Unix Timestamp: 689212800
Monday, November 4. 1991, 12:00:00 AM UTC

The last oil well fire in Kuwait is extinguished.

The United States Senate confirms Robert Gates as Director of Central Intelligence.

The first report on carbon nanotubes is published by Sumio Iijima in the journal "Nature".

November 5 ndash In South Africa, the African National Congress leads a general strike, demanding a role in governing and an end to a value added tax.

In a special election for the U.S. Senate, Harris Wofford scores an electoral upset against Dick Thornburgh, who had led him by 44 points in an August opinion poll.

The body of publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands.

China–Vietnam relations: China and Vietnam restore diplomatic relations after a 13-year rift which followed 1979's Sino-Vietnamese War.

CPSU, and its republic-level division, Communist Party of the Russian SFSR, banned in the Russian SFSR by Presidential decree N 169.

The KGB officially stops operations.

Los Angeles Lakers point guard Magic Johnson announces he has HIV, effectively ending his NBA career.