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- An international fact-finding mission headed by
Swiss diplomat
Heidi Tagliavini concludes that
Georgia started the
2008 South Ossetia war.
[1]
- A
7.6 Mw
earthquake (
location map pictured) on the
Indonesian island of
Sumatra, kills at least 450 people.
[2]
- The
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (location pictured) takes effect, replacing the
Law Lords as the final
court of appeal in the country.
[3]
- The
Soyuz TMA-16 is launched from
Baikonur Cosmodrome to the
International Space Station, taking a space tourist,
Guy Laliberté, founder and CEO of
Cirque du Soleil.
[4]
-
Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, is
chosen by the
International Olympic Committee as the host city for the
2016 Summer Olympics.
[5]
- Former
President of
Peru
Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to six years imprisonment for
bribery and
phone tapping.
[6]
- The
Twenty-eighth Amendment of the
Constitution of
Ireland is passed, enabling the country to ratify the
Treaty of Lisbon.
[7]
-
Floods and mudslides in
Messina and across northeastern
Sicily,
Italy, kill at least 21 people in the country's deadliest
landslide disaster since 1998.
[8]
-
Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the
Warsaw Uprising, dies in
Poland aged 90.
[9]
- The 2009
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to
Elizabeth Blackburn (pictured),
Carol W. Greider and
Jack W. Szostak, for the discovery of how
chromosomes are protected by
telomeres and the
enzyme
telomerase.
[10]
- The
Panhellenic Socialist Movement led by
George Papandreou wins the
2009 Greek legislative elections.
[11]
- Former
Japanese
Minister of Finance
Shōichi Nakagawa is found dead in his
Tokyo apartment aged 56.
[12]
-
Charles K. Kao,
Willard S. Boyle and
George E. Smith win the 2009
Nobel Prize in Physics for the groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in
fibers for
optical communication and for the invention of an imaging
semiconductor circuit – the
CCD sensor.
[13]
-
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall wins the 2009
Man Booker Prize.
[14]
- The discovery of
Phoebe ring (artist's impression pictured) of
Saturn, hundreds of times larger than the planet's radius, is announced.
[15]
-
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan,
Thomas A. Steitz and
Ada E. Yonath win the 2009
Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on the structure and function of the
ribosome.
[16]
- Four former
Chilean
Army officers
are convicted of the 1991 murder of Colonel
Gerardo Huber over an illegal arms deal with
Croatia.
[17]
-
The Red Book by
Swiss
psychiatrist
Carl Jung is published and displayed in public for the first time.
[18]
-
Romanian-born
German
novelist
Herta Müller (pictured) wins the 2009
Nobel Prize in Literature.
[19]
-
U.S. President
Barack Obama wins the 2009
Nobel Peace Prize.
[20]
-
NASA's
LCROS satellite (pictured) successfully
impacts the Moon, after launching a
Centaur booster rocket at the
Cabeus crater, in order to search for water.
[21]
- The foreign ministers of
Armenia and
Turkey
sign an accord intended to normalise their relations.
[22]
-
Father Damien (pictured) is
canonized by
Pope Benedict XVI.
[23]
- The
Pakistani
Special Service Group frees 40 hostages held after
militants attacked the
Army's General Headquarters.
[24]
- The
Irish National Liberation Army announces an end to its armed struggle.
[25]
-
Elinor Ostrom and
Oliver E. Williamson win the 2009
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics.
[26]
- Militants
simultaneously attack three
police facilities in
Lahore,
Pakistan, killing at least 26 people.
[27]
- The
United Nations
Human Rights Council endorses the
Goldstone report on the
Gaza War.
[28]
- Five men are found guilty of
plotting a terrorist attack in
Sydney, in one of
Australia's longest trials.
[29]
- The
Pakistan Army begins
an operation against the
Taliban in
South Waziristan,
Pakistan.
[30]
-
President
Ian Khama leads the
Democratic Party to victory in a
general election in
Botswana.
[31]
- The
Neues Museum in
Berlin,
Germany, reopens after 70 years.
[32]
- Under the
One Laptop per Child scheme,
Uruguay becomes the first country to deliver a free
laptop to each child of
primary school age.
[33]
-
Jenson Button and
Brawn GP win the
2009 Formula One World Championships.
[34]
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A suicide bombing in the
Iranian town of
Pishin kills 48 people, including several
Revolutionary Guards commanders.
[35]
-
Litokwa Tomeing loses a
vote of no confidence in the
Legislature of the
Marshall Islands and is temporarily replaced as
President by
Ruben Zackhras.
[36]
- The
Russian
civil rights society
Memorial wins the 2009
Sakharov Prize.
[37]
- The discovery of
Fruitadens, the smallest known
ornithischian
dinosaur
genus, is announced.
[38]
- The
Church of Sweden (
Uppsala Cathedral pictured)
decides to conduct
same-sex marriages, becoming the first major church to do so.
[39]
- The
Microsoft
operating system
Windows 7 goes on retail sale worldwide.
[40]
- The
Economic Community of West African States suspends
Niger from membership over its
ongoing constitutional crisis.
[41]
- In the
single largest U.S. strike against a
Mexican drug cartel in history, U.S. federal authorities (
FBI
director
Robert Mueller pictured) announce the arrest of more than 300 people.
[42]
- The
National Movement for the Development of Society wins a majority of seats in the
National Assembly of
Niger after a
controversial election.
[43]
- At least 50 people are killed and 30 others are injured after
two trains collide near
Cairo,
Egypt.
[44]
-
Bomb blasts kill at least 147 people and injure more than 700 others in central
Baghdad,
Iraq.
[45]
-
Governor of
Puerto Rico
Luis Fortuño declares a
state of emergency as the
Cataño oil refinery fire continues to burn out of control.
[46]
- The
bodies of ten
footballers kidnapped from
Colombia are discovered scattered across
Táchira,
Venezuela.
[47]
-
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (pictured)
wins a fifth term as
President of
Tunisia.
[48]
- The
Church of Scientology is convicted of organized
fraud in
France.
[49]
- A
bomb blast kills at least 95 people and injures more than 200 others in
Peshawar,
Pakistan.
[50]
-
Russian-
Israeli businessman
Arcadi Gaydamak (pictured) and 35 others are
convicted of participating in a scandal involving the illegal sale of arms to
Angola.
[51]
-
Jurelang Zedkaia is
elected
President of the
Marshall Islands.
[52]
-
NASA's
Ares I-X, the first test flight in the
Ares I program, is launched successfully from the
Kennedy Space Center.
[53]
-
Prime Minister of
Mongolia
Sanjaagiin Bayar resigns for health reasons.
[54]
- The
African Union, the
European Union and the
United States impose sanctions on
Guinea's
military junta leader
Moussa Dadis Camara and 41 members of the junta.
[55]
-
Désiré Munyaneza is sentenced to
life imprisonment for
crimes against humanity and
war crimes for his role in the
Rwandan Genocide, at his trial in
Canada.
[56]
- The
Internet regulator
ICANN
approves plans to allow
Unicode
top-level domains for the first time.
[57]
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