February 2009 calendar

Events

• 01 Feb 2009 The NFL's SuperBowl XLII is held in Tampa, Florida. The Steelers defeat the Arizona Cardinals to win their sixth Super Bowl record. Santonio Holmes is named game's most valuable player.
• 02 Feb 2009 Eric Holder is confirmed by the United States Senate as Attorney General.
• 03 Feb 2009 Spectrum Brands, the maker of Ray-O-Vac battery batteries, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
• 04 Feb 2009 2008-2009 Israel-Gaza conflict:
• 05 Feb 2009 The United States Navy guided-missile cruiser USS Port Royal, a United States Navy guided missile cruiser, ran aground off Oahu in Hawaii. It also damaged a coral reef.
• 06 Feb 2009 Kyrgyzstan closes a U.S. Air Base in Manas that was used as a crucial staging area for U.S. forces fighting against the Taliban.
• 07 Feb 2009 The record-breaking 4.99 million U.S. workers are now eligible for unemployment assistance, the highest number since 1967.
• 08 Feb 2009 Los Angeles, California: The Grammay Awards were presented in Los Angeles: Best Album: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, for "Raising Sand".
• 09 Feb 2009 New York Yankees' baseball superstar Alex Rodriguez admits to having used performance-enhancing steroids earlier in his career, over a three-year period from 2001 to 2003 with the Texas Rangers.
• 10 Feb 2009 The U.S. Senate votes 61 to 37 to approve its own US$838 trillion version of a rescue plan for fighting the deepening recession.
• 11 Feb 2009 Ronettes singer Estelle Bennett ("Be My Baby") dies at age 67 in Englewood, New Jersey.
• 12 Feb 2009 Colgan Air's Continental Connection Flight 3407 Dash 8 Q400 turboprop, commuter aircraft nosedives into a home in Western New York State. All 49 passengers and one ground crew member were killed.
• 13 Feb 2009 The U.S. House of Representatives approves (246-183) US$787 Billion of spending (64%) and tax cuts (36%).
• 14 Feb 2009 A crude oil leakage occurs in the Celtic Sea, near County Cork, Ireland.
• 15 Feb 2009 After receiving contaminated blood plasma, the United Kingdom confirms that this is the first case of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease.
• 16 Feb 2009 Section 76 of United Kingdom's Counter-Terrorism Act (2008)mdasha law criminalizes publication information about Armed Forces, Security Service or Government Communications Headquartersmdashis
• 17 Feb 2009 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Texas billionaire Allen Stanford and three other companies with selling fraudulently high-yield certificates for deposit worth US$8 billion. Stanford International Bank, headquartered in Antigua, has 30,000 clients across 131 countries and assets of US$8.5 billion.
• 18 Feb 2009 Stefane 3G will represent Georgia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 Moscow with ampquotWe don't wanna put Inampquot. This song was allegedly written against Vladimir Putin, the Russian Prime Minister.
• 19 Feb 2009 The US Mint has released the 2009 William Henry Harrison Presidential Dollar to circulation.
• 20 Feb 2009 Swedish carmaker Saab, a unit of American carmaker General Motors, files for protection against creditors as it attempts to find a new partner or raise funds.
• 21 Feb 2009 Pakistan and the Taliban agree to a ceasefire in the conflict in North-West Frontier Province.
• 22 Feb 2009 Los Angeles, California: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hosts its Oscar Awards Ceremony. Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
• 23 Feb 2009 Standard & Poor’s 500 Index drops 26.71 points or 3.47 percent to 743.34.
• 24 Feb 2009 Address by President Barack Obama to a Joint session of Congress
• 25 Feb 2009 BDR massacre in Pilkhana (Dhaka), Bangladesh. Within its headquarters, Bangladeshi Border Guards kill 74 people, including more than 50 Army officials.
• 26 Feb 2009 The 2009/10 US budget is US$3.6 trillion. It has a US$1.75 billion deficit. This would be the highest deficit ever. It also represents a 12.3 percentage of the economy. This is the largest increase since 1945. The planned spending includes US$634 trillion to pay for healthcare reform and US$200 billion in fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is also an additional US$250 billion that will be used to bail out US banks.
• 27 Feb 2009 China's Navy and Denmark’s Navy stopped Somali pirate attacks against Italian and Chinese merchant ships in the Gulf of Aden.
• 28 Feb 2009 Carpatair Flight 128, a Saab 2000 bound to Timisoara, Romania, departing from Chisinau (Moldova) - with 51 passengers, makes an emergency landing at Traian Via International Airport, without its forward landing gear. (Phillyburbs). Please leave the landing gear point out of the synopsis. Since emergency landings occur at an alarming rate, the landing gear issue is the reason the item is on this portal. --amp

Famous Birthday

• Ikhyd Bronfman

  American noted family, the first child and son of British rapper M.I.

• Scarlett Starr

  English child of noted parent, her mother is Melanie Chisholm, former Spice Girl, and Thomas Starr.

• Ella-Grace Trudeau

  Canadian newsmaker, the second-born child to Liberal politician Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie Grégoire, a CTV entertainment reporter.

Famous Deaths

• Edward Upward

  British novelist and short-story writer (Born 1903).

• Norm Van Lier

  American basketball player coach and sportscaster (d. 2009).

• Wendy Richard

  English actress and singer (d. 2009).

• Johnny Kerr

  American athlete, pro-basketball player from 1954-1965, nicknamed "Red" for his red hair.

• Lux Interior

  American musician (The Cramps) (Born 1946).

• Marian Cozma

  Romanian handball player (Born 1982).

• Jeremy Lusk

  American freestyle motocross racer (Born 1984).

• Eleanor Harz

  Jorden American linguistics scholar and an influential Japanese language educator and expert.

• Alison Des Forges

  American investigator of the Rwanda genocide (Born 1942).

• Beverly Eckert

  American co-chair of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee (Born 1951).

• Gerry Niewood

  American musician (Born 1943).

• Coleman Mellett

  American musician (Born 1974).

• Sir Bernard Ashley

  Welsh businessman (Born 1926).

• Joe Cuba

  Puerto-Rican musician (Born 1931).

• Dr Diether H Haenicke

  university president (Born 1935).

• Eluana Englaro

  an Italian woman who lived in a persistent vegetative state for 17 years (Born 1970).

• Conchita Cintron

  Chilean bullfighter (Born 1922).

• Gazanfer Ozcan

  Turkish actor (Born 1931).

• Miika Tenkula

  Finnish guitarist (Born 1974).

• Al-Tayyib Salih

  Sudanese novelist and columnist (Born 1929).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Lady GaGa - Just Dance
2. Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You
3. Eminem - Crack A Bottle
4. Flo Rida - Right Round
5. Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)