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Fiji is suspended from the
Commonwealth of Nations due to a refusal to reinstate elections by 2010 following the
2006 Fijian coup d'état .
[1]
Felipe Cusanero is sentenced to 150 years in prison for his part in the disappearance of 6
Mayan farmers during the
Guatemalan Civil War in the 1980s.
[2]
Iolu Abil is sworn in as
President of Vanuatu following the
Vanuatuan presidential election, 2009 .
[3]
Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy , the
Chief minister of
Andhra Pradesh ,
India , is killed in a helicopter crash.
[4]
Ali Bongo Ondimba , son of late
President
Omar Bongo , is
elected President of
Gabon .
[5]
At least 63 people are killed and more than 87,000 homes destroyed in
Java in
Indonesia 's
deadliest earthquake since 2006.
[6]
The journal
Scientist published a study that found temperatures in the
Arctic were higher over the last ten years than any other similar period in 2,000 years.
[7]
At least 18 people are
shot dead at a drug treatment clinic in
Ciudad Juárez ,
Chihuahua ,
Mexico .
[8]
A tourist boat
sinks in
Lake Ohrid ,
Republic of Macedonia , killing at least 15 people.
[9]
A
NATO
airstrike on two
Taliban -controlled
fuel tankers kills at least 56 people near
Kunduz ,
Afghanistan .
[10]
At least nine people are killed and thirty are missing after
SuperFerry 9 (pictured) capsizes near
Zamboanga City in the
Phillipines .
[11]
In the
United Kingdom , three men are
found guilty of plotting to detonate
liquid explosives on board several
transatlantic flights to
Canada and the
United States .
[12]
Traffic in
Samoa now drives on the
left side of the road : Samoa is the first country to make such a switch in nearly 40 years.
[13]
Two former
Norwegian soldiers are
sentenced to death for
murder and
espionage by a
military tribunal in
Kisangani ,
Democratic Republic of the Congo .
[14]
In
hurling (equipment pictured) ,
Kilkenny beat
Tipperary in the
2009 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final to win their fourth consecutive
championship .
[15]
At least 31 people are killed by
flash floods during
Turkey 's heaviest rainfall for 80 years.
[16]
The
Bosavi Woolly Rat , a new species of
rat (pictured) , is discovered at
Mount Bosavi in
Papua New Guinea .
[17]
The first
JAXA
H-II Transfer Vehicle
HTV-1 is launched to the
International Space Station from the
Tanegashima Space Center ,
Japan .
[18]
In
football ,
Germany beat
England 6–2 in the
UEFA Women's Euro 2009 final, claiming their seventh European title.
[19]
Former
President of the Republic of China
Chen Shui-bian (pictured) receives
life sentences for
corruption .
[20]
UK Prime Minister
Gordon Brown apologises for the "inhumane" treatment of
World War II
code-breaker
Alan Turing , who was sentenced to
chemical castration .
[21]
Nigeria commences a 36 billion
naira
dredging of the
Niger River .
[22]
Uruguay becomes the first
Latin American country to
legalise
LGBT adoption .
[23]
The
Israeli film
Lebanon wins the
Golden Lion at the
66th Venice International Film Festival .
[24]
At least 38 people are killed during a
fire at a drug abuse clinic in
Taldykorgan ,
Almaty Province ,
Kazakhstan .
[25]
President of
Moldova
Vladimir Voronin (pictured) resigns.
[26]
Agronomist
Norman Borlaug , the father of the
Green Revolution , dies the age of 95.
[27]
Cuban
revolutionary and
Vice President
Juan Almeida Bosque dies of a
heart attack at the age of 82.
[28]
In
tennis ,
Juan Martín del Potro and
Kim Clijsters win the singles titles at the
2009 US Open .
[29]
South Africa defeat
New Zealand 32-29 to win the
2009 Tri Nations
rugby union series.
[30]
Prime Minister
Jens Stoltenberg and the
Red-Green Coalition win the
Norwegian parliamentary election .
[31]
Noordin Mohammad Top ,
Indonesia 's most wanted
Islamic
militant , is killed in a police raid in
Central Java .
[32]
Kenya begins clearing
Kibera , the largest
slum in
Africa with 2 million residents.
[33]
The 15,762nd and final episode of
Guiding Light , a 72-year long
soap opera , airs on the American television network
CBS .
[34]
At least thirteen miners are killed and thirty others hospitalised following a
mine blast in
Ruda Śląska ,
Poland .
[35]
Trafigura reaches an
out of court settlement with 31,000 people affected by its
2006 dumping of toxic chemicals in
Abidjan ,
Côte d'Ivoire .
[36]
In
basketball ,
Spain defeats
Serbia 85–63 to win
EuroBasket 2009 at the
Spodek arena,
Katowice ,
Poland .
[37]
Renault F1 is given a two-year
suspended race ban by the
FIA , after accepting a charge of conspiring to cause a
deliberate crash at the
2008 Singapore Grand Prix .
[38]
The
German ships
Beluga Fraternity and Beluga Foresight become the first
Western
commercial vessels to navigate the
Northern Sea Route .
[39]
The
drama film
Precious , directed by
Lee Daniels , wins the People's Choice Award at the
2009 Toronto International Film Festival .
[40]
José Manuel Barroso is re-elected for a second term as
President of the
European Commission .
[41]
A Spanish surgeon is sentenced to one year in prison and disqualified from medical practise for three years for his role in the death of
Nigeria 's
First Lady
Stella Obasanjo in 2005.
[42]
Irina Bokova (pictured) is elected Director General of
UNESCO , the first female and first
Eastern European to fill the role.
[43]
A
dust storm (pictured in
Gold Coast, Queensland ) , described as "the worst in at least 70 years", sweeps across several
Australian states, covering
Brisbane and
Sydney in red dust.
[44]
A 6.3
Mw
earthquake strikes
Bhutan and
India , killing at least 11 people.
[45]
The
discovery of the largest
Anglo-Saxon
treasure trove ever found (pictured) , in
Staffordshire ,
England , is announced.
[46]
Ertuğrul Osman , the
last surviving
pretender to the
Ottoman throne , dies of
renal failure aged 97.
[47]
The
collapse of a chimney following a lightening strike in
Korba in the
Indian state of
Chhattisgarh traps at least 100 construction workers and kills 25.
[48]
Three men are
sentenced to death after admitting they
murdered and mutilated a 14-year-old
albino boy in
Shinyanga Region ,
Tanzania .
[49]
Tropical Storm Ketsana causes record amounts of rainfall in
Manila ,
Philippines , leading to the declaration of a "
state of calamity " in 25
provinces .
[50]
The
CDU/CSU led by
Angela Merkel (pictured ) wins a renewed
plurality in
elections to the Bundestag in Germany .
[51]
The
Aruban People's Party wins a majority of seats in the
general election of
Aruba in the
Caribbean Sea .
[52]
Award-winning
pianist
Alicia de Larrocha from
Catalonia dies at age 86.
[53]
157 people are killed as military troops open fire at a
protest rally against the
junta government in
Conakry ,
Guinea .
[54]
An 8.3 magnitude
earthquake on the
Samoa Islands causes a
tsunami and kills at least 50 people.
[55]
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