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Events on the year of 2009 in history

Events
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01 Jan 2009 Slovakia joins the Eurozone.
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01 Jan 2009 Sixty-six people die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
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03 Jan 2009 The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.
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06 Jan 2009 Israel conducts an assault on the Gaza Strip
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08 Jan 2009 A 6.1-magnitude earthquake in northern Costa Rica kills 15 people and injures 32.
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15 Jan 2009 US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York. All passengers and crew members survive.
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18 Jan 2009 Gaza War: Hamas announces they will accept Israel Defense Forces's offer of a ceasefire, ending the assault.
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20 Jan 2009 A protest movement in Iceland culminates as the 2009 Icelandic financial crisis protests start.
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24 Jan 2009 Cyclone Klaus makes landfall near Bordeaux, France. It subsequently would cause 26 deaths as well as extensive disruptions to public transport and power supplies.
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26 Jan 2009 Rioting breaks out in Antananarivo, Madagascar, sparking a political crisis that will result in the replacement of President Marc Ravalomanana with Andry Rajoelina.
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29 Jan 2009 Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is removed from office following his conviction of several corruption charges, including the alleged solicitation of personal benefit in exchange for an appointment to the United States Senate as a replacement for then-U.S. president-elect Barack Obama.
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29 Jan 2009 The Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt rules that people who do not adhere to one of the three government-recognised religions, while not allowed to list any belief outside of those three, are still eligible to receive government identity documents.
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31 Jan 2009 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.
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01 Feb 2009 The first cabinet of Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir was formed in Iceland, making her the country's first female prime minister and the world's first openly LGBT head of government.
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07 Feb 2009 Bushfires in Victoria leaves 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history.
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10 Feb 2009 The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
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12 Feb 2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.
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20 Feb 2009 Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.
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25 Feb 2009 Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including more than 50 army officials.
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03 Mar 2009 The Historical Archive of the City of Cologne collapses.
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04 Mar 2009 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.
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07 Mar 2009 The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched.
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07 Mar 2009 The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles.
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11 Mar 2009 Winnenden school shooting: Sixteen are killed and 11 are injured before recent-graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany.
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12 Mar 2009 Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.
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21 Mar 2009 Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.
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23 Mar 2009 FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.
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27 Mar 2009 A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan.
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27 Mar 2009 The dam forming Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people.
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30 Mar 2009 Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan.
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01 Apr 2009 Croatia and Albania join NATO.
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03 Apr 2009 Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at an American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide.
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04 Apr 2009 Three police officers are shot and killed during a shootout in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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05 Apr 2009 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.
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06 Apr 2009 A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307.
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07 Apr 2009 Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
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07 Apr 2009 Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces.
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09 Apr 2009 In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili.
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10 Apr 2009 President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
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12 Apr 2009 Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwean dollar as its official currency.
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30 Apr 2009 Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting: Twelve people were killed (students and staff members) by an armed attacker.
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30 Apr 2009 Seven people are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.
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30 Apr 2009 Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
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01 May 2009 Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
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18 May 2009 Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides.
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22 May 2009 The Credit CARD Act of 2009 was signed into U.S. law by the President, Barack Obama.
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23 May 2009 Former South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun commits suicide, jumping from a 45-meter cliff in Bongha, Gimhae, South Korea.
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25 May 2009 North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community.
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01 Jun 2009 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 are killed.
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01 Jun 2009 General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history.
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05 Jun 2009 After 65 straight days of civil disobedience, at least 31 people are killed in clashes between security forces and indigenous people near Bagua, Peru.
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08 Jun 2009 Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
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12 Jun 2009 A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide ranging protests in Iran and around the world.
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18 Jun 2009 The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
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19 Jun 2009 Mass riots involving over 10,000 people and 10,000 police officers break out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef.
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19 Jun 2009 War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
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21 Jun 2009 Greenland assumes self-rule.
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22 Jun 2009 Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon.
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28 Jun 2009 Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to rewrite the Honduran Constitution. This was the start of the 2009 Honduran political crisis.
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04 Jul 2009 The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
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05 Jul 2009 A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the People's Republic of China.
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05 Jul 2009 The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England.
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31 Jul 2009 Three members of the popular South Korean group TVXQ, (Kim Jaejoong, Kim Junsu, and Park Yoochun), filed lawsuit against their Korean management S.M. Entertainment.
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10 Aug 2009 Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia's history.
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06 Sep 2009 The ro-ro ferry SuperFerry 9 sinks off the Zamboanga Peninsula in the Philippines with 971 persons aboard; all but ten are rescued.
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09 Sep 2009 The Dubai Metro, the first urban train network in the Arabian Peninsula, is ceremonially inaugurated.
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18 Sep 2009 The 72-year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
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24 Sep 2009 The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance. It marks the first use of LRAD in U.S. history.
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25 Sep 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a joint TV appearance for a G-20 summit, accuse Iran of building a secret nuclear enrichment facility.
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26 Sep 2009 Typhoon Ketsana hit the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Thailand, causing 700 fatalities.
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28 Sep 2009 The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, raped, killed, and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre.
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29 Sep 2009 An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami.
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30 Sep 2009 The 2009 Sumatra earthquakes occur, killing over 1,115 people.
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01 Oct 2009 The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
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03 Oct 2009 The presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey sign the Nakhchivan Agreement on the Establishment of Turkic Council.
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09 Oct 2009 First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
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10 Oct 2009 Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders.
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25 Oct 2009 The October 2009 Baghdad bombings kills 155 and wounds at least 721.
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28 Oct 2009 The 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213.
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28 Oct 2009 NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program.
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05 Nov 2009 U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation.
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27 Nov 2009 Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.
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29 Nov 2009 Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington.
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01 Dec 2009 The Treaty of Lisbon, which amends the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, which together comprise the constitutional basis of European Union, comes into effect.
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03 Dec 2009 A suicide bombing at a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, kills 25 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.
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08 Dec 2009 Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 and injure 448.
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15 Dec 2009 Boeing's 787 Dreamliner makes its maiden flight from Seattle, Washington.
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17 Dec 2009 MV Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.
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25 Dec 2009 Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab unsuccessfully attempts a terrorist attack against the US while on board a flight to Detroit Metro Airport Northwest Airlines Flight 253
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26 Dec 2009 China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou.
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27 Dec 2009 Iranian election protests: On the Day of Ashura in Tehran, Iran, government security forces fire upon demonstrators.
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28 Dec 2009 Forty-three people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.
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30 Dec 2009 A segment of the Lanzhou–Zhengzhou–Changsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000 l (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.
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30 Dec 2009 A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.
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