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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]
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