November 2006 Timeline
November 1Former South African president Pieter Willem Botha died in age of 90
November 2
Panama was elected the non-permanent member of the UN Security Council, after Venezuela and Guatemala agreed to withdraw their candidacies
November 5
Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging
November 7
Democrats won the 2006 US midterm elections and won control of both House of Representatives and the Senate
November 7
A tornado in the town of Saroma, on the island of Hokkaido, Japan, killed at least nine people and injured more than 15
November 8
Donald Rumsfeld resigned as US defense secretary
November 9
Markus Wolf, the former head of communist East Germany's foreign intelligence service also known as Man Without A Face, died at the age of 83
November 12
Over 90% people vote for independence from Georgia on referendum in South Ossetia
November 16
Joseph Kabila was declared president of the Democratic Republic of Congo by the country's electoral commission
November 16
6 people were killed riots in Nuku'alofa, capital of the Pacific nation of Tonga
November 20
Gunmen injured a teacher and several pupils at the school in Emsdetten, Germany
November 21
Pierre Gemayel, a leading anti-Syrian Lebanese minister and Maronite Christian leader was killed in Beirut
November 22
The governing Christian Democrats won the Dutch elections
November 23
Former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko died in a London hospital after he was poisoned with polonium-210
November 26
Explosions in two coal mines in China killed at least 53 miners and injured many more
November 27
Iranian military plane crashed in Tehran, killing all 36 people on board