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This article covers breaking news and events in December 2009.

Daily events

Tuesday December 1, 2009

Lionel Messi

• Brussels / Belgium : In the Member States of the European Union the kick Lisbon Treaty and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights into force. Herman Van Rompuy becomes first President of the European Council and Catherine Ashton becomes the first High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy .
• Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Constitutional Court declares an accumulation of Sunday shopping during Advent to be unconstitutional . According to the Basic Law, Sunday is protected as a day off, regardless of its importance in the Christian religion.
• Paris / France : Argentine Lionel Messi is voted Europe's Footballer of the Year .
• Washington, DC / United States : US President Barack Obama announces that another 30,000 US soldiers are to be sent to Afghanistan .

Wednesday December 2, 2009

V. l. To right: Statue of Unity, Zhongyuan-Buddha, Liberty Enlightening the World, Sculptura Rodina-mat, Cristo Redentor, Michelangelo's David

• Lushan / China : The company Guinness World Records Ltd. measures the Zhongyuan Buddha, completed in 2008, and confirms that it is the tallest statue in the world. The Buddha measures 108.4 m, its pedestal 19.3 m.
• Trapani / Italy : The Direzione Investigativa Antimafia arrests the 55-year-old Mafia chief Francesco de Vita, who was on the run for nine years.
• Washington, DC / United States : Stem cell research resumes following a government resolution.

Thursday 3rd December 2009

Manuel Zelaya

• Brussels / Belgium : The foreign ministers of the 28 NATO member states officially declare Montenegro a candidate country, but do not give a possible date of membership, and advise Bosnia-Herzegovina to undertake further democratization reforms for candidate status .
• Mogadishu / Somalia : Several people are killed in an explosion in a hotel, including three ministers from the transitional government.
• Sajjida Seinab / Syria : Several Shiite pilgrims are killed in the explosion of a bus .
• Strasbourg / France : The European Court of Human Rights declares the previous regulations in Germany on the custody of children from unmarried relationships to be discriminatory.
• Tegucigalpa / Honduras : Parliament rejects the temporary reinstatement of Manuel Zelaya as President; The new head of state will be the conservative politician Porfirio Lobo Sosa from January 2010 .

Friday 4th December 2009

2010 FIFA World Cup logo

• Cape Town / South Africa : The draw for the preliminary round groups for the 2010 Soccer World Cup shows that Germany meets Australia , Serbia and Ghana ; the Switzerland must face Spain , Chile and Honduras compete.
• Kishoreganj / Bangladesh : A ferry capsizes on the Daira River in the north of the country , killing 36 people.
• Medan / Indonesia : A fire in a karaoke bar kills 20 people.
• Perm / Russia : 112 people are killed in a fire in a restaurant.
• Rawalpindi / Pakistan : 30 people are killed in a terrorist attack on a mosque .

Saturday 5th December 2009

• Khartoum / Sudan : Three UN soldiers from Rwanda are killed in a terrorist attack in the crisis region of Darfur .
• Monterrey / Mexico : After a prison break, there are shootings between police officers and armed gangs in which 14 people are killed.
• Rawalpindi / Pakistan : At least 36 people are killed in a terrorist attack.

Sunday 6th December 2009

Evo Morales

Uwe Tellkamp

• Bucharest / Romania : In the presidential run-off election , the bourgeois incumbent Traian Băsescu can narrowly defeat his social democratic challenger Mircea Geoană .
• Diyarbakır / Turkey : At a protest rally against the conditions of detention of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan , a student is killed in clashes with the police.
• La Paz / Bolivia : incumbent Evo Morales wins the presidential election with a clear majority.
• Swat / Pakistan : Government troops kill four militants of the radical Islamic Taliban , including the high-ranking commander of al-Qaida, Gul Mola, in a military operation .
• Warsaw / Poland : Environment Minister Maciej Nowicki resigns from office.
• Weimar / Germany : Uwe Tellkamp is for his novel " The Tower " from 2008 with the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation honored.

Monday 7th December 2009

Logo of the UN Climate Change Conference COP15

• Asadabad / Afghanistan : More than 20 insurgents are killed in a NATO air strike, including Taliban commander Nur Akbar .
• Baghdad / Iraq : A bomb explosion in a school kills five students and injures ten other people seriously.
• Ciudad Juárez / Mexico : 15 people are murdered near the border with the United States in the drug war .
• Copenhagen / Denmark : Start of the UN climate conference for the adoption of a follow -up agreement to the Kyoto Protocol .
• Lahore / Pakistan : Two suicide bombers kill at least 49 visitors to a market in one attack.
• Wolfsburg / Germany : Volkswagen is expanding its influence at Porsche and now holds 49.9% of Porsche shares.

Tuesday December 8, 2009

• Baghdad / Iraq : More than 100 people died as a result of several bomb explosions.
• Mir Ali / Pakistan : Three people are killed in a US missile attack in the north-west of the country.
• Multan / Pakistan : Twelve people are killed in an attack on an army checkpoint.
• Nusplingen / Germany : Scientists from the Natural History Museum in Stuttgart report on the discovery of what is probably the oldest dinosaur feather discovered in Europe to date. It is unclear whether the 8 mm long and 150 million year old feather from the Swabian Alb belongs to a previously unknown genus .

Wednesday December 9, 2009

• Tokyo / Japan : The Volkswagen Group takes over 19.9% ​​of the shares from Suzuki .
• Washington, DC / United States : After years of litigation, the government promises the representatives of around 300,000 Indians a compensation of 3.4 billion US dollars for the exploitation of their natural resources and the mismanagement in the reservations .

Thursday December 10, 2009

Project Stuttgart 21

• Berlin / Germany : According to the federal government , Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble is planning the largest new borrowing of 100 billion euros in the history of Germany in 2010 .
• Graz / Austria : The University of Graz chooses the word “Audimaxismus” before “Kuschelkurs” and “Ungustlvermutung” as the word of the year . “ Analog cheese ” is chosen as the unword of the year and “Rich parents for everyone!” Is chosen as the saying of the year. Unspoil of the year is “He who is old enough to steal is also old enough to die”.
• Mainz / Germany : Peter Frey is elected by the ZDF board of directors to succeed Nikolaus Brender as the new ZDF editor-in-chief from April 1, 2010.
• Stockholm / Sweden : Nobel Prize award
• Stuttgart / Germany : Representatives of the city and region of Stuttgart , the state of Baden-Württemberg , the federal government and Deutsche Bahn adopt the controversial Stuttgart 21 rail project .

Friday December 11th 2009

Airbus A400M

• Ankara / Turkey : The constitutional court bans the largest Kurdish party DTP because of its alleged links to terrorism .
• Devecikonağı / Turkey : At least 19 miners die from a methane gas explosion in a coal mine .
• Santiago / Chile : In the presidential elections , Sebastián Piñera wins the first ballot with 44 percent of the vote and his challenger Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle has 30 percent of the vote. Both candidates will run for a runoff on January 17, 2010.
• Seville / Spain : First flight of the European military transport aircraft Airbus A400M .
• Vatican City : Pope Benedict XVI. receives representatives of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland for a crisis discussion. The topic is the established sexual abuse of over 300 children in the past decades. As a consequence, the Pope announces strategies to prevent repetition.

Saturday December 12, 2009

• Bochum / Germany : Michael Haneke's feature film The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story is awarded the European Film Prize.
• Sukhumi / Georgia : In the presidential election in the state of Abkhazia , which is only recognized by Russia , Nicaragua and Venezuela , incumbent Sergei Bagapsch wins .

Sunday December 13, 2009

• Milan / Italy : During a “bath in the crowd” after an election campaign event, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is hit in the face by an allegedly mentally confused man with a cathedral sculpture. Berlusconi has a broken nose, two knocked out teeth and a crack from it.

Monday December 14, 2009

• Klagenfurt / Austria : The banking group Hypo Group Alpe Adria is taken over by the state and thus saved from bankruptcy.

Tuesday December 15, 2009

Boeing 787

• Dera Ghazi Khan / Pakistan : According to various media reports, between 20 and 33 people died when a car bomb exploded in Punjab province . The assassin chose a marketplace as a target.
• Everett / United States : First flight of the Boeing 787 .
• Wuppertal / Germany : The suspension railway will be shut down for five months for modernization purposes.
• Yaren / Nauru : The Pacific state is the fourth state after Russia , Nicaragua and Venezuela to recognize the republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia that have broken away from Georgia .

Wednesday December 16, 2009

• Lahore / Pakistan : The Supreme Court declares the amnesty law , which was introduced in 2007 by the then head of state Pervez Musharraf , to be unconstitutional.
• Strasbourg / France : The Russian human rights organization Memorial is awarded the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament .
• Vienna / Austria : The Carinthian regional association of Bündnis Zukunft Österreich splits off from the federal party and merges with the FPÖ .

Thursday December 17, 2009

• Madrid / Spain : Parliament adopts the reform to liberalize abortion and introduce the deadline regulation .
• Sanaa / Yemen : 49 people are killed in an air strike on the village of El Maadschala in the south-east of the country. The armed forces suspected Al Qaeda members in the village .

Friday December 18, 2009

Aminatou Haidar (2006)

• Barcelona / Spain : The Parliament of Catalonia votes for a ban on traditional bullfighting . Before that, 180,000 Catalans signed a referendum to ban bullfighting.
• Bir Lehlu / DAR Sahara : Aminatou Haidar , who campaigns for political self-determination in Western Sahara , is returning to her home country from exile in Spain.
• Detroit / United States : General Motors releases the Swedish subsidiary Saab Automobile into orderly processing and sells construction rights for the engine and transmission technology as well as the production facilities for the Saab 9-5 model to the Chinese state-owned company Beijing Automobile Works . Negotiations for the takeover with Spyker and Koenigsegg had previously failed. On December 22nd, Spyker presented a new offer to acquire Saab.
• Copenhagen / Denmark : The UN climate conference ends without the adoption of binding measures for climate protection .
• Mosul / Iraq : Iranian soldiers occupy an oil field near the border between the two countries. On December 20, the Iranian soldiers withdraw again.
• Oswiecim / Poland : Unknown steal the words " Arbeit Macht Frei " from the entrance gate of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz I . On December 21, 2009, the lettering was found by the police near Gdynia and the alleged thieves were arrested.
• Wiesbaden / Germany : The Society for German Language regards the word “ scrapping premium ” before the terms “war-like conditions” and “ swine flu ” as the word of the year .

Saturday 19th December 2009

FC Barcelona are club world champions in football

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• Abu Dhabi / United Arab Emirates : FC Barcelona wins the Club World Cup in football after beating the Argentinian club Estudiantes de La Plata 2-1 in the final .
• Brussels / Belgium : The citizens of the three Balkan states Macedonia , Montenegro and Serbia are allowed to travel to the Schengen area again without a visa after almost two decades .
• Kabul / Afghanistan : The re-elected President Hamid Karzai presented his new cabinet list to parliament and declared the fight against corruption and mismanagement in the government to be a task for the next five-year legislative period . On January 2, 2010, 17 of the 24 ministers proposed by Hamid Karzai were rejected by parliament on charges of incompetence or corruption.

Sunday December 20, 2009

• Baden-Baden / Germany : The swimmer Paul Biedermann , the javelin thrower Steffi Nerius and the national soccer team for women are voted athletes of the year .
• Nanjing / China : In the final of the Women's Handball World Championship defeated Russia France with 25:22, becoming the third consecutive year and fourth time overall champion .
• Washington, DC / United States : The Senate approves the largest defense budget in the country's history, worth $ 636 billion.

Monday December 21, 2009

Planned route of the Baltic Sea pipeline

• Dublin / Ireland : During repair work on the roof of the Guinness Brewery , a fire breaks out and part of the historic building is destroyed.
• Qom / Iran : After the death of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri , clashes between opposition officials and security forces occur at the funeral service.
• Schwerin / Germany : The construction of the 50-kilometer section of the Baltic Sea pipeline through Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is approved.
• Zurich / Switzerland : Lionel Messi is named FIFA World Player of the Year .

Tuesday December 22, 2009

Serbia and the European Union

• Kabul / Afghanistan : President Hamid Karzai calls on the Taliban to hold peace negotiations on the occasion of a visit by NATO Secretary General Rasmussen ; only then could NATO troops leave the country earlier.
• Stockholm / Sweden : Serbian President Boris Tadić presents the EU Council President Fredrik Reinfeldt with the application for membership in the European Union .
• Tehran / Iran : In the capital and the cities of Isfahan and Najafābād there are renewed clashes between demonstrators and the police at commemorative events for the deceased Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri ; 50 people are arrested, including four journalists. Foreign reporters are banned from reporting.
• Washington, DC / United States : After the House of Representatives approves the Senate of health care reform , a central project of President Barack Obama , too.

Wednesday December 23, 2009

Michael sSchumacher

• Baghdad / Iraq : Twelve people are killed in attacks, including a top politician from the Dawa party .
• Brackley / United Kingdom : Michael Schumacher signs a three-year contract with the Mercedes Grand Prix and returns to Formula 1 three years after retiring .
• Bucharest / Romania : With the help of independent and opposition MPs, the minority government consisting of PD-L and UDMR under Emil Boc has now achieved a parliamentary majority after months of political instability.
• Cusco / Peru : 41 people are killed in a serious bus accident.
• Dearborn / United States : Ford accepts the offer of the Chinese car manufacturer Geely to take over the Swedish subsidiary Volvo .
• Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Court lifts the arrest warrant against the former RAF -Terroristin Verena Becker and releases them from custody .
• Kingston / Jamaica : 91 people are injured when an American Airlines passenger plane crash-lands .
• Moscow / Russia : During the negotiations on a new disarmament agreement over nuclear weapons with the United States , the country tests new intercontinental ballistic missiles and President Dmitry Medvedev announced the development of nuclear weapons to.
• New York / United States : The United Nations is expanding the embargo on Eritrea to include an arms embargo and travel restrictions because of its support for Islamists in Somalia .

Thursday December 24, 2009

• Dublin / Ireland : The two auxiliary bishops Eamonn Oliver Walsh and Raymond Field offer to resign in the wake of the scandal over the systematic sexual abuse of children in the Irish Catholic Church .
• Beijing / China : The dissident Liu Xiaobo is sentenced to eleven years imprisonment for the accused of "undermining state authority".
• Beijing / China : As a result of unrest in the autonomous region of Xinjiang from July and September , four Uyghur and Han Chinese for convicted death . This brings the number of death sentences due to the unrest to 22. The last time in November, eight Uyghurs and one Han Chinese were executed for murder.
• Peshawar / Pakistan : A suicide bomber kills four people.
• Shabwa / Yemen : 30 people are killed in an air strike in the eastern province.

Friday December 25, 2009

• Detroit / United States : A 23-year-old Nigerian tries to detonate an explosive device during the approach of Northwest Airlines Flight 253 with 289 people on board, where he is overwhelmed by another passenger. Al-Qaeda later confesses to the attempted terrorist attack.
• Kota / India : 45 people are killed when a bridge collapses.

Saturday 26th December 2009

• Caracas / Venezuela : Ten sailors from the Greek freighter Aegean Wind burn in a fire on board.
• Wuhan / China : On the route between Wuhan and Guangzhou , 1000 kilometers away , the fastest train with top speeds of up to 394 km / h will start operating on a regular basis.

Sunday December 27, 2009

Islom Karimov

• Abu Dhabi / United Arab Emirates : A South Korean consortium led by the Korea Electric Power Corporation receives the order to build a nuclear power plant in the desert for 20 billion US dollars .
• Beirut / Lebanon : Three Hamas members die in a bomb attack in a Shiite suburb .
• Muzaffarabad / Pakistan : Two people are killed in a suicide attack in the Kashmir region .
• Shanxi / China : An explosion in the Donggo coal mine kills twelve people.
• Tashkent / Uzbekistan : President Islom Karimov's ruling party wins the parliamentary elections .
• Tehran / Iran : The unrest spreads, killing several people.
• Zagreb / Croatia : In the presidential election , none of the candidates receive the necessary absolute majority. Ivo Josipović and runner-up Milan Bandić will run for the runoff election on January 10, 2010 .

Monday December 28, 2009

• Karachi / Pakistan : 30 people are shot dead in an attack on an Ashura celebration by Shiite Muslims.
• Niamey / Niger : Armed militias shoot three tourists from Saudi Arabia .
• Shanghai / China : Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China begins building a factory to manufacture the Comac C919 passenger jet .
• Starkville / United States : Nine people die in an apartment fire, including six children.

Tuesday December 29, 2009

• Oberstdorf / Germany : Andreas Kofler from Austria wins the first ski jumping of the Four Hills Tournament .
• Paris / France : The Constitutional Court declares the CO ₂ tax planned for January 1, 2010 to be unconstitutional.
• Ürümqi / China : Akmal Shaikh , a Briton of Pakistani origin sentenced to death for suspected drug smuggling , is executed.

Wednesday December 30, 2009

• Baghdad / Iraq : The British IT specialist Peter Moore, abducted two and a half years ago, is released by his kidnappers.
• Bausi / Nigeria : At least 70 people die in fighting between different groups of the Islamist sect Kata-Kalo and the subsequent intervention by the military.
• Berlin / Germany : Siemens receives a major order worth 580 million euros from Russia ; The Olympic trains for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi are to be delivered .
• The Hague / Netherlands : The Benelux countries are the first in Europe to announce the introduction of the controversial body scanners for routine passenger checks.
• Jining / China : 16 people are killed when an intercity bus collides with a truck in Shandong Province .
• Ramadi / Iraq : In two bomb attacks in quick succession, at least 21 people die and 48 others are injured.
• Tehran / Iran : Tens of thousands of government supporters demonstrate at a state-organized solidarity rally. In agreement with the government, they are calling for the deaths of the opposition leaders.

Thursday December 31, 2009

Marvel Comics logo

• Espoo / Finland : Four people are killed in the killing spree of a 43-year-old Kosovar Albanian in the Sello shopping center ; he previously shot his wife. Later the gunman shoots himself.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : At least 12 people died in two terrorist attacks on the Chapman Forward Operating Base in Khost province and in southern Kandahar .
• Marseille / France : The painting Les Choristes by Impressionist Edgar Degas is stolen from a museum .
• New York , United States : Marvel Entertainment shareholders approve acquisition by Disney ; the volume of the deal amounts to approximately 4.3 billion US dollars .
• Reykjavík / Iceland : Parliament passes a law forcing the bankrupt island nation to repay € 3.8 billion in debt to hundreds of thousands of British and Dutch creditors by 2024. The debt question was an obstacle to the aspired accession to the European Union .
• Vilnius / Lithuania : Shutdown of the only nuclear power plant Ignalina . The decommissioning of the nuclear power plant was decided on May 1, 2004 as part of the EU accession .

See also

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

Web links

Canton of Graubünden in December 2009

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

 Wikinews: Article Published December 2009  - News

Individual evidence

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5. ↑ tagesschau.de: 30,000 additional US soldiers to Afghanistan ( Memento from December 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 2, 2009)
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9. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Montenegro closer to NATO ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 14, 2009)
10. ^ Abendblatt.de: Three ministers killed in attack in Mogadishu (accessed on December 3, 2009)
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19. ↑ ovb-online.de: Three UN blue helmets killed in Darfur  ( 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 December 5, 2009)  
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32. ↑ boerse.ard.de: VW shareholders pave the way for Porsche takeover ( Memento from December 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 7, 2009)
33. ↑ stern.de: Baghdad - car bomb series  ( 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 December 8, 2009)  
34. ↑ de.news.yahoo.com: At least three dead in US missile attack in Pakistan  ( 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 December 8, 2009)  
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58. ↑ europarl.europa.eu: Sakharov Prize honors Russian human rights activists ( Memento from December 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on December 17, 2009)
59. ↑ handelsblatt.com: FPÖ and BZÖ Carinthia: merger of right-wing parties in Austria (accessed on December 17, 2009)
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62. ↑ n-tv.de: Death blow in parliament - Catalans forbid bullfighting (accessed December 19, 2009)
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