WHAT ALL HAPPENED MARCH TO JULY 2009
Find out what all happened March to July 2009

Jakarta double bombings at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels kill nine people including four foreigners. (17. July 2009)

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

The Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece opens to the public. (20. June 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)

The first of four days of bombings begins on the southern Philippine island group of Mindanao. (4. July 2009)

Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour. (8. June 2009)

Three members of the popular South Korean group TVXQ, (Kim Jaejoong, Kim Junsu, and Park Yoochun), filed lawsuit against their Korean management S.M. Entertainment. (31. July 2009)

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

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

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

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

General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history. (1. June 2009)

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

Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting: 12 people were killed (students and staff members) by an armed attacker. (30. April 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 militant Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram attacks a police station in Bauchi, leading to reprisals by the Nigeria Police Force and four days of violence across multiple cities. (26. July 2009)

War in North-West Pakistan: The Pakistani Armed Forces open Operation Rah-e-Nijat against the Taliban and other Islamist rebels in the South Waziristan area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. (19. June 2009)

Greenland assumes self-rule. (21. June 2009)

Eastman Kodak Company announces that it will discontinue sales of the Kodachrome Color Film, concluding its 74-year run as a photography icon. (22. June 2009)