WHAT HAPPENED IN 2009.
Look what happened the 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 Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, is launched. (7. 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)

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

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

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

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

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

North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks. (5. April 2009)

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

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

President of Fiji Ratu Josefa Iloilo announces he will suspend the constitution and assume all governance in the country, creating a constitutional crisis. (10. April 2009)

Zimbabwe officially abandons the Zimbabwe Dollar as its official currency. (12. April 2009)

Chrysler files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. (30. 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)

Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden. (1. May 2009)