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Taurus 09 was a Royal Navy deployment in 2009. It was the largest for more than ten years, involving a maximum strength of 3,300 Royal Navy personnel working from seven Royal Navy …
The last vessels involved in Taurus 09, a Royal Navy training deployment covering 20,400 miles (32,800 km), returned…
On August 8, 2009, at 11:53 a.m. (15:53 UTC), nine people died when a tour Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil helicopter and a small private Piper PA-32R airplane collided over the Hudson R…
Nine people died when a tour helicopter and a small private airplane collided over the Hudson River in Hoboken, New…
The 12th IAAF World Championships in Athletics were held in Berlin, Germany from 15 to 23 August 2009. The majority of events took place in the Olympiastadion, while the marathon a…
At the World Championships in Athletics in Berlin, Usain Bolt ran the 100 metres in 9.58 seconds, breaking his own…
The State Peace and Development Council was the military junta of Burma (Myanmar), a totalitarian regime which, in 1997, succeeded the State Law and Order Restoration Council that …
The Myanmar military junta and ethnic armies began three days of violent clashes in the region of Kokang.
The 2009 Guinean protests were an opposition rally in Conakry, Guinea on 28 September 2009, with about 50,000 participants demonstrating against the junta government that came to p…
A protest held by 50,000 people in Conakry, Guinea, was forcefully disrupted by the military junta, resulting in at…
The moment magnitude scale is a measure of an earthquake's magnitude based on its seismic moment. Mw was defined in a 1979 paper by Thomas C. Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori. Before Hanks…
A 7.6 MW earthquake struck off the southern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, killing 1,115 and impacting an estimated 1.2…
The 2008 South China floods began on 26 May 2008. Four rounds of torrential rains with landslides and flooding lasted for 20 days and affected fifteen provinces in Eastern and Sout…
Severe flooding begins in eastern and southern China that will ultimately cause 148 deaths and force the evacuation of 1
Usain St. Leo Bolt is a Jamaican retired sprinter. Widely regarded as the greatest sprinter of all time, he is an eight-time Olympic gold medalist and the world record holder in th…
Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1
Ljube Boškoski is a Macedonian politician and former Minister of Internal Affairs of Macedonia.
Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations tribunal.
Dr. Ram Baran Yadav is a Nepalese politician and physician who served as the first president of Nepal from 23 July 2008 to 29 October 2015, following the declaration of republic in…
Ram Baran Yadav is declared the first President of Nepal.
The New England Revolution are an American professional soccer club based in the Greater Boston area. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conf…
The New England Revolution win the 2008 North American SuperLiga final against the Houston Dynamo.
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz is a retired Mauritanian military officer and politician who served as the 8th President of Mauritania from 2009 to 2019.
A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould…
The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Georgia, was a war waged against Georgia by the Russian Federation and the Russian-backed separatist regio…
The start of the Russo-Georgian War over the territory of South Ossetia.
The August 2008 Russo-Georgian War, also known as the Russian invasion of Georgia, was a war waged against Georgia by the Russian Federation and the Russian-backed separatist regio…
Russo-Georgian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.
Pervez Musharraf was a Pakistani politician and military officer who served as the tenth president of Pakistan from 2001 to 2008. He overthrew Nawaz Sharif's government in the 1999…
The President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, resigns under threat of impeachment.
French International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops were ambushed by Afghan Taliban insurgents, with heavy casualties, in the Uzbin Valley outside the village of Spēṟ Kund…
War of Afghanistan: The Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki is a South African politician and economist who served as the second president of South Africa from 1999 until his resignation in 2008. He previously served as…
Thabo Mbeki resigns as president of South Africa.
Lee Hye-in, known mononymously as Hyein, is a South Korean singer and former child model. She began her musical career at nine years old as a member of the South Korean children's …
Hyein, South Korean singer
Sutee Mcateer, Keilor Basketball Association Player
Sutee Mcateer, Keilor Basketball Association Player
Lilliana Belle Ketchman, known professionally as Lilly K, is an American dancer, model and social media personality. She is known for her appearances on Lifetime's Dance Moms begi…
Lilliana Ketchman, American dancer and YouTuber
Iain Armitage is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Sheldon Cooper in Young Sheldon, a spin-off prequel to The Big Bang Theory, from 2017 to 2024. He also played Z…
Iain Armitage, American actor
Hudson Joseph Meek was an American child actor, known for his role as young Baby in the 2017 film Baby Driver.
Hudson Meek, American actor (died 2024)
Rio Chima Ngumoha is an English professional footballer who plays as a left winger or left midfielder for Premier League club Liverpool and the England national team.
Rio Ngumoha, English footballer
Jackson Robert Scott is an American actor. He is known for portraying Bode Locke in the Netflix series Locke & Key (2020–2022) and Georgie Denbrough in the films It Chapter One (20…
Jackson Robert Scott, American actor