DIARY OF EVENTS 2009
INTERNATIONAL
JANUARY
JAN 1 – Cuba celebrates 50th anniversary of its revolution.
JAN 6 – Shekh Hasina sworn in as Prime Minister in Bangladesh.
JAN 9 – The Srilankan Army captures Elephant Pass, a crucial base of the LTTE at the gateway to Jafna linking peninsula with Wanni.
JAN 11 – British drector Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire' based on Indian Diplomat Vikas Swarup's novel 'Q and A' emerges big winner at the 66th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calofornia. Composer A.R. Rahman bags best composure honours, the first Indian to win the award.
JAN 20 – Barack Hussain Obama is sworn in the 44th President of US, breaking the colour barrier. Joe Biden takes oath as the 47th Vice-President.
JAN 21 – In a rare do-over, Barack Obama is sworn in for the second time as the US President.
Israel completes troops pull out from the Gaza strip after a three week offensive.
JAN 23 – Japan launches the Greenhouse Gas Observing Satellite, the world's first satellite dedicated to monitoring greenhouse gas emissions from Tanegashima, a small island.
The US authorities approves the first human trials using embryonic stem cells testing a pioneering therapy for stroke patients.
FEBRUARY
FEB 1 – Johanna Sigurdardottir takes over as Iceland's first women Prime Minister.
FEB 8 – Tabla maestro Zakir Hussain wins Grammy in the Contemporary World Music category for his collaborative album 'Global Drum Project'.
FEB 11 – Awami League loyalist Zillur Rahman is elected Bangladesh President.
FEB 14 – King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia appoints for the first time a woman Noura al-Fayez, Deputy Minister for girl's education
FEB 16 – The Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez wins referendum on scrapping term limits for elected posts, paving the way for his seeking re-election in 2012 and beyond.
FEB 22 – Slumdog Millionaire, a small budget British film bags eight Oscars at 81st Academy Awards Functions in Hollywood including Best Director (Danny Boyle), Original Music Score and Song(A.R. Rahman, the first Indian to win two Oscars), Sound Mixing (Resul Pookutty of Kerela shares it with Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke), Best Picture.
'Smile Pinki', the tale of a little girl with cleft lip, Pinki Sonkar, from Uttar Pradesh gets Oscar for Best Documentary (Short).
FEB 25 – Fifty persons are killed as Bangladesh Rifles personnel launched an armed rebelliobn seeking better pay and putting an end to the deputation of Army officers to command paramilitary bodyguards. BDR chief Major General Shakil Ahmad is taken hostage
FEB 27 – Bangladesh security forces discover a mass grave of at least 42 massacred Army officers at the Pilkhana Headquarter of the BDR, including Bangladesh Rifles chief Major General Shakil Ahmad.
MARCH
MAR 1 – Chang'e-1, China's first lunar probe impacts moon ending its 16 month mission.
MAR 2 – The President of Guinea-Bissau Jao Bernardo Vieira is assassinated by renegade soldiers at his place.
MAR 4 – The International Criminal Court, The Hague, issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Beshir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. It is the first by the court against a sitting head of State.
MAR 9 – Vinayagamoorthy Muralidharan (Karuna), former deputy leader of the LTTE, is sworn in Sri Lanka's Minister of National Integration in Colombo, shortly after joining ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party.
President Barack Obama lifts curbs on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.
MAR 12 – The former Nasdaq chairman Bernard Madoff is jailed after he pleads to an epic fraud that robbed investors worldwide of billions of dollars.
An Iraqi Court hands down a three year jail term to journalist Muntazer Al- Zaidi for hurling shoes at then US President George Bush during a globally televised press conference in Baghdad last December.
MAR 16 – The Pakistan Government agrees to restore the deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary.
MAR 26 – Charles Simonyi becomes the first person to travel twice to space as a tourist.
Russian-French mathematician Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov is chosen for the Abel Prize for 2009.
MAR 29 – Ninety countries take part in 'Earth Hour 2009', a global event in which landmarks and homes go dark to highlight the threat for climate change.
APRIL
APR 1 – Benzamin Netanyahu assumes office as Israeli Prime Minister
APR 2 – The G-20 Summit in London pledges $1.1 trillion to boost global economic growth. Leaders agree on measures to reform the banking system.
APR 3 – Najib Tun Razak is sworn in as Malaysia's sixth Prime Minister.
APR 4 – France returns to the NATO fold at the 60th anniversary summit of the Organisation at Strausborg. Albania and Croatia become new members. Spanish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen is named is named the next Secretary General.
APR 6 – Over 100 people are feared dead and nearly 1200 injured after a powerful earthquake strikes the historic central town of L'Aquila in the mountainous Abruzo region.
APR 13 – Sri Lanka de-recognizes Norway as the official facilitator of Peace talks.
APR 14 – North Korea pulls out of denuclearisation expels IAEA inspectors and US monitors from the Yongbyon nuclear complex.
APR 24 – India and Poland sign agreements on cooperatin in health care and medicine and tourism, in the presence of Presidents Pratibha Patil and Lech Kaczynski.
APR 30 – The six year British Occupation of Iraq ends.
MAY
MAY 1- The British government appoints Scottish Poet Carol Ann Duffy, the country's first woman Poet Laureate.
MAY 4 – Pushp Kumar Dahal "Prachanda" resigns as Nepal Prime Minister after the President Ram Baran Yadav asks the Army Chief General Rookmangud Katawal to continue in office.
MAY 7 – Patxi Lopez assumes office as the first non-nationalist President of the Basque region( Spain).
MAY 8 – The Pakistam Army launches full scale military action named Operation Rah-e-Rast in the Swat valley to flush out militants.
MAY 9 – Jacob Zuma assumes office as the forth President of the post –aparthied South Africa.
MAY 18 – The LTTE Supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran is killed in an intense battle with Sri Lankan Military at Mullivaikkal in Mullaithivu district bringing an end to the 33 month long Ealem War IV.
MAY 21 – Former British Gorkha soldiers won a major victory after the government accepts their demand to settle in Britain.
Apa Sherpa of Nepal climbs Mt. Everest for the record 19th time.
MAY 23 – The former South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun, who was at the center of a multi million dollar corruption probe commits suicide by jumping of a hill .
Horst Koehler, the former head of IMF is re-elected German President.
MAY 25 – Cyclone Aila wreak havoc in Bangladesh.
MAY 27 – Canadian short story writer Alice Munro wins the £ 60,000 Man Booker International Prize.
JUNE
JUN 1 – All 228 passengers on board an Air France aircraft flying from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to Paris are killed as the plane crashes into the Atlantic ocean after being stuck by lightning.
JUN 3 – The Organisation of American States decides to lift a 47 year old ban on Cuba at the OAS General Assembly meeting in Honduras.
JUN 11 – The WHO declares the swine flu pandemic, the first global flu epidemic in 41 years.
JUN 13 – Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad secures a landslide victory in presidential polls trounching his nearest rival Mir Hosein Mousavi.
JUN 16 – The first-ever summit of Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) at Yekaterinburg, Russia calls for the creation of a "more diversified international monetary system" and a "more democratic and just multipolar world order".
JUN 19 – Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei endorses the presidential pole result and awnts protesters to keep off the streets.
JUN 20 – 13 persons killed in crackdown on protesters in Iran.
JUN 25 – Pop King Michael Jackson (50) dies at Los Angeles. His entertainment career hit high water marks with the release of "Thriller" in 1982.
JUN 28 – Honduran Army ousts leftists Presindent Manuel Zelaya and exiles him to Costa Rica in Central Americas first military coup since the cold war, hours before a rogue referendum he had called in defiance of the courts and congress.
JUN 30 – Atleast 152 people on board a Yemeni Airbus jet are killed after the aircraft crashes into the Indian Ocean while trying to land in Comoros Islands.
US forces pull out of Iraqi cities.
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