard C. Duncan presents his paper, "The Peak of World Oil Production and the Road to the Olduvai Gorge", on the Olduvai theory (about the collapse of the industrial civilization), at the Summit 2000 Pardee Keynote Symposia of the Geological Society of America.

November 14, 2000 (Tuesday)

• Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development creating a stable Mozilla web browser upon which it is based.

November 15, 2000 (Wednesday)

• A new State called Jharkhand was formed carving out South Chhota Nagpur area from Bihar in India

November 16, 2000 (Thursday)

• Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting US President to visit Vietnam.

November 17, 2000 (Friday)

• Catastrophical landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
• Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.

November 18, 2000 (Saturday)

• Catherine Zeta-Jones marries Michael Douglas at the Plaza Hotel, New York City.
• The 2000 Tiger Cup football competition concludes in Thailand. The winners are the Thailand national football team.

November 19, 2000 (Sunday)

• The 2000 Scottish Challenge Cup Final is won by Airdrieonians F. C.

November 27, 2000 (Monday)

• In Canada's Parliamentary elections, Jean Chrétien is re-elected as Prime Minister as the Liberal Party increases its majority in the House of Commons.

November 28, 2000 (Tuesday)

• Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz sets off the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.