2009 Calendar
What Happened In Year 2009?
- January 1, 2009 – 66 die in a nightclub fire in Bangkok, Thailand.
- January 26, 2009 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Ox in Chinese astrology.
- February 5, 2009 – The United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Port Royal runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging the ship as well as a coral reef.
- February 20, 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.
- March 3, 2009 – The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses.
- March 22, 2009 – Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska begins erupting after a prolonged period of unrest.
- April 7, 2009 – Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent.
- April 10, 2009 – President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis.
- April 25, 2009 – Zach Daniels made his debut in professional wrestling against Jason Blackman.
- April 30, 2009 – Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen’s Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.
- May 1, 2009 – Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
- May 25, 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.
- July 5, 2009 – A series of violent riots break out in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China.
- July 17, 2009 – Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels killed 9 people including 4 foreigners.
- July 26, 2009 – The militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities.
- August 10, 2009 – Twenty people are killed in Handlová, Trenčín Region, in the deadliest mining disaster in Slovakia’s history.
- September 18, 2009 – The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.
- October 1, 2009 – The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
- November 23, 2009 – The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Mindanao, Philippines
- December 28, 2009 – 43 people die in a suicide bombing in Karachi, Pakistan, where Shia Muslims are observing the Day of Ashura.
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