May 2009 calendar

Events

• 01 May 2009 Sweden has legalized same-sex marriage.
• 02 May 2009 Holiday World, Indiana, USA: The Pilgrim’s Plunge water slide opens. It is the largest water ride drop in the world at 131 feet and has a 45-degree slope.
• 03 May 2009 Nepalese Prime Minister Prachanda resigns.
• 04 May 2009 Dominick DeLuise (American comic actor, Blazing Saddles and The Cannonball Run), Smokey and the Bandit II, has died at 75 from prostate cancer.
• 05 May 2009 Worldwide, 1,490 cases have been confirmed to be swine flu.
• 06 May 2009 The European Parliament delayed its planned reform of the European Union’s telecommunications policy.
• 07 May 2009 A 40-hour siege in Napier by a single gunman begins with over 100 New Zealand Police officers.
• 08 May 2009 Fannie Mae, America's largest provider of home mortgage financing, reported a loss of US$23.2 billion for the first quarter and is seeking additional US$19 billion from the US Treasury.
• 09 May 2009 The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants' ban list now includes nine chemical substances.
• 10 May 2009 The H1N1 influenza virus kills a third of the US citizens and spreads to Australia, Japan and other countries.
• 11 May 2009 Atlantis, the NASA spaceship, launches from Florida's Kennedy Space Center to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
• 12 May 2009 The Liberal Party won a majority of seats at the British Columbia general election.
• 13 May 2009 United States President Barack Obama declares May 2009 Jewish American Heritage Month.
• 14 May 2009 Chrysler closes 789 dealerships in the US.
• 15 May 2009 US President Barack Obama nominated Rosa Gumataotao Rios as the next US Treasurer.
• 16 May 2009 The 134th Preakness Stakes runs in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Calvin Borel rides Rachel Alexandra, the first win for any philly since 1924.
• 17 May 2009 Al-Shabaab seizes Jowhar (Somalia) from the Transitional Federal Government.
• 18 May 2009 Sri Lankan Civil War. The LTTE have been defeated by the Sri Lankan government. This brings an end to almost 26 years worth of fighting between these two sides.
• 19 May 2009 The United States Government Accountability Office warns against the possibility of the Global Positioning System failing by 2010.
• 20 May 2009 For misconduct, the House of Lords of the United Kingdom suspends Thomas Taylor & Peter Truscott from November to November
• 21 May 2009 Linda Fleming (66-year-old US lady with advanced cancer) becomes the first to die under a new Washington State assisted suicide law.
• 22 May 2009 Haitian floods have killed at least 11 people.
• 23 May 2009 Roh Moo-hyun (ex-President of South Korea), who is being investigated for alleged bribery during the presidential term, commits suicide.
• 24 May 2009 Helio Castroneves, a Brazilian driver, wins the 93rd Indianapolis 500 in automobile racing.
• 25 May 2009 North Korea is said to have tested its second nuclear weapon. Pyongyang conducted missile tests after the nuclear test. This increased tensions within the international community.
• 26 May 2009 Barack Obama, the US President, announces that Sonia Sotomayor will be appointed to the Supreme Court.
• 27 May 2009 Heritage Numismatic Auctions holds a Central States Signature Auction from May 31 to June 1.
• 28 May 2009 General Motors requests Germany to repay its subsidiaries Opel Motors and Vauxhall Motors.
• 29 May 2009 Heritage Auction Galleries holds their Signature auction in Long Beach (California). The best-known 1856-O Coronet double-eagle SP-63 PCGS sells for US$1,4375,000
• 30 May 2009 To win the 2009 Super 14 rugby union championship, the South Africa Bulls beat New Zealand Chiefs.
• 31 May 2009 The People's Justice Party wins Penanti, Penang, Malaysia by-election.

Famous Birthday

• Prince Henrik of Denmark

  Danish royalty.

• Henrik

  Danish prince, styled Count of Monpezat.

• Bandit Way

  Family Member.

Famous Deaths

• Karine Ruby

  French snowboarder and Olympic champion, who won a gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.

• Lucy Gordon

  British model and actress (Born 1980).

• Jack Kemp

  American athlete and politician.

• Wayman Tisdale

  American basketball player and smooth jazz bassist (d. 2009).

• Millvina Dean

  English civil servant and cartographer; last survivor of the RMS Titanic (d. 2009).

• Roh Moo-hyun

  South Korean soldier and politician 9th President of South Korea (d. 2009).

• Abram Hoffer

  Canadian Orthomolecular psychiatrist (Born 1917).

• Dom DeLuise

  American actor and comedian (Born 1933).

• Rabbi Meir Brandsdorfer

  Belgian-born member of the Rabbinical Court of the Edah HaChareidis, Jerusalem (Born 1934).

• Herbert York

  American physicist (Born 1921).

• Kevin Grubb

  American NASCAR driver (Born 1978).

• Jay Bennett

  American guitarist and singer-songwriter (Wilco) (Born 1963).

• Sir William Refshauge

  Australian public health administrator (Born 1913).

• Sir Clive Grainger

  British economist and Nobel Prize winner (Born 1934).

• Kiyoshiro Imawano

  Japanese musician (Born 1951).

• Nicholas Maw

  British composer (Born 1935).

• Danny La Rue

  British entertainer (Born 1927).

• Roderick Anthony Burton II aka Dolla

  American Rapper (Born 1987).

• Ram Shewalkar

  Indian Marathi writer (Born1931).

• Paul Sharratt

  British-born American television producer (Born 1933).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
2. Lady GaGa - Poker Face
3. Jamie Foxx - Blame It
4. Flo Rida - Right Round
5. Kid Cudi - Day 'N' Nite