Tagagamit:Bluemask/In the news/2009-07
2009-07
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- July 31: Former President of the Philippines Corazon Aquino dies at the age of 76.
- July 31: Gazprom launches construction of the Sakhalin–Khabarovsk–Vladivostok natural gas pipeline.
- July 31: The Supreme Court of Pakistan finds that the emergency of November 2007 declared by former President Pervez Musharraf was illegal.
- July 30: In Spain, a series of bombing attacks in Burgos and Palma Nova kills at least two people and injures 50 others.
- July 30: The SAT-3 submarine communications cable is damaged, causing major disruption to Internet services in Benin, Niger, Nigeria and Togo.
- July 30: In Moldova's parliamentary election, the ruling Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova obtains a plurality but fails to gain a majority.
- July 29: Malam Bacai Sanhá is elected President of Guinea-Bissau.
- July 28: São Tomé and Príncipe agrees a loan deal with Portugal to link the dobra to the euro.
- July 28: The United States and the People's Republic of China hold the first U.S.–China Strategic and Economic Dialogue.
- July 28: At least 15 Haitian migrants are killed and dozens are missing following a shipwreck in the Caribbean near the Turks and Caicos Islands.
- July 28: Abdelkader Belliraj, accused of leading an Islamist militant group, is sentenced to life in prison for plotting terrorist attacks in Morocco.
- July 27: Kurmanbek Bakiyev is re-elected President of Kyrgyzstan.
- July 26: In cycling, Alberto Contador of Spain wins the 2009 Tour de France.
- July 26: At least 150 people are killed during clashes between police and the militant group Boko Haram in several Nigerian states.
- July 26: India launches its first nuclear submarine INS Arihant, becoming the sixth country in the world to construct such a vessel.
- July 24: The birth of the world's first Giant Panda conceived using frozen sperm is announced in Sichuan, China.
- July 24: A series of wildfires across France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Turkey kills at least eight people.
- July 24: The Gran Telescopio Canarias, the world's largest single optical telescope, is inaugurated by King Juan Carlos I of Spain.
- July 24: Aria Air Flight 1525 crashes on landing at Mashhad International Airport, Iran, killing at least 17 people.
- July 23: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is re-elected President of Indonesia.
- July 23: The SEACOM high speed internet link to East Africa goes live.
- July 23: Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox pitches the 18th perfect game in Major League Baseball history against the Tampa Bay Rays.
- July 22: The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague issues a decision on the borders of Abyei, a region subject to violent contention in Sudan.
- July 21: The longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century takes place over parts of Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
- July 21: NASA confirms an impact event on Jupiter, the first observed since the impact of Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1994.
- July 19: In golf, American Stewart Cink wins the 2009 Open Championship (British Open) in a playoff over Tom Watson.
- July 19: At least 26 people are killed in floods in Karachi, Pakistan, and at least 49 others are killed in floods in the Indian states of Orissa and Kerala.
- July 17: Paul Biyoghé Mba becomes Prime Minister of Gabon after Jean Eyeghe Ndong resigns to launch his presidential campaign.
- July 17: Bombings in Jakarta, Indonesia, kill at least nine people and injure at least 50 others.
- July 16: In Iceland, after five days of debate, the Althing votes by a narrow majority to apply for membership of the European Union.
- July 16: The body of Russian human rights activist Natalia Estemirova is found in Ingushetia after her abduction in Chechnya.
- July 15: Caspian Airlines Flight 7908, a scheduled commercial flight from Tehran, Iran, to Yerevan, Armenia, crashes shortly after takeoff with 168 people on board.
- July 14: Jerzy Buzek, former Prime Minister of Poland, is elected the 28th President of the European Parliament, the first from the former Eastern Bloc to gain the position.
- July 13: Henry Okah, a guerrilla leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, is released from detention after accepting an amnesty offered by the Nigerian government.
- July 13: Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Turkey sign an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the Nabucco natural gas pipeline.
- July 12: A state of emergency is declared in 11 regions of Peru after more than 250 children die in an abnormally cold winter.
- July 12: Javier Velásquez becomes Prime Minister of Peru.
- July 12: At least 43 people are killed in clashes near the Somali presidential palace between Al-Shabaab and the Somali military.
- July 11: The launch of {{OV|105:, carrying astronauts on the STS-127 mission, is delayed after its launch pad area was struck by lightning at least 11 times (pictured).
- July 12: At least 23 police officers are killed in an ambush attack by Maoist rebels, in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
- July 9: A series of organized cyber attacks strikes major public and private sector websites of South Korea and the United States.
- July 8: The European Commission imposes its second largest fine ever, levying energy companies GDF Suez and E.ON €553 million each over arrangements on the MEGAL pipeline.
- July 8: The discovery of Urspelerpes brucei, a new species of lungless salamander, in the U.S. state of Georgia is announced.
- July 7: Frank Kabui becomes the Governor General of the Solomon Islands.
- July 7: In the Philippines, a series of bomb attacks in Cotabato, Jolo and Iligan kills eight people and injures at least 66 others.
- July 7: Centre-right party GERB wins the parliamentary election in Bulgaria.
- July 7: Al Franken is sworn in as a United States senator, giving the Democratic Party Caucus a supermajority of 60 seats in the Senate.
- July 6: Jadranka Kosor becomes the first female Prime Minister of Croatia.
- July 5: At least 156 people are killed and 1,080 others injured during riots in Ürümqi, People's Republic of China.
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- July 5: In tennis, Roger Federer wins the men's singles title at the 2009 Wimbledon Championships, surpassing Pete Sampras' Grand Slam record.
- July 5: The Organization of American States suspends Honduras due to the country's recent political crisis
- July 5: In rugby union, South Africa win the 2009 Test series against the British and Irish Lions 2–1.
- July 3: The discovery of three fossilised dinosaur genera—Australovenator, Diamantinasaurus and Wintonotitan—in Australia is announced.
- July 3: A Mil Mi-17 helicopter of the Pakistan Army crashes in the North-West Frontier Province, killing at least 26 people.
- July 3: Algeria, Niger and Nigeria sign an intergovernmental agreement on the Trans-Saharan gas pipeline.
- July 2: Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano is elected as Director General for the International Atomic Energy Agency.
- July 2: North Korea test-fires four cruise missiles and seven ballistic missiles off its eastern coast, in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1874.
- July 1: Prime Minister of Sweden Fredrik Reinfeldt becomes President of the European Council.
- July 1: TerreStar-1, the largest commercial telecommunication satellite ever built, is launched from the Guiana Space Centre.
- July 1: The Government of Ireland declares that brucellosis has been eradicated from the country.
- July 1: Ivo Sanader announces his resignation as Prime Minister of Croatia and withdraws from active politics.
- July 1: The ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model, the most comprehensive digital elevation model of the Earth's surface, is released.