Wikipedia:ITN archives/2009/February
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ITNs | Days | Continents | Countries |
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51 | 28 | 7/7 |
- Over 50 people are killed and 82 critically injured following an
- 16th Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.[2]
- women's singles respectively at the 2009 Australian Open.[3]
- Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (pictured) becomes Prime Minister of Iceland, the first openly gay head of government of the modern world.[4]
- A 2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict.[5]
- The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Arizona Cardinals 27-13 to win Super Bowl XLIII.[6]
- French astronomers discover
- Fossils of the largest snake currently known, Titanoboa, are discovered in Colombia.[9]
- The chairman of a US$1.4 billion.[10]
- The heaviest snowfall for 18 years disrupts air and road traffic and shuts schools across much of Ireland and the United Kingdom (snowfall in London pictured).[11]
- The genetically-engineered animals.[12]
- In bushfires (satellite image pictured) cause major property damage and kill at least 25 people.[13]
- protest in Antananarivo, killing at least 50 people and injuring hundreds.[14]
- An
- enacts a new constitution which grants more power to the country's indigenous majority and allows for land reform.[17]
- Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change party becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.[18]
- The discovery of a 16th-century mass grave containing at least 49 human skeletons at the Tlatelolco archaeological site in Mexico City is announced.[19]
- artificial satellites.[20]
- A USA, killing 49 people.[21]
- A Orissa, killing at least 15 people and injuring 150.[22]
- The completion of the first draft of the Neanderthal genome (reconstruction of a Neanderthal child pictured) is announced by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.[23]
- The Andean volcano Galeras (pictured) erupts in Colombia, forcing some 8,000 people to evacuate.[24]
- The ongoing
- An amendment to the a referendum.[26]
- The Le Triomphant in the Atlantic Ocean.[27]
- The largest oil spill to affect Great Britain and Ireland in 13 years occurs off County Cork.[28]
- U.S. President Barack Obama signs the a US$787 billion stimulus package, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, into law.[29]
- avoid taxes.[30]
- The Danton, a French battleship sunk in 1917 by a German submarine, is discovered with many of its gun turrets still intact on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea.[31]
- Ivars Godmanis, the Prime Minister of Latvia, resigns along with the rest of his government amid concerns about handling the economic crisis.[32]
- infectious disease in 2008, a fivefold increase over a three year period.[33]
- Eleven people are killed and 20 more are injured in
- China kills at least 73 people and injures at least 113 more.[35]
- An
- Slumdog Millionaire wins eight Academy Awards including Best Picture.[38]
- A bomb thrown into the crowded Khan el-Khalili square in Cairo, Egypt, kills one person and injures 22 others.[39]
- A NASA rocket carrying the Orbiting Carbon Observatory falls into the ocean near Antarctica after a failed launch.[41]
- A machine gun and mortar battle in Mogadishu, Somalia kills 15 people and injures at least ninety more in the Somali Civil War.[42]
- An international team of scientists announces the completion of its mission to map the Gamburtsev Mountain Range beneath the Antarctic ice.[43]
- Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 with 135 passengers on board crashes at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.[44]
- paramilitary force spread across Bangladesh, killing at least 21 people.[45]
- The child soldiers and forced marriage.[46]
- Milan Milutinović, a former President of Serbia, is acquitted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia on charges of war crimes.[47]
- An outbreak of dengue fever kills at least 18 people and infects 31,000 more in Bolivia.[48]
- Over stolen from the Bank of Ireland in College Green, Dublin, in the largest bank robbery in Irish history.[50]
- 90,000 food crop seed samples are delivered to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in the Arctic Circle.[51]
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- ^ Kenyan Oil Spill Ignition (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Australian Open (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Gaza Reprisal Attacks (User:BorgQueen)
- User:Grandmasterka)
- ^ Omid Satellite (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ COROT-Exo-7b (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Titanboa (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Enten Controversy (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ February 2009 United Kingdom and Ireland snowstorm (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ ATryn (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2009 Victorian Bushfires (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Malagasy Massacre (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Amazonian Airplane Crash (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 51st Grammy Awards (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Bolivian Referendum (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Morgan Tsvangirai (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Tlatelolco (archaeological site) (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Satellite Collision (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ New York Plane House Collision (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Orissa Train Derailment (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ German Neanderthal (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Galeras Eruption (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ French Caribbean General Strikes (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Venezuelan Referendum (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Anglo-French Submarine Collision (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ West Cork Oil Spill (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ American Stimulus Package (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ UBS AG Tax Evasion Fine (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Danton Discovery (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Ivars Godmanis Resignation (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Chinese HIV/AIDS Explosion (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Slovak Coach/Train Collision (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Shanxi Mine Blast (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Indian Heptitis B Outbreak (User:Spencer)
- ^ Tamil Tiger Suicide Attack (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 81st Academy Awards (User:Zzyzx11)
- ^ Cairo Bomb (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ C/2007 N3 Comet Lulin (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Orbiting Carbon Observatory (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Mogadishu Machine Gun and Mortar Battle (User:Spencer)
- ^ Gamburtsev Mountain Range (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Schipol Plane Crash (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Bangladesh Rifles Revolt (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Sierra Leone War Crimes (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Milan Milutinović Aquittal (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Bolivian Dengue Fever Epidemic (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Pfizer Nigeria Drugs Trial (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Bank Of Ireland Robbery (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Svalbard Global Seed Vault (User:Spencer)