Wikipedia:ITN archives/2009/March
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| ITNs | Days | Continents | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|
| 43 | 31 | 5/7 |
- 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]
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- ^ AIG Corporate Record Quarterly Loss (User:Tone)
- ^ Lahore Sri Lankan Cricket Team Attack (User:YellowMonkey)
- ^ Omar al-Bashir Arrest Warrant (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Mexican Prison Riot (User:Spencer)
- ^ Kepler Mission Launch (User:Tone)
- ^ Bank of England Announcement (User:Spencer)
- ^ Mauritian Israeli Embassy Expulsion (User:Spencer)
- ^ Masserene Shootings (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ North Korean Elections (User:Spencer)
- ^ Baghdad Police Recruitment Centre Bombing (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Moroccan/Iranian Diplomatic Dispute (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Geneva County, Alabama Shooting (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Winnenden School Shooting + Geneva County, Alabama Shooting Combined (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Bernard Madoff Pleads Guilty (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Southeast Queensland Oil Spill (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Canadian Helicopter Ditching (User:BanyanTree)
- ^ Bashundhara City Mall Fire (User:Spencer)
- ^ 2009 National People's Congress (User:Spencer)
- ^ Space Shuttle Discovery Mission to ISS (User:Tone)
- ^ 2009 West African Meningitis Outbreak (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Salvadoran Presidential Election, 2009 (User:BanyanTree)
- ^ Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer (User:Tone)
- ^ Malagasy Coup (User:BanyanTree)
- ^ Angolan and Namibian Floods (User:Tone)
- ^ Tonga Earthquake (User:Spencer)
- ^ Ireland Rugby Union Grand Slam (User:Tone)
- ^ 2009 Yemeni Tourist Attacks (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Montana and Japanese Airplane Crashes (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2009 World Baseball Classic (User:The Tom)
- ^ Mount Redoubt Eruptions (User:The Tom)
- ^ 2009 Indian Premier League Relocation (User:Tone)
- ^ Turks and Caicos Corruption Investigation (User:Tone)
- ^ Mirek Topolánek Resignation (User:Tone)
- ^ Situ Gintung Dam Failure and Flood (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2009 FATA Mosque Attack (User:Tone)
- ^ GhostNet Discovery (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Red River Flood (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Mayotte Referendum (User:Spencer)
- ^ Houphouët-Boigny Arena Stampede (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2009 Lahore Police Academy Attacks (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Montenegrin Parliamentary Election (User:Tone)
- ^ National Ignition Facility (User:BorgQueen)