March 2009 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 2009 The Basque Nationalist Party won a majority of the seats in Spain's Basque Country's Parliamentary Elections.
• 02 Mar 2009 The Dow Jones Industrial Average drops below 7,000 for first time since May 1997. It dropped 299.64 points or 4.24 percent to 6,763.29.
• 03 Mar 2009 The Historisches Archiv der Stadt Koln (Historical Archives), in Cologne, Germany, is destroyed.
• 04 Mar 2009 Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Sudanese President, is being held by the International Criminal Court (ICC). He was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is now the first sitting head state to be indicted since 2002, when the ICC was established.
• 05 Mar 2009 General Motors admits in its annual report, that it is in "substantial doubt" about its survival.
• 06 Mar 2009 The European Union will transfer to Kenya Somali pirates that were captured during Operation Atalanta.
• 07 Mar 2009 NASA launched the unmanned Kepler telescope from Cape Canaveral, Florida to orbit the Sun in search of Earth-like planets that could host life.
• 08 Mar 2009 Moshe Katsav, former Israeli President, will face charges of rape as well as indecent assault.
• 09 Mar 2009 Barack Obama signs an executive decree restoring funding to stem cell research.
• 10 Mar 2009 The United States Senate approves an Omnibus Spending Bill in the amount of US$410 billion.
• 11 Mar 2009 Winnenden school shooting: 17 people are shot and killed in a school in Germany.
• 12 Mar 2009 Roche Holding, a Swiss drugmaker, announces that it will purchase the remaining 44 per cent of Genentech stock in America for US$46.8billion.
• 13 Mar 2009 The United States has dropped the term "ampquotenemy combatantampquot" for Guantanamo Bay Naval base's detention camp detainees.
• 14 Mar 2009 An auction sells a copy of the first Superman comic, Action Comics, Number 1, June 1938, for US$317,000.
• 15 Mar 2009 NASA launches the space shuttle Discovery from Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
• 16 Mar 2009 Andry Rajoelina, a former Antanarivo Mayor, demands that President Marc Ravalomanana be arrested by Madagascar's military. This is after soldiers from the Army seize a presidential palace.
• 17 Mar 2009 Martin Brodeur of the New Jersey Devils passes Patrick Roy to become the National Hockey League's most successful goaltender.
• 18 Mar 2009 For the first time since 1960s, the US Federal Reserve announces that it will purchase up to US$300 Billion of Treasury bonds. The Federal Reserve announced that it will increase its existing program to purchase securities and debt to US$1.45 trillion.
• 19 Mar 2009 A 7.9 magnitude earthquake is felt, and the Hunga Tonga submarine volcanic eruption occurs in the Pacific Ocean close to Tongatapu (Tonga).
• 20 Mar 2009 In the Strait of Hormuz, the United States Navy's USS "Hartford" and USS "New Orleans" collide.
• 21 Mar 2009 Minimum 21 people are killed in combat in Russia's Dagestan Republic.
• 22 Mar 2009 After a long period of unrest, Mount Redoubt in Alaska starts erupting.
• 23 Mar 2009 Near a Haifa, Israel shopping center, a car bomb was located and defused.
• 24 Mar 2009 The Lady Mary, a fishing boat, sinks off Cape May
• 25 Mar 2009 The 50-ore Swedish coin will be abolished by the Parliament of Sweden on September 30, 2010.
• 26 Mar 2009 Mount Redoubt volcano, Alaska, erupts, sending a plume ash and smoke into atmosphere, reaching up to 20,000m.
• 27 Mar 2009 Situ Gintung, an artificial lake located in Indonesia, crashes and kills at least 99 people.
• 28 Mar 2009 After a 13-day mission, NASA's Discovery spaceship lands at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
• 29 Mar 2009 General Motors Chairman/CEO Rick Wagoner steps down
• 30 Mar 2009 US President Barack Obama orders General Motors CEO Rick Wagoner to resign.
• 31 Mar 2009 Benjamin Netanyahu, Chairman of the Likud Party, is elected Prime Minister of Israel.

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