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This article covers breaking news and events in February 2009.

Daily events

Sunday February 1, 2009

Cyril I.

• Bélem / Brazil : The ninth World Social Forum is coming to an end.
• Berlin / Germany : The planned environmental code fails.
• Cologne / Germany : Mayor Josef Müller ( CDU ) resigns in the affair of consulting contracts for the Sparkasse KölnBonn .
• Melbourne / Australia : Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal wins the Australian Open for the first time , while American Serena Williams is successful for the fourth time in the women's category .
• Moscow / Russia : Kyrill I takes up his post as Patriarch of Moscow and the whole of Russia of the Russian Orthodox Church .
• Tampa / United States : The Pittsburgh Steelers win Super Bowl XLIII 27:23 against the Arizona Cardinals .
• Zagreb / Croatia : In the final of the men's handball world championship , France defeated Croatia by 24:19 and became world champion for the third time .

Monday February 2, 2009

• Guangzhou / China : As a result of the global financial and economic crisis in the United States, Japan and parts of Europe, there are mass layoffs of migrant workers in the coastal regions. Violent demonstrations occur in particular by dismissed migrant workers in Guangdong Province .
• Tehran / Iran : According to the Iranian state media, the country launched its first self-made satellite "Omid" ("Hope") into orbit. The Safir 2 launcher was also manufactured in the country, which aroused concern among observers as they fear that these missiles could be equipped with warheads. In contrast, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asserts peaceful intentions in the development of Iranian space travel.

Tuesday February 3, 2009

• Berlin / Germany : The Deutsche Bahn data and spying scandal is spreading.
• Karlsruhe / Germany : The compulsory levy for agricultural product advertising by the Central Marketing Society of the German Agricultural Industry is unconstitutional.
• Mainz / Germany : The state of Rhineland-Palatinate acquires the majority in Frankfurt-Hahn Airport .
• Paris / France : The European Space Agency announces the discovery of the first Earth-like exoplanet, CoRoT-Exo-7b , with a size and density .

Wednesday February 4, 2009

"Olli" Dietrich (person in a bathrobe) as Dittsche

Märklin business

• Berlin / Germany : Oliver Dittrich is awarded the Golden Camera for the best entertainment program on German television .
• Europe , Israel : The decision of Pope Benedict XVI. for the rehabilitation of the Society of St. Pius X. leads to protests in Europe and in Israel inside and outside the Roman Catholic Church .
• Göppingen / Germany : The toy manufacturer Märklin files for bankruptcy.
• Cairo / Egypt : Several news agencies report that the Austrian Nazi war criminal Aribert Heim has been dead for almost 16 years. Heim, who practiced medical experiments on prisoners from the Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps during the Nazi era , is said to have died on August 10, 1992 in the Egyptian city of Cairo.
• Reykjavík / Iceland : The Baugur Group , the largest group in the country, has to file for bankruptcy as a result of the financial crisis .

Thursday 5th February 2009

The musical theater on Potsdamer Platz

• Berlin / Germany : The 59th Berlin International Film Festival opens with the film The International by director Tom Tykwer .
• Nairobi / Kenya : The freighter Faina , which was captured by Somali pirates and loaded with 33 tanks and heavy weapons, is released again.
• Washington, DC / United States : US President Barack Obama signs a law that extends health insurance for children in the United States by counterfunding it through an increase in tobacco tax.
• Wiesbaden / Germany : The Hessian Landtag re- elects Roland Koch ( CDU ) , who has been in office since 1999, as Prime Minister .

Friday February 6, 2009

• Islamabad / Pakistan : The Pakistani Constitutional Court acquits the scientist Abdul Kadir Khan , who is under house arrest . Khan admitted in 2004 that he had passed on nuclear weapon construction knowledge to Iran , Libya and North Korea .
• Munich / Germany : Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier ( SPD ) opens the 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy . In his speech he pleads u. a. for a debate on the goals of the NATO military alliance before it is expanded to include other states.

Saturday 7th February 2009

• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Minister of Economics Michael Glos ( CSU ) announces through his ministry that he is making his office available, but the CSU chairman Horst Seehofer successfully intervenes against it. Glos remains minister for an indefinite period.
• Sydney / Australia : At least 14 people die in bush fires in the southeast of Australia, which are favored by high temperatures , and up to 40 victims are feared.

Sunday February 8, 2009

With Klaus Tschütscher, the government in Liechtenstein changes to VU

• Bern / Switzerland : The federal vote on the continuation of the free movement of people and its extension to Romania and Bulgaria ends with a clear majority in favor of close cooperation with the EU states .
• Manaus / Brazil : At least 24 people died when a turboprop plane crashed in the Amazon basin .
• Vaduz / Liechtenstein : In the state elections , the social-conservative Fatherland Union (VU) overtook the Christian-conservative Progressive Citizens' Party (FBP) in favor of the voters. The VU has 47.6% of the votes and the FBP 43.5%.
• Victoria / Australia : The number of deaths in the worst forest fires in decades rises to 96. The state of Victoria is particularly hard hit.

Monday February 9, 2009

• Aachen , Stuttgart / Germany : The textile companies Adessa and Schiesser file for bankruptcy.
• Berlin / Germany : CSU General Secretary Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg replaces Michael Glos as Federal Minister of Economics.
• Paris / France : As a result of the financial crisis , the French government opts for protectionism and supports its own automotive industry with loans worth billions .
• Beijing / China : An unauthorized fireworks display triggers a high-rise fire, with the new building, which houses a luxury hotel and part of the Chinese state television CCTV , being destroyed.
• Sri Lanka : In the embattled north of Sri Lanka, a suicide bomber kills at least 28 people and injures at least 45 others.
• Victoria / Australia : The death toll in the bushfires in Victoria rises to at least 171, with dozens still missing. The fires represent the greatest fire disaster in the history of Australia.

Tuesday February 10, 2009

18th Knesset, 109 seats out of 120 for Zionist parties

• Baden-Baden / Germany : The Dalai Lama receives the German Media Prize 2008.
• Jerusalem / Israel : The Kadima party narrowly wins the Israeli parliamentary elections , with 22.5% of the voters voting for Kadima and 21.6% for Likud .
• Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Constitutional Court is negotiating the constitutionality of the Lisbon Treaty .
• Tehran / Iran : President Mahmud Ahmadinejad shows willingness to talk to the United States at the celebrations for the Islamic Revolution , provided that the talks take place “on an equal footing and with mutual respect”. Previously, the new US President Barack Obama called on Iran to negotiate.
• Washington, DC / United States : In Earth orbit , the Russian satellite Cosmos 2251 collides with the American satellite Iridium 33 at an altitude of around 790 km, creating around 600 pieces of debris ( satellite collision on February 10, 2009 ).

Wednesday February 11, 2009

Hypo Real Estate logo

Bushfire in Victoria

• Düsseldorf / Germany : NRW - Transport Minister Oliver Wittke ( CDU ) resigns after he was in public distress because he was flashed in a built-up area in November 2008 at 109 km / h and had to surrender his driver's license for two months.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The banking holding company Hypo Real Estate from Munich receives a further ten billion euros guarantee from the state special fund financial market stabilization, so that the total now amounts to 102 billion euros.
• Harare / Zimbabwe : Morgan Tsvangirai is sworn in as the new Prime Minister.
• Kabul / Afghanistan : In a series of three almost simultaneous attacks on government buildings by eight suicide bombers , at least 26 people die and 55 others are injured. The political Taliban , which wants to weaken the Afghan government through terror, is suspected to be the cause.
• Victoria / Australia : The number of deaths from bushfires in Victoria rises to 173 and 430,000 hectares fell victim to the flames, with new cases of arson .

Thursday February 12, 2009

• Berlin / Germany : The Federalism Commission agreed on a debt ceiling , after which the net borrowing of the Federal from 2020 a maximum of 0.35 percent of gross domestic product may be allowed.
• Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag decided to set up a central contact point for soldiers with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and a research center in the Bundeswehr .
• Buffalo / United States : 50 people were killed in the crash of a De Havilland DHC-8-400 operated by Colgan Air ( Continental Airlines flight 3407 ).
• Hamburg / Germany : According to a survey by the DAK , two million people take medication because of stress and conflicts at work , 800,000 of them regularly.

Friday February 13, 2009

• Berlin / Germany : After the Bundestag , the Bundesrat approves the expansion of the Posted Workers Act to include care, large laundries, security, waste management, special mining services and further training.
• Hamburg / Germany : In the honor killing trial, the Hamburg district court sentenced Ahmad Obeidi (24) to life imprisonment for the honor killing of his sister Morsal Obeidi on May 15, 2008 . After the verdict was announced, his family members rioted in the district court building.
• Hilla / Iraq : A female suicide bomber carried out an attack on a group of pilgrims who were on their way to Karbala , killing at least 35 people. It is the third attack in just a few days.
• London / United Kingdom : The crash-landing of a passenger plane of the airline British Airways on the London City Airport runs off lightly. Four people suffer minor injuries.
• Washington, DC / United States : The House of Representatives and the Senate adopt the US stimulus package in 2009 with a budget of about 779 billion US dollars .

Saturday February 14, 2009

Logo of the Alpine World Ski Championships 2009

• Bollberg / Germany : Participants in a counter-demonstration to an NPD demonstration in Dresden are presumably attacked by Swedish neo-Nazis on their return journey at the “Teufelstal” motorway service station .
• Dresden / Germany : The NPD and numerous right-wing extremist organizations gather around 6,000 people for a demonstration to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the air raids on Dresden . At the same time, over ten thousand counter-demonstrators from the unions and churches gather .
• Peshawar / Pakistan : At a drone attack of the United States Armed Forces 30 people in a training camp of the "be in northwest Pakistan, according to initial information Pakistani Taliban " killed, under Baitullah Mehsud is in the open struggle against the government of the country.
• Potsdam / Germany : After the employers' side of the collective bargaining association of German states (TdL) around Lower Saxony's Finance Minister Hartmut Möllring made an offer of a 4.2 percent increase in income from July 1, 2009, the wage negotiations for the federal states will be postponed again by two weeks .
• Val-d'Isère / France : Maria Riesch wins the slalom at the 2009 Alpine World Ski Championships .

Sunday February 15, 2009

• Berlin / Germany : Chancellor Angela Merkel ( CDU ) explains in an interview with ZDF - Politmagazin Berlin direkt that the federal government has promised to protect systemically important banks from insolvency by all possible means . The federal government will therefore do everything possible to save Hypo Real Estate .
• Berlin / Germany : The jury of the 59th Berlin International Film Festival honored the film La teta asustada ( German  Eine Perle Ewigkeit ) by director Claudia Llosa as the best contribution of the festival with the Golden Bear .
• Caracas / Venezuela : President Hugo Chávez pushes through a referendum to amend the constitution, according to which he can be re-elected as president indefinitely .
• Cairo / Egypt : The rival Palestinian organizations Fatah and Hamas begin their reconciliation dialogue announced weeks ago. Five committees are to be formed; The first point of negotiation is the release of the mutual prisoners.
• Linz / Austria : The Catholic priest Gerhard Maria Wagner from Windischgarsten asks Pope Benedict XVI. to revoke his appointment as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Linz . This was preceded by outrage and a. about Wagner's statement about the "curability of homosexuality ".

Monday February 16, 2009

• Berlin / Germany : Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble ( CDU ) has invited to a top-level discussion about data protection for employees after the data scandals at Deutsche Bahn and Deutsche Telekom . In addition to the data protection officer Peter Schaar, the German Trade Union Confederation and several employers' associations were represented at the top- level meeting. Schäuble stated that an employee data protection law would only exist after the 2009 federal election .
• Berlin / Germany : Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier ( SPD ) appoints diplomat Bernd Mützelburg as special envoy for the Afghanistan and Pakistan region .
• Peshawar / Pakistan : The Northwest Province signs a peace agreement with the Taliban with the Muslim cleric Maulana Sufi Mohammad . Thereafter, the military operations of the Pakistani Army against the Taliban in the Swat Valley are suspended. The Taliban is given the right to introduce the Sharia .
• Pyongyang / North Korea : North Korea is celebrating the 67th birthday of the officially named “beloved leader” Kim Jong-il , who does not reveal himself, however, so that speculation about his well-being is fueled.
• Tokyo / Japan : The Japanese gross domestic product was 12.7% lower in the fourth quarter of 2008 than in the fourth quarter of 2007. This means that official figures confirm Japan's worst recession since the Second World War .

Tuesday February 17, 2009

• Phnom Penh / Cambodia : The trial of Kang Kek Leu before the Khmer Rouge tribunal is the first trial against a guerrilla functionary , 30 years after the end of the Khmer Rouge regime .
• Tokyo / Japan : Japanese Finance Minister Shōichi Nakagawa announces his resignation after showing himself foggy and drunk at a press conference during the G7 summit .
• Washington, DC / United States : The US government decides to send 17,000 additional soldiers to Afghanistan for the International Security Assistance Force led by the NATO military alliance .

Wednesday February 18, 2009

• Berlin / Germany : The Federal Government decides to amend the Financial Market Stabilization Act to restructure systemically important banks . In particular, this involves a state takeover of the troubled mortgage bank Hypo Real Estate . A so-called rescue takeover law sees as a last resort an expropriation and nationalization before the Hypo Real Estate Bank.
• Brussels / Belgium : The European Union initiates excessive deficit proceedings against the EU member states France , Spain , Greece , Malta , Latvia and Ireland due to excessive new debt .
• Detroit , United States : General Motors - Chairman Rick Wagoner presents a recovery plan according to which GM plans to cut 47,000 jobs from 244,000 and still need 36 billion US dollars in new state aid.
• Lampedusa / Italy : In protest that their intended migration to the European Union could end, Tunisian internees set fire to the refugee camp on the island of Lampedusa. About 100 of them went on hunger strike the day before .
• Prague / Czech Republic : The Czech Chamber of Deputies approves the Lisbon Treaty . The approval of the Senate and President Václav Klaus is still pending.
• Rüsselsheim / Germany : The General Motors restructuring plan feeds speculation about GM-Europe and Adam Opel GmbH. There is speculation about the closure of the Bochum , Kaiserslautern and Rüsselsheim locations . Opel works council and politicians are demanding the Opel solution from General Motors. A participation of some federal states and an investor are discussed. NRW - Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers ( CDU ) will talk to GM chairman Rick Wagoner about the future of Opel.

Thursday February 19, 2009

• Moscow / Russia : In the trial of the murder of the journalist Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya , who was critical of the government , the jury declared the three defendants not guilty of complicity in murder. The Chechen brothers Ibrahim and Jabrail Machmudow, whose fugitive brother Rustam Machmudov is said to be the shooter, and a Russian police officer were charged.
• Strasbourg / France : The Czech President Václav Klaus expresses his negative attitude towards the Treaty of Lisbon in front of the Parliament of the European Union and explains: "Anyone who dares to think about an alternative will immediately be branded as an opponent of European integration ." Numerous MPs leave the chamber to protest his speech. The MP Daniel Cohn-Bendit ( Greens ) describes the statements as a "carnival speech".
• Vienna / Austria : The traditional Vienna Opera Ball takes place for the 74th time. The American actress Nicollette Sheridan ( Desperate Housewives ) is invited to the box of the builder Richard Lugner .

Friday February 20, 2009

Model of Neumayer Station III in Antarctica

Lindsey Van

• Antarctica : The Federal Republic of Germany inaugurates the Neumayer Station III research facility , which will replace Neumayer Station II on the Ekström Ice Shelf .
• Dera Ismail Khan / Pakistan : A suicide bomber kills at least 27 people and injures more than 60 others in a funeral procession in the north-west of the country.
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The DAX share index closes at 4,014.66 points, its lowest level since November 2004.
• Liberec / Czech Republic : At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2009 , Lindsey Van from the USA becomes the first woman ski jumping world champion. Silver goes to Ulrike Gräßler from Germany and bronze to Norwegian Anette Sagen .
• Trollhättan / Sweden : The car manufacturer Saab , which belongs to the US group General Motors (GM), applies for bankruptcy protection and still wants to continue production.

Saturday February 21, 2009

• Berlin / Germany : At the Echo Awards 2009 in O ₂  World , Helene Fischer (2 echoes), Amy Winehouse (2 echoes) and Peter Fox (3 echoes) are the biggest winners.
• Bratislava / Slovakia : A coach collides with a train on the Banská Bystrica – Červená Skala railway line near Polomka , killing 12 bus occupants and seriously injuring over 20 others. In addition, 15 train passengers are injured. The coach broke down on the open level crossing when the train approached at a speed of 70 km / h and then pushed the coach about 30 meters in front of it.
• Beijing / China : US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks to the Chinese government on her first trip abroad to Asia . She speaks to Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi about the mutual relationship, the economic crisis and the nuclear conflict with North Korea .
• Tehran / Iran : Former Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder would like to meet with President Mahmud Ahmadinejad during his visit . He will sharply criticize Ahmadinejad's views on denial of the Holocaust , Israel's right to exist and the Iranian nuclear weapons program .

Sunday February 22, 2009

• Cairo / Egypt : At least twelve tourists are injured in a bomb explosion near the Hussein Mosque and the popular Khal-el-Khalili bazaar. Another bomb in the vicinity can be defused in good time by the Egyptian security forces.
• Los Angeles / United States : Slumdog Millionaire receives eight Oscars at the 81st Academy Awards at the Kodak Theater . Jochen Alexander Freydank receives an Oscar for the short film Toy Land.
• Beijing / China : At least 74 people die in a mine accident in a coal mine in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi , and at least 20 more are still buried.

Monday February 23, 2009

Result of the financial crisis: countries in recession in dark red

• Amsterdam / Netherlands : The Swedish energy supplier Vattenfall AB announces that it intends to take over the Dutch energy supplier Nuon for 8.5 billion euros .
• Frankfurt am Main / Germany , New York / United States : Due to the financial crisis , the German DAX share index on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange fell below the 4,000 point mark for the first time since November 2004. The American Dow Jones Industrial Average index is at its lowest level since October 1997.

Tuesday February 24, 2009

• Baghdad / Iraq : Six years after the Iraqi National Museum was looted , the museum is reopening for the first time.
• Boston / United States : In a study published in the journal Science , researchers published their research results on a flu vaccination . After that, a universally effective flu vaccination is approaching.
• Hamburg , Kiel / Germany : In a joint cabinet meeting, the state governments of Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg decide on a rescue package for HSH Nordbank , which includes a capital injection of three billion euros and a security guarantee of ten billion euros.
• Mogadishu / Somalia : 15 people die and 90 others are injured in attacks by Islamist rebels on the presidential palace.
• Paris / France : The auction of the estate of Yves Saint Laurent in the auction house Christie's in Grand Palais on His -Ufer brings with sales worth 206 million euros more revenue than ever for a private collection auctioned before.
• St. Gallen / Switzerland : The sports hall of the commercial vocational school collapses under heavy snow load, but there are no injuries to complain about because of the early morning hour. The 50  m long and 26 m wide hall with a green roof has been in use since 2006. The possible cause of the roof yielding is the nature of the subsoil, the statics of the hall were checked regularly.

Wednesday February 25, 2009

Boeing 737-800 after the crash

• Amsterdam / Netherlands : A Boeing 737-800 ( Turkish Airlines flight 1951 ) coming from Istanbul crashes on approach to Schiphol Airport and breaks into three parts, killing nine people.
• Berlin / Germany : After the massive rescue package for HSH Nordbank , SPD parliamentary group chairman Peter Struck sparked a discussion about the number of federal states and a possible reorganization of the federal territory .
• Tibet / China : The Losar New Year festival begins. At the request of the Dalai Lama and Tibetan organizations, it will not be celebrated this year, but in memory of the victims in March 2008 , when anti-Chinese demonstrations were brutally suppressed. The "No to Losar" campaign spread rapidly via SMS and the Internet. In order to circumvent them, the Chinese authorities organized local festivals, fireworks and concerts. Beijing sent 20,000 additional soldiers to Tibet and neighboring provinces to prevent unrest on the 50th anniversary of the popular uprising (March 10, 1959 ).

Thursday February 26, 2009

• The Hague / Netherlands : The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia acquits Milan Milutinović , the former President of Serbia.
• Detroit / United States : The US automobile company General Motors posted a loss of 9.6 billion US dollars in the fourth quarter of 2008 and of 30.9 billion dollars in the 2008 fiscal year.
• Dhaka / Bangladesh : An uprising by a paramilitary unit of border soldiers ends after a day and a half. The number of people who perished is unclear.
• Edinburgh / United Kingdom : The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) announces a record loss in 2008 of 24.14 billion pounds (approx. 27 billion euros). She wants to insure bad securities with a nominal value of 325 billion pounds with the British government for 6.5 billion pounds against payment defaults.
• Munich / Germany : The Allianz Group made a loss of 2.4 billion euros in 2008 due to the financial crisis . The loss was mainly caused by the investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort , which has since been sold to Commerzbank .
• Paris / France : An auction of the private art collections of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in the Grand Palais raised 373.9 million euros .

Friday February 27, 2009

The “Corsa” model is Opel's best-selling model

Fannie Mae logo

• Karlsruhe / Germany : According to a ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court, the Bavarian Assembly Act violates the fundamental right to freedom of demonstration in important parts.
• Rüsselsheim / Germany : The motor vehicle manufacturer " General Motors (GM) Europe" presents a rescue plan for the German subsidiary Opel , which includes that an "Opel company" to be founded will have its own corporate policy for Opel and its British "sister brand" Vauxhall Motors operates. Since the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2007 , the US parent company GM has been hit and no longer rules out a general withdrawal from Opel.
• Washington, DC / United States : The US mortgage bank Fannie Mae reports a record loss of 25.2 billion US dollars for the fourth quarter of 2008 and of 58.7 billion US dollars for the 2008 financial year.

Saturday February 28, 2009

Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel

• Berlin / Germany : The federal government calls on the car manufacturer Opel to present its restructuring plans. The federal government is considering investing five billion euros in Opel.
• Darmstadt / Germany : The delegates of the state party conference of the SPD Hessen elect Thorsten Schäfer-Gümbel as the new chairman of their state association with an approval of 90.3%.
• Sacramento / United States : California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger imposed for a sustained drought the state of emergency across the state.

See also

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

Web links

Canton of Ticino in February 2009

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

 Wikinews: Article Published February 2009  - News

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ wdr.de : Ex-Sparkasse boss under criticism ( Memento from February 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
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