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Sweden
becomes the seventh country in the world to recognize
same-sex marriages nationwide.
[1]
At least 12 people are
shot to death at the
State Oil Academy in
Baku ,
Azerbaijan .
[2]
Six people are killed after a car
interrupts the
Koninginnedag celebrations in
Apeldoorn , the
Netherlands , in the first attack on the
Dutch Royal Family in modern times.
[3]
Police
clash with protesters across the world as traditional
May Day marches turn violent in
Germany ,
Greece and
Turkey .
[4]
Carol Ann Duffy is named
Poet Laureate of the
United Kingdom , the first female, the first
Scot and the first
openly
gay occupant of the post.
[5]
Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye replaces
Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré as
Prime Minister of
Senegal .
[6]
Filipino
boxer
Manny Pacquiao
defeats
British
Ricky Hatton via a 2nd round
technical knockout to win the
IBO and
The Ring light welterweight championships.
[7]
The
Pacific Islands Forum suspends
Fiji 's membership indefinitely due to the "recent deterioration of the political, legal and human rights situation" in the country.
[8]
Floods and mudslides across
Brazil kill at least 14 people and displace over 62,000 more from their homes.
[9]
Prime Minister of
Nepal
Prachanda (pictured) resigns, after his move to sack the army chief
Rookmangud Katawal was opposed by President
Ram Baran Yadav .
[10]
Ricardo Martinelli of
Democratic Change is
elected as
President of
Panama .
[11]
A
Venezuelan
Army helicopter
crashes near the
Colombian border, killing 18 people on board.
[12]
The
Republic of China allows
financial investment from
mainland China for the first time since 1949.
[13]
John Higgins (pictured) beats
Shaun Murphy in the final of the
2009 World Snooker Championship , becoming the oldest winner of the tournament since 1985 and the sixth to win three or more titles in modern times.
[14]
Austria 's
deadliest avalanche since 2000 kills six
hikers on
Schalfkogel in
Sölden .
[15]
Georgian troops
mutiny after officials uncover a plot to assassinate
President
Mikhail Saakashvili (pictured) .
[16]
Egypt commences the
extermination of all
domestic pigs in the country, as a response to the recent
swine flu outbreak .
[17]
Gunmen
kill 44 people at a wedding party using
grenades and automatic weapons in
Mardin Province ,
Turkey .
[18]
The
European Parliament endorses a bill banning imports of
seal products (seal pictured) , drawing complaints from the
Canadian government.
[19]
The
2009 World Table Tennis Championships conclude, with
China 's
Wang Hao (pictured) and
Zhang Yining winning the
men's singles and
women's singles titles respectively.
[20]
The death toll in the
Brazilian
floods and mudslides reaches 19, with 186,000 people left homeless as
President
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (pictured) inspects the disaster area.
[21]
Guinea
withdraws
ambassadors from 30 countries worldwide, for no apparent reason.
[22]
The
United States
private military company Xe, formerly
Blackwater Worldwide , ends its operations in
Baghdad ,
Iraq (company helicopter over the
Saddam Hussein bust pictured) .
[23]
The arrest of
Mas Selamat bin Kastari ,
Singapore 's most-wanted
fugitive , is announced.
[24]
Typhoon Chan-hom causes at least 26 deaths in northern
Luzon ,
Philippines , with certain areas placed under the
state of calamity .
[25]
Jacob Zuma (pictured) is sworn in as
South Africa 's fourth
president since the end of
apartheid .
[26]
The
Democratic Party , led by
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (pictured) ,
wins a
majority of
seats in
Indonesia 's
People's Consultative Assembly .
[27]
The 18,000-year-old
Chacaltaya glacier in
Bolivia disappears, due to
global warming .
[28]
Participating countries of the
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants agree to add nine more substances, including
lindane (structure pictured) and
PFOS , to its globally banned list of chemicals.
[29]
Russia wins the
world championship in
ice hockey after defeating
Canada in the
2009 IIHF World Championship final, and
Ilya Kovalchuk (pictured) is named
Most Valuable Player of the tournament.
[30]
NASA launches
Space Shuttle
Atlantis
STS-125 , the fifth and final servicing mission to the
Hubble Space Telescope .
[31]
Artillery
shelling by the
Sri Lanka Army
kills at least 378
civilians and injures over 1,000 others in the
safe zone in
Sri Lanka .
[32]
The
VORTEX2 project , or the "Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment 2", begins with more than 50 scientists worldwide in
Tornado alley ,
United States .
[33]
Scores of members of the
British Parliament , including members of the
Cabinet and the
Shadow Cabinet , are implicated in the ongoing
Parliamentary expenses scandal (
Westminster Palace pictured) .
[34]
The
European Commission
levies a record
€ 1.06 billion fine on
Intel Corporation , the world's largest
semiconductor company, for
anti-competitive practices .
[35]
In
EuroMillions , a pan-
European
lottery , a Spanish woman wins
€ 126 million, the largest amount ever to have been won by a single person in European history.
[36]
The discovery of the earliest known work of
figurative art , a
Venus figurine dating to the beginning of the
Upper Paleolithic , in a cave in
Baden-Württemberg ,
Germany , is announced.
[37]
The
European Space Agency 's
Herschel Space Observatory and
Planck satellite (pictured) are launched from the
Guiana Space Centre , using a
Ariane 5ECA rocket.
[38]
An attack by the
Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda kills more than 90 civilians and government troops in
South Kivu ,
Democratic Republic of Congo .
[39]
In
India 's
general election , the
Bharatiya Janata Party
concedes defeat to the
United Progressive Alliance , the
ruling coalition led by the
Indian National Congress .
[40]
Norway wins the
Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with their song
Fairytale performed by
Alexander Rybak .
[41]
Ruth Padel is named the first female
Oxford Professor of Poetry , after a controversial race.
[42]
In
Kuwait 's
parliamentary election (parliament building pictured) , several women are elected for the first time in the nation's history.
[43]
President of Sri Lanka
Mahinda Rajapaksa declares victory over the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in the
Sri Lankan Civil War .
[44]
Dalia Grybauskaitė is elected
Lithuania 's first female
President .
[45]
Velupillai Prabhakaran , the leader of the rebel
Tamil Tigers of
Sri Lanka , is reported to have been killed by the
Sri Lankan Army as the government declares victory in the
Sri Lankan Civil War .
[46]
Raffaele Amato , a
Camorra boss accused of being one of the principal importers of
cocaine into
Italy , is arrested in
Marbella ,
Spain .
[47]
United Kingdom politician
Michael Martin (pictured) announces to resign in
scandal over expenses , becoming the first
House of Commons
Speaker since 1695 to be forced from office.
[48]
Manmohan Singh (pictured) is elected by the
Indian National Congress to become the first
Prime Minister of
India since
Jawaharlal Nehru to return for a second term after completing a full five-year term.
[49]
An
Indonesian Air Force
C-130 Hercules
aircraft
crashes , killing at least 78 people in
Java ,
Indonesia .
[50]
Scientists announce that
Darwinius masillae (radiographs pictured) , a 47-million-year-old
skeleton of a
primate species, is
humanity 's
missing link .
[51]
Apa , a
Nepalese
Sherpa
mountain climber who holds the world record for summiting
Mount Everest more than any other person, breaks his own record.
[52]
Bingu wa Mutharika is
elected to a second term as
President of
Malawi .
[53]
The
United Kingdom 's
House of Lords
suspends two of its
peers ,
Lord Truscott and
Lord Taylor , for misconduct, the first such action since 1642.
[54]
Ireland 's
Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse concludes that the
Roman Catholic Church and
government inspectors knew
sexual abuse was "endemic" in boys' institutions.
[55]
Former
President of
South Korea
Roh Moo-hyun (pictured) dies after jumping from a mountain cliff, in an apparent suicide.
[56]
The
German
Federal Assembly
re-elects
Horst Köhler as
President of Germany .
[57]
Madhav Kumar Nepal is elected
Prime Minister of
Nepal by the
Interim legislature .
[58]
In
rugby union ,
Leinster defeat
Leicester Tigers in the
2009 Heineken Cup Final to win their first ever
Heineken Cup .
[59]
At the
2009 Cannes Film Festival ,
Michael Haneke 's
Austrian film
The White Ribbon wins
Palme d'Or .
[60]
In
auto racing ,
Jenson Button (pictured) of
England wins the
2009 Monaco Grand Prix and
Hélio Castroneves of
Brazil wins the
2009 Indianapolis 500 .
[61]
North Korea claims to have
successfully detonated a
nuclear weapon in an underground facility.
[62]
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj is
elected
President of
Mongolia .
[63]
At
Mawazine , at least 11 people are killed and 40 others are injured after a wire fence collapses at a
football stadium in
Rabat ,
Morocco .
[64]
In
cricket , the
Deccan Chargers defeat the
Bangalore Royal Challengers to win the
2009 Indian Premier League .
[65]
Cyclone Aila kills at least 33 people and leads affects thousands of others in
Bangladesh and
India .
[66]
President
Barack Obama
nominates
Sonia Sotomayor to replace
David Souter on the
United States Supreme Court .
[67]
Soyuz TMA-15 is launched at the
Baikonur Cosmodrome in
Kazakhstan , carrying
Expedition 20 , the first six-man crew of the
International Space Station .
[68]
In
football ,
FC Barcelona defeats
Manchester United to win the
2009 UEFA Champions League Final .
[69]
President of
Niger
Tandja Mamadou dissolves the
National Assembly after the
constitutional court rejects his attempt to remove presidential
term limits .
[70]
At least 16 people die and at least 20 others are injured following a
bus accident in
Yambol ,
Bulgaria .
[71]
The discovery of a 4,000-year-old skeleton showing earliest known evidence of
leprosy is reported in
Rajasthan ,
India .
[72]
In the
Second Battle of Swat against the
Taliban , the
Pakistani military (main battle tank pictured) announces that it has fully regained control of
Mingora , the largest town in the
Swat Valley .
[73]
Around 250 people are killed in
clashes between the
Rizeigat and
Messiria
nomadic tribes in
South Kurdufan ,
Sudan .
[74]
A 7.3-
Mw
earthquake kills six people and destroys dozens of buildings in
Honduras ,
Guatemala and
Belize .
[75]
Soyuz TMA-15 , carrying the crew of
Expedition 20 , docks with the
International Space Station .
[76]
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