WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO MARCH 2009
Find out what all happened February to March 2009

The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both. (10. February 2009)

Twelve gunmen attack the Manawan Police Academy in Lahore, Pakistan. (30. March 2009)

Members of the Bangladesh Rifles mutiny at their headquarters in Pilkhana, Dhaka, Bangladesh, resulting in 74 deaths, including more than 50 army officials. (25. February 2009)

The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles. (7. March 2009)

The Historical Archive of the City of Cologne collapses. (3. March 2009)

Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history. (12. March 2009)

Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en route to the national airforce headquarters are shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack. (20. February 2009)

The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched. (7. March 2009)

Bushfires in Victoria leaves 173 dead in the worst natural disaster in Australia's history. (7. February 2009)

A suicide bomber kills at least 48 at a mosque in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan. (27. March 2009)

Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground. (12. February 2009)

FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot. (23. March 2009)

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002. (4. March 2009)

Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people. (27. March 2009)

Winnenden school shooting: 16 are killed and 11 are injured before recent-graduate Tim Kretschmer shoots and kills himself, leading to tightened weapons restrictions in Germany. (11. March 2009)