WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO MAY 2009
Find out what all happened March to May 2009

In Tbilisi, Georgia, up to 60,000 people protest against the government of Mikheil Saakashvili. (9. April 2009)

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

Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden. (1. May 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 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)

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)

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

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

Soyuz TMA-15 launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. (27. May 2009)

Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE are defeated by the Sri Lankan government, ending almost 26 years of fighting between the two sides. (18. May 2009)

Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces. (7. April 2009)

Mass protests begin across Moldova under the belief that results from the parliamentary election are fraudulent. (7. April 2009)

Croatia and Albania join NATO. (1. April 2009)

A suicide bombing kills at least 35 people and injures 250 more in Lahore, Pakistan. (27. May 2009)

Seven people are killed and 17 injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix. (30. April 2009)

A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing 307. (6. April 2009)

Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (30. April 2009)

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

North Korea allegedly tests its second nuclear device. Following the nuclear test, Pyongyang also conducted several missile tests building tensions in the international community. (25. May 2009)

Over 100 New Zealand Police officers begin a 40-hour siege of a lone gunman in Napier, New Zealand. (7. May 2009)