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April 2009 was the fourth month of that common year. The month, which began on a Wednesday, ended on a Thursday after 30 days.

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This is an archived version of Wikipedia's Current events Portal from April 2009.

April 1, 2009 (Wednesday)

The 72-year-old American soap opera Guiding Light will broadcast its final episode on September 18. (Reuters)
The United States and Russia begin Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. (The Australian)
Local government in England undergoes structural changes. (BBC)
A Computer virus called Conficker was spread through millions of computers, getting onto their computers and destroying files, and sharing information. This was supposed to be an April Fools' Day Joke.
election on October 25. (AFP via Google News)

At least eight people are killed when a
ditches into the North Sea. (AFP via Google News)

Five thousand people
summit. (BBC)

Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Avigdor Lieberman says that the Annapolis Conference "has no validity." (BBC)
Mid North Coast a disaster area. (ABC News Australia)

Albania and Croatia join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. (AFP via Google News)
The United States' World War II motor ship City of Rayville is located near Australia. (The Age)
Parliament legalizes same-sex marriage. (AFP via Google News)

A
Finlyandsky Rail Terminal in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Moscow Times)

April 2, 2009 (Thursday)

Bombardier Aerospace will cut 3,000 jobs. (AP via Washington Post)

legal trials. (BBC)

The
current financial crisis. (BBC)

Reinsurer Swiss Re will cut 1,000 jobs. (Sky News)
Mercedes is disqualified from the 2009 Australian Grand Prix for 'deliberately misleading' the International Automobile Federation. (BBC) (Bloomberg)

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing an Internet leak of the upcoming film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. (BBC)
Federal Investigations Agency arrests alleged drug trafficker Vicente Carrillo Leyva in Mexico City. (BBC)

The
Most Reverend Desmond Tutu's criticism of the party. (BBC)

Bangladesh's government outlaws begging in order to eliminate it by 2014. (BBC)

April 3, 2009 (Friday)

The United States economy lost 663,000 jobs in March, raising the unemployment rate to 8.5%. (New York Times)
Former
Najib Tun Razak is inaugurated as Prime Minister. (CNN)

French police arrest 300 protesters as a NATO summit begins in Strasbourg. (Sky News)
Four
exchange gunfire near the Preah Vihear Temple. (CNN)

The U.S. state of Iowa's Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage. (KCCI)
Approximately 40 people riot in Clondalkin, near West Dublin, Ireland. (Evening Herald)
Fourteen people die and 26 are injured during a
American Civic Association in Binghamton, New York. (CNN)

Scottish footballers Barry Ferguson and Allan McGregor receive lifetime bans from the Scottish Football Association and are transfer-listed by Rangers Football Club. (BBC) (The Guardian)

April 4, 2009 (Saturday)

The
warnings. (Sky News Australia)

Three police officers are killed in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. (CNN)
The
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development blacklists Costa Rica, Malaysia and the Philippines as non-cooperative tax havens. (BBC)

A
North Waziristan, Pakistan. (ABC News Australia)

Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen will become NATO's Secretary General on August 1. (Reuters)
Six
killed during a suicide attack in Islamabad, Pakistan. (GEO TV)

Mon Mome wins the 2009 Grand National in Aintree, England. (BBC)
The Balochistan Liberation United Front releases United Nations official John Solecki from captivity in Quetta, Pakistan. (BBC)

April 5, 2009 (Sunday)

The
election. (AFP via Google News)

North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command report that North Korea's Bright Star-2 communications satellite did not reach Earth's orbit. (CNN)

U.S. President Barack Obama announces his plan for worldwide nuclear disarmament. (AFP via Google News)
The
election takes place. (BBC)

April 6, 2009 (Monday)

Convicted murderer Annika Östberg is transferred to Sweden from California's Institution for Women. (The Local)
Six car bombs kill at least 34 people and injure 139 others in Baghdad, Iraq. (AFP via News Limited)

A "significant explosive event" occurs at the Mount Redoubt volcano in Alaska. (KTUU)
At least 207 people are killed and 1,500 injured during a 6.3-magnitude earthquake near L'Aquila, Italy. (CNN)
spousal rape. (CNN)

election. (BBC)

pirates hijack five ships from the United Kingdom, Taiwan, Germany, France, and Yemen. (CNN) (BBC)

West Papua. (ABC)

April 7, 2009 (Tuesday)

emergency budget. (RTÉ) (Irish Times)

The
Palestinian terrorist in East Jerusalem as he rams them with his tractor. (Al Jazeera)

United States District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan overturns the conviction of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. (CNN)
Former
convicted of violating human rights and imprisoned until 2034. (Washington Post)

Batang Ai. (BBC)

election. (BBC)

Two people are killed and two injured during a shooting in Landshut, Bavaria, Germany. (BBC)
Twenty-four people are killed as a
crashes in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. (Sky News)

French police raid the Basque Homeland and Freedom's "bomb factory" in Grenoble, Isère. (BBC)
government announces a A$43-billion investment for the National Broadband Network. (BBC)

The General Assembly legalizes same-sex marriage in Vermont, United States. (Burlington Free Press)

April 8, 2009 (Wednesday)

Thousands of people in Pyongyang, North Korea, celebrate the “successful” launch of the Bright Star-2 communications satellite into Earth's orbit. (BBC)
Chinese and Russian cyber-spies allegedly infiltrate the United States' electrical grid. (AP) (Wall Street Journal)

legislative election. (BBC)

Thirty thousand
demonstrators assemble at Government House in Bangkok, Thailand. (Reuters)

Chinese President Hu Jintao meet in Beijing. (AFP)

One person is killed and four are injured in a shooting in Temecula, California, United States. (Sky News)
Maersk Alabama in the Indian Ocean. (BBC)

A
rogue French Foreign Legionnaire kills four people in Chad. (BBC)

The
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development removes Costa Rica, Malaysia, and the Philippines from its blacklist of non-cooperative tax havens. (BBC)

The United Kingdom Independent Police Complaints Commission announces an inquest into Ian Tomlinson's death. (The Guardian)

April 9, 2009 (Thursday)

Armed Forces in 2003. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)

election takes place. (VoA) (BBC)

election takes place. (New York Times)

Riots occur after Baloch National Movement President Ghulam Mohammed Baloch is discovered dead near Turbat, Pakistan. (BBC)
Great Leader. (Irish Times) (BBC)

Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling resigns as patron of Scotland's Multiple Sclerosis Society. (BBC)
Forty-six foreign nationals depart Belfast, Northern Ireland, after riots during 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches. (BBC)
Demonstrators assemble in Tbilisi, Georgia, to demand the resignation of President Mikheil Saakashvili. (Sky News)

The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency allegedly decommissions its black sites worldwide. (BBC)
Bishop Harold Miller of the Church of Ireland advises a boycott of television on Good Friday. (BBC)

April 10, 2009 (Friday)

Cape Fear Bank in Wilmington, North Carolina, and New Frontier Bank in Greeley, Colorado, are shut down. (Wall Street Journal) (Washington Post)
At least 27
kill six people throughout the Southern United States. (CNN)

The
Fourth East Asia Summit begins in Pattaya, Thailand. (Xinhua)

state-owned financial institutions. (Xinhua)

Japan strengthens its economic sanctions against North Korea, following the launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2. (CNN)
Fijian President Ratu Josefa Iloilo abrogates the Constitution and dismisses the Court of Appeal. (New Zealand Stuff)
freshwater supplies to 5,000,000 people for 36 hours to combat shortages. (BBC)

economic stimulus package. (BBC)

Three people are shot at OAED Vocational College near Athens, Greece. (BBC)

April 11, 2009 (Saturday)

Fourth East Asia Summit in Pattaya, Thailand. (BBC)

reelected as President of Algeria. (AP via Google News)

A gunman kills one person and injures three others in Rotterdam, Netherlands. (BBC)
The
Tanit in the Gulf of Aden. (BBC)

April 12, 2009 (Sunday)

political crisis
:
- Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva declares a state of emergency in Bangkok and its surrounding areas. (RadioFree Europe)
- Former
  National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship to revolt. (CNN)

Sri Lanka's Armed Forces temporarily suspend their offensive against the Tamil Tigers to allow civilians to find refuge. (Al Jazeera)
Palestinian people. (MSNBC)

Ángel Cabrera wins the PGA Tour's 2009 Masters Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, United States. (Yahoo)
pirates, is rescued. (CNN)

April 13, 2009 (Monday)

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A
destroys a homeless hostel and kills at least 22 people in Kamień Pomorski, Poland. (BBC)

The
Swat, Pakistan. (Reuters)

protests in Bangkok are "under control". (BBC)

Mass media in Fiji protest against government censorship. (Al Jazeera)
National Human Rights Action Plan. (Xinhua)

An unmanned
Navy patrol in the Gaza Strip. (Reuters)

United States Representative Donald M. Payne comes under mortar fire at Aden Adde International Airport in Somalia. (Telegraph)
Protests against Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili continue in Tbilisi. (RIA Novosti) (AFP)
At least four Lebanese Ground Forces soldiers are killed near Baalbek in the Beqaa Valley. (Los Angeles Times)
The
rescind travel and gift restrictions to Cuba. (Miami Herald)

The
launch of Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2. (Sky News)

April 14, 2009 (Tuesday)

nuclear program. (BBC)

French fishing vessels institute blockades at Boulogne-sur-Mer and Dunkirk to protest the Common Fisheries Policy. (BBC)
Sea Horse of Lebanon. (Sky News)

The Camel Reproduction Center in
Injaz, the first cloned camel. (Telegraph)

April 15, 2009 (Wednesday)

global navigation system. (Xinhua)

UBS AG will cut 8,700 jobs. (Sky News)

The Pitcairn Islands abolish alcohol prohibition. (RNZI)
The
pirates in the Gulf of Aden. (BBC)

The United States' consumer price index records its first year-on-year deflation since 1955. (Times Online)
The
taxes and out-of-control government spending began rallying across the United States. (WSJ)

April 16, 2009 (Thursday)

Sweden's National Museum of Science and Technology publicly displays a confiscated Pirate Bay server. (The Local)
China's
economy grows by 6.1% in the first quarter of 2009, the lowest increase since 1999. (Xinhua)

The
general election begins. (Times Online)

A landslide in Kyrgyzstan kills at least 16 people. (BBC)
Bolivian police kill three people - Hungarian Eduardo Rózsa-Flores, Irishman Michael Martin Dwyer, and Romanian Magyarosi Arpak - and arrest two others over an alleged plot to assassinate President Evo Morales and Vice President Álvaro García Linera. (RTÉ) (BBC)

April 17, 2009 (Friday)

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An
Papua, Indonesia. (UPI)

American Sterling Bank in Sugar Creek, Missouri, is closed. (MarketWatch)
The Bangladesh Police arrest 31 suspected Hizb ut-Tahrir members for planning terrorism. (AFP via Sydney Morning Herald)
The
European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party. (EurActiv)

Two earthquakes kill 22 people in Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan. (Sky News)
Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, and Carl Lundström of The Pirate Bay are found guilty of copyright infringement and imprisoned until 2010. (New Zealand Herald)
apparent assassination attempt in Bangkok, Thailand. (Los Angeles Times)

A
election confirms an "emphatic win" by the Communist Party. (Russia Today)

The trial of Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasāb resumes. (Al Jazeera)
Serbian President Boris Tadić visits Kosovo. (Deutsche Welle)
The Czech Republic invites Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko to a European Union summit in May. (RIA Novosti)
Botswana will reduce its output of diamonds by more than 50% in 2009. (AFP)
President Andry Rajoelina issues an arrest warrant for former President Marc Ravalomanana. (News 24)

upcoming general election. (BBC)

Canada restores citizenship to foreigners in an amendment to the Citizenship Act of 1977. (Wall Street Journal)
The
Summit of the Americas begins in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (Barbados Advocate)

April 18, 2009 (Saturday)

France's National Police arrest ETA military leader Jurdan Martitegi in Montauriol. (Reuters via ABC News Australia)
pirates' attack on a Norwegian oil tanker. (MSN)^{[permanent dead link}
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Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi is charged with espionage and imprisoned in Iran until 2017. (BBC)

An
China. (BBC)

The Abu Sayyaf Group releases Swiss Red Cross worker Andreas Notter from captivity in the Philippines. (Reuters)
The
pirates in the Gulf of Aden. (BBC)

April 19, 2009 (Sunday)

Eight
corrections officers are killed in an ambush during a prisoner transfer in Nayarit, Mexico. (AP via Google)

United States President Barack Obama announces that Central Intelligence Agency personnel who employed enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects will not be prosecuted. (BBC)
The
Summit of the Americas ends in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (Canadian Press)

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta releases British hostage Robin Barry Hughes. (CNN)

April 20, 2009 (Monday)

The United States commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre in 1999 by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
The 2009 Pulitzer Prizes are announced. (New York Times)
Oracle Corporation purchases Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion. (MarketWatch)
reconnaissance satellite. (CNN-IBN)

The
election. (BBC)

The hijacker of CanJet Flight 918 surrenders and releases his six hostages. (BBC) (Sky News)
Durban Review Conference:
- The United Nations World Conference against Racism begins in Geneva, Switzerland. (Telegraph)
- A protester throws an object at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and yells, "Racist, racist!" (BBC)
- Several
  anti-Israel speech by President Ahmadinejad. (Reuters) (Telegraph)

government discovers 3,850 kilometres (2,390 mi) more of the Great Wall of China. (BBC)

April 21, 2009 (Tuesday)

Yahoo! will cut between 600 and 700 jobs. (AP via Forbes)
Twelve navies from the Americas begin annual UNITAS Gold exercises near Florida, United States. (Miami Herald)^{[permanent dead link]}
The World Digital Library launches at UNESCO's headquarters in Paris, France. (AFP via Google News)
Joint Strike Fighter Program. (Reuters)

The
Retail Prices Index records negative inflation for the first time since 1960. (BBC)

Twenty-four people are
killed during combat between the Mungiki criminal organization and citizens of Karatina in Kenya. (BBC)

The smallest confirmed
Gliese 581 e, is discovered. (MSNBC)

April 22, 2009 (2009-04-22) (Wednesday)

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The United Kingdom's new government
budget will increase borrowing and tax high-income earners to 50%. (Washington Post)

South Africa's
general election begins. (Reuters)

The
Naxalite movement releases 500 hostages from a hijacked train in Latehar, India. (Sky News)

World Ocean. (BBC)

Japan reports its first annual trade deficit since 1981. (BBC)

April 23, 2009 (2009-04-23) (Thursday)

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General Motors will temporarily close 13 factories in the United States and Mexico. (AP via Miami Herald)^{[permanent dead link]}

The
captures Buner District in Pakistan. (WSJ)

entertainment industry representatives. (TT via The Local)

general election begins its second of five phases. (BBC)

The
recover until 2010. (CNN)

Prime Minister of Lesotho Pakalitha Mosisili survives an apparent assassination attempt. (BBC)

Two
kill at least 87 people. (CNN)

Iraqis have died since the Iraq War began in 2003. (AP)

April 24, 2009 (2009-04-24) (Friday)

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infects at least 1,000 more in Mexico. (CNN)

A suicide attack kills at least 60 people and injures 125 more in Baghdad, Iraq. (Reuters)

Two
tried on criminal charges in North Korea. (Sky News)

wire fraud, and bribery. (Saipan Tribune)

special election. (New York Times)

American Southern Bank in Kennesaw, Georgia, is closed. (MarketWatch)

The
sequenced. (Science)

April 25, 2009 (2009-04-25) (Saturday)

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outbreak of swine influenza. (Reuters)

Ethiopia arrests 35 people in connection with Berhanu Nega's plan to overthrow the government. (BBC via ABC News Australia)

The
loses its supermajority in South Africa's National Assembly. (BBC)

Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center. (BBC)

election occurs. (The Guardian) (The New York Times)

MV Patriot and release a Greek ship. (Reuters) (AP)

University of Georgia Professor George Zinkhan allegedly kills three people in Athens, Georgia, United States. (AJC) (The Times)

April 26, 2009 (2009-04-26) (Sunday)

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Eleven Justice and Equality Movement members are sentenced to death for attacking Khartoum, Sudan, in 2008. (BBC)

The
outbreak of swine influenza. (New York Times)

general election. (CNN)

The
pirates in the Gulf of Aden. (AP via Los Angeles Times)

April 27, 2009 (2009-04-27) (Monday)

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A low-flying Boeing VC-25, Air Force One, causes momentary panic in New York City, New York, United States. (New York Times)

outbreak of swine influenza. (BBC)

General Motors announces that its Pontiac brand will be eliminated by 2010. (AP via Google News)

Renesas Technology announce their intentions to merge. (AP via Forbes)

pirates. (BBC)

A 5.6-magnitude earthquake strikes near Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. (Sky News)

The
People's Armed Forces invade Madagascar's constitutional court. (BBC)

A
mental breakdown and kills 3 people in Moscow, Russia. (BBC) (RTÉ)

April 28, 2009 (2009-04-28) (Tuesday)

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The first transgenic, fluorescent dogs are cloned in South Korea. (AP via Google News)

United States Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania switches from the Republican to the Democratic Party. (CNN)

visa. (Reuters)

A 3.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Ulverston, Cumbria, England. (Sky News)

The
pirates in the Gulf of Aden. (UPI)

April 29, 2009 (2009-04-29) (Wednesday)

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The
contracts by 6.1% in the first fiscal quarter of 2009. (AP via New York Times)

outbreak
:
The
United States suffers its first death. (USA Today)

reports 159 deaths and 2,500 suspected cases. (Sky News)

The World Health Organization raises its Pandemic Alert Level to five. (BBC)

election protests. (AFP via Google News)

War. (AAP via News Limited)

Pakistan:
The
Buner Valley. (Reuters)

At least 23 people are killed as riots erupt in North Karachi. (Daily Times)

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of the Solomon Islands is officially opened. (BBC)

President of the United States Barack Obama delivers his 3rd primetime news conference on his 100th day in office

A Chennai Suburban train was hijacked by an unidentified man, killing 4 people near Vyasarpadi Jeeva Railway Station

April 30, 2009 (2009-04-30) (Thursday)

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outbreak
:
President Felipe Calderón partially closes Mexico's economy for five days. (The Irish Times)

The World Health Organization changes the strain's name to influenza A (H1N1). (The Irish Times)

declares bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the United States Code. (CNN-IBN)

Seven people are
Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. (BBC)

The third round of
general election takes place. (Reuters via Telegraph)

The
combat operations in the Iraq War. (BBC)

Eight
combat with the Revolutionary Armed Forces in Colombia. (BBC)

Twelve people are
State Oil Academy in Baku, Azerbaijan. (BBC)

Helios Airways and four executives are charged with 119 counts of manslaughter over the crash of Flight 522 in 2005. (AP)

The
pirates. (UPI)

The
John Floyd Thomas, Jr. (LA Times)

Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye replaces Cheikh Hadjibou Soumaré as Prime Minister of Senegal. (Radio Netherlands)^{[permanent dead link]}

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