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The President of Guinea-Bissau , João Bernardo Vieira (pictured) , is assassinated during an armed attack on his residence in Bissau .[1]
Insurance firm AIG announces fourth quarter losses for 2008, of $ 61.7 billion, the largest quarterly loss in corporate history .[2]
At least five members of the Sri Lankan cricket team are wounded and five Pakistani policemen are killed in shootings near Lahore 's Gaddafi Stadium .[3]
The International Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity .[4]
At least 20 people are killed after a riot at a prison in Ciudad Juárez , Chihuahua , Mexico .[5]
NASA launches the Kepler spacecraft , a mission to search for Earth -like planets .[6]
The Bank of England announces plans to create £ 75 billion through quantitative easing , in an attempt to boost the British economy .[7]
Members of the Israeli embassy in Mauritania are expelled from the country.[8]
Two members of the 38 Engineer Regiment of the British Army are fatally shot outside the Massereene barracks in County Antrim , Northern Ireland .[9]
In North Korea , members of the Democratic Front for the Reunification of the Fatherland party are elected to all 687 seats in the Supreme People’s Assembly .[10]
A suicide attack kills at least 28 people and injures 57 others in Baghdad , Iraq .[11]
Morocco severs diplomatic ties with Iran , accusing it of attempting to spread Shia Islam .[12]
At least 10 people are killed during a shooting spree in Geneva County , Alabama , USA .[13]
A school shooting kills at least 11 people in Winnenden , Germany , and another shooting spree kills at least 10 people in the U.S. state of Alabama .[14]
Bernard Madoff pleads guilty to the largest investment fraud in U.S. history.[15]
An oil spill in Australia 's Coral Sea is reported as the worst oil spill in the country's history.[16]
Cougar Helicopters Flight 91 ditches in the Atlantic Ocean near Newfoundland , Canada , killing 17.[17]
A fire at the Bashundhara City mall in Dhaka , Bangladesh kills seven people and injures fifty.[18]
At the close of the 2009 National People's Congress , Premier Wen Jiabao of China expresses concern about United States Treasury Department securities .[19]
Space Shuttle Discovery is successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida , carrying solar arrays to the International Space Station .[20]
An outbreak of meningitis in several West African nations kills at least 930 people and infects 13,500 more.[21]
Mauricio Funes (pictured) is elected President of El Salvador .[22]
The European Space Agency satellite Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer is launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome , Russia .[23]
Madagascar 's military installs former Antananarivo Mayor Andry Rajoelina (pictured) as President , replacing Marc Ravalomanana .[24]
Floods in Namibia and Angola kill 90 people and make at least 25.000 people homeless.[25]
A 7.9 Mw earthquake occurs off the coast of Tongatapu , Tonga , shortly after a large scale undersea volcanic eruption begins in the region.[26]
Ireland wins its first Six Nations Grand Slam in rugby union since 1948.[27]
A suicide attack kills four South Korean tourists and a local guide in Shibam , Yemen .[28]
A Pilatus PC-12 crashes in the U.S. state of Montana , killing at least 14 people.
A FedEx Express McDonnell Douglas MD-11 cargo jet crash-landed at Japan 's Narita International Airport , killing two people.[29]
Japan defeats Korea 5–3 in 10 innings to win the 2009 World Baseball Classic at Dodger Stadium , Los Angeles , USA .[30]
Mount Redoubt (pictured) , a stratovolcano in Alaska , continues to erupt .[31]
The Board of Control for Cricket in India decides to relocate the 2009 Indian Premier League from India to South Africa due to security concerns.[32]
Self government is suspended in the British Overseas Territory of Turks and Caicos after Premier Michael Misick resigns in the midst of a corruption investigation.[33]
Mirek Topolánek resigns as the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic following his government 's loss of a parliamentary confidence vote .[34]
Situ Gintung , a dam in Tangerang , Indonesia , fails, flooding hundreds of homes and killing at least 58 people.[35]
A suicide attack kills approximately fifty people at a mosque in Khyber Agency , Pakistan .[36]
The University of Toronto researchers discover GhostNet , a China -based electronic spying operation which has infiltrated 1,295 computers in 103 countries.[37]
Flooding in the Red River causes evacuations in northern United States and southern Canada .[38]
In a referendum , Mayotte chooses to become an overseas department of France .[39]
A stampede kills at least 22 people and injures at least 130 more during a 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying match in Abidjan , Côte d'Ivoire .[40]
The Pakistan Rangers and Elite Police retake a police academy in Lahore which had been seized by gunmen.[41]
Coalition for a European Montenegro wins the absolute majority at the parliamentary election , securing Milo Đukanović the sixth term as the Prime Minister of Montenegro .[42]
The 12-year-long construction of the National Ignition Facility , a laser -based inertial confinement fusion research device at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California , is announced to have been completed.[43]