Explore 910 historical events from 2000–2009.
Michael Vincent O'Brien was an Irish race horse trainer from Churchtown, County Cork, Ireland. In 2003 he was voted the greatest influence in horse racing history in a worldwide p…
Vincent O'Brien, Irish horse trainer (born 1917)
David Carroll Eddings was an American fantasy writer. With his wife Leigh, he authored several best-selling epic fantasy novel series, including The Belgariad (1982–84), The Mallor…
David Eddings, American author (born 1931)
David Carradine was an American actor, director, and producer, whose career included over 200 major and minor roles in film, television and on stage. He was widely known to televis…
David Carradine, American actor (born 1936)
Koko Taylor was an American singer whose style encompassed Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues, and soul blues. Sometimes called "The Queen of the Blues", she was known…
Koko Taylor, American singer (born 1928)
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
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 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
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
Edward Norton Lorenz was an American mathematician and meteorologist who established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-…
Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (born 1917)
Aimé Fernand David Césaire was an Afro-Martiniquan French poet, author, and politician. He was one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature" and coined t…
Aimé Césaire, Caribbean-French poet and politician (born 1913)
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States. It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all U.S. federal cou…
The U
The Quito Ultratumba nightclub fire was a fire that occurred on April 19, 2008, at the Factory nightclub in Quito, Ecuador, during the gothic rock concert Ultratumba 2008. A pyrote…
The Quito Ultratumba nightclub fire in Quito, Ecuador, kills 19 people and injures at least 24 more
Danica Sue Patrick is an American former professional racing driver who competed in the IndyCar Series from 2005 to 2011 and the NASCAR Cup Series from 2012 to 2018. She is the mos…
Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300, becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race
Yekaterinburg, alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk (1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Feder…
Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anasta
Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Nargis was an extremely deadly and catastrophic tropical cyclone that caused the worst natural disaster in the recorded history of Myanmar during ea…
Cyclone Nargis makes landfall in Burma killing over 138,000 people and leaving millions of people homeless
Daniel Paul Federici was an American musician, best known as a founding member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, where he was its organist, accordionist and glockenspiel player…
Danny Federici, American organist and accordion player (born 1950)
Germaine Tillion was a French ethnologist, known for her work in Algeria in the 1950s on behalf of the Government of France. A member of the French Resistance in World War II, she …
Germaine Tillion, French ethnologist and anthropologist (born 1907)
Monica Lovinescu was a Romanian essayist, short story writer, literary critic, translator, and journalist, noted for her activities as an opponent of the Romanian Communist regime.…
Monica Lovinescu, Romanian journalist and author (born 1923)