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This article covers breaking news and events in May 2009.
Daily events
Friday 1st May 2009
- Berlin , Hamburg / Germany : In the Berlin district of Kreuzberg , the worst riot in years is taking place. There are massive clashes between demonstrators and police in Hamburg as well.
Saturday 2nd May 2009
- Würzburg / Germany : The EKD Synod elects Katrin Göring-Eckardt as chairperson.
Sunday May 3, 2009
- Panama City / Panama : Opposition politician Ricardo Martinelli wins the presidential elections .
- Táchira / Venezuela : 18 people die in a military helicopter crash .
Monday 4th May 2009
- Kathmandu / Nepal : Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal declares his resignation after a dispute about the integration of former Maoist rebels into the army and the failed dismissal of the army chief .
- Mardin / Turkey : 44 people are killed in the Mardin massacre in southeastern Turkey. Another 17 people are seriously injured.
Tuesday May 5, 2009
- Karlsruhe / Germany : According to the judgment of the Federal Constitutional Court, the legislative restriction to “ married double names ” is compatible with the Basic Law .
- Strasbourg / France : The European Parliament passes a regulation banning the trade in seal products , which will apply in the territory of the European Union from 2010. The EU-wide trade restrictions are intended on the one hand to abolish fragmentation of the internal market and on the other to harmonize animal welfare standards across the EU.
- Vitoria-Gasteiz / Spain : The socialist Patxi López is elected President of the Basque Country , replacing the nationalists who have ruled for three decades.
Wednesday May 6, 2009
- Arabian Sea : A third German ship owned by a shipping company from Haren and flying the flag of Antigua and Barbuda is captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia . This means that 19 ships are now in the hands of pirates in Somalia.
- Cape Town / South Africa : The National Assembly meeting in Cape Town elects Jacob Zuma from the African National Congress party as the new President .
- Prague / Czech Republic : The Senate ratifies the Lisbon Treaty .
Thursday May 7, 2009
- Berlin / Germany : The grand coalition agrees on a ban on paintball games.
- Düsseldorf / Germany : Porsche gives up the unilateral takeover of Volkswagen AG , instead both automobile groups announce plans for a merger.
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Due to the ongoing financial crisis, the European Central Bank (ECB) is lowering the key interest rate to 1.0%. In addition to the rate cut, Jean-Claude Trichet announced a number of “unconventional” monetary policy measures. From June 23, commercial banks will receive long-term tenders with a term of twelve months and the prospect of purchasing covered bonds (such as Pfandbriefe ) denominated in euros for over 60 billion euros is in prospect. The European Investment Bank (EIB) will be approved as a counterparty in refinancing transactions with the ECB from July 8 , in order to be able to better supply European companies with loans.
- Prague / Czech Republic : At the founding summit of the Eastern Partnership under the leadership of the Czech EU Council Presidency to intensify cooperation between the European Union and the former Soviet Union states Armenia , Azerbaijan , Georgia , Moldova , Ukraine and Belarus , “political association” and "Deeper economic integration" as the main goals.
Friday May 8, 2009
- Berlin / Germany : The online petition against the draft law initiated by Ursula von der Leyen to combat child pornography in communication networks achieves the necessary 50,000 votes within a few days, which enables the initiators to speak in person when the matter is publicly discussed in the petitions committee of the German Bundestag . The signatories are presumably not concerned with easy access to child pornography , but rather with as little surveillance as possible on the Internet in general .
Saturday May 9, 2009
- Cologne / Germany : Daniel Schuhmacher wins the sixth season of Germany is looking for the superstar .
Sunday May 10, 2009
- Bern / Switzerland : Russia becomes ice hockey world champion with a 2-1 win over Canada .
- Geneva / Switzerland : Nine more substances are added to the list of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.
- Europe : For articles in German that have been deleted from Wikipedia, the Marjorie Wiki goes online as a rescue station . It is also a donation-financed project based on MediaWiki .
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa , Malakand / Pakistan : According to Army General David H. Petraeus, around 200 people die in fighting in the Swat Valley and in the neighboring Shangla district against the Taliban . An estimated 200,000 people are on the run in the region.
Monday May 11, 2009
- Cape Canaveral / United States : The space shuttle Atlantis starts with seven astronauts at 8:01 p.m. CEST on a repair mission for the Hubble space telescope .
- Sankt Augustin / Germany : Around 9 a.m., a planned rampage at the Albert Einstein High School in Sankt Augustin near Bonn was probably prevented. Apparently a 16-year-old student was planning an arson attack on the school. According to the police, this was only prevented because she was surprised by a schoolgirl in the ladies' room while preparing. The perpetrator attacked with a knife and fled. Late in the evening, she faced the police officers.
- Tehran / Iran : The Iranian Court of Appeal is converting the eight-year prison sentence previously imposed on Roxana Saberi on suspicion of espionage into a two-year suspended sentence. Saberi had previously been supported in her appointment by US President Barack Obama in order to facilitate the dialogue with the country sought by Obama.
Tuesday May 12, 2009
- Jerusalem / Israel : Pope Benedict XVI. affirms the will for reconciliation between Jews and Christians at a meeting with chief rabbis on his pilgrimage .
- Munich / Germany : The former guard at the Sobibor death camp and alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk , consisting of the United States was deported, arrives in Germany and is in custody taken.
Wednesday May 13, 2009
- Berlin / Germany : The Federal Cabinet passes the law on the further development of financial market stabilization .
- Cannes / France : Start of the 2009 Cannes International Film Festival
- Tübingen / Germany : The Venus from Hohlen Fels is presented to the public.
Thursday May 14, 2009
- Athens / Greece : The so-called Bilderberg Conference will take place until Sunday at the Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel in the Athens suburb of Vouliagmeni. Around 150 influential politicians as well as people from business and the nobility take part in the meeting. The focus of the meeting is the international economic crisis.
- Berlin / Germany : Due to drastically falling tax revenues of the German total state budget, according to the will tax experts create a record borrowing over the next four years.
- Kourou / French Guiana : An Ariane 5 rocket with the Herschel and Planck space telescopes on board successfully starts.
- Rangoon / Myanmar : The opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi is arrested a few days before her house arrest expires.
Friday May 15, 2009
- Hanover / Germany : At the FDP party convention , party leader Guido Westerwelle is re-elected with 95.84 percent.
- Osnabrück / Germany : Chancellor Angela Merkel opens the three-part exhibition in Bramsche-Kalkriese and Detmold for the 2000th anniversary of the Varus Battle , which also includes an exhibition in Haltern am See . The exhibition starts on Saturday and runs until October 25th.
Saturday May 16, 2009
- Moscow / Russia : The final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 was won by Norwegian Alexander Rybak with his entry Fairytale . Activists such as Peter Tatchell and Nikolai Alexejew are arrested at an LGBT demonstration .
- New Delhi / India : The election results of the parliamentary elections, which took place over several weeks, are announced. After that, the ruling Congress party wins a simple majority of the seats and is by far the strongest party in parliament, which will hold its first session on June 2, 2009. Around 60 percent of the 714 million eligible voters cast their votes.
- Sri Jayewardenepura / Sri Lanka : The government declares the victory over the LTTE rebels and the civil war over.
- Vienna / Austria : 17th Life Ball .
Sunday 17th May 2009
- Kuwait City / Kuwait : In the parliamentary elections in Kuwait, four female MPs will be elected for the first time in the country's history.
- Vilnius / Lithuania : In the presidential elections , Dalia Grybauskaitė was elected the first woman president in the country's history with 68% of the vote .
Monday May 18, 2009
- Brussels / Belgium : At around 1 p.m., a fire breaks out in the main building of the EU Commission. Nobody gets hurt.
- Düsseldorf / Germany : Heinz Hilgert resigns as head of WestLB on the grounds of the lack of support from the owners.
- Magdeburg / Germany : The German U-17 national team becomes European champions .
- Sri Lanka : Two days after the government, the armed forces also declare the end of the so-called "civil war" against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam , in which at least 80,000 people have lost their lives since 1983.
Tuesday May 19, 2009
- Lilongwe / Malawi : Bingu wa Mutharika wins the parliamentary elections.
- Luxembourg / Luxembourg : According to a ruling by the European Court of Justice , pharmacy chains that were planned to be set up by a Dutch internet pharmacy , for example, remain banned in Germany.
- New York / United States : Researchers at the Natural History Museum confirm the connection between the primate Darwinius , who lived 47 million years ago, with Homo sapiens . This thesis is based on the remains of "Ida" found 28 years ago in the Messel mine in Germany , which in the meantime came into private hands and have now been finally researched.
- Washington, DC / United States : The US administration under Barack Obama has announced plans to minimize the high emissions of new cars nationwide. The average fuel consumption per 100 kilometers is expected to fall by almost 30 percent from the current 9.2 liters to around 6.6 liters by 2016.
Wednesday May 20, 2009
- Bern / Switzerland : FC Sion wins the final of the Swiss Cup in football at the Stade de Suisse with 3-2 against Berner SC Young Boys .
- Bremen / Germany : The 32nd German Evangelical Church Congress begins. Its motto is: "Man, where are you?"
- Essen / Germany : The creditors' meeting of the Hertie department store chain decides to close the chain's 54 department stores.
- Istanbul / Turkey : Shakhtar Donetsk wins the UEFA Europa League with a 2-1 final win over Werder Bremen .
- Jakarta / Indonesia : At least 97 people are killed and 19 others are injured when a military aircraft crashes into a residential area. The machine had started in Jakarta and was on its way to Papua .
- Solukhumbu / Nepal , Tibet / China : Ralf Dujmovits is the first German to climb all 14 eight-thousanders . At 11 a.m. local time, he and his wife Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner stand on the summit of Lhotse (8,516 m), his last remaining eight-thousander. In total, he has climbed an eight-thousander 17 times.
Thursday May 21, 2009
- Aachen / Germany : The Charlemagne Prize is presented to the Italian historian Andrea Riccardi . He is the founder of the ecclesiastical movement Sant'Egidio .
- Kathmandu / Nepal : The Nepalese high-altitude climber Appa Sherpa climbs Mount Everest for the 19th time and breaks his own world record.
- Cologne / Germany : Sara Nuru from Munich wins the fourth season of “ Germany's Next Top Model ”.
- New York / United States : FBI specialists arrest four suspected terrorists. The suspects planned attacks on a synagogue , a Jewish community center and a military airfield.
- Plate / Germany : A tornado passes over the town in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and causes damage amounting to millions.
- Washington, DC / United States : US President Barack Obama speaks out in favor of closing the Guantanamo prison camp and admitting 240 Guantanamo prisoners despite opposition from Congress .
Friday May 22, 2009
- Berlin / Germany : The 60th anniversary of the proclamation of the Basic Law is celebrated in a state act . Because of the election of the Federal President, the celebration was brought forward one day.
Saturday May 23, 2009
- Berlin / Germany : Horst Köhler is with 613 votes of the Federal Assembly already re-elected in the first ballot as president .
- Berlin / Germany : In front of the Brandenburg Gate there is a public festival on the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany. Moderators like Thomas Gottschalk and Sandra Maischberger lead through the program. The Staatskapelle Berlin will perform Beethoven's 9th Symphony under the direction of conductor Daniel Barenboim . Other performers at the festival concert are Anne Schwanewilms , Waltraud Meier , Jonas Kaufmann , René Pape and the Staatsoper Chor der Berliner Staatsoper .
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Those employed in the construction industry receive 4.6 percent more wages. This will settle the wage dispute and avert a strike .
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : Franziska Reichenbacher will moderate the drawing of the lottery numbers for the 500th time .
- Cologne / Germany : In the TV show Schlag den Raab , the highest total profit of three million euros that can ever be achieved on German television on its own is won. Another record is the duration of the broadcast of five hours and 19 minutes.
- Washington, DC / United States : Roxana Saberi , a journalist convicted on suspicion of espionage, is returning to the United States after her release on May 11th from an Iranian prison.
- Wolfsburg / Germany : VfL Wolfsburg becomes German football champions for the first time .
Sunday May 24, 2009
- Adenau / Germany : The Manthey Porsche team wins the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring for the third time in a row .
- Cannes / France : The film The White Ribbon - A German Children's Story by Michael Haneke wins the 2009 Golden Palm . The actor awards go to Christoph Waltz (for Inglourious Basterds ) and Charlotte Gainsbourg (for Antichrist )
- Mattersburg / Austria : Defending champion Austria Wien wins the ÖFB Cup final against Admira Wacker Mödling in the Pappelstadion 3-1 after extra time.
- Osnabrück / Germany : Federal Minister of Education Annette Schavan honors the winners of the federal competition Jugend forscht .
- Rabat / Morocco : Eleven people are killed during a mass panic at a music festival.
Monday May 25, 2009
- Bangladesh , India : Cyclone "Aila" kills almost 200 people in eastern India and Bangladesh.
- Jalandhar / India : After the murder of a Sikh - Guru in Vienna occurs in the Indian state of Punjab serious riots.
- Pyongyang / North Korea : A nuclear weapon test meets with worldwide outrage.
Tuesday May 26, 2009
- Darmstadt / Germany : Walter Kappacher is awarded this year's Georg Büchner Prize .
- Karlsruhe / Germany : The Federal Court of Justice approves the film Rohtenburg . Armin Meiwes' right to cease and desist against the showing of the film is thus invalid.
- Munich , Stuttgart / Germany : National striker Mario Gómez changes from VfB Stuttgart to Bayern Munich . Apparently this is a record transfer in the German Football League - the transfer fee should be 30 million euros.
- Pyongyang / North Korea : After global protests, the military fired two more short-range missiles .
- Washington, DC / United States : President Barack Obama nominates Sonia Sotomayor to succeed Judge David Souter at the United States Supreme Court .
Wednesday May 27, 2009
- Baikonur / Kazakhstan : The Soyuz TMA-15 takes off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with the 20th long-term crew to the International Space Station .
- Berlin / Germany : The German government approves loans totaling 47.6 billion euros. This is not only the highest level of new debt in German history, but also the second improvement to the current budget.
- Lahore / Pakistan : 23 people die and more people are injured in an Islamist suicide attack.
- Rome / Italy : In the Champions League final between FC Barcelona and Manchester United in the Olympic Stadium in Rome , FC Barcelona won 2-0.
Thursday May 28, 2009
- Hamburg / Germany : Thomas Wolf , one of the most wanted felons in Germany, is arrested after almost ten years of targeting .
- Tegucigalpa / Honduras : A 7.1 magnitude earthquake off the coast of the country kills at least four people and injures at least 40 others. The quake occurred at 02:24 a.m. local time.
Friday May 29, 2009
- Berlin / Germany : The Bundestag writes a debt brake in the Basic Law .
- Los Angeles / United States : Phil Spector is sentenced to a minimum of 19 years in prison for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson .
- Zurich / Switzerland : FC Zurich are officially the 2009 Swiss football champions .
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- Berlin / Germany : Werder Bremen wins in Berlin Olympic Stadium discharged DFB Cup -Endspiel against Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1: 0th
- Berlin / Germany : The federal government, states, General Motors and the US government have agreed on a trust model and the supplier Magna and the Russian Sberbank as investors for the automobile manufacturer Opel .
- Frankfurt am Main / Germany : The International German Gymnastics Festival opens.
Sunday May 31, 2009
- Nuremberg / Germany : With a 2-0 in the relegation second leg against Energie Cottbus , 1. FC Nuremberg succeeded in returning to the Bundesliga . Cottbus is relegated to the 2nd Bundesliga .
- Rome / Italy : The 92nd edition of the wheel - stage race Giro d'Italia winner is the Russian Denis Menshov . It is the third overall victory of a Russian on this tour.
- Salzburg / Austria : Club RB Salzburg is officially the Austrian football champions 2009 .
See also
- Nekrolog May 2009 for deaths this month
- List of annually recurring commemorative and action days in May
- Category for commemorative days, holidays or action days in May
Web links
Commons : May 2009 - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ tagesschau.de : "Most serious May riots in years" ( Memento from May 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ History of the May 1st riots. In: berliner-kurier.de . April 30, 2018. Retrieved May 25, 2019 .
- ↑ tagesschau.de: EKD Synod elects Göring-Eckardt to the top ( Memento from May 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on May 3, 2009)
- ↑ dw-world.de: Conservative becomes new president in Panama ( Memento from May 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (May 4, 2009)
- ↑ BBC: Venezuela army helicopter crashes (accessed May 4, 2009)
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Severe setback for democracy in Nepal ( Memento from May 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on May 4, 2009)
- ↑ focus.de: Bloodbath at wedding party in Turkey: 44 dead (accessed on May 5, 2009)
- ↑ Federal Constitutional Court: Legislative restriction to "married double names" compatible with the Basic Law (accessed on May 5, 2009)
- ↑ stern.de: EU prohibits trade in seal products (accessed on May 5, 2009)
- ↑ dernewsticker.de: López is elected as the new head of the Basque government (accessed on May 5, 2009)
- ↑ tagesschau.de : German ship captured by pirates again ( Memento from May 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ epd.de : Jacob Zuma elected as the new President of South Africa ( Memento from June 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ tagesspiegel.de: The Czech Republic votes for the Lisbon Treaty (accessed on May 6, 2009)
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Paintball should be banned - coalition wants to change gun law ( Memento from May 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed May 7, 2009)
- ↑ focus.de: Porsche gives up VW takeover plans (accessed May 7, 2009)
- ↑ Guideline of the European Central Bank of 7 May 2009 amending Guideline ECB / 2000/7 on monetary policy instruments and procedures of the Eurosystem. (PDF) In: europa.eu . Retrieved August 27, 2018 .
- ^ The key interest rate development in the euro zone since 1999. In: Börse Online . June 6, 2014, accessed August 27, 2018 .
- ^ Joint declaration of the Prague Summit on the Eastern Partnership. In: europa.eu . May 7, 2009. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Successful petition against Internet blocking ( Memento from May 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on May 8, 2009)
- Jump up ↑ Ice Hockey World Championships: 73rd Ice Hockey World Championships 2009 in Switzerland. In: ifosta.de. Retrieved February 22, 2017 .
- ↑ reuters.com: Nine dangerous chemicals added to global banned list (accessed on May 11, 2009)
- ↑ About this wiki. In: Marjorie Wiki. Retrieved September 30, 2016 .
- ↑ reuters.com: Pakistanis flee offensive as US sees fresh resolve (accessed on May 11, 2009)
- ↑ n-tv.de: Repair mission for "Hubble" - "Atlantis" has started (accessed on May 12, 2009)
- ↑ welt.de: Amok alarm near Bonn: Police are looking for 16-year-old schoolgirl (accessed on May 11, 2009)
- ↑ welt.de: Amokfall Sankt Augustin: At 11 p.m. the student turned herself in to the police (accessed on May 12, 2009)
- ↑ spiegel.de: US journalist Saberi released (accessed May 27, 2009)
- ↑ focus.de: Justice spokesman: The release of the journalist Saberi is an "Iranian pardon" (accessed on May 27, 2009)
- ↑ focus.de: Pope strives for reconciliation (accessed on May 12, 2009)
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Adhesive - but also negotiable? ( Memento of May 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Accessed May 12, 2009)
- ^ University of Tübingen (accessed on May 15, 2009)
- ↑ The Times: Shadowy Bilderberg group meet in Greece - and here's their address (accessed on May 16, 2009)
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Debate after tax estimate ( Memento from May 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on May 14, 2009)
- ↑ BBC: Lift-off for European telescopes (accessed May 14, 2009)
- ↑ focus.de: Nobel Peace Prize laureate Suu Kyi faces prison sentence (accessed on May 14, 2009)
- ↑ focus.de: FDP: dream result for party leader Westerwelle (accessed on May 15, 2009)
- ↑ stern.de: Exhibition on the Varus Battle opened ( Memento from May 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on May 16, 2009)
- ↑ queer.de: Moscow: activists arrested (accessed May 17, 2009)
- ↑ n-tv.de: Congress party is ahead (accessed on May 16, 2009)
- ↑ welt.de: Sri Lanka declares Tamil rebels defeated (accessed on May 16, 2009)
- ↑ zeit.de: Elections in Kuwait: Women are entering parliament for the first time (accessed on May 17, 2009)
- ↑ Grybauskaite wins the presidential election in Lithuania. In: brf.be . May 18, 2009, accessed June 3, 2019 .
- ↑ bild.de: EU Commission evacuated due to fire (accessed on May 18, 2009)
- ↑ zeit.de: WestLB boss Hilgert gives up. (Accessed May 18, 2009)
- ↑ ftd.de: Happy-End in Magdeburg ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on May 18, 2009)
- ^ Massacres in Paradise - A Chronology of the Civil War in Sri Lanka. In: nzz.ch . May 18, 2019, accessed June 5, 2019 .
- ↑ BBC: Malawi president wins re-election (accessed May 22, 2009)
- ↑ welt.de: Pharmacy chains remain banned in Germany ( Memento from May 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on May 19, 2009)
- ↑ ZDF-Online: The Secret Discovery - Sensational fossil discovery gives insights into human evolution (accessed on May 19, 2009)
- ↑ fr-online.de: Obama wants cleaner cars by 2016 (accessed on May 22, 2009)
- ↑ Switzerland Cup 2008/09. In: rsssf.com . Retrieved April 30, 2019 .
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Köhler calls for solidarity in the crisis ( Memento from May 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on May 21, 2009)
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Creditors' meeting decides to end Hertie (accessed on May 20, 2009)
- ↑ 2008/09: Ukrainians triumph in Istanbul. In: uefa.com . Retrieved February 21, 2017 .
- ↑ n-tv.de: "As if grenades were exploding" - 97 dead in plane crash (accessed on May 20, 2009)
- ↑ Eberhard Jurgalski : 8000ers.com: Gerlinde and Ralf summited Lhotse . (Accessed May 20, 2009)
- ^ The Charlemagne Prize winner 2009 Andrea Riccardi. In: karlspreis.de . Retrieved November 30, 2018 .
- ↑ westfaelische-nachrichten.de: Intrepid mountaineers in the summit frenzy (accessed on May 21, 2009)
- ↑ stern.de: Sara Nuru is the new "top model" ( Memento from May 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on May 21, 2009)
- ↑ spiegel.de: USA dismayed by terror plot in New York (accessed on May 21, 2009)
- ↑ focus.de: Schwerin: Tornado causes damage worth millions (accessed on May 21, 2009)
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: Obama wants to take in Guantanamo prisoners ( Memento from May 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on May 21, 2009)
- ↑ tagesschau.de: In good shape - 60 years of the Basic Law (accessed on May 22, 2009)
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Köhler confirmed as Federal President ( Memento from May 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on May 21, 2009)
- ↑ morgenpost.de: Citizens' festival for the 60th anniversary of the Federal Republic (accessed on May 21, 2009)
- ↑ zdf.de: 60 years of the Federal Republic of Germany ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed May 23, 2009)
- ↑ stern.de: 4.6 percent more wages in construction ( Memento from May 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on May 23, 2009)
- ↑ It's all about the numbers. In: rp-online.de . May 23, 2009. Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
- ↑ AFP: Saberi returned to the USA after being released from Iran (accessed on May 23, 2009)
- ↑ Live ticker: VfL Wolfsburg - Eintracht Frankfurt 3: 1 (Bundesliga 2009/2010, 34th matchday) (accessed on May 23, 2009)
- ↑ adac.24h-rennen.de ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed May 24, 2009)
- ↑ bazonline.ch: Mass panic at festival in Morocco - eleven dead (accessed on May 24, 2009)
- ↑ https://www.focus.de/panorama/welt/unwetter-fast-200-todesopfer-nach-zyklon-und132ailaund147_aid_403057.html
- ↑ zeit.de: Worldwide outrage about North Korea (accessed on May 25, 2009)
- ↑ faz.net: Büchner Prize for Walter Kappacher (accessed on May 27, 2009)
- ↑ n-tv.de: New missile tests: Pyongyang continues to snub (accessed on May 26, 2009)
- ↑ focus.de: Obama annoys the right (accessed on May 26, 2009)
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Record debt decided ( Memento from May 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on May 27, 2009)
- ↑ https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=200905270014
- ↑ focus.de: "Fantabarca, Barcelona der Wunder" (accessed on May 29, 2009)
- ↑ focus.de: Police capture serious criminal Wolf (accessed on May 28, 2009)
- ↑ https://www.derstandard.at/story/1242316905280/mindest-vier-tote-bei-starkem-erdbeben-in-mittel America
- ↑ sueddeutsche.de: 19 years imprisonment for Phil Spector. Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 17, 2010, accessed on August 14, 2020 .
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Future of the car manufacturer secured - Magna is allowed to save Opel (accessed on May 30, 2009)
- ↑ Elenco Edizioni. In: museociclismo.it, Museo del Ciclismo Associazione. Retrieved October 24, 2017 (Italian).
