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===November=== * November β The World Trade Organization begins the [[Doha Development Round]] to negotiate lower trade barriers between countries and integrate developing nations into the global economy.<ref name="auto24">{{Cite web |title=Doha Development Agenda |url=https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-relationships-country-and-region/eu-and-wto/doha-development-agenda_en |access-date=2022-12-03 |website=European Commission |language=en |archive-date=December 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203035823/https://policy.trade.ec.europa.eu/eu-trade-relationships-country-and-region/eu-and-wto/doha-development-agenda_en |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[November 1]] β An interim government in Burundi begins the peace process for the [[Burundian Civil War]].<ref name=":3" />{{Rp|page=27}} * [[November 4]] β [[Hurricane Michelle]] hits Cuba, where the storm is the strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall on the island in more than [[Hurricane Fox (1952)|49 years]]. It is the costliest hurricane in Cuban history to this point with an estimated $2 billion in damage.<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL152001_Michelle.pdf |title=Tropical Cyclone Report: Hurricane Michelle |last=Beven |first=Jack |date=2002-01-23 |publisher=[[National Hurricane Center]] |access-date=2022-11-20 |archive-date=December 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191213202507/https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL152001_Michelle.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[November 7]] β [[Sabena]], the national airline of Belgium, goes bankrupt.<ref name="Orban-2021">{{Cite web |last=Orban |first=AndrΓ© |date=2021-11-06 |title=Twenty years ago, Sabena was declared bankrupt |url=https://www.aviation24.be/do-you-remember/20-years-ago-sabena-declared-bankrupt/ |access-date=2022-11-20 |website=Aviation24.be |language=en-GB |archive-date=November 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221120061308/https://www.aviation24.be/do-you-remember/20-years-ago-sabena-declared-bankrupt/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[November 10]] ** [[2001 Australian federal election]]: The [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] government, led by [[John Howard]], is re-elected with a slightly increased majority, defeating the [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]] led by [[Kim Beazley]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://australianpolitics.com/elections/federal-2001|title=2001 Federal Election | AustralianPolitics.com|website=australianpolitics.com|access-date=February 26, 2018|archive-date=July 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701165516/http://australianpolitics.com/elections/federal-2001|url-status=live}}</ref> ** [[Fall of Mazar-i-Sharif]]: American and Northern Alliance forces take [[Mazar-i-Sharif]] in the first major offensive of the [[War in Afghanistan (2001β2021)|War in Afghanistan]].<ref name="The Guardian-2001">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2001-11-09 |title='Taliban fall' in Mazar-i-Sharif |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/09/afghanistan.terrorism7 |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=The Guardian |language=en |archive-date=November 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124072728/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/09/afghanistan.terrorism7 |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[November 11]] β Two French journalists, [[Pierre Billaud]] and [[Johanne Sutton]], and a German colleague, [[Volker Handloik]], are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on their convoy.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905EFDC1038F930A25752C1A9679C8B63 A Nation Challenged; Two French Radio Journalists and a German Are Killed in Taliban Ambush of a Rebel Force] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416024012/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/13/world/nation-challenged-media-two-french-radio-journalists-german-are-killed-taliban.html |date=April 16, 2020 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', November 13, 2001</ref> * [[November 12]] ** [[American Airlines Flight 587]] crashes in [[Belle Harbor, Queens|Belle Harbor]], [[Queens]], on the [[Rockaway Peninsula]] shortly after [[takeoff]], killing all 260 people aboard the plane as well as five people on the ground.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |date=November 12, 2001 |title=ASN Aircraft accident Airbus A300B4-605R N14053 Belle Harbor, NY |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20011112-0 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140420004450/http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20011112-0 |archive-date=April 20, 2014 |access-date=April 20, 2016 |website=Aviation Safety Network |publisher=[[Flight Safety Foundation]]}}</ref> ** [[2001 uprising in Herat]]: [[Northern Alliance]] forces take the city of [[Herat]] from the Taliban.<ref name="CNN-2001d">{{Cite web |date=November 12, 2001 |title=Alliance halts advance on Kabul, takes Herat |url=http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/11/12/ret.move.on.kabul/index.html |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=CNN |archive-date=November 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124161738/http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/central/11/12/ret.move.on.kabul/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[November 14]] ** [[Fall of Kabul (2001)|Fall of Kabul]]: Northern Alliance forces take the Afghan capital [[Kabul]].<ref name="The Guardian-2001b">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2001-11-13 |title=Northern Alliance takes Kabul |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/13/afghanistan.terrorism15 |access-date=2022-11-20 |website=The Guardian |language=en |archive-date=November 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221120061313/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/13/afghanistan.terrorism15 |url-status=live }}</ref> ** [[2001 Kunlun earthquake|A 7.8-magnitude earthquake]] strikes China with an [[epicenter]] near [[Kokoxili]], but it occurs in a sparsely populated mountainous region and there are no casualties.<ref name="VanderWoerd_etal_2005"/> * [[November 15]] β [[Microsoft]] enters the [[Video game console|gaming console]] market with the release of the [[Xbox (console)|Xbox]], a [[Sixth generation of video game consoles|sixth-generation gaming console]], in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2013-06-12|title=Xbox Arrives in New York Tonight at Toys "R" Us Times Square|website=[[Microsoft]]|url=http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2001/nov01/11-14midnightmadnesspr.aspx|access-date=2021-04-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130612000737/http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2001/nov01/11-14midnightmadnesspr.aspx|archive-date=June 12, 2013}}</ref> * [[November 18]] β The [[Leonids]] meteor shower occurs in its heaviest concentration in decades as Earth passes through a debris cloud.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 18, 2001 |title=Meteor storm provides stellar show |url=http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/11/16/meteor.showers/ |access-date=2022-11-24 |website=CNN |archive-date=November 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221124172230/http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/11/16/meteor.showers/ |url-status=live }}</ref> * [[November 23]] β The [[Convention on Cybercrime]], the first international treaty to address [[cybercrime]], is signed in [[Budapest]], Hungary.<ref name="Weber-2003">{{Cite journal |last=Weber |first=Amalie M. |date=2003 |title=The Council of Europe's Convention on Cybercrime |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24120528 |journal=Berkeley Technology Law Journal |volume=18 |issue=1 |pages=425β446 |jstor=24120528 |issn=1086-3818 |access-date=November 20, 2022 |archive-date=November 20, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221120061308/https://www.jstor.org/stable/24120528 |url-status=live }}</ref> [[File:Exoplanet Comparison HD 209458 b.png|thumb|Size comparison of HD 209458 b with [[Jupiter]] (left)]] * [[November 27]] β A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the [[extrasolar planet]] [[HD 209458 b]], nicknamed Osiris, by the [[Hubble Space Telescope]]. It is the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.<ref name="Hubble-2001">{{Cite web |title=Hubble Makes First Direct Measurements of Atmosphere on World Around another Star |url=https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2001/news-2001-38 |access-date=2022-11-20 |website=HubbleSite.org |language=en}}</ref>
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