Wikipedia:ITN archives/2009/December
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| ITNs | Days | Continents | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 31 | 5/7 |
- A court in Argentina blocks Latin America's first same-sex marriage, overturning an earlier ruling, saying the Supreme Court should decide on its constitutionality.[1]
- José Mujica (pictured) is elected President of Uruguay.[2]
- Porfirio Lobo is elected president of Honduras in the first election since the 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis.[3]
- Rwanda becomes the first country to be declared landmine-free under the Ottawa Treaty.[4]
- In the process to revalue the North Korean won, current banknotes cease to be legal tender, and businesses throughout the country shut down until new notes are released on 7 December.[5]
- A suicide bombing at a graduation ceremony in a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia kills 22 people, including three ministers of the Transitional Federal Government.[6]
- An explosion at a nightclub kills more than 100 people and injures 160 others in Perm, Russia.[7]
- Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are found guilty of the murder of Meredith Kercher, in a widely publicised trial in Perugia, Italy.[8]
- Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (pictured) is re-elected President of Equatorial Guinea.[9]
- A suicide attack kills at least 37 people and injures more than 80 others during Friday prayers at a mosque in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.[10]
- A diocese in Los Angeles elects the second openly gay bishop in the history of the Anglican Church.[11]
- Hifikepunye Pohamba is re-elected President of Namibia and the SWAPO Party wins a majority of seats in the National Assembly.[12]
- Traian Băsescu (pictured) is re-elected President of Romania.[13]
- A series of bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kills at least 127 people and injures 448 others.[14]
- The United Nations Climate Change Conference opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.[15]
- The discovery of the Triassic theropod dinosaur genus Tawa is announced.[16]
- The Constitutional Court of Turkey bans the Democratic Society Party and expel its chairman Ahmet Türk from the Parliament, over the party's alleged links to the Kurdistan Workers' Party.[17]
- U.S. economist Paul Samuelson, a Nobel laureate and one of the founders of neo-Keynesian economics, dies at the age of 94.[18]
- Chinese President Hu Jintao, together with the leaders of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, inaugurates the Central Asia – China gas pipeline.[19]
- NASA launches the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, an infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope.[20]
- Researchers report that the Veined Octopus retrieves discarded coconut shells and assemble them to use as shelter, becoming the first invertebrate recorded to use tools.[21]
- Sergei Bagapsh is re-elected President of Abkhazia.[22]
- The Boeing 787 Dreamliner, a wide-body passenger airliner developed by Boeing Commercial Airplanes, takes its maiden flight.[23]
- Former Acting Prime Minister of Russia Yegor Gaidar, one of the architects of post-Soviet reform, dies at the age of 53.[24]
- The Supreme Court of Pakistan declares the National Reconciliation Ordinance as unconstitutional, paving way for the reopening of the corruption cases involving senior officials.[25]
- The sinking of MV Danny F II, a livestock transporter, in the Mediterranean Sea kills at least five people, 10,224 sheep and 17,932 cattle.[26]
- At the United Nations Climate Change Conference, Brazil, India, the People's Republic of China, South Africa and the United States reach a non-binding deal.[27]
- A Paris court finds Google guilty of copyright infringement, sentencing it to pay €300,000 to a French publisher, and €10,000 a day until it removes extracts of the publisher's books from its database.[28]
- The discovery of GJ 1214 b (artist's impression pictured), an extrasolar super-Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus, is announced.[29]
- A blizzard produces record snowfall, causing power outages and at least 5 deaths in North America.[30]
- Grand Ayatollah Hosein-Ali Montazeri, one of the leaders of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and a senior dissident, dies at the age of 87.[31]
- A record-breaking cold temperature and heavy snow causes widespread disruption of transport services and power outages across Europe, and a blizzard produces record snowfall in some U.S. states, causing at least five deaths.[32]
- FC Barcelona wins the 2009 FIFA Club World Cup, becoming the first football team to win six major competitions in a single year.[33]
- Mexico City's Legislative Assembly legalizes same-sex marriage, the first such recognition in Latin America.[34]
- Luis Francisco Cuéllar, governor of Caquetá Department (coat of arms pictured) in Colombia, is found dead after being kidnapped at gunpoint.[35]
- The Supreme Court of Pakistan orders the government to recognize hijras, intersex and transgender individuals, as a distinct gender.[36]
- The Gävle goat, a 13-metre high yule goat in Gävle, Sweden, is burnt down in the 24th such arson attack since 1966.[37]
- Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo is sentenced to 11 years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power."[38]
- Former President of Venezuela Rafael Caldera dies at the age of 93.[39]
- A passenger aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan, is detained after attempting to light an explosive device mid-flight.[40]
- The Wuhan–Guangzhou High-Speed Railway, the world's fastest at the average speed of 350 kilometres (220 mi) per hour, is opened in the People's Republic of China.[41]
- Thailand starts repatriating 4,000 Hmong asylum seekers to Laos against their will, despite international protest.[42]
- The discovery of the tomb of Cao Cao, one of the leaders during the Three Kingdoms period of China, is announced.[43]
- Akmal Shaikh, a British man convicted of trafficking heroin, becomes the first European Union national executed in the People's Republic of China in 50 years.[44]
- Former President of Indonesia, Abdurrahman Wahid dies at the age of 69.[45]
- At least 15 people are killed and more than 1.500 arrested after major anti-government protests in Iran.[46]
- Six people are killed in a shooting in Espoo, Finland.[47]
References[edit]
- ^ Recognition of same-sex unions in Argentina (User:Jake Wartenberg) Quickly removed as consensus had not been obtained to post.
- ^ Uruguayan general election, 2009 (User:Chaser)
- ^ Honduran general election, 2009 (User:Tone)
- ^ Ottawa Treaty (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ North Korean won (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2009 Hotel Shamo bombing (User:Dumelow)
- ^ 2009 Perm nightclub explosion (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Murder of Meredith Kercher (User:BorgQueen) Later removed "per objections".
- ^ Equatorial Guinean presidential election, 2009 (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ December 2009 Rawalpindi attack (User:Chaser)
- ^ Homosexuality and Anglicanism (User:Jake Wartenberg) Later removed per consensus.
- ^ Namibian general election, 2009 (User:Dumelow)
- ^ Romanian presidential election, 2009 (User:Dumelow)
- ^ 8 December 2009 Baghdad bombings (User:Dumelow)
- ^ United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Tawa (dinosaur) (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Democratic Society Party (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Paul Samuelson (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Central Asia – China gas pipeline (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Veined Octopus (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Abkhazian presidential election, 2009 (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Boeing 787 (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Yegor Gaidar (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ National Reconciliation Ordinance (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ MV Danny F II (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ United Nations Climate Change Conference (User:BorgQueen) Later removed "per objections".
- ^ Google Book Search#Copyright infringement.2C fair use and related issues (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ GJ 1214 b (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ North American blizzard of 2009 (User:Tone)
- ^ Hosein-Ali Montazeri (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ December 2009 European snowfall (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ FC Barcelona (User:Tone)
- ^ Recognition of same-sex unions in Mexico (User:Jake Wartenberg) Later removed "per objections".
- ^ Luis Francisco Cuéllar (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Hijra (South Asia) (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Gävle goat (User:Allen3)
- ^ Liu Xiaobo (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Rafael Caldera (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Northwest Airlines Flight 253 (User:Tariqabjotu)
- ^ Wuhan–Guangzhou High-Speed Railway (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Hmong people (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Cao Cao (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Akmal Shaikh (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Abdurrahman Wahid (User:Tone)
- ^ 2009 Ashura protests (User:Tone)
- ^ 2009 Espoo shooting (User:Tone)