Wikipedia:ITN archives/2009/July
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| ITNs | Days | Continents | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|
| 65 | 31 | 6/7 |
- President of Cameroon Paul Biya (pictured) dismisses Prime Minister Ephraïm Inoni and appoints Philémon Yang to the office.[1]
- The Preparatory Commission for the International Renewable Energy Agency designates the headquarters of the organization to Masdar City, Abu Dhabi.[2]
- In Argentina's legislative election, the Front for Victory, the ruling party led by Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, suffers a defeat and loses absolute majority in congress, despite retaining a plurality of the seats.[3]
- Prime Minister of Croatia Ivo Sanader announces his resignation and withdrawal from all active politics.[4]
- Ireland eradicates brucellosis.[5]
- TerreStar-1, the largest commercial telecommunication satellite ever built, is launched at the Guiana Space Centre.[6]
- Prime Minister of Sweden Fredrik Reinfeldt (pictured) becomes President of the European Council.[7]
- The Gas Exporting Countries Forum elects Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah, the oil and energy minister of Qatar, as the president of the organization.[8]
- North Korea test-fires four missiles off their eastern coast, in defiance of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1874.[9]
- Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano is elected as Director General for the International Atomic Energy Agency (flag pictured).[10]
- The Dubai-based supply ship MV Demas Victory capsizes off the coast of Doha, Qatar, with 35 people on board.[11]
- Algeria, Niger and Nigeria sign the intergovernmental agreement on the Trans–Saharan gas pipeline.[12]
- A Mil Mi-17 helicopter of the Pakistan Army crashes in the North-West Frontier Province, killing at least 26 people.[13]
- Three dinosaur species—Australovenator wintonensis, Wintonotitan wattsi and Diamantinasaurus matildae—are discovered in Australia.[14]
- The Organization of American States suspends Honduras due to the country's recent political crisis.[15]
- In rugby union, South Africa win the 2009 Test series against the British and Irish Lions 2–1, with the Lions achieving their first Test victory since 2001.[16]
- In tennis, Roger Federer and Serena Williams win the singles' titles at the the 2009 Wimbledon Championships, with Federer beating Pete Sampras' Grand Slam record.[17]
- At least three people are killed and twenty injured during riots in Ürümqi, China.[18]
- Centre-right party GERB, led by Boyko Borisov, wins the parliamentary election in Bulgaria.[19]
- Al Franken (pictured) is sworn in as a United States senator, giving the Democratic Party Caucus a supermajority of 60 seats in the Senate.[20]
- The European Commission imposes its second biggest fine, €553 million each on energy companies GDF Suez and E.ON, over arrangements on the MEGAL pipeline.[21]
- In the Philippines, a series of bomb attacks in Cotabato, Jolo and Iligan kills six people and injures at least 26 others.[22]
- Jadranka Kosor becomes the first female Prime Minister of Croatia.[23]
- Frank Kabui becomes the Governor General of the Solomon Islands.[24]
- A series of organized cyber attacks strikes major public and private sector websites of South Korea and the United States.[25]
- Urspelerpes, a new species of lungless salamander, is discovered in the U.S. state of Georgia.[26]
- The launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour, carrying astronauts on the STS-127 mission, is delayed after its launch pad was struck by lightning at least 11 times.[27]
- At least 23 police officers are killed in an ambush attack by Maoist rebels, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.[28]
- Javier Velásquez (pictured) becomes Prime Minister of Peru.[29]
- At least 43 people are killed in clashes near the Somali presidential palace between Al-Shabaab and the Somali military.[30]
- Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Turkey sign an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the Nabucco natural gas pipeline.[31]
- Henry Okah, a guerrilla leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, is released from detainment after accepting an amnesty offered by the Nigerian government.[32]
- A state of emergency is declared in 11 regions of Peru after more than 250 children perished in the unusually cold winter.[33]
- Jerzy Buzek (pictured), a former Prime Minister of Poland, is elected the 28th President of the European Parliament, the first from the former Eastern Bloc to gain the position.[34]
- Caspian Airlines Flight 7908, a scheduled commercial flight from Tehran, Iran, to Yerevan, Armenia, crashes shortly after takeoff with 168 people on board.[35]
- Bombings in Jakarta, Indonesia, kill at least nine people and injure at least 50 others.[36]
- Iceland's Althing votes by a narrow majority to apply for membership of the European Union after five days of debate.[37]
- The body of Russian human rights activist Natalia Estemirova is located in Ingushetia after her abduction in Chechnya.[38]
- Paul Biyoghé Mba becomes Prime Minister of Gabon after Jean Eyeghe Ndong resigns to launch his presidential campaign.[39]
- At least 26 people are killed and 150 others injured as a result of heavy rains in Karachi, Pakistan.[40]
- At least 26 people are killed in floods in Karachi, Pakistan, and at least 36 people in Orissa and 13 others in Kerala are killed in floods in India.[41]
- The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century takes place over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean (animated path pictured).[42]
- NASA confirms an impact event on Jupiter, the first observed since the impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994.[43]
- The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague issues a decision on the borders of Abyei, a region subject to violent contention in Sudan.[44]
- In golf, American Stewart Cink wins the 2009 Open Championship (British Open) in a playoff over Tom Watson.[45]
- Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox pitches the 18th perfect game in Major League Baseball history against the Tampa Bay Rays.[46]
- The SEACOM high speed internet link to East Africa goes live.[47]
- Indonesia's General Election Commission officially declares Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono the victor of the 2009 presidential election.[48]
- Aria Air Flight 1525 crashes on landing at Mashhad International Airport, Iran, killing at least 17 people.[49]
- The Gran Telescopio Canarias (pictured), the world's largest telescope, is inaugurated by King Juan Carlos I of Spain.[50]
- A series of wildfires across France, Greece, Italy and Spain kills at least eight people.[51]
- The birth of the world's first Giant Panda conceived using frozen sperm is announced in Sichuan, China.[52]
- In cycling, Alberto Contador of Spain wins the 2009 Tour de France.[53]
- India launches its first nuclear submarine INS Arihant, becoming the sixth country in the world that can construct the vessels.[54]
- Kurmanbek Bakiyev (pictured) is re-elected President of Kyrgyzstan.[55]
- At least 150 people are killed during battles in several Nigerian states.[56]
- Abdelkader Belliraj, accused of leading an Islamist militant group, is sentenced to life in prison for plotting terrorist attacks in Morocco.[57]
- The United States and the People's Republic of China hold the first U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (opening session pictured).[58]
- At least 15 Haitian migrants are killed and dozens are missing following a shipwreck in the Caribbean near the Turks and Caicos Islands.[59]
- Malam Bacai Sanhá is elected President of Guinea-Bissau.[60]
- The SAT-3 submarine communications cable (route pictured) is damaged, causing major disruption in internet services in Benin, Niger, Nigeria and Togo.[61]
- São Tomé and Príncipe agrees a loan deal with Portugal to link the dobra and the euro.[62]
- In Moldova's parliamentary election, the ruling Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova obtains a plurality but fails to gain a majority.[63]
- The Supreme Court of Pakistan announces that the emergency of November 2007 declared by former President Pervez Musharraf (pictured) was illegal.[64]
- In Spain, a series of bombing attacks in Burgos and Palma Nova kills at least two people and injures 50 others.[65]
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- ^ Argentine Legislative Election, 2009 (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Ivo Sanader (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Brucellosis (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ TerreStar-1 (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Fredrik Reinfeldt (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ North Korea and weapons of mass destruction (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Yukiya Amano (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ MV Demas Victory (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Trans–Saharan gas pipeline (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2009 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Australovenator, Wintonotitan and Diamantinasaurus (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Organization of American States (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2009 British and Irish Lions tour to South Africa (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2009 Wimbledon Championships (User:Chaser) Quickly reverted as "the 2009 Wimbledon Championships article hasn't been updated properly yet" then restored.
- ^ East Turkestan independence movement (User:Rjanag)
- ^ Bulgarian parliamentary election, 2009 (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Al Franken (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ MEGAL pipeline (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ July 2009 Mindanao bombings (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Jadranka Kosor (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Frank Kabui (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ July 2009 cyber attacks against South Korea and the United States (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Urspelerpes (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ STS-127 (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Naxalite-Maoist insurgency (User:Spencer)
- ^ Javier Velásquez (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2009 timeline of the War in Somalia (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Nabucco pipeline (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Henry Okah (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Climate of Peru (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Jerzy Buzek (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 (User:BorgQueen)
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- ^ Iceland and the European Union (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Natalia Estemirova (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Paul Biyoghé Mba (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2009 Karachi floods (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2009 India floods (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Solar eclipse of July 22, 2009 (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Jupiter (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Abyei (User:BorgQueen)
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- ^ perfect game (User:BorgQueen) Later removed.
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- ^ Aria Air Flight 1525 (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Gran Telescopio Canarias (User:BorgQueen)
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- ^ Giant Panda (User:BorgQueen)
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- ^ INS Arihant (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ Kyrgyzstani presidential election, 2009 (User:BorgQueen)
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- ^ Abdelkader Belliraj (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ 2009 Turks and Caicos Islands migrant shipwreck (User:Spencer)
- ^ Guinea-Bissau presidential election, 2009 (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ SAT-3 (User:BorgQueen)
- ^ São Tomé and Príncipe dobra (User:Spencer)
- ^ Moldovan parliamentary election, July 2009 (User:BorgQueen)
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