January 2009

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This article covers breaking news and events in January 2009.

Daily events

Thursday January 1, 2009

The reverse of the Slovak 1 euro coin

Logo of the EU Presidency of the Czech Republic

Hans-Rudolf Merz, the new Swiss Federal President

• Ankara / Turkey : As part of political reforms, the state broadcaster TRT begins broadcasting a Kurdish television program.
• Bangkok / Thailand : At least 61 people are killed and more than 240 are injured in a large fire in a nightclub.
• Berlin / Germany : The Civil Status Reform Act (PStRG) of February 19, 2007, after which the civil status registers are converted into electronic registers during a five-year conversion phase, the withholding tax and the reformed inheritance tax come into force.
• Bern / Switzerland : The FDP politician Hans-Rudolf Merz becomes the new Federal President .
• Bratislava / Slovakia : Slovakia is the 16th member state of the European Union to introduce the euro . The available cash in Slovak koruna counts as legal tender until January 17th .
• Donnersbachwald / Austria : The Thuringian Prime Minister Dieter Althaus ( CDU ) is seriously injured in a skiing accident. The woman he hit at high speed was fatally injured.
• Kilinochchi / Sri Lanka : The Sri Lankan army conquers the city of Kilinochchi, which was considered the "capital" of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam . President Mahinda Rajapaksa calls this an "historic victory" for the army in the civil war in Sri Lanka .
• Moscow / Russia : After Ukraine was unable to agree on outstanding payments and a new natural gas supply contract with Russia , Gazprom stops all natural gas supplies to Ukraine.
• New York / United States : Japan , Mexico , Austria , the Turkey and Uganda are new non-permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations .
• Oslo / Norway : Same-sex marriage is possible in Norway from today .
• Prague / Czech Republic : The Czech Republic takes over the EU Council Presidency from France for half a year .

Friday January 2, 2009

• Baghdad / Iraq : At least 23 people die and 42 others are injured in a suicide attack south of Baghdad.
• Kiev / Ukraine : In the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine, which has escalated since the turn of the year, Ukraine is preparing the European Union so that less gas can flow from Russia to Europe, as “technical problems could reduce the flow”.

Saturday 3rd January 2009

• Buenos Aires / Argentina : The 31st Dakar Rally begins in the Argentine capital . It is taking place in South America for the first time and will also lead through Chile .
• Gaza Strip / Palestinian Autonomous Territories : The Israeli Armed Forces move into Operation Cast Lead with ground troops into the Gaza Strip controlled by the terrorist organization Hamas . Before that, the army first attacked with artillery . According to Palestinian figures, the number of deaths rises to a total of 460.
• Schwarzach / Austria : The Thuringian Prime Minister Dieter Althaus awakens from the sedation he was put into after a skiing accident in Upper Styria and is on the mend.

Sunday 4th January 2009

• Baghdad / Iraq : In al-Kazimiyya , north of Baghdad, a suicide bomber kills 40 Shiite pilgrims and guards near a shrine of the seventh Imam Mūsā al-Kāzim .
• Washington, DC / United States : New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson declares that he is no longer available for the post of Minister of Commerce in the future Obama cabinet .

Monday 5th January 2009

• Blaubeuren / Germany : Adolf Merckle , who got into financial difficulties due to the financial crisis, commits suicide . He was run over by a train near Ulm .
• St. Paul / United States : Al Franken of the Democratic Party wins the Senatorial elections in the US state of Minnesota .

Tuesday January 6, 2009

• Bischofshofen / Austria : Wolfgang Loitzl (AUT) wins the 57th Four Hills Tournament ahead of Simon Ammann ( SUI ).
• Jerusalem / Israel : During the Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip , 45 Palestinian refugees are killed in several school buildings. More than 635 people have died since the attacks began.
• Russia : The Russian gas monopoly Gazprom is drastically cutting gas supplies to European countries . In the early morning, OMV AG reports a failure of ninety percent of the normally supplied Russian gas, whereupon a crisis team meets.
• Washington, DC / United States : The 111th House of Representatives of the United States begins its work.

Wednesday January 7th 2009

Snowfall in Barcelona

Map of existing and planned gas pipelines, focus on Central Europe

• Europe : Winter has Europe firmly under control everywhere. Many European airports will be closed and trains will be stopped at train stations.
• Gaza Strip / Palestinian Territories : The Israeli Armed Forces suspend the fighting in Operation Cast Lead for three hours in order to allow rudimentary supplies to the population through humanitarian organizations.
• Russia , Ukraine : The gas dispute today leads to a complete failure of natural gas supplies from Russia via Ukraine to the importing countries west of Ukraine. Austria and the Czech Republic are hardest hit, as they can only get their gas from Russia via the route through Ukraine. The Russian side accuses Ukraine of stopping gas and Ukraine accuses Russian company Gazprom of stopping gas supply.

Thursday January 8, 2009

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Shortly before the completion of the takeover of Dresdner Bank, the state bank fund is providing Commerzbank , the second largest German financial institution, with a further capital injection of ten billion euros and is taking over 25 percent plus one share in Commerzbank ( partial nationalization ).
• San José / Costa Rica : In an earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale , at least 15 people die and 42 more are missing.

Friday January 9, 2009

• Ankara / Turkey : Egemen Bağış ( AKP ) is appointed first Turkish European Minister. He will take over from Foreign Minister Ali Babacan to lead Turkey's accession negotiations with the European Union .
• Arabian Sea : The Somali hijackers of the Sirius Star release the Saudi Arabian oil tanker they hijacked on November 15, 2008 for a ransom of three million US dollars .

Saturday 10th January 2009

• Arabian Sea : Six of the Somali pirates who kidnapped the Sirius Star are killed while their ship capsizes while fleeing. Parts of the ransom of three million US dollars are lost.
• Chemnitz / Germany : Helene Fischer wins her second folk music crown .

Sunday January 11, 2009

• Jakarta / Indonesia : The Teratai Prima ferry with almost 270 people on board sinks off the coast of Sulawesi , 22 people can initially be rescued, around 250 are still missing.
• Los Angeles / United States : In the 66th ceremony of the Golden Globe Awards , the drama continues as the most successful movie Slumdog Millionaire of British director Danny Boyle through.

Monday January 12, 2009

• Zurich / Switzerland : The Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo and the Brazilian Marta are named FIFA World Player of the Year .

Tuesday January 13, 2009

• Berlin / Germany : Chancellor Angela Merkel ( CDU ) and her deputy Frank-Walter Steinmeier ( SPD ) present the economic stimulus package II before the federal press conference . The key points are the lowering of the basic tax rate to 14% and the lowering of the contribution rate to statutory health insurance .
• Gaza / Palestinian Territories : In the most violent fighting to date, the Israeli army is advancing towards the center of Gaza. According to Palestinian sources, at least 940 people have died and 4,400 have been injured so far. At the same time, an initiative for a ceasefire is being worked on.

Wednesday January 14, 2009

• Brussels / Belgium : The art installation Entropa by the Czech artist David Černý triggers outrage. Bulgaria criticizes the fact that it is symbolized by squat toilets , and the highways symbolizing Germany show a swastika . The work of art, which supposedly shows national characteristics of the 27 member states of the European Union (EU), was commissioned by the government of the Czech Republic on the occasion of its EU Council Presidency .

Thursday January 15, 2009

US Airways Flight 1549

• Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The European Central Bank cuts the key interest rate by 0.5 percentage points to 2.0%.
• Gaza / Palestinian Autonomous Territories : As the Israeli Armed Forces advance further , the headquarters of the United Nations Relief Organization for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East is hit and partially destroyed. The number of fatalities from Operation Cast Lead rises to over 1,000.
• New York / United States : After ditching of US Airways - flight 1549 on the Hudson River , all 150 passengers and crew on board an Airbus A320 evacuated. The aircraft is then towed to a jetty about 3 km downstream. The plane was on its way from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte . The pilot reported problems with a flock of birds shortly after take-off . Eyewitnesses state that the aircraft did not climb fast enough after take-off and then lost altitude, and passengers report engine problems and engine failure.
• Wiesbaden / Germany : The Federal Statistical Office reports that the inflation rate in Germany reached 2.6% in 2008, the highest level since 1994.

Friday January 16, 2009

• Dublin / Ireland : In the wake of the financial crisis , the Irish government nationalized the Anglo Irish Bank .
• New York / United States : The oil price has fallen to 33 US dollars a barrel, its lowest level in five years.
• New York / United States : The major US banks Citigroup and Bank of America report losses of 8.29 and 2.4 billion US dollars respectively for the final quarter of 2008 as a result of the financial crisis .
• Vilnius / Lithuania : As a result of the financial crisis there are demonstrations and violent riots in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.

Saturday 17th January 2009

• Jerusalem / Israel : The Israeli government declares a unilateral ceasefire in the Gaza Strip .
• Kabul / Afghanistan : A suicide bomber blows himself up in front of the German embassy, killing five people and injuring more than 20 others.

Sunday January 18, 2009

Outside the Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City

Preliminary official election result of the Hessian state election

• Gaza / Palestinian Territories : After Hamas agrees to a week-long ceasefire, Israel begins to withdraw from the Gaza Strip .
• Kiev / Ukraine , Moscow / Russia : Both countries agree on gas prices for Western Europe.
• San Salvador / El Salvador : In the parliamentary elections , the guerrilla movement FMLN wins against the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance .
• Wiesbaden / Germany : In the new elections to the Hessian state parliament , the CDU and the FDP achieve a majority capable of governing. The SPD got their worst result, the Greens and the FDP their best result in a Hessian state election. The Left Party succeeds in re-entering the state parliament.

Monday January 19, 2009

• Moscow / Russia : The human rights lawyer Stanislaw Markelow and Anastassija Baburowa , an employee of the Novaya Gazeta newspaper , are shot dead in the street. Markelow was legal counsel for Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who was critical of the government .

Tuesday January 20, 2009

Barack Obama takes the oath of office as President of the USA

• Moscow / Russia : After a two-week break, Russia is resuming gas supplies via Ukraine to Western Europe .
• Washington, DC / United States : Barack Obama of the Democratic Party becomes the 44th President of the United States . In his inaugural address, he outlined the geostrategic course that the USA is striving for : "We are ready to lead again."
• Wiesbaden / Germany : The Society for the German Language chooses the expression “distressed banks” as the unword of the year 2008.

Wednesday January 21, 2009

• Reykjavík / Iceland : Due to the financial and banking crisis in autumn 2008, more than 2,000 demonstrators blame Prime Minister Geir Haarde for the impending bankruptcy of Iceland and the rising unemployment. The protesters stormed a meeting of the Icelandic Social Democratic Party and then moved to parliament . Prime Minister Geir Haarde was only able to leave his official residence under police protection.
• Washington, DC / United States : US President Barack Obama takes the oath of office a second time because the official swearing in by John Roberts was not in the correct word order.

Thursday January 22, 2009

• Berlin / Germany : The possession, sale and manufacture of the fashion drug Spice have been prohibited since today following an emergency ordinance and are punishable by law.
• Los Angeles / United States : For the 81st Academy Awards , the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated in the category Best Foreign Language Film a . a. the films Revenche by Austrian director Götz Spielmann and Der Baader Meinhof Complex by German director Bernd Eichinger .
• Ruhengeri / Rwanda : Rwandan soldiers arrest Laurent Nkunda , the leader of the armed Congolese National Congress for the Defense of the People , after a brief escape from the Congo. Nkunda is responsible for various crimes against humanity in the Third Congo War .
• Shijiazhuang / China : In the trial of baby milk powder contaminated with melamine , a court in Hebei province sentenced three men to death.
• Washington, DC / United States : US President Barack Obama orders the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to be closed within one year.

Friday January 23, 2009

Geir Haarde

• Dendermonde / Belgium : In a rampage in a daycare center in the small town of Dendermonde, two small children and a carer are killed, ten other small children and five kindergarten teachers are injured.
• Dresden / Germany : The memory chip manufacturer Qimonda files for bankruptcy .
• Reykjavík / Iceland : Iceland's Prime Minister Geir Haarde declares his resignation and announces new elections on April 25, 2009 .
• Tanegashima / Japan : The research satellite GOSAT for the observation of greenhouse gases takes off from the Tanegashima Space Center .

Saturday January 24, 2009

• Barcelona / Spain : When a sports hall roof collapses due to a hurricane near Barcelona, Sant Boi de Llobregat, four children are killed and 16 others are injured.
• Lampedusa / Italy : Hundreds of migrants from Africa break out of an overcrowded detention center on the Italian island of Lampedusa; Every year, thousands dare to take a boat trip across the Mediterranean to immigrate to Europe, the majority of them being arrested on Lampedusa because the Italian authorities assume they will migrate for economic rather than humanitarian reasons.
• France , Spain : Hurricane Klaus kills 16 in southern France and Spain.
• Vatican City : Pope Benedict XVI. reverses the excommunication of four bishops of the Society of St. Pius X. Among those pardoned is Richard Williamson , who denies the Holocaust . The Israeli government under Ehud Olmert and high-ranking Jewish clergy respond with sharp criticism.

Sunday 25th January 2009

• La Paz / Bolivia : In a referendum, around 60 percent of the population vote in favor of the new Bolivian constitution.
• Mullaitivu / Sri Lanka : According to the military, the last stronghold of the Tamil LTTE rebels in the north of the island of Sri Lanka was taken.
• Reykjavík / Iceland : After ongoing demonstrations against the government, Economy Minister Björgvin Sigurðsson announces his resignation. Prime Minister Geir Haarde announced on January 23 that he would resign from his post.

Monday January 26, 2009

• Antananarivo / Madagascar : A demonstration with 800,000 participants against the corruption of President Ravalomanana leads to clashes with the army in which over 30 people die.
• Bellflower / United States : Eightlings are born in the United States for the first time since 1998 .
• Washington, DC / United States : Barack Obama pushes climate protection in a memorandum . Manufacturers should build cars with lower emissions .

Tuesday January 27, 2009

• Berlin / Germany : For the first time, the vehicle tax is based on carbon dioxide emissions. The CDU did not provide any special relief for large off-road vehicles .
• Moscow / Russia : The State Council of the Russian Orthodox Church elects Kyrill I as the new Patriarch of Moscow and all of Russia .
• New York / United States : The world's largest pharmaceutical company Pfizer announces the amicable takeover of its competitor Wyeth for 68 billion US dollars .

Wednesday January 28, 2009

Part of the Truckenthal Viaduct was blown up

• Davos / Switzerland : The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum , overshadowed by the global financial crisis, will take place from January 28th to February 1st.
• Moscow / Russia : After Barack Obama's inauguration as President of the United States and the realignment of the United States ' foreign policy , in which the installation of a national anti-missile defense system has been dispensed with, Russia initially does not want Iskander missiles in its Kaliningrad region, which is located between Lithuania and Poland station.
• Nairobi / Kenya : 47 people are reported missing after a fire in a supermarket.
• Schalkau / Germany : Due to structural damage, a pillar of the Truckenthal arch bridge including the half-finished arch was blown up. After the demolition rubble has been removed, the reconstruction should begin.

Thursday January 29, 2009

• Gulf of Aden : Somali pirates kidnap the tanker Longchamp off the Kenyan coast , which sails under the flag of the Bahamas and is underway on behalf of the German company Bernhard Schulte Shipmanagement.

Friday January 30th 2009

• Japan : The Japanese economy is slipping into its worst post-war recession as a result of the financial crisis in the United States .

Saturday January 31, 2009

• Baghdad / Iraq : Regional elections are held in 14 of the 18 Iraqi provinces .
• Mogadishu / Somalia : Sharif Sheikh Ahmed is elected President of the country.
• Nairobi / Kenya : 122 people are killed in the explosion of a tank truck .

See also

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

Web links

North Rhine-Westphalia in January 2009

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

 Wikinews: Article Published January 2009  - News

Individual evidence

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20. ↑ AFP: 45 dead in Israeli attack on UN school  ( 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 January 6, 2009)  
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31. ↑ AFP: Little hope of survivors after a ferry crash in Indonesia  ( 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 January 12, 2009)  
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35. ↑ AFP: Most violent fighting in the Gaza Strip since the start of the offensive  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed January 13, 2009)  
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