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-
President of
Cameroon
Paul Biya (pictured) dismisses
Prime Minister
Ephraïm Inoni and appoints
Philémon Yang to the office.
[1]
- The Preparatory Commission for the
International Renewable Energy Agency designates the headquarters of the organization to
Masdar City,
Abu Dhabi.
[2]
- In
Argentina's
legislative election, the
Front for Victory, the ruling party led by
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, suffers a defeat and loses
absolute majority in congress, despite retaining a
plurality of the seats.
[3]
-
Prime Minister of
Croatia
Ivo Sanader announces his resignation and withdrawal from all active politics.
[4]
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Ireland eradicates
brucellosis.
[5]
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TerreStar-1, the largest commercial
telecommunication satellite ever built, is launched at the
Guiana Space Centre.
[6]
-
Prime Minister of
Sweden
Fredrik Reinfeldt (pictured) becomes
President of the European Council.
[7]
- The
Gas Exporting Countries Forum elects
Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, the
oil and energy minister of
Qatar, as the president of the organization.
[8]
-
North Korea
test-fires four missiles off their eastern coast, in defiance of the
United Nations Security Council
Resolution 1874.
[9]
-
Japanese
diplomat
Yukiya Amano is elected as Director General for the
International Atomic Energy Agency (flag pictured).
[10]
- The
Dubai-based supply ship
MV Demas Victory capsizes off the coast of
Doha,
Qatar, with 35 people on board.
[11]
-
Algeria,
Niger and
Nigeria sign the intergovernmental agreement on the
Trans–Saharan gas pipeline.
[12]
- A
Mil Mi-17 helicopter of the
Pakistan Army
crashes in the
North-West Frontier Province, killing at least 26 people.
[13]
- Three
dinosaur species—
Australovenator wintonensis,
Wintonotitan wattsi and
Diamantinasaurus matildae—are discovered in
Australia.
[14]
- The
Organization of American States suspends
Honduras due to the country's recent
political crisis.
[15]
- In
rugby union,
South Africa win the
2009 Test series against the
British and Irish Lions 2–1, with the Lions achieving their first Test victory since
2001.
[16]
- In
tennis,
Roger Federer and
Serena Williams win the singles' titles at the the
2009 Wimbledon Championships, with Federer beating
Pete Sampras'
Grand Slam
record.
[17]
- At least three people are killed and twenty injured during
riots in
Ürümqi,
China.
[18]
- Centre-right party
GERB, led by
Boyko Borisov, wins the
parliamentary election in
Bulgaria.
[19]
-
Al Franken (pictured) is
sworn in as a
United States senator, giving the
Democratic Party
Caucus a
supermajority of 60 seats in the Senate.
[20]
- The
European Commission imposes its second biggest fine, €553 million each on
energy companies
GDF Suez and
E.ON, over arrangements on the
MEGAL pipeline.
[21]
- In the
Philippines, a series of
bomb attacks in
Cotabato,
Jolo and
Iligan kills six people and injures at least 26 others.
[22]
-
Jadranka Kosor becomes the first female
Prime Minister of
Croatia.
[23]
-
Frank Kabui becomes the
Governor General of the
Solomon Islands.
[24]
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A series of organized cyber attacks strikes major public and private sector websites of
South Korea and the
United States.
[25]
-
Urspelerpes, a new
species of
lungless salamander, is discovered in the
U.S. state of
Georgia.
[26]
- The launch of
Space Shuttle
Endeavour, carrying astronauts on the
STS-127 mission, is delayed after its
launch pad was struck by
lightning at least 11 times.
[27]
- At least 23
police officers are killed in an
ambush
attack by Maoist rebels, in the
Indian state of
Chhattisgarh.
[28]
-
Javier Velásquez (pictured) becomes
Prime Minister of
Peru.
[29]
- At least 43 people are killed in
clashes near the
Somali presidential palace between
Al-Shabaab and the
Somali military.
[30]
-
Austria,
Bulgaria,
Hungary,
Romania and
Turkey sign an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the
Nabucco natural gas pipeline.
[31]
-
Henry Okah, a
guerrilla leader of the
Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, is released from detainment after accepting an
amnesty offered by the
Nigerian
government.
[32]
- A
state of emergency is declared in 11 regions of
Peru after more than 250 children perished in the
unusually cold winter.
[33]
-
Jerzy Buzek (pictured), a former
Prime Minister of
Poland, is elected the 28th
President of the European Parliament, the first from the former
Eastern Bloc to gain the position.
[34]
-
Caspian Airlines
Flight 7908, a scheduled commercial flight from
Tehran,
Iran, to
Yerevan,
Armenia, crashes shortly after takeoff with 168 people on board.
[35]
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Bombings in
Jakarta,
Indonesia, kill at least nine people and injure at least 50 others.
[36]
-
Iceland's
Althing votes by a narrow majority to
apply for membership of the
European Union after five days of debate.
[37]
- The body of
Russian
human rights activist
Natalia Estemirova is located in
Ingushetia after her abduction in
Chechnya.
[38]
-
Paul Biyoghé Mba becomes
Prime Minister of
Gabon after
Jean Eyeghe Ndong resigns to launch his
presidential campaign.
[39]
- At least 26 people are killed and 150 others injured as a result of
heavy rains in
Karachi,
Pakistan.
[40]
- At least 26 people are killed in
floods in
Karachi,
Pakistan, and at least 36 people in
Orissa and 13 others in
Kerala are killed in
floods in
India.
[41]
- The longest
total solar eclipse of the 21st century takes place over parts of
Asia and the
Pacific Ocean (animated path pictured).
[42]
-
NASA confirms an
impact event on
Jupiter, the first observed since the impact of
Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994.
[43]
- The
Permanent Court of Arbitration in
The Hague issues a decision on the borders of
Abyei, a region subject to violent contention in
Sudan.
[44]
- In
golf, American
Stewart Cink wins the
2009 Open Championship (British Open) in a
playoff over
Tom Watson.
[45]
-
Mark Buehrle of the
Chicago White Sox pitches the 18th
perfect game in
Major League Baseball history against the
Tampa Bay Rays.
[46]
- The
SEACOM
high speed
internet link to
East Africa goes live.
[47]
-
Indonesia's General Election Commission officially declares
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono the victor of the
2009 presidential election.
[48]
-
Aria Air
Flight 1525 crashes on landing at
Mashhad International Airport,
Iran, killing at least 17 people.
[49]
- The
Gran Telescopio Canarias (pictured), the world's largest telescope, is inaugurated by King
Juan Carlos I of Spain.
[50]
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A series of wildfires across
France,
Greece,
Italy and
Spain kills at least eight people.
[51]
- The birth of the world's first
Giant Panda conceived using frozen
sperm is announced in
Sichuan,
China.
[52]
- In
cycling,
Alberto Contador of
Spain wins the
2009 Tour de France.
[53]
-
India launches its first
nuclear submarine
INS Arihant, becoming the sixth country in the world that can construct the vessels.
[54]
-
Kurmanbek Bakiyev (pictured) is
re-elected
President of
Kyrgyzstan.
[55]
- At least 150 people are killed during
battles in several
Nigerian states.
[56]
-
Abdelkader Belliraj, accused of leading an
Islamist militant group, is sentenced to life in prison for plotting terrorist attacks in
Morocco.
[57]
- The
United States and the
People's Republic of China hold the first
U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (opening session pictured).
[58]
- At least 15
Haitian
migrants are killed and dozens are missing following a
shipwreck in the
Caribbean near the
Turks and Caicos Islands.
[59]
-
Malam Bacai Sanhá is
elected
President of
Guinea-Bissau.
[60]
- The
SAT-3
submarine communications cable (route pictured) is damaged, causing major disruption in internet services in
Benin,
Niger,
Nigeria and
Togo.
[61]
-
São Tomé and Príncipe agrees a loan deal with
Portugal to link the
dobra and the
euro.
[62]
- In
Moldova's
parliamentary election, the ruling
Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova obtains a
plurality but fails to gain a
majority.
[63]
- The
Supreme Court of
Pakistan announces that the
emergency of November 2007 declared by former
President
Pervez Musharraf (pictured) was illegal.
[64]
- In
Spain, a series of bombing attacks in
Burgos and
Palma Nova kills at least two people and injures 50 others.
[65]
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