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| ITNs | Days | Continents | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | 28 | 7/7 |
- Over 50 people are killed and 82 critically injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, Kenya.[1]
- Kirill of Moscow (pictured) becomes the 16th Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.[2]
- Rafael Nadal (pictured) and Serena Williams win the men's and women's singles respectively at the 2009 Australian Open.[3]
- Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (pictured) becomes Prime Minister of Iceland, the first openly gay head of government of the modern world.[4]
- A series of reprisal attacks leaving up to 50 dead occurs in Gaza during a ceasefire in the 2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict.[5]
- The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Arizona Cardinals 27-13 to win Super Bowl XLIII.[6]
- Iran launches Omid, its first domestically constructed satellite.[7]
- French astronomers discover COROT-Exo-7b, the smallest exoplanet to have its diameter measured.[8]
- Fossils of the largest snake currently known, Titanoboa, are discovered in Colombia.[9]
- The chairman of a Tokyo bedding supplier is arrested by Japanese police following the exposure of an investment scam reportedly worth US$1.4 billion.[10]
- The heaviest snowfall for 18 years disrupts air and road traffic and shuts schools across much of Ireland and the United Kingdom (snowfall in London pictured).[11]
- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves ATryn, the first medicine created using genetically-engineered animals.[12]
- In Victoria, Australia, bushfires (satellite image pictured) cause major property damage and kill at least 25 people.[13]
- Madagascar police open fire on a protest in Antananarivo, killing at least 50 people and injuring hundreds.[14]
- An airplane crashes near Manaus, the capital of Amazonas, Brazil, killing 24 people.[15]
- Robert Plant and Alison Krauss win the 2009 Grammy Award for Record and Album of the Year.[16]
- President of Bolivia Evo Morales enacts a new constitution which grants more power to the country's indigenous majority and allows for land reform.[17]
- Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change party becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.[18]
- The discovery of a 16th-century mass grave containing at least 49 human skeletons at the Tlatelolco archaeological site in Mexico City is announced.[19]
- Iridium 33 (replica pictured) and Kosmos-2251 are destroyed in space, in the first major collision between artificial satellites.[20]
- A Continental Airlines airplane crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York, USA, killing 49 people.[21]
- A passenger train derails in the Indian state of Orissa, killing at least 15 people and injuring 150.[22]
- The completion of the first draft of the Neanderthal genome (reconstruction of a Neanderthal child pictured) is announced by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.[23]
- The Andean volcano Galeras (pictured) erupts in Colombia, forcing some 8,000 people to evacuate.[24]
- The ongoing general strikes in Guadeloupe and Martinique continue over the high cost of living.[25]
- An amendment to the Constitution of Venezuela, lifting term limits on elected offices from the President of the Republic down, is endorsed by 54% of voters in a referendum.[26]
- The Royal Navy's nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard collide with the French Navy's Le Triomphant in the Atlantic Ocean.[27]
- The largest oil spill to affect Great Britain and Ireland in 13 years occurs off County Cork.[28]
- U.S. President Barack Obama signs the a US$787 billion stimulus package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, into law.[29]
- UBS AG, Switzerland's largest bank, agrees to pay US$780 million in fines and restitution and disclose account information to the U.S. Government after admitting to helping American clients avoid taxes.[30]
- The Danton, a French battleship sunk in 1917 by a German submarine, is discovered with many of its gun turrets still intact on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea.[31]
- Ivars Godmanis, the Prime Minister of Latvia, resigns along with the rest of his government amid concerns about handling the economic crisis.[32]
- China confirms HIV/AIDS as its leading cause of death by infectious disease in 2008, a fivefold increase over a three year period.[33]
- Eleven people are killed and 20 more are injured in a collision between a tourist coach and a train in central Slovakia.[34]
- A mine blast in Gujiao in the Shanxi province of China kills at least 73 people and injures at least 113 more.[35]
- An outbreak of Hepatitis B in Gujarat, India, kills 49 people and infects 125.[36]
- Tamil Tiger launches a kamikaze-style suicide attack on Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing two people and injuring over 50 more.[37]
- Slumdog Millionaire wins eight Academy Awards including Best Picture.[38]
- A bomb thrown into the crowded Khan el-Khalili square in Cairo, Egypt, kills one person and injures 22 others.[39]
- Comet Lulin (pictured) peaks in brightness in the constellation Virgo.[40]
- A NASA rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory falls into the ocean near Antarctica after a failed launch.[41]
- A machine gun and mortar battle in Mogadishu, Somalia kills 15 people and injures at least ninety more in the Somali Civil War.[42]
- An international team of scientists announces the completion of its mission to map the Gamburtsev Mountain Range beneath the Antarctic ice.[43]
- Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 with 135 passengers on board crashes at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.[44]
- Mutinies by a paramilitary force spread across Bangladesh, killing at least 21 people.[45]
- The Special Court for Sierra Leone convicts three commanders of the Revolutionary United Front on charges of war crimes, including enlistment of child soldiers and forced marriage.[46]
- Milan Milutinović, a former President of Serbia, is acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on charges of war crimes.[47]
- An outbreak of dengue fever kills at least 18 people and infects 31,000 more in Bolivia.[48]
- U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer settles a multi-billion dollar damages case with 200 alleged victims of a drugs trial in Kano, Nigeria.[49]
- Over €7 billion is stolen from the Bank of Ireland in College Green, Dublin, in the largest bank robbery in Irish history.[50]
- 90,000 food crop seed samples are delivered to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle.[51]
References edit
- ^ Kenyan Oil Spill Ignition (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Australian Open (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Gaza Reprisal Attacks (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Super Bowl XLIII (User:Grandmasterka)
- ^ Omid Satellite (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ COROT-Exo-7b (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Titanboa (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Enten Controversy (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ February 2009 United Kingdom and Ireland snowstorm (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ ATryn (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2009 Victorian Bushfires (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Malagasy Massacre (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Amazonian Airplane Crash (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 51st Grammy Awards (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Bolivian Referendum (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Morgan Tsvangirai (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Tlatelolco (archaeological site) (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Satellite Collision (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ New York Plane House Collision (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Orissa Train Derailment (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ German Neanderthal (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Galeras Eruption (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ French Caribbean General Strikes (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Venezuelan Referendum (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Anglo-French Submarine Collision (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ West Cork Oil Spill (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ American Stimulus Package (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ UBS AG Tax Evasion Fine (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Danton Discovery (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Ivars Godmanis Resignation (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Chinese HIV/AIDS Explosion (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Slovak Coach/Train Collision (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Shanxi Mine Blast (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Indian Heptitis B Outbreak (User:Spencer)
- ^ Tamil Tiger Suicide Attack (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 81st Academy Awards (User:Zzyzx11)
- ^ Cairo Bomb (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ C/2007 N3 Comet Lulin (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Orbiting Carbon Observatory (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Mogadishu Machine Gun and Mortar Battle (User:Spencer)
- ^ Gamburtsev Mountain Range (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Schipol Plane Crash (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Bangladesh Rifles Revolt (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Sierra Leone War Crimes (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Milan Milutinović Aquittal (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Bolivian Dengue Fever Epidemic (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Pfizer Nigeria Drugs Trial (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Bank Of Ireland Robbery (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Svalbard Global Seed Vault (User:Spencer)