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The war in Afghanistan was a prolonged armed conflict lasting from 2001 to 2021. It began with an invasion by a United States–led coalition under the name Operation Enduring Freedo…
War in Afghanistan: British forces began Operation Panther's Claw, in which more than 350 troops made an aerial assault
Neda Agha-Soltan was an Iranian student of philosophy, who was participating in the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests with her music teacher, and was walking back to her …
Iranian student Neda Agha-Soltan was shot dead in Tehran during the presidential election protests; footage of her death
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is widely regarded as one of the most culturally significant fig…
Singer Michael Jackson died as a result of the combination of drugs in his body
Yemenia Flight 626 was a scheduled flight on an Airbus A310-324 twin-engine jet airliner operated by Yemenia that was flying a scheduled international service, from Sanaa in Yemen …
Yemenia Flight 626 crashed into the Indian Ocean near the Comoros, killing 152 people, with French schoolgirl Bahia Baka
A series of violent riots over several days broke out on 5 July 2009 in Ürümqi, the capital city of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, in northwestern China. The first day's ri…
A series of violent riots broke out in Ürümqi, the capital city of Xinjiang in China.
The Staffordshire Hoard is the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork yet found. It consists of almost 4,600 items and metal fragments, amounting to a total of 5.1 …
The Staffordshire Hoard, the largest collection of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500…
Seismic magnitude scales are used to describe the overall strength or "size" of an earthquake. These are distinguished from seismic intensity scales that categorize the intensity o…
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The Tel Aviv gay centre shooting resulted in the deaths of two people and injuries to at least fifteen others at the Tel Aviv branch of the Israeli LGBT Association, at the "Bar-No…
A shooting at a branch of the Israeli LGBT organization the Aguda in Tel Aviv resulted in two deaths.
Taurus 09 was a Royal Navy deployment in 2009. It was the largest for more than ten years, involving a maximum strength of 3,300 Royal Navy personnel working from seven Royal Navy …
The last vessels involved in Taurus 09, a Royal Navy training deployment covering 20,400 miles (32,800 km), returned…
On August 8, 2009, at 11:53 a.m. (15:53 UTC), nine people died when a tour Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil helicopter and a small private Piper PA-32R airplane collided over the Hudson R…
Nine people died when a tour helicopter and a small private airplane collided over the Hudson River in Hoboken, New…
The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics were held in Berlin, Germany from 15 to 23 August 2009. The majority of events took place in the Olympiastadion, while the marathon a…
At the World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Usain Bolt ran the 100 metres in 9.58 seconds, breaking his own…
The State Peace and Development Council was the military junta of Burma (Myanmar), a totalitarian regime which, in 1997, succeeded the State Law and Order Restoration Council that …
The Myanmar military junta and ethnic armies began three days of violent clashes in the region of Kokang.
The 2008 South China floods began on 26 May 2008. Four rounds of torrential rains with landslides and flooding lasted for 20 days and affected fifteen provinces in Eastern and Sout…
Severe flooding begins in eastern and southern China that will ultimately cause 148 deaths and force the evacuation of 1
Usain St. Leo Bolt is a Jamaican retired sprinter. Widely regarded as the greatest sprinter of all time, he is an eight-time Olympic gold medalist and the world record holder in th…
Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1
Ljube Boškoski is a Macedonian politician and former Minister of Internal Affairs of Macedonia.
Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal.
Dr. Ram Baran Yadav is a Nepalese politician and physician who served as the first president of Nepal from 23 July 2008 to 29 October 2015, following the declaration of republic in…
Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first President of Nepal.
The New England Revolution are an American professional soccer club based in the Greater Boston area. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conf…
The New England Revolution win the 2008 North American SuperLiga final against the Houston Dynamo.
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is a retired Mauritanian military officer and politician who served as the 8th President of Mauritania from 2009 to 2019.
A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould…
The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Georgia, was a war waged against Georgia by the Russian Federation and the Russian-backed separatist regio…
The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.
The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Georgia, was a war waged against Georgia by the Russian Federation and the Russian-backed separatist regio…
Russo-Georgian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.
Pervez Musharraf was a Pakistani politician and military officer who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008. He overthrew Nawaz Sharif's government in the 1999…
The President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, resigns under threat of impeachment.
French International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops were ambushed by Afghan Taliban insurgents, with heavy casualties, in the Uzbin Valley outside the village of Spēṟ Kund…
War of Afghanistan: The Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.
Lee Hye-in, known mononymously as Hyein, is a South Korean singer and former child model. She began her musical career at nine years old as a member of the South Korean children's …
Hyein, South Korean singer
Sutee Mcateer, Keilor Basketball Association Player
Sutee Mcateer, Keilor Basketball Association Player