6 events found for 2009
The gamma-ray burst GRB 090423 was detected coming from the most distant astronomical object of any kind known at the ti
A Dutch man drove his car at high speed into a parade in an attempt to kill the Dutch royal family
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 killed Velupillai Prabhakaran, the leader and founder of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, to bri
North Korea conducted a nuclear test and several other missile tests that were widely condemned internationally and led
American physician George Tiller, one of the few doctors in the country who performed late-term abortions, was shot and