Explore 2952 historical events from 2000–2009.
Keith Floyd was an English celebrity cook, restaurateur, television personality and "gastronaut" who hosted cooking shows for the BBC and published many books combining cookery and…
Keith Floyd, English chef and author (born 1943)
Joseph Lester "Jody" Powell, Jr. was an American political advisor who served as a White House press secretary during the presidency of Jimmy Carter. Powell later co-founded a publ…
Jody Powell, American diplomat, White House Press Secretary (born 1943)
Patrick Wayne Swayze was an American actor, singer-songwriter and dancer. Known for his romantic, tough, and comedic roles in blockbusters and cult films, Swayze was nominated for …
Patrick Swayze, American actor, singer, and dancer (born 1952)
Troy Kennedy Martin was a Scottish-born film and television screenwriter. He created the long-running BBC TV police series Z-Cars (1962–1978), and the award-winning 1985 anti-nucle…
Troy Kennedy Martin, Scottish-English screenwriter (born 1932)
Myles Neal Brand (May 17, 1942 – September 16, 2009) was a philosopher and university administrator who served as the 14th president of the University of Oregon, the 16th president…
Myles Brand, American philosopher and academic (born 1942)
James Bateman, known professionally as Henry Gibson, was an American actor, comedian and poet. He played roles in the television sketch-comedy series Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In from…
Henry Gibson, American actor (born 1935)
Ernst Märzendorfer was an Austrian conductor.
Ernst Märzendorfer, Austrian conductor (born 1921)
Mary Allin Travers was an American singer who found fame as a member of the 1960s folk trio Peter, Paul and Mary, along with Peter Yarrow and Paul Stookey. Travers grew up amid the…
Mary Travers, American singer-songwriter (born 1936)
Milton Meltzer was an American historian and author best known for his nonfiction books on Jewish, African-American, and American history. Since the 1950s, he was a prolific author…
Milton Meltzer, American historian and author (born 1915)
Eduard "Ede" Zimmermann was a German journalist, television presenter and security expert.
Eduard Zimmermann, German journalist (born 1929)
In gamma-ray astronomy, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely energetic events occurring in distant galaxies which represent the brightest and most powerful class of explosion in t…
The gamma-ray burst GRB 090423 was detected coming from the most distant astronomical object of any kind known at the ti
On 30 April 2009 in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, a man drove his car at high speed into a parade which included Queen Beatrix, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and other members of the…
A Dutch man drove his car at high speed into a parade in an attempt to kill the Dutch royal family
The Czech Pirate Party often known simply as the Pirates is a liberal progressive political party in the Czech Republic, founded in 2009. The party was founded as a student-driven …
Following a petition, the liberal progressive Czech Pirate Party was officially registered as a political party
The Shishou Incident was a popular protest and riot in the city of Shishou, Hubei Province, in central China between June 19–21, 2009. The protests were the result of dubious circu…
Mass rioting broke out in Shishou, China, over the dubious circumstances surrounding the death of a local chef
The Washington Metro, often abbreviated as the Metro and formally the Metrorail, is a rapid transit system serving the Washington metropolitan area of the United States. It is admi…
Two Metro trains collided in Washington, D
Jadranka Kosor is a Croatian politician and former journalist who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2009 to 2011, having taken office following the sudden resignation of her…
Jadranka Kosor became the first female prime minister of Croatia.
Napier is a city in the Hawke's Bay region on the eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is a beachside city with a seaport, known for its sunny climate, esplanade li…
Police in Napier, New Zealand, began a 40-hour siege of the home of a former New Zealand Army member who had shot at off
The Sri Lanka Army is the oldest and largest of the Sri Lanka Armed Forces. The army was officially established as the Ceylon Army in 1949, though the army traces its roots back to…
The Sri Lanka Army killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to bri
The 2009 North Korean nuclear test was the underground detonation of a nuclear device conducted on Monday, 25 May 2009 by North Korea. This was its second nuclear test, the first t…
North Korea conducted a nuclear test and several other missile tests that were widely condemned internationally and led
George Richard Tiller was an American physician and abortion provider from Wichita, Kansas. He gained national attention as the medical director of Women's Health Care Services, wh…
American physician George Tiller, one of the few doctors in the country who performed late-term abortions, was shot and
The ABC Day Care Center Fire in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, took place on Friday, June 5, 2009 and resulted in 49 deaths. Thirty five children died that day, with the death toll su…
A fire at a day-care center kills 49 children in Mexico
The 2009 Peruvian political crisis resulted from the ongoing opposition to oil development in the Peruvian Amazon by local Indigenous peoples; they protested Petroperú and confront…
After almost two months of civil disobedience, at least 31 people were killed in clashes between the National Police and
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 was a scheduled commercial flight from Tehran, Iran, to Yerevan, Armenia, that crashed near the village of Jannatabad, outside the city of Qazvin in no…
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people aboard.
On March 17, 2009, North Korean soldiers detained two American journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who were working for the American-based independent television station Current …
Two American journalists, having been arrested for illegal entry into North Korea, were sentenced to twelve years hard l