2009 AD

2009 AD

January - June

John Atta Mills is elected President of Ghana on January 2, 2009 AD. Russia cuts off gas supply to Europe through Ukraine on January 7, 2009 AD. Collapse of Icelandic bank system on January 26, 2009 AD. Eruption of the Black Saturday bushfires in Australia on February 7, 2009 AD. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is inaugurated as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe on February 11, 2009 AD. President of Guinea-Bissau, Joao Bernardo Vieira is assassinated on March 2, 2009 AD. President of Madagascar, Marc Ravalomanana resigns on March 17, 2009 AD. At least 200 African migrants die in shipwreck off Libya coast on March 31, 2009 AD. Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Prime Minister of Israel on March 31, 2009 AD. Albania and Croatia become members of NATO on April 1, 2009 AD. Over 300 people are killed in the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake on April 6, 2009 AD. Former Chilean President Alberto Fujimori is convicted of human rights abuses and sentenced to 25 years in prison on April 7, 2009 AD. Outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus (swine flu) in Mexico in April 2009 AD. Five people are killed in assassination attempt on the Dutch royal family in Apeldoorn on April 30, 2009 AD. Ricardo Martinelli is elected President of Panama on May 3, 2009 AD. Manmohan Singh's Congress Party wins the Indian general elections on May 13, 2009 AD. The Sri Lankan Civil War ends on May 18, 2009 AD. Former President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun commits suicide on May 23, 2009 AD. US largest automaker General Motors files for bankruptcy on June 1, 2009 AD. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is reelected President of Iran on June 13, 2009 AD. American signer and entertainer Michael Jackson dies on June 25, 2009 AD. American actress Farrah Fawcett dies on June 25, 2009 AD. President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya is removed from the office and exiled by the military on June 28, 2009 AD. Bernard Madoff, the operator of the largest Ponzi scheme in history is sentenced to 150 years in prison on June 29, 2009 AD.

July - December

Over 150 people die in the July 2009 Ürümqi riots in China on July 5, 2009 AD. Former President of the Philippines Corazon Aquino dies on August 1, 2009 AD. Over 500 people are killed by Typhoon Morakot on August 10, 2009 AD. Over 100 people are killed in the 19 August 2009 Baghdad bombings. US Senator Edward M. Kennedy dies on August 25, 2009 AD. Russian author Sergey Mikhalkov dies on August 27, 2009 AD. Yukio Hatoyama's Democratic Party wins Japanese general elections on August 30, 2009 AD. American actor Patrick Swayze dies on September 14, 2009 AD. Angela Merkel wins German federal elections on September 27, 2007 AD. Over 700 people are killed by Typhoon Ketsana on September 28, 2009 AD. Almost 200 people are killed in the 2009 Samoa earthquake on September 29, 2009 AD. More than 1,000 people are killed in the 2009 Sumatra earthquakes on September 30, 2009 AD. Ireland supports the Treaty of Lisbon in the second referendum on October 2, 2009 AD. The LCROSS impact takes place on October 9, 2009 AD. US President Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Price on October 29, 2009 AD. Over 150 people are killed in the 25 October 2009 Baghdad bombings. More than 100 people are killed in the 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombings. French anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Levi-Strauss dies on October 30, 2009 AD. Abdullah Abdullah withdraws from the Afghani presidential runoff elections on November 1, 2009 AD. The Czech Republic signs the Treaty of Lisbon as the last EU member-state on November 3, 2009 AD. Spanish writer Francisco Ayala dies on November 3, 2009 AD. Herman Van Rompuy is designated the first President of the European Union on November 3, 2009 AD. 13 people are killed in the Fort Hood shooting on November 5, 2009 AD. CERN's Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator in Geneva is restarted on November 20, 2009 AD. Over 50 people are killed in the Maguindanao massacre on November 23, 2009 AD. 27 people are killed in the 2009 Nevsky Express bombing on November 27, 2009 AD. The Treaty of Lisbon enters into force on December 1, 2009 AD. The 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held from December 7 to December 18, 2009 AD. Over 100 people are killed in the 8 December 2009 Baghdad bombings.