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2009 (up to October 30)
January 1 - Slovakia adopts the Euro currency.
January 3 - Israel begins its ground invasion of Gaza.
January 20 - Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States.
February 1 - Johanna Sigurdardottir becomes Prime Minister of Iceland.
February 7 - 11 - Bushfires wreak havoc across southeast Australia.
March 2 - President Joao Bernardo Vieira of Guinea-Bissau is killed in an armed attack on his residence.
March 11 - A shooting takes place at a school in Winnenden, Germany.
March 17 - Andry Rajoelina takes power in Madagascar.
April 1 - The Metropolitan police in London controversially battle protesters at the G20 summit in London.
April 6 - L'Aquila, Italy is destroyed by an earthquake.
April 12 - Anti-Government protests occur in Thailand.
April 24 - The WHO first expresses concern at the Swine Flu outbreak which started in Mexico.
May 18 - The Sri Lankan government declares victory over the Tamil Tigers after a long running civil war.
May 25 - North Korea carries out a nuclear test.
June 1 - Air France machine crashes in the Atlantic Ocean, killing 228 passengers.
June 12 - Iran's Presidential election ends in dispute, and thousands of protesters go on the street.
June 21 - Greenland gets increased autonomy from Denmark.
June 25 - Singer and entertainer Michael Jackson dies suddenly, aged 50, leading to worldwide outpouring of grief, and crippling the internet.
June 28 - Honduran President Manuel Zelaya is deposed in a military coup.
June 30 - A Yemeni airliner crashes off the Comoros, killing all put one of the people on board.
July 5 - Tensions between Uighurs and Han Chinese erupt into Violence in Urumqi, Western China.
July 22 - A total solar eclipse occurs over East Asia.
August 1 - Former Philippine President Corazon Aquino dies aged 76.
August 20 - Abdelbasset al-Megrahi is released on compassionate grounds.
August 20 - First round of the Afghan Presidential election takes place.
August 30 - Yukio Hatoyama is elected Prime Minister of Japan.
September 2 - An earthquake strikes off the coast of Java.
September 9 - 09/09/09
September 23 - Typhoon Ketsana hits the Philippines.
September 29 - An earthquake and resulting tsunami wreak havoc in Samoa.
September 30 - Sumatra is hit by a powerful earhquake.
October 2 - The 2016 Olympics are awarded to Rio de Janeiro.
October 2 - Ireland approves the Lisbon Treaty in a referendum.
October 9 - Barack Obama is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
October 10 - Poland signs the Lisbon treaty.
October 25 - A series of bombs destroy Baghdad, killing at least 133 people.
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