Chilean Voters in Chile go to the polls for a general election of president, senators, deputies, and regional advisers. The presidential election looks likely to go to a runoff between former President Michelle Bachelet and Evelyn Matthei of the ruling Coalition.
Giorgi Margvelashvili Giorgi Margvelashvili is sworn in as the President of Georgia following the victory in the October election.
Abdulla Yameen Abdulla Yameen is sworn in as the President of the Maldives following yesterday's election victory.
Midwestern United States Following the issuance of a rare High Risk for severe weather (only the fifth documented such case in November and also extending to areas further north than any previous known high risk issued in the November through February timeframe), several midwestern states in the United States are placed under multiple tornado watches, with multiple tornadoes touching down, causing at least four deaths and up to 50 injured in the area; one leveled parts of a suburb of Peoria, Illinois. Around six dozen tornadoes occur in total with activity most concentrated in Illinois and Indiana but extending from Tennessee to Michigan. '
Killed Fifty people are killed after a passenger Boeing 737 crash lands in the city of Kazan in central Russia.
Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) Flooding in Vietnam has killed at least 28 people with nine more missing and nearly 80,000 displaced.
The number of people displaced reaches 1.9 million people. Numbers vary between 1,000-20,000 for estimates about missing people.
Doris Lessing British author Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007, dies at the age of 94.