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rejects new U.N. Security Council weapons inspections proposals

November 3 - Widespread Flood ing throughout England and Wales after days of heavy rain

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 .

November 7 - Criminal gang raids the Millennium Dome to steal The Millennium Star diamond but police surveillance catches them in the act

November 7 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate , becoming the first First Lady Of The United States to win public office

November 11 - Kaprun Disaster , Austria , where 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.

November 13 - 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 - 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 - a new State called Jharkhand was formed carving out South Chhota Nagpur area from Bihar in India

November 16 - Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting US President to visit Vietnam

November 17 - Catastrophical Landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia , kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophies in Slovenia in the past 100 years.

November 17 - Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru

November 27 - Canada - Parliamentary elections - Jean Chrétien re-elected as Prime Minister as Liberal Party increases majority in House of Commons

November 28 - Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz touches off the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the Murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze .