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This article covers breaking news and events in April 2009.

Daily events

Wednesday April 1, 2009

Expansion of NATO

• Brussels / Belgium : Albania and Croatia join the NATO military alliance as the 27th and 28th member states .
• Jerusalem / Israel : The Knesset elects Benjamin Netanyahu from the coalition party as prime minister .
• London / United Kingdom : A helicopter crashes on the return flight from a BP - platform off the coast of Scotland from, it all die sixteen inmates.
• Münster , Osnabrück / Germany : The Osnabrück garrison of the British Army is dissolved. Remaining units are ordered back to the mother country.
• Stockholm / Sweden : Eight years after the first same-sex civil marriage in the world in the Netherlands is also the Swedish Parliament , the registered partnerships of homosexual couples with civil marriage equal . Same-sex couples have been allowed to adopt children in Sweden since June 2002.

Thursday April 2, 2009

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The European Central Bank cuts its key interest rate by 0.25 percent to 1.25 percent. However, the financial markets and the public have expected a clearer step.
• London / United Kingdom : World financial summit of the G-20 countries to create a new world financial order.

Friday 3rd April 2009

• Baden-Baden / Germany : US President Barack Obama visits Germany as part of the NATO anniversary summit in Strasbourg , Kehl and Baden-Baden .
• Binghamton / United States : In a social center, a hostage-taker brings 20 to 40 people into his power. At least twelve people are shot.

Saturday 4th April 2009

• Hamburg / Germany : Pirates hijack a German ship off Somalia with the freighter MS Hansa Stavanger .
• Strasbourg / France : After initial resistance from Turkey , the NATO countries agree on the Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen as the new Secretary General. He is expected to take up this position on August 1, 2009.

Sunday April 5, 2009

• Chișinău / Moldova : The ruling party PCRM wins the parliamentary elections with 49.5 percent of the vote.
• Copenhagen / Denmark : The future NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen resigned as Danish Prime Minister and passes on the office to his successor Lars Løkke Rasmussen .
• Pyongyang / North Korea : The launch of a North Korean long-range missile triggers protests around the world. The missile of type Taepodong-2 to one of North Korea's information communications satellite in space have been exposed. However, US forces state that no object has entered orbit.
• Prague / Czech Republic : In a keynote address, US President Barack Obama announces concrete steps for nuclear disarmament.

Monday April 6, 2009

• Baghdad / Iraq : At least 32 people die and over 110 others are injured in a series of car bomb explosions .
• L'Aquila / Italy : A 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook Abruzzo in central Italy . The quake occurred at 3:32 a.m. local time. 294 people are killed and 1,170 others are injured. Around 10,000 buildings are badly damaged or destroyed, leaving 24,000 people homeless. An earthquake researcher foresaw the quake using a controversial method.

Tuesday April 7, 2009

• Landshut / Germany : Two people die and two other people are seriously injured in a shooting in the district court of the Lower Bavarian city. The perpetrator was in an inheritance dispute when he killed his sister-in-law and then himself.
• Lima / Peru : Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for deploying death squads .

Wednesday April 8, 2009

• Bangkok / Thailand : Tens of thousands of supporters of the ousted former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra come together for a large rally to emphasize their demand for the resignation of the incumbent Prime Minister and the dissolution of parliament.

Thursday April 9, 2009

• Algiers / Algeria : In the presidential elections , incumbent Abd al-Aziz Bouteflika is re-elected with over 90 percent of the vote.
• Jakarta / Indonesia : parliamentary elections in Indonesia 2009
• Prague / Czech Republic : Jan Fischer , the previous head of the Czechoslovak statistical office, is appointed head of government of the Czech Republic. The technocrat is taking over the post of Prime Minister Mirek Topolánek , who was voted out in March . "His transitional cabinet is supposed to officially take over government on May 9," reports AFP. Fischer will be chairman of the European Council during the Czech Presidency , which will last until June 30, 2009.
• Tehran / Iran : President Mahmud Ahmadinejad announces the opening of an operational factory , in which uranium dioxide for fuel rods can be produced on an industrial scale . This provoked protests from Western states, who fear the military use of plutonium for nuclear weapons warheads.

Friday April 10, 2009

• L'Aquila / Italy : The government representatives of Italy take part in the mass and memorial service for the more than 280 earthquake victims.
• Rome / Italy : At the Colosseum , Pope Benedict XVI. the way of the cross of christ .

Saturday April 11, 2009

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Woolworth applies to the Frankfurt am Main district court to open insolvency proceedings .
• Pattaya / Thailand : Hundreds of demonstrators storm the summit of the ASEAN countries in a conference hotel. The summit is then canceled and a state of emergency is declared for a short time .

Sunday April 12, 2009

• Bangkok / Thailand : Due to the ongoing demonstrations, the Thai government has declared a state of emergency and forbids any gathering of more than five people.

Monday April 13, 2009

• Kamień Pomorski / Poland : At least 21 people are killed and 20 more are injured in a fire in a former hotel used as a homeless shelter .

Tuesday April 14, 2009

• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection Ilse Aigner bans the genetically modified maize variety MON810 .
• Budapest / Hungary : Gordon Bajnai is elected to this office by parliament through a constructive vote of no confidence in his predecessor, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány .
• Kloten / Switzerland : With a win in the last game of the final playoffs against Kloten Flyers , HC Davos secured the Swiss ice hockey championship for the 29th time .
• Pyongyang / North Korea : After international criticism of the North Korean missile test on April 5, the government has announced the resumption of the nuclear weapons program and ends cooperation with the IAEA .

Wednesday April 15, 2009

• Berlin / Germany : The Eisbären Berlin to win by beating the DEG Metro Stars in the fourth game of the finals of the German Ice Hockey League for the fourth time in five years, the German Hockey Championship .

Thursday April 16, 2009

• Moscow / Russia : Ten years after the outbreak of the Second Chechen War , President Dmitry Medvedev declares the Russian anti-terrorist operation in Chechnya to be over.
• New Delhi / India : The beginning of the parliamentary elections is overshadowed by several attacks, killing at least 17 people.

Friday April 17, 2009

• Jalalabad / Afghanistan : Two earthquakes measuring 5.5 and 5.1 shake the east of the country, killing at least 21 people.

Saturday April 18, 2009

• Islamabad / Pakistan : A suicide bomber kills at least 27 people, mostly security forces, in the north-west of the country.

Sunday April 19, 2009

• Lefkoşa / Cyprus : The previous conservative opposition party, the National Unity Party , led by Derviş Eroğlu , wins the majority of seats in the Assembly of the Republic of Northern Cyprus , which is still not recognized by the United Nations .

Monday April 20, 2009

• Geneva / Switzerland : Beginning of the fourth world conference against racism , which is boycotted by several states at the previous meeting due to anti-Israeli resolutions. The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad makes his anti-Israel speech at the UN left the plenary conference provoked an uproar, prompting several delegates in protest.
• Port of Spain / Trinidad and Tobago : At the fifth American summit of the OAS , US President Obama speaks out in favor of a new start in relations with Cuba .
• Redwood Shores / United States : The US computer company Oracle buys Sun Microsystems .

Tuesday April 21, 2009

Digital Library logo

• Germany : The mobile network of T-Mobile is broken due to a software error together for several hours.
• Paris / France : UNESCO and the Library of Congress release the World Digital Library for the general public.
• Sri Lanka : During the civil war in Sri Lanka , government troops penetrate deep into the LTTE's retreat . Around 80,000 people have been able to get to safety so far.

Wednesday April 22, 2009

• Pretoria / South Africa : start of parliamentary elections.

Thursday April 23, 2009

Logo of the Federal Horticultural Show

• Schwerin / Germany : The 30th Federal Horticultural Show opens. It is dedicated to horticulture in the late Baroque period .

Friday April 24, 2009

• Berlin / Germany : The Posted Workers Act comes into force and the Bundestag adopts the Genetic Diagnostics Act .
• Berlin / Germany : At the award ceremony of the German Film Prize is Florian Gallenberger's drama John Rabe named best feature film.
• Dortmund / Germany : Dortmund will be given preference over Gelsenkirchen when deciding on the location of the National Football Museum .
• Mexico City / Mexico : An epidemic-like outbreak of influenza A / H1N1 known as “swine flu” claims first deaths.

Saturday April 25, 2009

• Reykjavík / Iceland : In the Icelandic parliamentary elections , the coalition of the Social Democratic Alliance under Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir and the left-green movement under Steingrímur J. Sigfússon wins . For the first time since the founding of Iceland, the left won an absolute majority of seats in the Althing .

Sunday April 26, 2009

• Berlin / Germany : The referendum Pro Reli is rejected with 48.5 percent yes-votes, 51.3 percent no-votes and 0.2 percent invalid votes. The turnout was 29.2 percent of the electorate.
• Germany : As compensation for the network failure on Tuesday, around 40 million T-Mobile customers can send text messages free of charge.
• Quito / Ecuador : The incumbent President Rafael Correa wins the parliamentary and presidential elections .

Monday April 27, 2009

Air Force One , Statue of Liberty

• Andorra la Vella / Andorra : The previous opposition party Partit Socialdemòcrata wins the parliamentary elections.
• Munich / Germany : Jürgen Klinsmann is dismissed as coach of FC Bayern Munich with immediate effect. Jupp Heynckes is his successor .
• New York / United States : Air Force One terrifies many people when it flies low over the Upper New York Bay in the company of a multi- role fighter. The United States Armed Forces conduct the low-level flight to use Manhattan and Liberty Island as photo opportunities.

Tuesday April 28, 2009

Albania and the European Union

• Prague / Czech Republic : Albania's Prime Minister Sali Berisha presents the EU Council President Mirek Topolánek with the application to join the European Union .

Wednesday April 29, 2009

• Berlin / Germany , Geneva / Switzerland , Houston / United States : The Federal Republic reports the first swine flu patients in the recent global wave of illnesses. The World Health Organization is raising the alert level to 5, one notch below the pandemic classification . In Texas , the first patient outside of Mexico dies of an infection with the H1N1 influenza A virus . There are currently 65 swine flu patients in the United States.

Thursday April 30, 2009

• Apeldoorn / Netherlands : In the Queen's Day parade, a gunman races into the crowd with a car, killing six people, himself and injuring others.
• Baku / Azerbaijan : In a terrorist attack on the State Oil Academy , 12 people are killed by a gunman and about ten others are injured before the attacker kills himself. Chess composer Məcnun Vahidov is among the dead .
• New York / United States : In the bankruptcy court of the United States, the automobile manufacturer Chrysler from Auburn Hills files for insolvency under Chapter 11 of the US bankruptcy law. The Italian group Fiat announces its entry into Chrysler.

See also

• Nekrolog April 2009 for deaths this month
• List of annually recurring days of remembrance and action in April
• Category for commemorative days, public holidays or days of action in April

Web links

Upper Austria in April 2009

Commons : April 2009  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

 Wikinews: Article Published April 2009  - News

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tagesschau.de : NATO accepts Albania and Croatia ( Memento from April 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ dw-world.de : Knesset confirms Netanyahu's coalition ( Memento from April 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ n-tv.de: return flight from BP platform - helicopter crashed ( memento from April 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 1, 2009)
4. ↑ Opening of the registry offices. In: derstandard.at . April 1, 2009, accessed June 28, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Homosexual couples are allowed to adopt children. In: faz.net . June 6, 2002, accessed June 28, 2017 . 
6. ↑ n-tv.de: Mini key rate cut - ECB takes its breath ( memento from April 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 2, 2009)
7. ↑ tagesschau.de: Results of the G20 preparatory meeting - stronger controls and responsible action (accessed on February 22, 2009)
8. ↑ focus.de: NATO summit: Merkel receives Obama in Baden-Baden (accessed on April 2, 2009)
9. ↑ Kölnische Rundschau: US State New York - 14 dead in hostage drama (accessed April 27, 2017)
10. ↑ spiegel.de: Pirates kidnap German freighters to Somalia (accessed April 6, 2009)
11. ↑ tagesanzeiger.de: Turks give in - NATO agrees on new boss (accessed April 4, 2009)
12. ↑ orf.at: Moldova: Communists defend power (accessed April 5, 2009)
13. ↑ tagesschau.de: Rasmussen makes room for Rasmussen ( Memento from April 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 7, 2009)
14. ↑ focus.de: North Korea: Worldwide outrage over rocket launch (accessed on March 5, 2009)
15. ↑ tagesschau.de: Obama promotes a world free of nuclear weapons ( Memento from April 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 5, 2009)
16. ↑ tagesschau.de: Iraq: At least 32 people die in attacks ( memento from April 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 6, 2009)
17. ↑ AFP: Berlusconi celebrates Easter with survivors of the earthquake ( memento from January 24, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on April 13, 2009)
18. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Italy - earthquake researchers warned of disaster (accessed on April 6, 2009)
19. ↑ spiegel.de: Dead and injured in shooting in the Landshut district court (accessed on April 7, 2009)
20. ↑ focus.de: Peru: 25 years imprisonment for ex-President Fujimori (accessed April 7, 2009)
21. ↑ Algeria. In: iemed.org . 2010, accessed on August 30, 2018 . 
22. ↑ AFP: Jan Fischer appointed as the new head of government of the Czech Republic (accessed April 9, 2009)
23. ↑ tagesschau.de: Dispute over Tehran's nuclear program - Iran opens first factory for fuel rods ( Memento from April 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 9, 2009)
24. ↑ focus.de: Easter celebrations in Rome: Pope Benedict XVI. does traditional foot washing of priests (accessed April 10, 2009)
25. ↑ Provisional administration of the assets of DWW Woolworth Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG ordered (PDF file; 68 kB) (accessed on April 11, 2009)
26. ↑ Chaos at ASEAN meeting in Thailand - summit canceled, state of emergency lifted ( Memento from April 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
27. ↑ At least 21 dead in fire in the homeless shelter. In: waz.de . April 13, 2009, accessed June 2, 2019 . 
28. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Aigner prohibits cultivation of GM maize (accessed on April 14, 2009)
29. ↑ hvg.hu: Gyurcsány ment, Bajnai jött (Gyurcsány went, Bajnai came) (accessed on April 28, 2009)
30. ↑ tagesschau.de: Nuclear dispute with Pyongyang - North Korea shows all inspectors ( Memento from April 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 14, 2009)
31. ↑ tagesschau.de: End of the military operation in Chechnya - 20,000 Russian soldiers are withdrawn ( Memento from April 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 16, 2009)
32. ↑ tagesschau.de: India: Attacks overshadow the start of the elections ( memento from April 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 16, 2009)
33. ↑ focus.de: Afghanistan: Two earthquakes shake the east - at least 21 dead (accessed on April 17, 2009)
34. ↑ tagesschau.de: Pakistan: 27 dead in suicide attack ( Memento from April 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 19, 2009)
35. ↑ Nationalists win election in Northern Cyprus. In: Welt Online . April 21, 2009, accessed May 1, 2019 . 
36. ↑ faz.net: At Ahmadinejad speech: delegates leave UN conference (accessed April 20, 2009)
37. ↑ tagesschau.de: Ahmadinejad causes a scandal ( Memento from April 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 20, 2009)
38. ↑ spiegel.de: Obama offers Cuba a fresh start (accessed April 20, 2009)
39. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: wdr.de: Oracle buys Sun Microsystems (accessed April 20, 2009)
40. ↑ T-Mobile's cellular network fails nationwide. In: aachener-zeitung.de . April 22, 2009, accessed June 2, 2019 . 
41. ↑ nzz.ch: World culture at a click of the mouse (accessed April 23, 2009)
42. ↑ tagesschau.de: Troops push rebels further back ( memento from April 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 22, 2009)
43. ↑ dw-world.de: Election in South Africa is being extended due to high demand  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed April 22, 2009)  
44. ↑ Federal Garden Show opens its gates. In: zeit.de . April 23, 2009. Retrieved April 17, 2017 . 
45. ↑ BMAS press release (PDF file)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed April 24, 2009)  
46. ↑ faz.de: Genetic Diagnostics Act passed (accessed April 27, 2009)
47. ↑ When Loriot declared the end of the film crisis. In: Welt Online . April 25, 2009. Retrieved August 10, 2017 . 
48. ↑ wdr.de: Football Museum comes to Dortmund ( Memento from April 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
49. ↑ who.int Influenza A (H1N1) - update 7 from May 1, 2009: “The United States Government has reported 109 laboratory confirmed human cases, including one death. Mexico has reported 156 confirmed human cases of infection, including nine deaths. The following countries have reported laboratory confirmed cases with no deaths - Austria (1), Canada (34), Germany (3), Israel (2), Netherlands (1), New Zealand (3), Spain (13), Switzerland ( 1) and the United Kingdom (8). "
50. ↑ handelsblatt.de: Left-wing coalition announces election victory in Iceland (accessed on April 26, 2009)
51. ↑ wahlen-berlin.de: preliminary official final result of the state returning officer Berlin ( memento from April 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 26, 2009)
52. ↑ heise.de: T-Mobile-GAU: Free SMS as compensation (accessed on April 26, 2009)
53. ↑ tagesschau.de: President Correa celebrates election victory in Ecuador ( Memento from April 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 27, 2009)
54. ↑ faz.de: Socialists in Andorra win the parliamentary elections (accessed on April 27, 2009)
55. ↑ Obama apologizes for flying low over New York. In: Welt Online . April 28, 2009, accessed May 1, 2019 . 
56. ↑ n-tv.de: Albania wants to join the EU ( Memento from May 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 28, 2009)
57. ↑ Swine flu. In: nature.com . Retrieved April 29, 2019 . 
58. ↑ Mexican child is first swine flu death in US In: reuters.com . April 29, 2009, accessed April 29, 2019 . 
59. ↑ tagesschau.de : Mourning after the rampage in Apeldoorn ( Memento from May 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
60. ↑ apa.org: Health Ministry announces final list of Azerbaijan State Oil Academy terrorist attack victims ( Memento from May 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
61. ^ Chrysler Files to Seek Bankruptcy Protection. In: nytimes.com . April 30, 2009, accessed April 29, 2019 . 
62. ↑ Fiat joins Chrysler. In: bz-berlin.de . April 30, 2009. Retrieved April 29, 2019 .