- September 25
- The last of the Magdalen Asylums is closed in Ireland. [28]
- September 27
- In Afghanistan, the Taliban capture the capital city of Kabul, after driving out President Burhanuddin Rabbani and executing former leader Mohammad Najibullah. [28]
- In Pretoria, South Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation panel holds hearings before the Supreme Court. Secret Service Colonel Eugene de Kock, former head of Operation Long Reach, testifies that his office planned the Olof Palme killing, and that Craig Williamson coordinated the assassination. [7]
- October 2
- The former prime minister of Bulgaria, Andrei Lukanov, is assassinated. [28]
- October 14
- The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 40.62 to close at 6,010.00, the Dow's first close above 6,000. [28]
- October 30
- Fighting erupts when Banyamulenga Tutsis of Laurent Kabila in Zaire seize Uvira and proceed to kill Hutu refugees. [28]
- On his 5,144th day in office Helmut Kohl surpasses Konrad Adenauer's record as the longest serving post-war chancellor of Germany. [37]
- November 5
- U.S. presidential election: Democrat incumbent Bill Clinton defeats Republican challenger Bob Dole to win his second term. [28]
- November 7
- A devastating Category 4 cyclone strikes Andhra Pradesh, India. The storm surge sweeps fishing villages out to sea, killing over 2,000 people. 95 percent of crops are completely destroyed. [28]
- November 8
- In Zurich, Switzerland, David Feldman sells at auction a Sweden 1855 3-skilling banco stamp, error of color, used, for US$2,270,000, a world record auction bid for a postage stamp. [7] [673.10] [798.3] [815.3] [1268.7]
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- November 12
- Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 has a mid-air collision with Kazakhstan Airlines Il-76, resulting in the loss of 349 lives. [28]
- Near the coast of Peru, a magnitude 7.7 earthquake occurs. At least 14 people killed, 560 injured and 12,000 homeless. [53]
- November 16
- Mother Teresa receives honorary U.S. citizenship. [28]
- November 18
- World-renowned bird expert Tony Silva is sentenced to seven years in prison without parole for leading an illegal parrot smuggling ring. [28]
- Martyn Bryant is sentenced to life imprisonment, two weeks after confessing to murdering 35 people in Tasmania earlier this year. [28]
- November 21
- A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33. [28]
- November 23
- The Republic of Angola officially joins the World Trade Organization, as Angola. [28]
- 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. [28]
- The Main Street Electrical Parade at Disneyland gives its final performance. The parade made over 3500 trips, to an estimated 75 million guests. [6]
- November 26
- Near San Luis, Santa Barbara, Honduras, a meteorite slams into a sparsely populated area, leaving a 165-foot-wide crater. [521]
- December 2
- In Kyushu, Japan, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurs. [53]
- December 5
- The A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan, is named a World Heritage site. The dome and main structure of the Hiroshima Promotion Hall survived the atomic bomb blast of 1945. [10]
- December 12
- Uday Hussein, son of Iraq's Saddam Hussein, is seriously injured in an assassination attempt. [1] [28]
- Disney announces the resignation of Michael Ovitz as president of the Walt Disney Company. His total compensation package totals US$140 million. [6]
- December 13
- In Bonn, Germany, the Swiss National Bank publicly acknowledges that it had profited from wartime dealings in gold bullion with the German central bank, but that there is no evidence that the gold was stolen from Holocaust victims, and no gold in Swiss possession bears German stamps. Total value of wartime gold transactions was 1.2 million Swiss francs, with profit of about 20 million francs. [10]
- December 16
- Sotheby's sells at auction Sam Bloomfield's USA 1907 Saint-Gaudens $20 gold coin, Ultra High Relief, Roman Numerals, Proof, for US$825,000. [525.79] [607.30]
- December 17
- At the Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the "Option Red" supercomputer is started up, performing one trillion floating-point operations per second, making it the fastest computer in the world. The US$55 million computer uses 9072 Intel Pentium Pro processors with 600 GB memory and 2 terabyte disc storage. [4]
- 14 members of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement takes 500 hostages in the Japanese Embassy in Lima, Peru, to draw international attention to widespread human rights abuses in Peru. [824.180] (72 hoatages [28])
- December 20
- Apple Computer announces it will buy the NeXT Software company for about US$400 million in cash and Apple stock. NeXT Software CEO Steve Jobs will become an advisor to Apple chairman and CEO Gilbert Amelio. [4] [28]
- German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel and Czech Foreign Minister Josef Zieleniec meet in Prague, and initial a document in which German appologizes for Adolf Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the Czech Republic expresses regret for the postwar expulsion of Germans from the Sudetenland. [10]
- December 23
- Four women ordained priests in Jamaica, first in 330-year Anglican history. [1]
- December 26
- Start of the largest strike in South Korean history. [28]
- Six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey is murdered in the basement of her parents' home in Boulder, Colorado. [1] [28]
- December 27
- Taliban forces retake the strategic Bagram air base, which solidifies their buffer zone around Kabul. [28]
- December 29
- Guatemala and the leaders of the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union sign a peace accord that ends a 36-year civil war. [28]
- December 30
- In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26. [28]
- Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers, who shut down services across Israel. [28]
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