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Roh Moo-hyun was a South Korean politician and lawyer who served as the ninth president of South Korea from 2003 to 2008.
Roh Moo-hyun, South Korean soldier and politician, 9th President of South Korea (born 1946)
Jay Walter Bennett was an American multi-instrumentalist, engineer, producer, and singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the band Wilco from 1994 to 2001.
Jay Bennett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (born 1963)
Haakon Steen Lie was a Norwegian politician who served as party secretary for the Norwegian Labour Party from 1945 to 1969. Coming from humble origins, he became involved in the la…
Haakon Lie, Norwegian politician (born 1905)
Mihalis Papayiannakis was a Greek politician. He was born in Kalamata; his father was executed by the Nazis during World War II. He died on 26 May 2009 after a long battle with can…
Mihalis Papagiannakis, Greek journalist and politician (born 1941)
Peter Zezel was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre who spent 15 seasons in the National Hockey League from 1984 to 1999.
Peter Zezel, Canadian ice hockey and soccer player (born 1965)
The Pearl Continental hotel bombing occurred on 9 June 2009 in Peshawar, Pakistan, in which 17 people were killed and at least 46 people injured. The blast occurred at the five-sta…
An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) is the United States' official memorial and museum dedicated to the history and legacy of the Holocaust. Opened in Washington, D…
Eighty-eight year-old James Wenneker von Brunn opens fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally
Presidential elections were held in Iran on 12 June 2009, with incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad running against three challengers. The next morning the Islamic Republic News Agency, I…
A disputed presidential election in Iran leads to wide-ranging local and international protests
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is a NASA robotic spacecraft currently orbiting the Moon in an eccentric polar mapping orbit. Data collected by LRO have been described as es…
The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched
Since 2004, an ongoing insurgency has being fought in the Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by Islamist militant groups such as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Jundalla…
War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist
Thomas Martin Franck was an American legal scholar and expert on international law. Franck was the Murry and Ida Becker Professor of Law at New York University and advised many nat…
Thomas M
Mona Elizabeth Clara Grey was a British nurse who was named Northern Ireland's first Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) in 1960.
Mona Grey, British nursing administrator; Northern Ireland's first Chief Nursing Officer (born 1910)
Abram Hoffer was a Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist known for his "adrenochrome hypothesis" of schizoaffective disorders. According to Hoffer, megavitamin therapy a…
Abram Hoffer, Canadian biochemist, physician, and psychiatrist (born 1917)
Gérard Jean-Juste was a Haitian Catholic priest who served as rector of Saint Claire's Church for the Poor in Port-au-Prince. He was also a liberation theologian and a supporter of…
Gérard Jean-Juste, Haitian-American priest and theologian (born 1946)
Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark and is the largest of the kingdom's three constituent parts by land area, the others being Denmark proper and the Far…
Greenland assumes self-rule
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…
A Washington D
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicara…
Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is ousted by a local military coup following a failed request to hold a referendum to r
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, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on boa
The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture of a robed and crowned woman on Liberty Island, part of New York City, in New York Harbor. The copper-clad statue, a gift…
The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following…
Sister Carol Anne O'Marie, C.S.J., was a Roman Catholic sister in the Religious Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet. She was also a mystery writer.
Carol Anne O'Marie, American nun and author (born 1933)
Major General Sir William Dudley Duncan Refshauge, was an Australian soldier and public health administrator. He was Honorary Physician to Queen Elizabeth II (1955–64), director-ge…
William Refshauge, Australian soldier and physician (born 1913)
Paul William Sharratt, was an English-born Australian entertainer and television personality, and later an American television producer.
Paul Sharratt, English-American television host (born 1933)
Otto Torsten Andersson was a Swedish modernist painter, best known for his theme of the realistic depiction of abstract sculptures, and two-dimensional exploration of three-dimensi…
Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter and illustrator (born 1926)
Aino Maria Susanna Haapoja was a Finnish politician in the Centre Party. Haapoja was born in Kauhava and became a Member of Parliament in 2003 and was elected for a second term in …
Susanna Haapoja, Finnish politician (born 1966)