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Historical Events

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Jan 1st - Slovakia officially adopts the Euro currency and becomes the sixteenth Eurozone country.
Jan 1st - 61 die in nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
Jan 1st - The government of the Republic of China adopts Hanyu Pinyin as its official Chinese romanization (before this time, the most commonly used was Tongyong Pinyin.
Jan 3rd - Israeli ground forces invade Gaza.
Jan 8th - A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit Costa Rica´s region of Volcan Poás, with an epicenter near Cinchona. It was caused by Varablanca-Angel fault.
Jan 15th - US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing into the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. All passengers and crew members survive.
Jan 20th - Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president
Jan 23rd - Dendermonde nursery attack occurred in Dendermonde, Belgium.
Jan 24th - Pope Benedict XVI rescinds the excommunications of four bishops consecrated without papal consent in 1988 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
Jan 31st - In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people.
Feb 1st - Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the first openly gay Head of State in the modern world.
Feb 5th - The United States Navy guided missile cruiser Port Royal runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging the ship as well as a coral reef.
Feb 7th - Bushfires in Victoria left 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
Feb 12th - Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes near Buffalo in the state of New York killing 50 people.
Feb 13th - Unix time passed 1,234,567,890 seconds February 13, 2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC).
Feb 25th - BDR massacre in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 74 People are being killed, including more than 50 Army officials, by Bangladeshi Boarder Guards inside its headquarter.
Mar 3rd - The Sri Lankan cricket team is attacked by terrorists while on their way to the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore for a Test match against Pakistan.
Mar 3rd - The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses.
Mar 4th - The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
Mar 11th - Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.
Mar 22nd - Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska began erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.
Mar 27th - Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails killing at least 99 people.
Apr 1st - Croatia and Albania joined NATO
Apr 3rd - Australia formally adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Apr 5th - North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks.
Apr 6th - A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing at least 253.
Apr 7th - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
Apr 12th - U.S. Navy rescues captain Richard Phillips, killing three pirates and capturing a fourth.
Apr 12th - President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority makes a courtesy phone call to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, restarting the Palestinian-Israeli dialogue
Apr 23rd - The gamma ray burst GRB 090423 it's observed for 10 seconds as the most distant object of any kind and also the oldest known object in the universe.
Apr 30th - Chrysler automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
Apr 30th - Failed attack on the Dutch Royal Family results in 7 deaths and 17 injured.
Apr 30th - The United Kingdom formally ends combat operations in Iraq.
May 1st - Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
May 11th - An American soldier in Iraq opened fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Bagdhad, leaving 5 other US soldiers dead and 3 soldiers wounded.
May 18th - Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
May 19th - Sri Lanka announces victory in its 27 year war against the terrorist organisation, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
May 25th - North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests bulding tensions in the international community.
Jun 1st - Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew were killed.
Jun 1st - General Motors files for chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
Jun 11th - A Texas mother was hit by lightning while standing in her kitchen inside her Texas home. Witnesses say the lightning came through a light fixture and struck her chest and exited her foot. Her 9-year-old son franticly called 9-1-1 to save her life. She had to spend three days in the hospital.
Jun 12th - Protests in Iran following the presidential election.
Jun 12th - TSC: All television broadcasts in the United States switch from analog NTSC to digital ATSC transmission.
Jun 22nd - 2009 Washington Metro subway crash: Two Metro trains collide in Washington, D.C., USA, killing 9 and injuring over 80.
Jun 30th - Yemenia Flight 626 crashes off the coast of Moroni, Comoros killing 152 people and leaving 1 survivor
Jul 3rd - Mark II.5 Skytrain cars enter service in Metro Vancouver.
Jul 4th - The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after 8 years, due to security reasons following the World Trade Center attacks.
Jul 5th - Roger Federer wins a record 15th Grand Slam (tennis) in tennis, winning a five set match against Andy Roddick at Wimbledon.
Jul 5th - Ethnic rioting broke out in Ürümqi, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China
Jul 6th - Jadranka Kosor became first female Prime minister of Croatia.
Jul 15th - A 7.9 Magnitude earthquake registers 160km west of Invercargill, New Zealand, creating a small tsunami.
Jul 17th - Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4 foreigners.
Jul 18th - Five members of one family are found murdered at Epping, New South Wales.
Jul 23rd - Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox becomes the 18th pitcher to throw a perfect game in Major League Baseball history, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 5-0.

Famous Birthdays

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Jan 26th - Suleman octuplets

Famous Deaths

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Jan 1st - Claiborne Pell, U.S. senator (b. 1918)
Jan 1st - Nizar Rayan, Hamas leader (b. 1962)
Jan 2nd - Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian (b. 1893)
Jan 3rd - Pat Hingle, American actor (b. 1924)
Jan 3rd - Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish entrepreneur (b. 1937)
Jan 3rd - Hisayasu Nagata, Japanese politician (b. 1969)
Jan 4th - Giselle Salandy, Trinidad & Tobago female boxer (b. 1987)
Jan 5th - Ned Tanen, American movie executive (b. 1931)
Jan 6th - Ron Asheton, The Stooges guitarrist (b. 1948)
Jan 8th - Richard John Neuhaus, Canadian-American Christian writer and editor (b. 1936)
Jan 9th - T. Llew Jones, Welsh author (b. 1915)
Jan 10th - William Frederick "Bill" Stone, British World War I veteran (b. 1900)
Jan 11th - David Vine, British sports broadcaster (b. 1936)
Jan 12th - Claude Berri, French movie director (b. 1934)
Jan 12th - Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher (b. 1912)
Jan 13th - Doña Mary Ejercito, Filipino supercentarian, mother of Joseph Ejercito Estrada (b. 1905)
Jan 13th - Patrick McGoohan, American actor (b. 1928)
Jan 13th - Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese composer and lyricist (b. 1925)
Jan 13th - Nancy Bird Walton, Australian aviator (b. 1915)
Jan 13th - William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet under the pseudonym S. S. Gardons (b. 1926)
Jan 14th - Jan Kaplický, British architect of Czech origin (b. 1937)
Jan 14th - Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor (b. 1920)
Jan 16th - Joe Erskine, American boxer and long distance runner (b. 1930)
Jan 16th - John Mortimer, British barrister, screenwriter and author. (b. 1923)
Jan 16th - Andrew Wyeth, American realist painter (b. 1917)
Jan 17th - Anders Isaksson, Swedish journalist, writer, and historian (b. 1943)
Jan 18th - Tony Hart, British artist and TV presenter (b. 1925)
Jan 18th - Grigore Vieru, Romanian poet (b. 1935)
Jan 18th - Bob May, American actor (b. 1939)
Jan 20th - Stéphanos II Ghattas, Patriarch Emeritus of Alexandria for the Coptic Catholic Church (b. 1920)
Jan 20th - Stan Hagen, Canadian politician (b. 1940)
Jan 20th - David Newman, American jazz musician, nicknamed "Fathead" (b. 1933)
Jan 20th - Sheila O'Nions Walsh (aka Sheila Walsh, Sophie Leyton), English romance writer (b. 1928)
Jan 22nd - Billy Werber, American baseball player (b. 1908)
Jan 23rd - Robert W. Scott, American politician, governor of North Carolina (b. 1929)
Jan 24th - Reg Gutteridge, British Boxing Journalist (b. 1924)
Jan 24th - Kay Yow, North Carolina State Univ. women's basketball head coach (b. 1942)
Jan 24th - Gérard Blanc, French singer (b. 1947)
Jan 25th - Kim Manners, American television producer and director (b. 1951)
Jan 27th - John Updike, American Novelist (b. 1932)
Jan 27th - R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (b. 1910)
Jan 28th - Billy Powell, American musician (b. 1952)
Jan 29th - Hélio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (b. 1913)
Jan 29th - John Martyn, Scottish singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
Jan 29th - Bill Frindall, English cricket scorer and statistician (b. 1939)
Jan 30th - Ingemar Johansson, Swedish heavyweight professional boxing champion of the world (b. 1932)
Jan 31st - Nagesh, Indian comedian actor in Kollywood (b. 1933)
Feb 3rd - Sheng-yen, Buddhist monk and founder of Dharma Drum Mountain. (b. 1930)
Feb 4th - Lux Interior, Frontman of the garage rock band The Cramps (b. 1946)
Feb 7th - Brian Naylor (broadcaster), Australian television presenter (b. 1931)
Feb 8th - Marian Cozma, Romanian handball player (b. 1982)
Feb 9th - Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman who lived in a persistent vegetative state for 17 years (b. 1970)
Feb 10th - Jeremy Lusk, American freestyle motocross racer (b. 1984)
Feb 11th - Estelle Bennett, American singer (b. 1941)
Feb 14th - Sir Bernard Ashley, Welsh businessman and entrepreneur. (b. 1926)
Feb 15th - Joe Cuba, Puerto-Rican musician (b. 1931)
Feb 15th - Dr. Diether H. Haenicke, university president (b. 1935)
Feb 16th - Stephen Cardinal Kim Sou-hwan, Korean Cardinal, Protopriest of the Holy Roman Church (b. 1921)
Feb 17th - Gazanfer Özcan, Turkish actor (b. 1931)
Feb 17th - Conchita Cintrón, Chilean bullfighter (b. 1922)
Feb 18th - Al-Tayyib Salih, Sudanese novelist and columnist (b. 1929)
Feb 19th - Kelly Groucutt, Bass guitarist and singer for the band Electric Light Orchestra (b.1945)
Feb 19th - Miika Tenkula, Finnish guitarist for the band Sentenced (b.1974)
Feb 20th - Larry H. Miller, American businessman and owner of the Utah Jazz (b. 1944)
Feb 25th - Ivan Cameron, son of David Cameron UK politician
Feb 26th - Wendy Richard, English actress (b. 1943)
Feb 26th - Norm Van Lier, Basketball player and broadcaster (b. 1947)
Feb 26th - Johnny Kerr, Basketball player and Chicago Bulls broadcaster (b. 1932)
Feb 28th - Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster (b. 1918)
Mar 2nd - João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939)
Mar 2nd - Chris Finnegan, British Olympic Boxing Gold Medallist (b. 1944)
Mar 4th - Joseph Bloch, American concert pianist and professor of piano literature (b. 1917)
Mar 4th - John Cephas, American Piedmont blues guitarist (b. 1930)
Mar 4th - Yvon Cormier, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1938)
Mar 4th - Patricia De Martelaere, Flemish writer (b. 1957)
Mar 4th - Horton Foote, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (b. 1916)
Mar 4th - George McAfee, former American football player (b. 1918)
Mar 4th - Harry Parkes, English footballer (b. 1920)
Mar 4th - Salvatore Samperi, Italian film director (b 1944)
Mar 4th - Triztán Vindtorn, Norwegian poet and performance artist (b. 1942)
Mar 6th - Francis Magalona, Filipino media artist and photographer. (b. 1964)
Mar 6th - Susan Tsvangirai, wife of Morgan Tsvangirai (b. 1959)
Mar 7th - Jang Ja-yeon, South Korean actress (b. 1982)
Mar 8th - Ali Bongo, President of the Magic Circle (b.1929)
Mar 8th - Zbigniew Religa, Minister of Health of the Republic of Poland (b. 1938)
Mar 11th - Charles Lewis, Jr., American businessman, promoter and entertainer
Mar 13th - Andrew Martin, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1975)
Mar 13th - Betsy Blair, American actress of film and stage, (b. 1923)
Mar 14th - Alain Bashung, French singer, songwriter, comedian and actor. (b. 1947)
Mar 14th - Altovise Davis, American entertainer, best known as Sammy Davis, Jr.'s third wife. (b. 1943)
Mar 15th - Ron Silver, American actor (b. 1946)
Mar 17th - Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian politician and TV host (b. 1937)
Mar 18th - Natasha Richardson, English actress (b. 1963)
Mar 19th - Ion Dolănescu, Romanian singer and politician (b. 1944)
Mar 20th - Mel Brown, American/Canadian Blues Guitarist (b. 1939)
Mar 21st - Walt Poddubny, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1960)
Mar 22nd - Leon Walker, Wakefield Wildcats Rugby Player (b. 1988)
Mar 22nd - Jade Goody, Reality TV Star and Entrepreneur
Mar 23rd - Raúl Macías, A famous Mexican boxer (b. 1934)
Mar 24th - George Kell, American baseball player (b. 1922)